Its backup awareness week 2014 and to start the celebrations online backup provider KeepVault are offering a 45% limited-time discount. The discount applies to pricing for Windows Home Server 2011, WHS Original and Server Essentials. More details for WHS users can be found here and for Server essentials users here.
With Microsoft Press leaving oreilly.com, the guys are offering 60% off ALL eBooks from Microsoft Press for one week only. With such titles as Windows Server 2012 R2 Inside Out: Configuration, Storage, & Essentials for just $7.99 and Windows Server 2012 R2 Inside Out: Configuration, Storage, & Essentials for just $19.20 plus many more. Just […]
Microsoft Case Studies highlights Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials running on a HP ProLiant MicroServer at eHouse Informations technologie GmbH, an IT solutions provider. And an interesting read it is too.
Synology have issued a fix for Diskstation Manager which fixes a vulnerability. Here’s the press release with the details on how to get the latest release: Synology® Fixes Vulnerability in DiskStation Manager Taipei, Taiwan—February 14, 2014—Synology® confirmed known security issues (reported as CVE-2013-6955 and CVE-2013-6987) which would cause compromise to file access authority in DSM. […]
Microsoft has today announced that they will be releasing a minor update to Windows Server 2012 R2 (which includes WS2012 R2 Essentials) this Spring which will include minor UI enhancements and bug fixes, as well as previously-released monthly update rollups and security fixes. More info from the Windows Server Blog.
The Windows Server 2012 R2 Products and Editions Comparison is a PDF detailing the differences between Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard and Datacenter and Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials and more 2012 R2 editions. You can download it from here.
EaseUS have launched their Partition Magic software enabling you to resize disk partitions on Windows Server 2012, 2008 and 2003 including Windows Home Server v1, WHS2011 and WS2012 Essentials. Available for $159, here is the details on EaseUS Partition Master Server: EaseUS, a leading provider of affordable data backup, disaster recovery and storage management solutions, […]
Paul Thurrott of Supersite for windows has been rethinking his home server storage needs. Paul is thinking of using Amazon Glacier for his "deep archive" data and thinking of using a small NAS device such as a WD My Cloud for his day to day needs. This all adds in to his use of SkyDrive […]
In the market for a new hard drive? If so Hardware-Revolution show us the best SSDs and spinning hard drives for your money. The article is in three parts, and starts by showing us the best Solid State drives (SSDs) for your money, next the best hard disk drives (HDDs) for your money and finally […]
With our report of Blackblaze publishing their data detailing hard drive failure rates. It has come to our attention (courtesy of our friend James Tenniswood), an article detailing the longevity of SSD’s. The article from Hardware Info tested the life span of a Samsung SSD 840 250GB TLC SSD, and after months of testing the […]
