One of the powerful features of Windows Server is the ability to create Windows Failover Clusters. With Windows Failover clustering, pools of hardware resources can be bound together in a virtual entity that allows seamlessly hosting resources in a way that is highly available and [...]
There is arguably no hotter topic in information technology today than security. Security is discussed at basically all levels of infrastructure and network topologies up the entire OSI layer stack. Vendors today are struggling to keep up with the security demands needed by customers in [...]
Introduction As per Microsoft, "Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 will end on October 10, 2023. After this date, these products will no longer receive security updates, non-security updates, bug fixes, technical support, or online technical content updates." This situation can leave your server [...]
Each new version of Windows Server has generally improved on the underlying technologies contained in previous releases of Windows. This is true across the board with Windows Server 2019. Features related to high-availability and disaster recovery have been improved with Windows Server 2019 as well. [...]
When designing any system for high availability, one of the basic fundamentals of engineering in any system is to provide redundancy. Redundancy ensures that if you do have failures (you will), there are components or mechanisms in place that will take over for the failed [...]
Windows Server 2019 brings about significant improvements across the platform when it comes to software-defined solutions. Software-defined storage is garnering a lot of attention from customers as most are looking outside of traditional storage with upcoming refreshes for storage infrastructure. With Storage Spaces Direct being [...]
Microsoft unveiled a new tool that is set to change the way Windows Server engineers interface, configure, interact with, and administer Windows Servers, Windows Failover Clusters, and Hyperconverged clusters. Table of Contents Windows Admin Center Overview Windows Admin Center Access and Permissions Model Installing Windows [...]
Microsoft Windows Server 2016 offers a tremendously expanded set of features across the board vs previous versions of the hypervisor. Microsoft has made great strides in achieving more feature parity with other major players such as VMware. One of the powerful new features in Windows [...]
There are many decisions that need to be made when it comes to managing and maintaining a Windows Server environment. With the newest versions of Windows Server, there are other decisions that need to be made that were not relevant in legacy versions of Windows [...]
When you think about security technologies that are used to secure your data, most likely one of the first technologies that you think of is encryption. There are many different levels of encryption and technologies that can implement it. When it comes to Windows Server, [...]
