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Microsoft's 2008 Server Stack-What's New and Who Cares?




May 15, 2008 —  (Page 2 of 4)
“As a company, we’re very cautious, because of the scale of bill pay transactions we do,” said CheckFree’s Mark Prout. “We never go down the bleeding edge of technology as an overall strategy. We’re usually about a year behind when it comes to new technologies. In the 2009 time frame, we’ll move 2008 products into our stack.”

However, Prout added, CheckFree works closely with Microsoft to use the newest product versions internally. For example, it is currently using SQL 2008 to handle back-end internal business processing.

Microsoft’s Jonathan Perera said that the 2008 products offer numerous compelling reasons to upgrade.

“We’ve made it easy for companies to take advantage of next-generation Web capabilities,” he said. “Every organization around the world is trying to understand, ‘How do we bring Web 2.0 inside the firewall and take advantage of it? How do we take advantage of next-generation Web approaches to find a business application?’

“What we’ve done across Windows Server, SQL Server and Visual Studio 2008 is put Web platform leadership front and center,” Perera continued. “For example, with the Windows Server Web Core Edition, we’ve streamlined Windows Server to just run as a Web server. There’s a massive reduction in terms of total amount of memory impact. The result is improved performance and tighter security.”

Virtualization is front and center when it comes to new features for Windows Server 2008. “What’s happening with Hyper-V will lead a new approach to how people think about virtualization,” said Perera.

Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, the hypervisor-based server virtualization technology, allows users to consolidate servers and use hardware more efficiently. Several enhancements to Terminal Services improve presentation virtualization. And multiple operating systems—Linux, Windows and others—can be deployed in parallel on a single server using Hyper-V.

Beyond virtualization, Perera said that improvements in IIS 7 and next generation Web capabilities are the highlights of the launch. “The Web server has been fully architected to be more programmable, more secure and easier to mange,” he said. “For example, we have a configuration option that would allow an administrator to just define a simple text-only configuration file and force that across a whole farm of IIS servers. It’s very easy to manage—a real change from Windows Server 2003.”

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