What’s in Windows Server 8 for the ITPro – a demo tour
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The document summarizes how business needs and technology innovations are converging to create new opportunities for IT. Key business needs driving changes include access, efficiency, agility, flexibility, and compliance. Relevant technology innovations include multitenancy, cross-premises connectivity, virtualization, cloud-based applications, and improved security and identity management tools. These converging factors are opening up new possibilities for IT organizations.
What’s in Windows Server 8 for the ITPro – a demo tour
- 2. Converging needs and innovations Business Needs Technology Innovations Access Multitenancy Efficiency Cross-premises connectivity Agility Virtualization Flexibility Cloud-based applications Compliance Security and identity management Automation New Opportunities for IT 2 2
- 30. Why Windows Server 8? Built for the Allows IT Efficient, breakthr future, while organizations to ough platform supporting leverage and for private cloud today’s business optimize existing computing needs investments 30
- 31. What the Media Are Saying “Microsoft has grasped the fundamental truth about the transition to cloud.” Richard Fichera - Forrester Research “Server 8 Benefits from Lessons Learned With Azure… Microsoft’s experience running Azure played heavily into the new server's design.” Andy Patrizio - Network World Windows Server 8: “Takes your breath away…Features will be a boon for enterprises creating private clouds.” Jonathan Hassel - Computerworld “Nothing from Microsoft, and I mean literally nothing has ever been this ambitious.” Jason Perlow - ZDNet 31
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- #3: Business needs and technology innovations are converging, offering IT professionals newopportunities to leverage technologyinnovations to meet business requirements. Consider these trending business needs:Access. Workers need access to data and information regardless of the infrastructure, network, device, or application used to deliver it.Agility and flexibility. Business owners need to be flexible and respond rapidly to market changes.Compliance. Businesses must protect customer and corporate identity information, respond to changing regulations, and comply with industry and governmental policies.Efficiency. Everyone must do their job more cost-effectively and efficiently to maintain margins.To support these business needs, IT professionals need an infrastructure that scales quickly, minimizes downtime and failures, and incorporates commodity hardware. Fortunately, several technology innovations are making that possible:Multitenancy and cross-premises connectivity. These innovations help IT departments and hosting service providers maximize existing infrastructure investments while exploring new services, improved management, and higher availability.Virtualization. IT departments can significantly reduce the number of physical servers required to support the business.Cloud-based applications. Anywhere access to critical applications increases work productivity, improves communication, and increases customer touch, helping companies improve their regular business rhythm and respond to market changes and opportunities.Security and identity management. These critical technologies are evolving to provide highly secure and compliant environments that protect important assets and corporate and personal identity.Automation. New technologies make it easier to automate IT management and provisioning tasks.
- #8: DemoShow a file share, then copy files to the share, then fail a node while the files are copying. The copy is not interrupted.
- #11: DemoShared nothing migrate a VM to a new host.Migrate storage to file share.Move VM to file sharePerform a cluster failover/live migration
- #12: DemoShow powershell code to do it.Connect to an ISCSI targerFailover test.
- #13: Demo:Show screenshot of Dedup Results
- #31: Why choose Windows Server 8?Windows Server 8 is a breakthrough platform for private cloud computing. It delivers a dynamic, available, and cost-effective server platform that satisfies business and IT professionals by offeringA consistent, integrated approach that helps them solve fundamental business and IT challenges.A concrete platform that lets them take advantage of new applications and services that can be deployed on-premises and in private and public cloud environments.Windows Server 8 supports yesterday’s technologies and today’s business needs while preparing you for tomorrow’s innovations.Many of the new and improved features in Windows Server 8 can help you meet demanding business requirements. If you’re working with virtualized environments, many of the improvements in Hyper-V and storage technologies will help you enhance your virtual environment and reduce storage costs. For example, Windows Server 8 offers high-performance, continuously available file-share storage for server applications. Implementing this feature lets you store application data on inexpensive, easy-to-manage file shares and obtain nearly the same benefits you would expect from a storage area network (SAN).We built Windows Server 8 so you can capitalize on your existing investments. By choosing Windows Server 8 now, you are preparing for the future. As you continue to grow and work within a heterogeneous environment, you can select the path that is best for your business. Whether implementing a private cloud is around the corner or over the horizon for you, Windows Server 8 offers the best platform to prepare for and implement cloud optimized IT now.
- #32: Media coverage from BUILD conferenceWindows Server 8 is a breakthrough platform for private cloud computing. It delivers a dynamic, available, and cost-effective server platform that satisfies business and IT professionals by offeringA consistent, integrated approach that helps them solve fundamental business and IT challenges.A concrete platform that lets them take advantage of new applications and services that can be deployed on-premises and in private and public cloud environments.Windows Server 8 supports yesterday’s technologies and today’s business needs while preparing you for tomorrow’s innovations.Many of the new and improved features in Windows Server 8 can help you meet demanding business requirements. If you’re working with virtualized environments, many of the improvements in Hyper-V and storage technologies will help you enhance your virtual environment and reduce storage costs. For example, Windows Server 8 offers high-performance, continuously available file-share storage for server applications. Implementing this feature lets you store application data on inexpensive, easy-to-manage file shares and obtain nearly the same benefits you would expect from a storage area network (SAN).We built Windows Server 8 so you can capitalize on your existing investments. By choosing Windows Server 8 now, you are preparing for the future. As you continue to grow and work within a heterogeneous environment, you can select the path that is best for your business. Whether implementing a private cloud is around the corner or over the horizon for you, Windows Server 8 offers the best platform to prepare for and implement cloud optimized IT now.