Kingston TechnologyTaking Advantage of Modern Memory and Storage with Windows Server 2012 R2

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For the many enterprises that have standardized on Windows Server 2003, there is a looming problem. Microsoft is ending its direct support of WinServer 2003 in July 2015. The loss of Microsoft support, coupled with a desire to manage TCO more effectively and adopt new technologies, is prompting companies to consider migrating to a new version of Windows Server.

Windows Server 2012 R2 offers a number of benefi ts, the fi rst of which is its virtualization architecture. Server virtualization using Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V provides industry-leading features, including:

• Shared storage and dynamic storage resizing• Software-defi ned networking • 64 vCPU VMs with NUMA support• Up to one terabyte of memory per virtual machine, and up to four terabytes in total across all VMs• Full VM mobility even outside of clusters

In addition to server virtualization, the latest remote desktop services drive desktop virtualization. Enterprises realize these benefi ts:

• HTTPS-secured remote sessions• Application publishing• Driverless printing• GPU virtualization via RemoteFX

The combination of WinServer 2012 R2 File Services and Kingston SSDs strengthens the case for migrating. The new Windows File Server Resource Manager brings critical technologies such as:

• Flexible real-time fi le quotas • File classifi cation infrastructure for setting usage policies• Real-time screening to refi ne storage policies• ‘Bitlocker’ encryption for advanced data protection

Active Directory Federation Services is another benefi t of migrating in order to allow fi ne-grained access control and directory integration across trusted organizations. Further, the built-in web application proxy enables single sign-on for web applications.

Server management features have never been more powerful in the Windows Server environment with automated provisioning and the PowerShell command line interface for scripting and integration with other Microsoft and partner solutions.Perhaps most powerful is how Windows Server 2012 R2 optimizes memory utilization:

• Error-correcting code gives you data corruption fi xes• Predictive failure analysis reduces memory fault• NUMA-aware applications optimize memory utilization• Hyper-V offers dynamic memory allocation• For big data applications, memory can be broken into smaller-sized non-NUMA VMs

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All of these server software innovations are only as good as the hardware they run on. Windows Server 2012 R2 leverages SSD benefi ts such as speed-of-light read-write performance, cool energy-saving design, and no performance issues from spinning discs.

Windows Server 2012 R2 also offers these benefi ts:

• Automatic alignment of partitions to optimize SSDs• BitLocker enabling encryption only of used space• Tiered Storage Spaces that make it possible for Windows to act as an intelligent enterprise storage

management solution• TRIM, which preserves the performance of the SSD and the host server

Windows Server 2012 R2 enables you to capture the value of the SSD memory advancements, storage pools, virtualization and cloud computing.

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