Windows Server 2008 Standard is the most robust Windows Server operating
system to date. With built-in, enhanced Web and virtualization capabilities, it
is designed to increase the reliability and flexibility of your server
infrastructure while helping save time and reduce costs. Powerful tools give you
greater control over your servers, and streamline configuration and management
tasks. Plus, enhanced security features work to harden the operating system to
help protect your data and network and provide a solid, highly dependable
foundation for your business.
Features
A Solid Foundation for
Your Business:
Windows Server 2008 provides a solid foundation for all of your server
workload and application requirements while also being easy to deploy and
manage.
Virtualization Built-in:
Windows Server Hyper-V, the next-generation hypervisor-based server
virtualization technology, allows you to make the best use of your server
hardware investments by consolidating multiple server roles as separate virtual
machines running on a single physical machine.
Built for the Web:
Windows Server 2008 comes with Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS 7.0), a
Web server and security-enhanced, easy to manage platform for developing and
reliably hosting Web applications and services.
High Security:
Windows Server 2008 is the most secure Windows Server yet. The operating
system has been hardened to help protect against failure and several new
technologies help prevent unauthorized connections to your networks, servers,
data, and user accounts.
High Performance Computing:
The benefits and cost savings of Windows Server 2008 extend to Windows HPC
Server 2008 for your high performance computing (HPC) environment. Windows HPC
Server 2008 is built on Windows Server 2008, x64-bit technology and can
efficiently scale to thousands of processing cores with out of the box
functionality to improve the productivity, and reduce the complexity of your HPC
environment.
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