Windows Server 2008 – Serves you best!!!

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 is the next generation of the Windows Server operating system that helps information technology (IT) professionals maximize control over their infrastructure while providing unprecedented availability and management capabilities, leading to a significantly more secure, reliable and robust server environment than ever before. Windows Server 2008 delivers new value to organizations by ensuring all users regardless of location are able to get the full complement of services from the network. Windows Server 2008 also provides deep insight into the operating system and diagnostic capabilities to allow administrators to spend more time adding business value.
Windows Server 2008, with built-in Web and virtualization technologies, enables you to increase the reliability and flexibility of your server infrastructure. New virtualization tools, Web resources, and security enhancements help you save time, reduce costs, and provide a platform for a dynamic and optimized datacenter. Another striking feature is that this server goes well with Windows Vista.
A peep into the spotlights of this server
Built for the Web
Windows Server 2008 gives you the ability to deliver rich web-based experiences efficiently and effectively, with improved administration and diagnostics, development and application tools, and lower infrastructure costs.
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It provides simplified Web server management with Internet Information Services 7.0, which is a powerful Web platform for applications and services. This modular platform provides a simplified, task-based management interface, greater cross-site control, security enhancements, and integrated health management for Web services.
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Cross-site copy allows you to easily copy Web site settings across multiple Web servers without additional configuration.
Virtualization
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It has a built-in virtualization technology which helps to virtualize multiple operating systems—Windows, Linux and others—on a single server. With virtualization built into the operating system and with simpler, more flexible licensing policies, it's now easier than ever to take advantage of all the benefits and cost savings of virtualization.
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New deployments options to provide the most suitable method for your environment.
Security
Windows Server 2008 is the most secure Windows Server ever. Its hardened operating system and security innovations, including Network Access Protection, Federated Rights Management, and Read-Only Domain Controller, provide unprecedented levels of protection for your network, your data, and your business.
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Protection of your server with security innovations that reduce attack surface area of the kernel, resulting in a more robust and secure server environment.
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Protection of your data to ensure it can only be accessed by users with the correct security context, and to make it available when hardware failures occur.
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Protection against malicious software with User Account Control with a new authentication architecture.
Solid Foundation for Business Workloads
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Increased dependability with advanced reliability enhancements to reduce loss of access, work, time, data, and control.
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Effectively pinpointing and resolving trouble spots with powerful diagnostic tools that give you ongoing visibility into your server environment, both physical and virtual.
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Increased control over servers located in remote locations, such as the branch office. With optimized server administration and data replication, you can provide users with better service while reducing management headaches.
This server thus provides almost everything necessary to be called “the best of all times.” This should probably alleviate most of the commonly encountered problems in an organisation and is definitely the gen-next server.