TL,DR: Anybody else looking at this combo to replace a VMware stack? So we're a smallish long time VMware customer; I've been running most of my server room on ESX since 2.5, and it's been great. I'm ...

A step-by-step guide to using SAN-less failover clustering software to support SQL Server’s Always On Failover Clustering in the public cloud The thing about clouds is that they can change shape even ...

As storage changes, Microsoft has kept up with its latest offerings. See how fast it can be with this hands-on test. When Microsoft decided to create its own software-defined storage (SDS) stack, ...

Microsoft's first attempt at creating a software-defined storage platform wasn't a big hit. Its updated version just might be. One of the most difficult things in designing IT infrastructure is to get ...

Microsoft added improvements to Storage Spaces Direct (SSD) in its latest test-build preview release of Windows Server, known as "build 17074," which was released this week. That detail was part of a ...

Microsoft this week summarized the top Storage Spaces Direct improvements that will be coming to Windows Server 2019. Storage Spaces Direct is a way of pooling disk storage, but it isn't new. It's ...

The latest test build of Windows Server, known as "build 17074," rolled out this week with some new enhancements to Storage Spaces Direct (SSD). Microsoft detailed the SSD improvements in a Windows ...