The Verge

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

percent of computer users still are on Windows 7 — even though Microsoft no longer supports it for free. If you have an older system but are worried that it won’t support Windows 10 — or if you simply don’t want to deal with Windows anymore — I have a suggestion: Switch to desktop Linux. It won’t cost you a penny. Try Mint out.

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Linux Windows How To Operating Systems 106

The Verge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Windows Central reports that Microsoft is preparing a more lightweight version of the Surface Laptop with a smaller 12.5-inch This new model will reportedly include Intel’s 10th Gen Core i5 processor, 4GB of RAM, and 64GB of storage. As is always the case with Surface devices, Microsoft will likely offer RAM and storage upgrades.

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Microsoft Report Storage Windows 72

Sean Daniel

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Announcing Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials. This morning, building on the Windows Small Business Server 2011 Announcement , we are announcing a new edition targeted at Small Business called Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials. What is this Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials?

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Storage Windows Small Business Backup 73

Dataconomy

JUNE 22, 2023

This software suite is compatible with both Windows and macOS operating systems, and offers a spectrum of six different editions to cater to diverse user needs. Virtual RAID construction for recovery In cases where RAID parameters are unknown, Stellar Data Recovery can rebuild a likely RAID configuration.

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Data Software Software Windows 68

Storage IO Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Looking for tool to convert a Windows system to a Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) while it is running? The following are a collection of odd’s and end’s devices and tools for hardware and software defining your environment.

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Hardware Software Software Intel 40

The Verge

JULY 24, 2020

These plans changed once it was clear Build would be held virtually due to the pandemic, and Microsoft also pushed back its Windows 10X dual-screen plans to far beyond 2020. Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge. inch displays.

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Microsoft Storage Hardware Development 136

Virtualized Greek

OCTOBER 1, 2012

If you are using Windows Server 2012 you can actually cluster a physical server with a virtual server by leveraging Windows native clustering. This allows you to oversubscribe the physical virtual host with dozens of passive nodes depending on your application mix and hardware configuration.

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Virtualization Strategy Cloud Disaster Recovery 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

This is session EDCS008, “Virtualizing the Network to Enable a Software-Defined Infrastructure (SDI).” Brian is a Solution Architect; Jim is a Windows Server Architect. At this point, Jim Pinkerton of Microsoft takes over to discuss how Windows Server thinks about this issue and these challenges.

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Virtualization Network Intel Data Center 60

The Verge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

iPad hardware. Finally, the same hardware means that the iPad has the same support for the Apple Pencil — the first-generation $99 Apple Pencil, I should point out, with its weird Lightning charging connector and easy-to-lose cap. But the most important spec in the iPad is the storage on the base $329 model: an embarrassingly low 32GB.

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Apple Storage Hardware Windows 127

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). Servers/Hardware. Here’s an interesting article on the role that virtualization is playing in the network functions virtualization (NFV) space now that ARM hardware is growing increasingly powerful.

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Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

JUNE 18, 2017

Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). Servers/Hardware. Here’s an interesting article on the role that virtualization is playing in the network functions virtualization (NFV) space now that ARM hardware is growing increasingly powerful.

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Windows Vmware Virtualization Linux 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 2, 2020

Servers/Hardware. This article is about hardware, just not the hardware I’d typically talk about in this section—instead, it’s about Philips Hue light bulbs. Chip Zoller makes the argument in favor of running Kubernetes in/on virtual machines. I need to move it back to Windows from Linux.

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Linux Windows Hardware Network 60

Sean Daniel

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Introducing a new line of Network Storage Servers for SMB. Only yesterday, a third product that I worked on over the past little while called Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials was announced, on hardware provided by Western Digital. The WD Sentinel DX4000 looks pretty awesome from a hardware perspective as well.

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Storage Network SMB Windows 48

Scott Lowe

APRIL 29, 2022

My link of links and articles from around the Internet is a bit light on networking and virtualization this time around, but heftier in the security, cloud, and OS/application sections. Servers/Hardware. Poorna Gaddehosur has an update on getting Linux-based eBPF programs to run with eBPF on Windows. Virtualization.

