Web 2.0 and e-Commerce• Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Internet Information

Services (IIS) 7.0 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 delivers a platform capable of handing very high levels of traffi c in a secure and timely manner.

• Microsoft ASP.NET provides a powerful framework in which to construct server-side Web applications that are both secure and high performance.

• ASP.NET Mobile Controls allow developers to extend the user experience to a wide range of mobile devices from within the familiar Microsoft Visual Studio development environment.

• Microsoft Windows Live Services make it easier to enhance the user experience through Windows Live ID, Windows Live Messenger and Microsoft Virtual Earth.

• The Virtual Earth Map Control SDK allows developers to build full-feature mapping into their Web applications, and is particularly powerful when used with the new geospatial data types offered by SQL Server 2008.

• Microsoft Commerce Server 2007 provides a flexible workfl ow-based model for handling the complexities of the purchasing process and exposes a comprehensive API, making it easier to build a fully-integrated buying experience in a very fl exible manner.

• Commerce Server works with Microsoft BizTalk Server to facilitate integration with existing ERP and CRM systems.

User Experience, Media Delivery and Content Management• ASP.NET AJAX and the Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 runtime allow the

display of content within the client browser that can match the power and impact of desktop applications.

• Silverlight 2.0 is cross-platform, with versions available not only for Internet Explorer but also Firefox, and for Safari on the Apple Mac platform. Support for Linux is available from the open-source Mono project.

• In addition to being able to host both ASP and ASP.NET applications, Windows Server 2008 includes FastCGI for hosting PHP applications.

• Microsoft Windows Media Services 2008 is an industrial-strength platform for streaming audio and video content to clients across the Internet. It is also a Server Core option which makes it ideal for creating highly-secure dedicated media servers.

• Internet Information Services 7.0 supports HTTP streaming. The IIS 7.0 Media Pack adds Bit Rate Throttling which dynamically controls the speed at which media fi les are delivered to match their bit rate, so making best use of available bandwidth.

• Visual Studio 2008 leads the market as a development environment, allowing you to build applications on the .NET Framework for deployment to both the desktop and the Web in not only Visual Basic and C# but also IronPython and IronRuby.

• Microsoft Expression Studio complements Visual Studio 2008 with a set of designer tools that facilitate collaboration between designers and developers.

• Microsoft Expression Web 2.0 can be used to build PHP applications.

• Microsoft Offi ce SharePoint Server 2007 is a dynamic and versatile content management system that includes a rich Web-based editor and a multi-stage publishing model.

Effi ciency and Productivity• SharePoint Server allows you to create powerful intranet and

extranet applications that can improve the productivity and ef� ciency of your workforce.

• SharePoint Server applications run under ASP.NET which means they can be constructed using Visual Studio.

• Microsoft Offi ce SharePoint Designer is an easy-to-use tool specifi cally designed to take advantage of SharePoint Server’s many facilities for constructing Web portals.

• SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services can operate in a new SharePoint Integrated Mode which allows reports to be held in document stores managed by SharePoint Server 2007.

• BizTalk Server allows you to integrate your solutions with a wide range of back-end systems, including Siebel, SAP, JD Edwards, Oracle and DB2. It also supports SMTP, XML and Web Services protocols.

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Green Issues and Cost Savings• A data centre built around Windows Server 2008 and IIS 7.0 can

host all your Web applications, whether they require ASP (Active Server Page) technology, ASP.NET or PHP.

• Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V allows you to run both Linux and Windows operating systems within virtual machines, so making far more ef ficient use of your hardware.

• Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 gives you the tools you need to make the most of a virtualised data centre.

• Windows Server 2008 makes better use of the power-saving features built in to modern microprocessors with updated support for the Advanced Conspeci� cation together with support for P-states and processor idle sleep states on multi-processor systems.

• A default installation of Windows Server 2008 achieves power savings of up to 10 per cent against Windows Server 2003 under comparable workloads.

• Power management settings can be applied automatically to both servers and clients across a network using Group Policies, which simplifi es administration.

• You can use the Environmental Sustainability Dashboard with Microsoft Dynamics AX to indicate your direct and indirect energy consumption through the display of four Core Environmental Performance Indicators (CEPI), as identifi ed by the Global Reporting Initiative.

Delivering Web Security• Windows Server 2008 is the

Microsoft to benefi t in full from the company’s Trustworthy Computing initiative.

• You can select Server Roles when installing Windows Server 2008, so ensuring that only the functionality required for a particular server is actually installed.

• Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V supports hardware virtualisation, allowing you to install your more vulnerable outward-facing applications within virtual machines.

• Network Access Protection (NAP) prevents computers that do not meet pre-defi ned requirements from connecting to a network managed by Windows Server 2008.

• Windows Server 2008 can encrypt executables as they run, and supports stack randomisation, memory and heap scramble.

• Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 uses a modular architecture that divides its feature set into more than 30 independent modules, any of which can be disabled if the functionality it provides is not needed.

• Support for Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD-RMS) allows document owners to indentify authorised uses and place restrictions on use.

Compliancy and Site Management• Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) allows

you to continuously back up of data across a distributed data centre, extending out to branch offi ces if necessary.

• Data auditing services first introduced in Microsoft SQL Server 2000 meet US Department of Defense C2 security requirements.

• Microsoft .NET Framework supports cookie encryption and secure logon, and many other features that help software developers create secure Web applications.

• A 2008 report from Datamonitor revealed that 53 per cent of security ISVs chose Windows as their primary platform. This compares with 26 per cent targeting Linux.

• Windows Server 2008 makes the IT administrator’s job easier by bringing management tools together under a single console called Server Manager.

• Windows Deployment Services (WDS) allows you to automate the deployment of Windows operating systems across your network.

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