Operating Systems

Windows Server 2008 R2 Foundation is a cost-effective, entry-level technology foundation targeted at small business owners and IT generalists supporting small businesses. Foundation is an inexpensive, easy-to-deploy, proven, and reliable technology that provides organizations with the foundation to run the most prevalent business applications as well as share information and resources.

Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter Edition is optimized for your large-scale virtualization of workloads that require the highest levels of scalability, reliability, and availability to support large, mission-critical applications.

With unlimited virtualization use rights and a hypervisor-based virtualization technology, Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter provides both flexibility and cost savings. Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter also supports the memory and processing needs of large-scale, business-critical workloads such as ERP, databases, server consolidations, and custom and line-of-business applications.

Built for Reliability and Scalability

Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise provides unprecedented levels of system uptime, the latest security advances, and the scalability to support the growth of mission-critical applications. It also provides a cost-effective way to realize the benefits of virtualization.

Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise is an advanced server platform that provides more cost-effective and reliable support for mission-critical workloads. It offers innovative features for virtualization, power savings, and manageability and helps make it easier for mobile workers to access company resources.

Do your systems need a cloud-ready operating system to increase security and performance for modern applications? Microsoft Windows Server 2022 can modernize your data center or cloud platform by enabling hybrid capabilities to increase value from technology investments. You can now upgrade to multilayer security with Secured-core OS as a cornerstone, improve efficiency with featured options such as Storage Spaces Direct and Windows Admin Center for easier management of modern applications with virtualization and containerization. With powerful innovations to elevate your system's efficiency and productivity, Windows Server 2022 pairs with HPE servers, storage, and networking solutions to provide the technology to help achieve your business goals.

Features

Hybrid Cloud and Security

Microsoft Windows Server 2022 features the Secured-core OS option, which uses Trusted Platform Module 2.0 and System Guard secure boot option to reduce risk from firmware vulnerabilities and to help provide multilayer security across hardware, firmware, and the operating system.

Windows Server 2022 supports AES-256-GCM and AES-256-CCM cryptographic suites for SMB encryption as well as TLS 1.3 to help provide a communication channel between two endpoints with increased security features.

Windows Server 2022 failover clusters support granular control of encrypting and signing intranode storage communications for cluster shared volumes (CSV) and the storage bus layer (SBL) to east-west storage encryption.

Improved Discrete Device Assignment (DDA) brings better security, virtual machine isolation, and performance for graphics-intensive workloads

For improved security, Windows Defender ATP provides access to deep kernel and memory sensors bolstered by Azure's massive security resources, helping to improve proactive security and anti-tampering to reduce exposure while enabling swift response actions on Windows Server 2022 endpoints.

Modernized Server Infrastructure

Microsoft Windows Server 2022 features containers that allow packaging apps with their dependencies and using operating system-level virtualization to provide fast, fully isolated environments on a single system.

The Containers extension in Windows Admin Center enables the containerization of apps, as well as troubleshooting for containers running on a host, such as opening a console connection to a container, checking logs, or monitoring resource consumption.

Microsoft drastically decreased the size of the Windows Server core container base image by reducing duplicate payloads and removing unused optional components

Storage Migration

Microsoft Windows Server 2022 offers the Storage Migration Service, which provides a graphical tool that inventories data on Windows, Linux®, and NetApp CIFS servers and then transfers the data to newer servers or to Azure virtual machines, without reconfiguring applications or users.

Capture and migrate legacy access permission settings along with the data for continued seamless functionality of your key business applications. As an option, transfer the identity of the legacy server to the destination server so apps and users can access the data without changing links or paths.