Windows Server 2008 Performance and Scalability with Bill Karagounis

Posted By: Adam Bomb | Feb 20th @ 12:00 AM

In some parallel universe, an alternate version of me went to work for Bill way back in 2000, when we both worked in Microsoft Consulting. I don't know if that bizarro Adam survived, but if he did, I suspect he's very, very tired.
We shot this video first thing in the morning, but you can see that Bill still has a lot of energy and passion around his job, which is basically making Windows Server go better. He told me about some of the Server 2003-2008 improvements that they've made, some things that really made me sit up and take notice. How about 40% more TS users on the same hardware? How about a 10% reduction in power consumption, under identical workloads? Faster network and disk transfers? All stuff you get just by upgrading the OS. Cool Stuff.
(Bill's team has a blog at http://blogs.technet.com/winserverperformance/)
<video was updated on 2/25/2008>