Microsoft Windows Server 2008 is the next generation of the Windows Server operating system that provides
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 builds on the success and strengths of the award-winning Windows Server 2003 operating
system and on the innovations delivered in Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2003 R2. However, Windows Server
2008 is far more than a refinement of predecessor operating systems. Windows Server 2008 is designed to provide
organizations with the most productive platform for powering applications, networks, and web services from the
workgroup to the datacenter with exciting, valuable new functionality and powerful improvements to the base
operating system.
In addition to new functionality, Windows Server 2008 provides powerful improvements to the base operating
system over Windows Server 2003. Notable improvements include those to networking, advanced security features,
remote application access, centralized server role management, performance and reliability monitoring tools,
failover clustering, deployment, and the file system. These improvements and many others help organizations
maximize the flexibility, availability, and control of their servers.
Microsoft has made some significant improvements to the operation of Internet Information Server 7.0 on Windows
2008. As shown here
, Microsoft has made some great performance
improvements.
- Server Efficiency (Requests Per Second / CPU Utlization %) --> + 10.9% increased efficiency
- Web Services (Total Methods Requests/Sec (RPS)) --> + 31.4% more traffic sent
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