Windows Server 2012 – New Advanced Features
In this article I would like to share the new things in Windows Server 2012 that grabbed my particular attention. It’s not a full list of the new features, which you can find on the Microsoft official...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 : Towards More Mobility
In our previous article, Windows Server 2012 – New Advanced Features, we introduced some of the many new features that Windows Server 2012 provides to its clients. In this article we will focus on...
View ArticlePerformance Tuning Windows 2012: Hardware Selection
In this first article of our new series, Performance Tuning Windows Server 2012, we take a look at hardware selection. Obviously it is important to select the right hardware that meets your expected...
View ArticlePerformance Tuning Windows 2012: Introduction
Windows Server 2012 has been out for a while so it’s time to look at some of the performance optimizations we can make and get the most out of Microsoft’s latest server OS. In this new series about...
View ArticlePerformance Tuning Windows 2012: Power Consumption and Performance
In this article of our Windows 2012 series we’ll discuss the power consumption efficiency and performance trade-offs. Windows Server 2012 is optimized for excellent energy efficiency with minimum...
View ArticlePerformance Tuning Windows 2012: Storage Subsystem – Part 1
In this article we’ll discuss performance considerations for your storage subsystem. When selecting a storage solution you will usually consider the performance, which improves or degrades when...
View ArticlePerformance Tuning Windows 2012: Network Subsystem–Part 1
In this article of the Performance Tuning Windows 2012 series we’ll focus on the Networking Subsystem. We’ll approach the various optimization guidelines by layer, starting with the hardware and...
View ArticleApache rules the whole world, Russians cling to NginX
This is the third article in the series of articles about the trends among websites in Alexa ranking websites. In our article about most popular webservers in Alexa we found out that Apache is the most...
View ArticlePerformance Tuning Windows 2012: Network Subsystem Part 2
In our previous article we discussed the hardware supported features of some of the high-end network adapters. Let’s take a look how you can use some of those settings to their best advantage. Remember...
View ArticlePerformance Tuning Windows 2012: Web Servers – Part 1
Windows 2012 Server Web Servers is our next topic of our continued series about tuning Windows 2012 Server performance. This will be a multipart series describing optimizing the Windows 2012 Web Server...
View ArticlePerformance Tuning Windows 2012: Web Servers–Part 1
Windows 2012 Server Web Servers is the next topic of our continuing series about tuning Windows 2012 Server performance. This series of articles will be describing optimizing the Windows 2012 Web...
View ArticlePerformance Tuning Windows 2012: Web Servers – Part 2
In this second article of the series ‘Tuning Windows 2012 – Web Servers’ we’ll discuss tuning IIS’ kernel mode. Tuning IIS 8.0(more…)
View ArticleMonitoring apache & nginx using Monitis and M3
Apache and Nginx web servers both expose a very nice interface for polling the web server status via HTTP, providing you with useful counters for statistics and up-time.(more…)
View ArticleTuning Windows 2012 – File System, Part 1
In this first article about Tuning the Windows 2012 File System, we focus on the Server Message Block (SMB) model for client-server communication, including the SMB 1.0, SMB 2.0 and SMB 3.0...
View ArticleTuning Windows 2012 – File System, Part 2
In the first article about tuning the Windows 2012 File System, we focused on the SMB model. In this article we’ll discuss tuning parameters for the NFS model that provides a file-sharing solution for...
View ArticleTuning Windows 2012 – File System, Part 4
Performance Tuning for a File Server Workload You might be familiar with the File Server Capacity Tool (FSCT) offered by Microsoft that can help you plan your file server capacity. The tool creates...
View ArticleTuning Windows 2012 – File System, Part 5
In this article we’ll describe the SMB 3.0 performance counters that are new in Windows 2012 and are considered a base set of counters when you monitor the resource usage of SMB: (more…)
View ArticleMonitor Your Network To Prevent Troubles
Everyone in the company was excited and all geared up for the super sale that was set to start at 10 a.m. You look at the clock in your office and know the amazing sales results you are eager to show...
View ArticleRequired Website Monitoring
Online shoppers primarily care about the speed of your website, it’s reliability and your business reputation. Of course it is nice that your website has a crisp sharp appearance and is optimized to...
View ArticleNetwork Server Monitoring Optimizes Your Business
It would be a big challenge today to find a business that does not rely on computer technology. Even the smallest of businesses require this and the vast majority of businesses moves well beyond that...
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