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
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
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!
Two weeks ago, the XCES team packed its bags to participate at the Nordic Infrastructure Conference (NIC) at the Oslo Spektrum. It was the 7th edition of the conference, dedicated to teaching IT best practices to IT professionals and decision makers. Over 2000 attendees got to hear from some of the best speakers in the … Post-Show Recap: XCES & DataON at Nordic Infrastructure Conference 2018
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
In 2017, Intel launched their new Xeon Scalable processor family. The new “Purley” platform has been hailed as “the biggest data center advancement in a decade,” offering breakthrough performance to handle compute-hungry tasks including real-time analytics, virtualized infrastructure, and high-performance computing. Since then our customers have been asking, when will DataON offer products with Purley … New S2D-5000 Servers with Intel Purley Processors, Certified for Windows Server Software-Defined (WSSD)
Ben Milbourne Happy New Year from the DataON team! Many of us were bummed last year when we heard Microsoft had delayed the Storage Spaces Direct features & improvements from Windows Server v1709. I mean, we get it… they needed more time to test and debug and yada, yada, yada… But alas, the wait is … It’s a New Year, and with it Comes New Features for Storage Spaces Direct!