Increase efficiency and lower your total cost of ownership with Windows Server 2008

Maximise the flexibility, availability, and control of your servers

Develop, deliver, and manage rich user experiences and applications

Increase efficiency and lower your total cost of ownership with Windows Server 2008

Building on the success and strengths of the award-winning Windows Server 2003 operating system, Windows Server 2008 provides organisations with the most advanced Windows Server operating system yet to power applications, networks, and Web services. Valuable new functionality and powerful improvements to the base operating system save time, reduce costs, and provide a solid foundation for your IT infrastructure.

Enhance reliability:

Simplify management by using new tools that provide a one-stop interface for server configuration and monitoring, as well as the ability to automate routine tasks.
Customise server configuration, installing only the roles and features you need, minimising the attack surface area, and reducing the need for software updates.
Effectively pinpoint and resolve trouble spots with powerful diagnostic tools that give you ongoing visibility into your server environment, both physical and virtual.
Increase control over servers located in remote locations, such as the branch office, with optimised server administration and data replication.

Maximise availability with failover clusters

Configure a cluster so that the quorum resource is not a single point of failure
Achieve greater reliability and network performance through improvements to the cluster infrastructure.
Use enhanced methods to ensure consistency among copies of the cluster configuration database.
Isolate dynamic-link libraries (DLLs) that perform actions incorrectly.
Migrate cluster configuration information from one cluster to another.

Reduce costs and optimise your infrastructure:

Improve server availability and optimise your infrastructure with built-in virtualisation so you can virtualise multiple operating systems on a single server.
Connect to remote applications across firewalls and without the use of a VPN.
Quickly respond to the needs of your users, regardless of their location.
Provide centralised application access and integration of remotely published applications with new functionality in Terminal Services.

Improve security:

Ensure that computers trying to connect to your network comply with security policies you set with Network Access Protection.
Increase protection over networking functions with enhanced solutions for intelligent rules and policies.
Protect your data to ensure it can only be accessed by users with the correct security context.
Increase control over your user settings with Expanded Group Policy.

Build for the Web:

Develop reliable host Web applications and services with a security-enhanced, easy-to-manage Web server and platform, Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS7).
Use modular architecture within IIS7 for greater flexibility and control.
Get simplified management as well as powerful diagnostic and troubleshooting capabilities that save time and offer comprehensive extensibility.

Top features

Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V
Virtualise multiple operating systems on a single server.

Network access protection
Prevent unauthorised connections to your networks, servers, data, and user accounts.

Internet Information Services 7.0
Develop and reliably host Web applications and services.

Server core installation
Install only the necessary components and subsystems.

Clustering
Easily configure server clusters while providing protection and availability of your data and applications.

Server Manager
Simplify administration with a unified management console.

Windows PowerShell
Automate routine system administration tasks across multiple servers.

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