Microsoft's first attempt at creating a software-defined storage platform wasn't a big hit. Its updated version just might be. One of the most difficult things in designing IT infrastructure is to get ...

Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct is a software-defined storage technology introduced in Windows Server 2016 to simplify storage deployment and management. It uses industry-standard servers with locally ...

What is a direct access storage device (DASD)? A direct access storage device is a type of secondary storage device that supports direct access to stored data, as opposed to sequential access, which ...

DirectStorage is a technology that Microsoft has developed for the Xbox Series S and Xbox Series X. The main goal of this technology is to reduce game loading times as much as possible. Microsoft has ...

This week Microsoft held its first Windows Server Summit (available on demand), which focused on using Windows Server to modernize applications and infrastructure, while also including some key ...

Microsoft this week summarized the top Storage Spaces Direct improvements that will be coming to Windows Server 2019. Storage Spaces Direct is a way of pooling disk storage, but it isn't new. It's ...

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