Microsoft offers server targeted at small businesses

Microsoft is offering up a strip under version of its Server 2008 product, and partnering with HP to supply the hardware that will run it. For small offices in the Toronto forest life Centre, it offers money savings although continue providing the real services a business needs to get the job done.

A new, strip under version of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 is being alert as an ideal first sever for a small business or branch office by Microsoft and its hardware partner Hewlett Packard . Windows Server 2008 Foundation edition begin in April, but HP was the first to bring it to the Canadian market in May, with two lines of server hardware supporting the bare bones operating system.

Microsoft organization goal the small business market with a low price point that requires less expensive hardware. The server offers all the functions a small office might required– thus as file and printer sharing, and remote desktop connections.The server will support up to 15 users and there's no need to buy client license, says product manager for Windows Server at Microsoft Canada.

It is the describe everything of Windows Server 2008, and it's giving a small business the organization they need,” she says. it doesn't come with Hyper-V. Server visualization is not a key priority for a really small business, especially when this is probably their first server.

The organization is run on a 64-bit system architecture (x64) and doesn't support 32-bit components (x86). It allows 50 network access connections through RRAS and 10 through IAS, compared to 250 and 50 connections respectively on the Standard edition. It also allows 50 connections through Terminal Services Gateway instead of 250.

Hewlett Packard is offering two lines of server hardware that will support organization. It's HP ProLiant Tower Servers ML series, and the ProLiant Rack Optimized Servers DL series. these all solution is perfect for small business or home office environment, and that's the market we're going after,” says product manager for HP ProLiant. “Small business demand the same stuff that our large ones do. Security, reliability, stability it's all here.


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