Cloud Geeks

Windows Server 2012 Hits General Availability

After its RTM on 1st august alongside the Windows 8 RTM release,Windows Serever 2012 has finally released for public as per the schedule.

As reported earlier on Official Microsoft Blog,calling the latest Server operating system offering from the Software Giant the “Cloud OS”,a reimagined operating system which enables those smart, modern apps across a company’s datacenter, a service provider datacenter, or the Windows Azure public cloud.

 Satya Nadella,in his blog post talks about the Cloud OS,

In building the Cloud OS, we are focused on four key things. First is the transformation of the datacenter. We want to bring together all of the resources provided by a traditional datacenter – storage, networking and computing – into one platform that scales elastically with an organization’s needs. Second is offering the APIs and runtimes to enable developers to create modern applications – for mobile, social and big data. A third important aspect of the Cloud OS is ensuring personalized services and experiences, so that any user on any device can access all of their data and applications. Lastly, data of any size or type, stored anywhere and processed in any style, must be a first-class citizen of the Cloud OS.

So this marks the first of it’s major public release With a bunch of other releases slated for next couple of months with Windows 8,Windows Phone 8 ,the Surface tablets and much more.