Enterprise Server Strategies for the CIOWindows Server 8 is Microsoft’s next-generation server operating system, scheduled for a 2012 release date. The company first publicly talked about the product at its Worldwide Partners Conference in July 2011 and officially debuted a developer’s preview version of it at its BUILD conference in September.
Containing over 300 new features, Windows Server 8 is a significant technical advance over Windows Server 2008 R2, particularly in the areas of cloud computing, virtual networks and storage infrastructures. The product, which features improved multitenant support, offers IT customers a choice in building and deploying applications optimized to work with private cloud and public cloud environments.
The product’s management and services features can now be carried out while the system is running, thereby avoiding down time. One such improvement, called “cluster aware updating,” is a technology that lets administrators apply multiple and different patches and updates simultaneously, thereby saving money and eliminating error-prone IT processes.
Windows Server 8 has built-in technologies to allow for the continuous availability of Web-based services that typically require expensive hardware infrastructure. Microsoft plans to offer high availability and disaster recovery services at lower price points by using device pooling, disk virtualization and thin provisioning,
While there is no official Windows Server 8 release date yet, it is expected to ship sometime in 2012 around the same time as Microsoft’s Windows 8 desktop operating system (OS).
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