Microsoft will release eight versions of Windows Server 2008 when it ships in late February 2008, three of which will include its hypervisor technology.
“With more than 1 million downloads and evaluation copies, we’ve built Windows Server 2008 based on a solid foundation of customer feedback, which is reflected in the product’s ease of management, security enhancements and overall reliability. The unprecedented range of customer choices and the virtualisation enhancements will help customers tailor solutions built to fit virtually any business need,” said Bob Kelly, corporate vice president of Infrastructure Server Marketing at Microsoft.
Microsoft Hyper-V Server, a hypervisor-based server virtualisation product, complements the Hyper-V technology within Windows Server 2008, allowing customers to consolidate workloads onto a single physical server.
Microsoft is also slated to showcase their Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008 at this event.