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Linux Storage Programming Applications 74

Scott Lowe

JUNE 2, 2016

Jason Messer has an article describing how networking works with Windows containers. Dmitri Kalintsev examines some options for addressing storage-related connectivity in NSX environments. Servers/Hardware. John Nicholson talks about the Virtual SAN (VSAN) performance service , available in VSAN 6.2. Virtualization.

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Vmware Virtualization Linux Windows 60

Scott Lowe

MARCH 7, 2014

Craig Matsumoto of SDN Central helps highlight a recent (and fairly significant) development in networking protocols—the submission of the Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation (Geneve) proposal to the IETF. Servers/Hardware. Overall, this is a quick but worthy read if you are trying to get started in this space.

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Virtualization Hardware Intel Vmware 60

Sean Daniel

MARCH 29, 2011

Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials & Windows Home Server 2011 RTM! Another set of great products out the door from the Windows Server Solutions team. Both Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials and Windows Home Server 2011 have released to manufacturing! Storage Server Essentials. (17).

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Small Business Windows Backup SMB 100

Scott Lowe

APRIL 6, 2017

Servers/Hardware. Ben Armstrong shows you how to use PowerShell to give your Windows server a proper fully-qualified domain name. Here’s a Windows-centric walkthrough to using Nginx to load balance across a Docker Swarm cluster. Normally you’d see this sort of thing talking about Linux, but this one uses Windows throughout.).

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Vmware Linux Storage Network 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

I have a fairly diverse set of links for readers this time around, covering topics from microchips to improving your writing, with stops along the way in topics like Kubernetes, virtualization, Linux, and the popular JSON-parsing tool jq. Servers/Hardware. Virtualization. I hope you find something useful! Networking. Kudos to J.

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Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 90

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Servers/Hardware. While all the attention is “up the stack,” there are still some occasions when you need to worry about the details in the hardware. I’m not sure if this falls into storage or virtualization, but we’ll place it here in the Storage section. Virtualization.

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Vmware Linux Storage Virtualization 69

Sean Daniel

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 and Interaction with Small Business Server 2011 Essentials. I know I have talked before about Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 , and how it can help your Small Business with thin clients, old clients, seasonal employees and even reducing the number of machines in the office by getting one nice one.

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Windows Small Business Backup SMB 80

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

Sjors Robroek describes his nested NSX-T lab that also includes some virtualized network equipment (virtualized Arista switches). Servers/Hardware. This other post by Cody on automated Windows 10 post-install may also be useful. Virtualization. RegEx tester. Enough said. Here’s a great way.

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Windows Virtualization Devops Vmware 60

Sean Daniel

APRIL 26, 2010

Windows Home Server Codename “Vail” Public Beta Available Today! As you know, one of the products I work on is Windows Home Server. Today we’re excited to announce that the next version of Windows Home Server (codename “Vail”) is available for you to try. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. What’s new?

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Windows Backup SMB Small Business 72

Sean Daniel

JULY 5, 2012

Windows 8 Keyboard Shortcuts. Furthermore, as we approach Windows 8 , and you end up getting that fancy touch screen, it’s going to be even more important to use keyboard short cuts. In fact, you can navigate Windows 8 much better with the keyboard than the mouse if you don’t have a touch screen.

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Windows SMB Backup Small Business 56

Sean Daniel

MAY 18, 2011

Windows Small Business Server Essentials 2011 on TechNet Edge. Video ] Key items talked about in the interview: SBS 2011 Essentials on an HP Proliant Microserver for under $1000, 25 CALs included Scale for greater users to an ML110 All the simplicity of Windows SBS 2011 Essentials on simple hardware. Storage Server Essentials.

