Windows Server 2008 Enterprise
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise is an enterprise-class platform for deploying business-critical applications. Improve availability with clustering and hot-add processor capabilities. Improve security with consolidated identity management features. Reduce infrastructure costs by consolidating applications with virtualization licensing rights. Whatever you need to achieve, Windows Server 2008 Enterprise provides the foundation for a dynamic and scalable IT infrastructure.
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High availability
Providing uninterrupted 24x7 services to employees, vendors and partners has become a critical issue for global businesses. Remote employees, global customers and partners need continuous access to systems and data. A disruption in services can result in lost productivity and opportunities.
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise provides high availability for mission-critical applications such as databases, messaging systems and file and print services, through features such as failover clustering, fault-tolerant memory synchronisation, and file synchronisation across multiple servers.
Cost-effective virtualisation
Many organisations find that patch management, resource utilisation, maintenance costs and server sprawl are among their biggest IT challenges. Server virtualisation technology can help you resolve these issues, and enables you to consolidate resources and realise significant infrastructure and management cost savings.
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise provides an ideal platform for enterprise-scale virtualisation through Hyper-V™, a flexible, high-performance virtualisation technology. Windows Server 2008 Enterprise licenses allow you to run up to four additional virtual instances of Windows Server on one physical server licensed for Windows Server 2008 Enterprise. This gives you a cost-effective means to virtualise your server environment.
Increased scalability
As people access information from increasingly varied environments, devices and systems, organisations face an ongoing challenge to maintain availability and productivity without compromising security. Today’s IT infrastructures should be flexible and scalable, to help enable new functionality, and be able to cope with an influx of additional users and locations, and increasingly demanding applications.
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise provides the headroom to meet spikes in demand for business-critical applications, enabling you to maintain or increase productivity as your workforce and customer-base expand.
Enhanced security with advanced identity and access management
Today’s employees are doing more business in more places - and on a wider variety of devices. At the same time, information loss, whether via outright theft or accidental leakage, is a priority concern for almost every organisation.
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise provides advanced identity and access management features, which enable a secure flow of information to and from remote users. The new authentication architecture helps you guard against malicious software attacks, and helps prevent confidential data from being distributed inappropriately.
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- Minimum: 1GHz (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
- Minimum: 512 MB RAM
- Recommended: 2 GB RAM or greater
- Optimal: 2 GB (full installation) or 1 GB RAM (server core installation) or more
- Maximum: (32-bit systems): 4 GB (Standard) or 64GB (Enterprise and Datacenter)
- Maximum: (64-bit systems): 32 GB (Standard) or 2 TB (Enterprise, Datacenter, and Itanium-Based Systems)
- Minimum: 10 GB available disk space
- Recommended: 40 GB or greater
- Note: computers with more than 16 GB of RAM will require more disk space for paging, hibernation, and dump files
- DVD-ROM drive
- Super VGA (800 x 600) or higher resolution monitor
- Keyboard and Microsoft mouse or compatible pointing device
If you buy software ‘off the shelf’, known as Full Packaged Product (FPP), this is oriented to retail purchases for consumers or small business's.
Any business looking to purchase more than five licences should consider a Volume Licensing agreement. Please contact our software/licence team to receive a quotation today!
