During the Worldwide Partner Conference, Microsoft has the first details released of Windows Server 8 and SQL Server. The server version of Windows 8 is coming probably at the same time with the desktop version of the operating system.
According to Microsoft, Windows Server 8, more than a hundred new features and the operating system is an important building block for the construction of private cloud, reports Mary-Jo Foley on ZDnet. One of the main innovations is, therefore, the Hyper-V Replica, the updated hypervisor of Windows Server 8. The new hypervisor would be up to sixteen virtual processor cores can support.
The new Hyper-V Replica supports among other things asynchronous replication of virtual machines, making it easier to, for example, the virtual machine on which a database runs to replicate to other locations. Microsoft would be an open approach, so that a user of Windows Server 8 is completely free to determine where they are using cloud services running or spinning.
According to rumors, Microsoft would be the new Hyper-V hypervisor also want to host in the desktop version of Windows 8, but surely this is not yet. As expected, Microsoft on the Build conference for more details of Windows Server 8, and Windows 8 for the desktop and tablets. This conference will be the middle of september.
Microsoft the Worldwide Partner Conference also gave insight into SQL Server, that is currently under the code-named Denali, is being developed, reports ArsTechnica. The company has released a third Community Technology Preview released. In SQL Server columnstore indexes, by which the performance in the execution of queries in certain scenarios, considerably would increase.
In the new SQL Server Microsoft is working also on an improved visualiseringsfunctie for reporting, Project Crescent baptized, while the ‘AlwaysOn Availability Groups’mechanism may need to create different databases at the same time to replicate. Finally, read-only queries are now to databasemirrors can be controlled, so that the performance level up further.