Efficiency - the name of the game for WSV 2008

Few technologies can have an impact as profound as the windows server virtualization technology on an enterprise's IT infrastructure. Virtualization, which decouples data and applications from physical resources, has the ability to dramatically cut system costs and greatly increase the system's overall efficiency. Indeed, virtualization is rapidly growing into a core tool for improving manageability in IT environments. A key feature of Windows Server 2008 is its new and impressive virtualization infrastructure. WSV 2008 offers the ability to manage the IT resources of any enterprise far more efficiently.

Windows Server Virtualization 2008 will include a feature that allows users to pause a virtual machine and then restart it on another machine. The often cumbersome virtual machine migration process will also be improved through WSV 2008's new support for clustering. According to the general manager of Microsoft's Windows server division, down time during a virtual migration will be a mere one to two minutes.

In addition, WSV 2008 tightly integrates virtualization with a hypervisor-based solution that is part of Windows. A hypervisor is a layer that exists between Windows Server 2008 and the actual hardware, thereby allowing the installation of multiple processor guests--not to mention system memory allocations upwards of 32 GB of RAM per machine.

The final version of Windows Server Virtualization is planned to ship within 180 days from the moment Windows Server 2008 is released.

Undoubtedly, virtualization technology is a must in today's IT-saturated environment, and WSV 2008 delivers the tools needed to cut costs and increase efficiency.

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Windows Server Virtualization is the next step in virtualization technology--prepare for the future by planning on using WSV 2008!

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