Simplified Web Workload Management

breakthrough performance, reliability and energy efficiency at the same low cost as earlier versions. The hardware is remarkably enhanced by Intel’s newest breakthrough in Intel® CoreTM microarchitecture, 45-nm fabrication technology, which improves performance through increased transistor density and expands power management capabilities for new levels of energy efficiency. The new processor family also includes tools for speeding up the performance of media and cutting-edge computing applications.

Double the Impact on Enterprise Web Applications and Infrastructure

Organizations must be able to deploy and manage their applications rapidly if they expect to effectively serve timely, high-density Web-based content. Windows Server 2008 offers a complete Web stack that can quickly address the entire Web workload on hosted servers — from Internet to intranet to extranet Web applications. In addition, Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 provides Web administrators and developers with an unprecedented degree of control over the Web server through a powerful, modular Web platform.

Modular architecture enables the IT professional to customize exactly which features are installed and running on the Web server, and who specifically can control them. IIS 7.0 now comprises more than 40 feature modules. With IIS 7.0, less than half of the installation options are installed by default, and most can be independently installed. This dramatically reduces the potential attack surface and lowers the footprint requirements of the server. An extension of this modular approach is the addition of Windows Web Server 2008. Inexpensive and streamlined, Windows Web Server 2008 is perfect for hosting even the heaviest Web workloads.

Modular architecture enables the IT professional to customize exactly which features are installed and running on the Web server.

Further improving reliability and security are the improved diagnostics and error tracing of the Application Pool Isolation feature in IIS 7.0. Application Pool Isolation automatically isolates up to 4,000 new sites in their own pools by default. This provides sandboxed configuration and identity and prevents sites and applications from interfering with one another. Thorough diagnostic information is provided through in-depth runtime-state data, and error messages are more detailed where failed request are automatically traced for more rapid troubleshooting. By helping administrators quickly triage issues, IIS 7.0 eliminates hours of potential downtime.

The simplified, task-based management interface in IIS

7.0streamlines common administration tasks, such as copying Web site settings across multiple Web servers without additional configuration by using the Distributed Configuration Model and Xcopy Deployment. New task- oriented user interface and command-line tools are helpful for managing and administering Web servers, Web sites, and Web applications. These features provide a comprehensive managed-code application programming interface so that developers can manipulate XML config- uration files and conveniently access server objects. These rich administration capabilities make deploying and managing compelling Web applications on IIS 7.0 more straight- forward and efficient than on any other Web server.