Microsoft Officially Releases Windows Server 2012

Windows Server 2012 has been officially released recently by Microsoft

. It is the first of Microsoft's current wave of new operating systems. Windows Server 2012 shares a few things with the forthcoming Windows 8 client operating system, like the same Windows NT 6.2 kernel, as well as, the same Metro and Desktop split-personality graphic interface. Moreover, it shares the same kind of cloud-centric focus that the Windows 8 clients have. One difference is that instead of only connecting to cloud services, Windows Server 2012 aims to be the building block for them.

Windows Server 2012 perhaps will not have the adoption lag in the enterprise, which Windows 8 is bound to face. The reason behind this is that apart from the Metro GUI, the biggest changes of Server 2012 are in substance instead of style, building upon what the organisation delivered with Windows Server 2008 Release 2, three years ago. Specifically, Server 2012 takes 2 management features with which Server 2008 R2 admins will be familiar with. These features are Server Manager and PowerShell.

Built from the cloud up, Microsoft uses its experience operating global datacenters, which depend on hundreds and thousands of servers, for delivering more than 200 cloud services. Users can get a transformational leap in the scale, speed and power of their datacenters and apps through hundreds of new features, which Server 2012 offers along with its new advancements in networking, automation, virtualization and storage. Users can use their present skills and investments in application development, database, systems management, identity and virtualization for taking advantage of Server 2012 and realize the promise of cloud computing. Numerous enterprise clients are already experiencing tremendous value in early deployments.

While some of the changes in Windows Server 2012 are incremental amendments over its predecessor, Windows Server 2008 Release 2, the new characteristics are more than evolutionary. The Windows Server 2012 product line-up has been simplified and streamlined for making it easy for users to choose the edition, which is perfect for their requirements, based on the organization size and the needs for virtualization and cloud computing. As per Microsoft, Windows Server 2012 will support 320 logical processors, as well as, 4TB of physical memory per server along with 64 virtual processors per virtual machine (scalable upto 1TB of memory in Hyper-V without any extra cost). Microsoft claims that the scalability of Virtual disks can be upto 64TB apiece, which is 32 times what others are offering at the moment, and virtualize 99 per cent of all SQL databases.

Windows Server 2012 is undoubtedly the most significant server released by Microsoft. It is now available for evaluation and purchase to customers throughout the world.

by: wendychai

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