At the Sept. 8 Windows Server 8 Readers Workshop, keynote presenter Bill Laing, organized vice president, Server and Cloud Division at Microsoft, touted all features of the forthcoming Windows Server 8, the server complement of Windows 8 client. And while most of Laing’s presentations focused on the carried, much as cloud applied science, virtualization and scalability, an worrying theme shown was the transfer to how memory will be handled below Windows Server 8.
For executives, managing those tiers has become a nightmare, especially when data has to be changing and moved across tiers on need. For lesson, if a user needs a file that has went down to tier 3 file away, that single file has to traverse doubled tier ups to move up to the tier 1 SAN. The technology, policies and administrative budget items to make that occur seamlessly for the user prove to be intricate for the administrator.
Where Microsoft is pointing with Windows Server 8 is to simplify that direction and place all depot under a virtualized direction level, allowing focusing to be shifted to data files and not the storehouse engineering itself. With that virtualization layer in place, storage becomes simple and stretch, allowing intensities of data to cover over multiple political programs and even the cloud.
It still stiff to be seen if Microsoft can pull that off–nonetheless, it will be very interesting to see how the current crop of storage virtualization vendors deal with this latest terror from Microsoft. Will their businesses dry up, or will there be enough defects in Microsoft’s execution that will actually help out their businesses.
For executives, managing those tiers has become a nightmare, especially when data has to be changing and moved across tiers on need. For lesson, if a user needs a file that has went down to tier 3 file away, that single file has to traverse doubled tier ups to move up to the tier 1 SAN. The technology, policies and administrative budget items to make that occur seamlessly for the user prove to be intricate for the administrator.
Where Microsoft is pointing with Windows Server 8 is to simplify that direction and place all depot under a virtualized direction level, allowing focusing to be shifted to data files and not the storehouse engineering itself. With that virtualization layer in place, storage becomes simple and stretch, allowing intensities of data to cover over multiple political programs and even the cloud.
It still stiff to be seen if Microsoft can pull that off–nonetheless, it will be very interesting to see how the current crop of storage virtualization vendors deal with this latest terror from Microsoft. Will their businesses dry up, or will there be enough defects in Microsoft’s execution that will actually help out their businesses.
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