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Our two-part series on SMB 3.0 and SMB Multichannel concludes with a discussion of smart SMB design, SMB Multichannel constraints, and SMB bandwidth limits.

Microsoft announces Nano Server, a server OS optimized for cloud infrastructure and born-in-the-cloud applications.

Use just a little bit o’ RAM or a lot! Learn to enable Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) Cache to improve the read performance of CSV in WS2012!

How are you going to upgrade to the newest version of Hyper-V? Learn why you should use cross-version live migration to upgrade to WS2012 R2 Hyper-V.

The role of the GUI in Windows Server has been under attack. Aidan Finn explains why he and customers do not accept the dogma.

In this retrospective, Aidan Finn reviews and grades his Hyper-V predictions for 2014. Find out which predictions turned out to be true this year.

Aidan Finn gives us his opinion of Microsoft’s approach to hyper-convergence, as was shared at Microsoft TechEd Europe 2014 in October.

Need more space? Increase storage by configuring storage space in Windows Server to create a failover cluster.

Read our interview with Microsoft Principal Program Manager Elden Christensen about new and improved Windows Server 2012 R2 storage features.

Aidan Finn serves up tips for working with Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX) to enhance storage transfers in Windows Server and Hyper-V.