Wow. Just wow. Me and the entire DataON team watched Microsoft’s first Windows Server Summit this week and it was an incredible event. Although many of the features in the upcoming Windows Server 2019 are mentioned in articles and blogs on the web, the summit gave us a really good preview of what’s to come … Howard on HCI: Watching the Windows Server Summit
XCES and DataON was a gold sponsor at Experts Live Netherlands in June. Experts Live is the biggest Microsoft community event in BeNeLux, with over 1000 attendees. It held its inaugural event in 2009, and now hosts 7 international events, reaching over 5000 people. This event featured two keynotes and more than forty breakout sessions … Post-Show Recap: Experts Live Netherlands
Did you miss our quarterly webinar last week? Don’t worry, we’ve got the “too long; didn’t watch” (TL;DW), along with some helpful timestamps for all you busy SysAdmins out there. Daniel Lee of Microsoft kicked it off, talking about the new Windows Admin Center and DataON MUST Extension for WAC (13:15). DataON was the first … TL;DW Webinar Report: Elevate Your Window Server Experience with Windows Admin Center, DataON MUST, and Mellanox
Infrastructure Visibility, Monitoring, and Management for Windows Server 2016 Mac and cheese. Peanut butter and jelly. Batman and Robin. These are just a few things that are just better together. Now we have one more pair to add to the list: Windows Admin Center and DataON MUST. DataON MUST is our Management Utility Software Tool, … Better Together: Enhancing the Windows Admin Center Experience with DataON MUST
A few weeks ago, DataON launched the Kepler 2-Node (K2N) family of hyper-converged appliances for Windows Server 2016 Storage Spaces Direct and Hyper-V, designed for small businesses, remote office/branch office (ROBO), and Edge computing environments. The K2N Series was born out of a Kepler-47 concept unveiled at Microsoft Ignite as a lowest-cost, high performing, resource-efficient, … DataON Kepler 2-Node (K2N) Hyper-Converged Appliances for SMB, ROBO and Edge
It’s been almost two years since the release of Windows Server 2016 with Storage Spaces Direct hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI), and nearly six years since the release of Windows Server 2012 with Storage Spaces. A lot has happened since then. We at DataON have an amazing relationship with Microsoft. DataON was the first vendor certified for … Windows Server 2019 Is Almost Here! Let’s Take a Look at Some of the Most Important, New Features.
Quest Technology Management, also known as “Quest” and DataON had been working together for about four years when Quest partnered with Microsoft to provide an Azure public cloud offering, and DataON was chosen as the storage to power the solution. Interestingly, I had not known our Azure team had partnered with DataON. I was doing … IT Hero: DataON & Microsoft, The Perfect Solution for Quest’s Veeam Cloud Connect Service
Ben Milbourne Three weeks ago, Gartner published their highly anticipated 2018 Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged Infrastructure. It’s the first time that Gartner has included software-only, “bring-your-own-hardware” hyper-converged systems, and Microsoft debuted at the forefront of the “visionaries’” quadrant: The report goes on to state, “In its 2018 release, Microsoft will strengthen its data deduplication capabilities with … Gartner HCI Report, WSSD Solutions… Microsoft is ready for prime time!
Matt Roper, Facilitator of Technology Support Services, Office of Technology & Information Services, Cherokee County (GA) School District Matt Roper is the Facilitator of Technology Support Services in the Office of Technology & Information Services for the Cherokee County School District, one of the largest K-12 public school systems in Georgia. Matt has over 12 … IT Hero: Moving on From Something Familiar, Making the Change to Windows Server 2016