Windows Server 2008 is the newest Windows Server in use system. With Server 2008 you can develop, bring and manage rich consumer experiences and applications, offer a highly secure network infrastructure and increase technological competence and value within your organization. Windows Server 2008 has many new attributes and also improves on the obtainable attributes of previous server in use systems. Here are some of the highlights.

Windows Server Hyper-V permits you to make the best employ of your server hardware investments by consolidating multiple server roles as divide virtual machines operating on a single physical machine. You can also run multiple in use systems for instance Windows, Linux and others all in similar on a single server.

Web Applications and Hosting:

Windows Server 2008 comes with Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS 7.0), a Web server and security improved, simple to direct platform for developing and dependably hosting Web applications and services.

High Performance Computing:

High Performance Computing (HPC) in its place employs the processing power of multiple systems to procedure the commands for an application. It does this by distributing the processing load across multiple systems to permit for faster processing of the data. Windows HPC Server 2008 is built on Windows Server 2008 and can competently scale to thousands of processing cores to improve the output and reduce the complexity of your HPC surroundings.

High Security:

Windows Server 2008 has been toughened to help protect against breakdown and several new technologies assist stop unauthorized connections to your networks, servers, data, and consumer accounts.

Server Core Installation:

The Server Core installation alternative of the Windows Server 2008 in use system provides a minimal surroundings for operating precise server roles that reduces the maintenance and management supplies for those server roles. To give this minimal environment, a Server Core installation installs only the subset of the binaries that are requisite by the supported server roles.

Windows Server 2008 will be launched with 8 editions which contain:

Windows Server 2008 Standard
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise
Windows Server 2008 Datacenter
Windows Web Server 2008
Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-Based Systems
Windows Server 2008 Standard without Hyper-V
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise without Hyper-V
Windows Server 2008 Datacenter without Hyper-V

System Necessities:

Processor
Minimum: 1 GHz (x86) or 1.4 GHz (x64)
Recommended: 2 GHz or faster
An Intel Itanium 2 processor is required for Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-Based Systems

Memory

Minimum: 512 MB RAM
Recommended: 2 GB RAM or greater
Maximum (32-bit systems): 4 GB (Standard) or 64 GB (Enterprise and Datacenter)
Maximum (64-bit systems): 32 GB (Standard) or 2 TB (Enterprise, Datacenter, and Itanium-Based Systems)

Disk Space

Minimum: 10 GB
Recommended: 40 GB or greater.