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Five Things Blog: 25 Cool Things You Can Do with Azure Stack HCI

The time has come to refresh your infrastructure. You want to eliminate your legacy storage, consolidate your infrastructure, and deploy a software-defined hybrid cloud solution. It must be simple, highly scalable, and highly resilient. It must support the latest technology, provide cost-conscious options for the edge, and deliver the performance that demanding SQL Server workloads, … Five Things Blog: 25 Cool Things You Can Do with Azure Stack HCI

Five Things about Intel® Optane ® SSDs and Why They’re Awesome for Azure Stack HCI

You’ve done the research and chosen Azure Stack HCI for your hyper-converged infrastructure. Depending on your workloads, you have a short list of storage possibilities like all-NVMe 3D NAND solid state drives (SSDs) or hybrid storage consisting of 3D NAND SSD cache and hard disk drive (HDD) capacity tiers. But there is another type of … Five Things about Intel® Optane ® SSDs and Why They’re Awesome for Azure Stack HCI

5 Key Takeaways from StorageReview’s “HCI at the Edge Benefits from Intel® Optane™ & QLC NVMe SSDs”

In 2019, StorageReview reviewed our DataON HCI-224 solution for Azure Stack HCI featuring Intel® Optane™ NVMe SSDs. They gave it an “Editor’s Choice” award, calling it “the fastest we’ve seen in a mid-market 4-node HCI cluster” and “simple to deploy, easy to manage, and exceptionally performant.” This month, StorageReview took a close look at our … 5 Key Takeaways from StorageReview’s “HCI at the Edge Benefits from Intel® Optane™ & QLC NVMe SSDs”

TL;DW Webinar Report: Get the Benefits of Virtualizing Microsoft SQL Server on Azure Stack HCI

If you missed our webinar, you can watch the entire recording on BrightTALK. But if you need the TL;DW, here are the top takeaways and a slides list, complete with YouTube timestamps. Top Takeaways 1/ Microsoft SQL Server 2019 is faster than SQL Server 2014. Compared to SQL Server 2014, SQL Server 2019 (both Standard … TL;DW Webinar Report: Get the Benefits of Virtualizing Microsoft SQL Server on Azure Stack HCI

DataON At Microsoft Ignite 2019: A Preview

DataON will be in booth 1645 in the Partner Solution Zone, near the Microsoft Landmark and the Microsoft Showcase. Here’s a preview of what we’ll be showcasing at the booth. DataON solutions for Azure Stack HCI Azure Stack HCI is an evolution of data center computing that blends Windows Server technologies with Azure management service … DataON At Microsoft Ignite 2019: A Preview

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

Technical Sneak Peek on Intel® Optane™ Persistent Memory with Microsoft Azure Stack HCI

Many IT departments are looking at hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) to replace their traditional storage area networks (SANs). HCI consolidates software-defined compute, storage, and networking to provide easily scalable virtualization that is high performing and affordable. Microsoft first introduced HCI in Windows Server 2016 with Storage Spaces Direct and Hyper-V. Storage Spaces Direct uses industry-standard servers … Technical Sneak Peek on Intel® Optane™ Persistent Memory with Microsoft Azure Stack HCI

Microsoft Azure Stack HCI Deep Dive

In March of 2019 Microsoft announced Azure Stack HCI; an on-premise implementation of their Azure cloud service. Julia White, corporate vice president of Microsoft Azure, in a blog post put it this way, “We are bringing our existing HCI technology into the Azure Stack family for customers to run virtualized applications on-premises with direct access … Microsoft Azure Stack HCI Deep Dive

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