S2D

Month 3 of 2018 brought us some interesting news in Azure IaaS. Some things that have been in the oven for a while are starting to rise and there’s lots more evidence of the new and open Microsoft.

Aidan Finn grades his predictions on what would happen with Hyper-V and Microsoft cloud computing in the year of 2017.

Learn about the new features and changes to Hyper-V in the recent 1709 semi-annual channel release of Windows Server.

Aidan Finn discusses Microsoft's announcement to remove all the infrastructure features, such as scale-out file server and Hyper-V from Nano Server.

Explore the main reasons you should consider deploying the now generally available Windows Server 2016 in your network.

Learn about storage feature improvements in the Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 5.

Read how Microsoft's view and recommendations on hyper-convergence have changed over the last year with the evolution of Storage Spaces Direct (S2D).

Microsoft has announced details on Windows Server 2016 licensing, which includes a switch to a per-core licensing model.

Aidan Finn provides us a detailed look into Microsoft's latest feature in Windows Server 2016, Storage Spaces Direct (S2D).