A Solid Foundation for Your Business

• 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.

Virtualization Built-in

• Windows Server Hyper-V 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.
• Applications can also be efficiently virtualized using Windows Server 2008 centralized application access technologies.

Built for the Web

• 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.

Processor:

• Minimum: 1 GHz (x86 processor) or 1.4 GHz (x64 processor)
• Recommended: 2 GHz or faster
  Note: 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
• Optimal: 2 GB RAM (Full installation) or 1 GB RAM (Server Core installation) or more
• 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)

Available Disk Space:

• Minimum: 10 GB
• Recommended: 40 GB or greater
  Note: Computers with more than 16GB of RAM will require more disk space for paging, hibernation, and dump files

Drive:

• DVD-ROM drive

Display:

• Super VGA (800 × 600) or higher resolution monitor

Windows Server 2008 Standard is the most robust Windows Server operating system to date. With built-in, enhanced Web and virtualization capabilities, it is designed to increase the reliability and flexibility of your server infrastructure while helping save time and reduce costs.

• Internet Information Services 7.0
• Hyper-V
• Network Access Protection
• Active Directory Rights Management Services (RMS)

• Provides a solid foundation for all of your server workload and application requirements while being easy to deploy and manage.
• Hyper-V, the next-generation hypervisor-based server virtualization technology, allows you to consolidate servers and use hardware more efficiently.
• Includes improved Web administration, diagnostics, development, and application tools with Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS 7.0), a major upgrade from IIS 6.0.
• Operating system is hardened, integrates several identity and access technologies, and includes multiple security innovations to more easily deploy a policy-driven network that helps protect your server infrastructure, your data, and your business.

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