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Microsoft Ignite 2018 Recap

Over 30,000 attendees came to Microsoft Ignite 2018 to learn about the latest innovations from Microsoft.
Microsoft Ignite 2018 was the coming out party for many new product announcements, including Windows Server 2019, SQL Server 2019, Windows Admin Center, Storage Migration Service, and Azure File Sync.
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DataON is ready for Windows Server 2019

The long-awaited update to Windows Server includes enhancements to Storage Spaces Direct, Storage Replica, a new Storage Migration Service, and Azure File Sync.

In addition, Windows Server 2019 has achieved a new IOPS record with 13.7M IOPS with Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory!

DataON is working closely with Microsoft and Intel to certify our S2D and K2N platforms with Windows Server 2019. They will also be Microsoft Windows Server Software-Defined (WSSD) solutions, for pre-validated and ready-to-go HCI solutions.

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DataON MUST 2.0 for Windows Admin Center

MUST now natively integrates with Windows Admin Center (first introduced as ‘Project Honolulu’ at Microsoft Ignite 2017) to provide a complete end-to-end hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) monitoring and management tool from a single pane of glass. MUST complements Windows Admin Center by providing additional features such as historic data reporting, disk mapping, system alerts, and SAN-like call home service.

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Windows Server HCI for SQL Server

TFeaturing Intel Xeon Scalable Processors, chipsets and NVMe SSDs, DataON HCI solutions for Microsoft SQL Server 2017 give businesses powerful OLTP performance to support mission-critical workloads. Available in 2- and 4-node platforms, DataON HCI solutions can achieve 10 million transactions per minute* with automatic failover to keep your business operating.

*The HammerDB benchmark for OLTP testing was the benchmark test used to optimize the configurations.
This benchmark’s OLTP workload is derived from TPC-C* and as such, is not comparable to published TPC-C results.

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Kepler-47 Gen 2 HCI Appliances

DataON previewed the second generation of our unique Kepler-47 HCI appliance for SMB, ROBO and edge deployments. It now features a QNAP chassis and the two nodes can be connected with a standard Ethernet router with a simple USB key as a file witness.

The Kepler-47 has been validated and field-tested with Azure File Sync, which enables users to embrace the power and flexibility of the cloud without giving up the locality of their on-premises file server.

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Intel ‘ruler’ SSDs

The Intel ‘ruler’ is a new form factor that fits into a 1U server rack for high per-drive, per-server, and per-rack capacity. It is the foundation for the quickly-emerging Enterprise & Datacenter SSD Form Factor (EDSFF) standard.

Delivering breakthrough efficiency, greater capacity, and lower TCO, ‘ruler’ will be available soon in 1U long and 1U short products.

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Microsoft Ignite 2018 Videos & Presentations

Howard Lo gives a tour of the DataON booth, including the Kepler-47 Gen 2, MUST for Windows Admin Center, and the new Intel ruler JBOF.

How Microsoft & DataON enable students and staff to spend more time teaching and learning.

How Windows Admin Center & DataON MUST help understaffed IT teams get work done faster.

Windows Server 2019: What’s New and What’s Next (BRK2035)

Erin Chapple, Vijay Kumar

Windows Server 2019 Deep Dive (BRK2241)

Jeff Woolsey

Be an IT Hero with Storage Spaces Direct in Windows Server 2019 (BRK2231)

Adi Agashe, Cosmos Darwin

Get Ready for Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 End of Support (BR2233)

Ned Pyle, Sue Hartford

Windows Server management reimagined with Windows Admin Center (BRK2037)

Haley Rowland, Samuel Li

From Hyper-V to hyper-converged infrastructure with Windows Admin Center (BRK2036)

Cosmos Darwin, Daniel Lee

Retire your old file servers with Storage Migration Service in Windows Server 2019 (BRK3056)

Ned Pyle, Arpita Duppala

Azure Files in 2018: Bigger, faster, better! (BRK2379)

Mike Emard, Will Gries

Deploying Azure File Sync (THR2254 )

Fabian Uhse, Rena Shah

Modernize your Datacenter with Software-Defined Networking in Windows Server 2019 (BRK3215)

Greg Cusanza

Dave Kawula’s notes from the field on Storage Spaces Direct (THR1069)

Dave Kawula

Best practices for implementing Storage Spaces Direct 2019 (THR3125)

Carsten Rachfahl

Accelerating your IT career (BRK1094)

Ned Pyle

Data Deduplication in Windows Server 2019 (THR3137)

Dave Kawula

Microsoft Ignite 2019 and

Microsoft Ignite: The Tour

Microsoft Ignite is moving to November 4-8 next year! Start planning and pre-register for next year’s show.

Microsoft is also taking Ignite to 17 cities around the world. Check the schedule to see if The Tour is coming to a city near you!