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Go Go Go! Vista Performance with Brad Marrs

AdamBomb — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:01:00 GMT

Brad Marrs made a brief appearance at TechEd - flying in just long enough to provide me with this interview and present his session on Vista performance.
In the interview, he talks about some of the feedback his team received when Vista was released and how they improved the performance in Vista SP1.
He talks to us about how the team improved file copy speeds and network i/O. He also talks about some of the tools that you can use to measure performance beyond perfmon.

Windows Vista SP1 outperforms Windows XP SP2 in file copy

mkleef — Tue, 20 May 2008 07:22:00 GMT

Its interesting that people seem to think that Vista underperforms in every area of the system which is quite an incorrect perception. In this demo I show how Vista outperforms Windows XP and I show the under the covers process traces of just how it achieves it.
Demo environment consists of two images. One Vista SP1 and the other Windows XP SP2 both on the same HDD IO and communicating across my home wireless network to a Windows Server 2008 box on my main LAN. Once the two images get going latency gets introduced and things start to slow down....except Vista doesnt slow down. Watch and see!

Windows Server 2008 Performance and Scalability with Bill Karagounis

AdamBomb — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT

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>