Windows Server 2008
 Windows Server 2008 builds on the success and strengths of its Windows Server predecessors while delivering valuable new functionality and powerful improvements to the base operating system. New Web tools, virtualization technologies, security enhancements, and management utilities help save time, reduce costs, and provide a solid foundation for your information technology (IT) infrastructure.
Windows Server 2008 provides a solid foundation for all of your server workload and application requirements while also being easy to deploy and manage. The all new Server Manager provides a unified management console that simplifies and streamlines server setup, configuration, and ongoing management. 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. You can also efficiently run multiple operating systems - Windows, Linux, and others – in parallel on a single server. 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.
A major enhancement to the Windows Web platform, IIS 7.0 includes a componentized architecture for greater flexibility and control. 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. 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.
System requirements:
Processor
Minimum: 1 GHz (x86 processor) or 1.4 GHz (x64 processor)
Recommended: 2 GHz or faster
Memory
Minimum: 512 MB RAM
Recommended: 2 GB RAM or greater
Available Disk Space
Minimum: 10 GB
Recommended: 40 GB or greater
Drive: DVD-ROM drive
Display: Super VGA (800 ? 600) or higher resolution monitor
Editions of Windows Server 2008:
o Windows Server 2008 Standard,
o Windows Server 2008 Enterprise,
o Windows Server 2008 Datacenter,
o Windows WEB Server 2008,
o Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-Based Systems,
o Windows Server 2008 Standard without Hyper-V,
o Windows Server 2008 Datacenter without Hyper-V
Editions of Windows Server 2008: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/editions-overview.aspx
For more information please follow the link: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/default.aspx |