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Small Business Windows SMB Backup 53

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Servers/Hardware. Kevin Houston discusses workload acceleration options—specifically, storage acceleration via NVMe or PCIe SSDs—for blade servers. He also has a good article outlining some storage options for various blade server platforms that might be helpful as well. Virtualization. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Linux Vmware Storage Network 60

Sean Daniel

MARCH 29, 2011

Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials and Intel vPro Add-in. Labels: 2011 Add-in , Aurora , Green Business , SBS 2011 Essentials , Storage Server Essentials , Videos. How To Install Windows Home Server 2011 on your MediaSmart or DataVault Hardware. Storage Server Essentials. (17). Windows 7. (47).

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Small Business Windows SMB Backup 63

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

This is my irregularly-published collection of links and articles from around the Internet related to the major data center technologies: networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications/OSes, storage, and virtualization. Servers/Hardware. Virtualization. Networking. Feeling geeky? and Gluster.

Vmware 60

Vmware Storage Network Windows 60

Sean Daniel

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Windows Server Solutions Best Practice Analyzer (BPA). Labels: Aurora , Best Practices , Handy Apps , MultiPoint Server , SBS 2011 Essentials , SBS 2011 Standard , SBS7 , Small Business Server , Storage Server Essentials. I installed this and ran it and it comes up with virtually no results at all. Storage Server Essentials. (17).

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Windows Small Business SMB Backup 53

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

I’ve been a Mac OS X user for a long time; I switched from Windows to OS X in 2003 when the OS X flavor of the day was 10.2 “Jaguar.” Both the hardware as well as the software have served me well. An OS is nice, but it’s just window dressing without the applications. Apple and Virtualization.

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Operating Systems Apple Applications Linux 131

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 27, 2021

I have a fairly diverse set of links for readers this time around, covering topics from microchips to improving your writing, with stops along the way in topics like Kubernetes, virtualization, Linux, and the popular JSON-parsing tool jq along the way. Servers/Hardware. Virtualization. I hope you find something useful!

Linux 60

Linux Load Balancer Malware Virtualization 60

Sean Daniel

JULY 15, 2010

Windows Server Codename “Aurora” Video Walkthrough. How To Install Windows Home Server 2011 on your MediaSmart or DataVault Hardware. Storage Server Essentials. (17). Windows 7. (47). Windows 8. (4). Windows Live Services. (16). Windows Mobile. (23). Windows Phone 7. (2).

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Windows Video SMB Small Business 71

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 17, 2020

Servers/Hardware. dll , a core Windows cryptographic component) that was rumored to be fixed the next day (January 14) on the first “Patch Tuesday” of 2020. Now I really want to see hardware security key support in the desktop and mobile apps! Virtualization. Time to get patching, folks! This is kind of cool.

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Load Balancer Vmware Windows Cloud 60

Scott Lowe

MAY 12, 2016

Servers/Hardware. So, it’s pretty cool that you’ll be able to run Windows-based containers (via Docker) on Windows Server 2016; here’s an article that discusses using Packer and Vagrant to try it out yourself. What really caught my eye, though, was the size of the Windows Server Docker image (9.429 GB!). Virtualization.

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Vmware Windows Network Agile 60

Sean Daniel

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 has RTM’d!!! I’ve mentioned Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 on this blog before, like how well it works with Windows Small Business Server 2011 , or how it fits into your small business , and how you can leverage it to simplify your client story. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me.

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Windows Small Business SMB Backup 59

Scott Lowe

JULY 22, 2013

The networking “old guard” likes to talk about how x86 servers and virtualization create network bottlenecks due to performance concerns, but as Ivan points out in this post , it’s rapidly becoming—or has already become—a non-issue. (By Servers/Hardware. Virtualization. Seriously.).

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Vmware Virtualization Network Linux 106

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 10, 2012

” Primarily this means how to handle Windows-based applications and managing Windows instances (like migrating to new versions of Windows). At 9:23 AM, Daniel Beveridge takes the stage to discuss new ways of addressing Windows-based applications. Virtualization VMware VMworld2012' VMworld EMEA Day 2 Keynote.

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Vmware Windows Virtualization Applications 109