News, Announcements & Press Releases

Microsoft Azure Stack HCI and DataON HCI-224 with Intel® Optane™ NVMe Receive Storage Review’s “Editor’s Choice” Award

We’re excited that Microsoft Azure Stack HCI and DataON HCI-224 with Intel® Optane™ NVMe has been given the “Editor’s Choice” award from Storage Review. This is a real accomplishment for Microsoft and DataON and illustrates why DataON solutions for Azure Stack HCI are truly the best-in-breed software-defined, hybrid cloud data center solutions on the market. … Microsoft Azure Stack HCI and DataON HCI-224 with Intel® Optane™ NVMe Receive Storage Review’s “Editor’s Choice” Award

Faster Time to Value with Second Generation Intel Select Solutions for Windows Server Software-Defined Solutions and SQL Server

One of the challenges that IT administrators face is deciding which hardware and how much hardware to purchase for their data centers. This is especially true for IT administrators that have made the decision to switch to a Microsoft Windows Server-based hyper-converged infrastructure. It’s still relatively new and even with an ever-growing number of deployed … Faster Time to Value with Second Generation Intel Select Solutions for Windows Server Software-Defined Solutions and SQL Server

DataON Named ‘20 Most Promising Microsoft Solution Providers 2018’ by CIO Review

DataON has been named one of the ‘20 Most Promising Microsoft Solution Providers 2018’ by CIO Review, a leading enterprise technology magazine. We strive at DataON to deliver our customers high performance and high-quality Microsoft solutions in the industry. And we’re growing every year.But it’s our customers who make us. When I ask them why … DataON Named ‘20 Most Promising Microsoft Solution Providers 2018’ by CIO Review

Better Together: Enhancing the Windows Admin Center Experience with DataON MUST

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

DataON Kepler 2-Node (K2N) Hyper-Converged Appliances for SMB, ROBO and Edge

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

Simplifying and Consolidating the Windows Server Management Experience with Windows Admin Center

The wait is finally over! Ever since Microsoft unveiled the technical preview of Project Honolulu at Ignite 2017, we’ve been anxiously waiting for its release. And now it’s here, rechristened as Windows Admin Center. Windows Admin Center is a new web-based management tool from Microsoft built to simplify administration of your Windows data center.  Single … Simplifying and Consolidating the Windows Server Management Experience with Windows Admin Center

Windows Server 2019 Is Almost Here! Let’s Take a Look at Some of the Most Important, New Features.

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.

Gartner HCI Report, WSSD Solutions… Microsoft is ready for prime time!

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!