{"id":67,"date":"2008-02-11T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T08:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/news\/archive\/2008\/02\/11\/windows-server-2008-the-real-deal.aspx"},"modified":"2008-02-11T08:00:09","modified_gmt":"2008-02-11T08:00:09","slug":"windows-server-2008-the-real-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/?p=67","title":{"rendered":"Windows Server 2008 &#8211; The Real Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With so much <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crn.com\/encyclopedia\/defineterm.jhtml?term=ROI&#038;x=&#038;y=\">ROI<\/a> potential and virtualization built in, Microsoft (NSDQ:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.crn.com\/tools\/quotes\/index.jhtml?Page=QUOTE&#038;Ticker=MSFT\">MSFT<\/a>)&#8217;s Windows Server 2008 &#8212; just released to manufacturing and set to launch later this month &#8212; promises to change the way the channel delivers solutions.  <\/p>\n<p>After several weeks of testing in the CMP Channel Test Center lab, it is clear that Microsoft&#8217;s forthcoming server <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crn.com\/encyclopedia\/defineterm.jhtml?term=operating%20system&#038;x=&#038;y=\">operating system<\/a> provides levels of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crn.com\/encyclopedia\/defineterm.jhtml?term=data%20center&#038;x=&#038;y=\">data center<\/a> functionality never before seen in a single package. Even without considering the implications of Hyper-V\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe virtualization application that will officially ship several months after Server 2008\u00e2\u20ac\u201dit seems that Microsoft, once again, appears poised to steamroll over more and new (watch out, VMware) competitors.  <\/p>\n<p>Full Article &#8211; <a title=\"http:\/\/www.crn.com\/software\/206105296?cid=customFeed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.crn.com\/software\/206105296?cid=customFeed\">http:\/\/www.crn.com\/software\/206105296?cid=customFeed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With so much ROI potential and virtualization built in, Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT)&#8217;s Windows Server 2008 &#8212; just released to manufacturing and set to launch later this month &#8212; promises to change the way the channel delivers solutions. After several weeks of testing in the CMP Channel Test Center lab, it is clear that Microsoft&#8217;s forthcoming server [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[338],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}