With the cute acronym of WoW, Microsoft and Cisco have today delivered Windows Server 2008 on WAAS.
Announced in February, WoW marries Cisco’s Wide Area Application Services with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and is geared for the branch office. Low-cost Linux servers have become a popular way for branch offices to combine a server and a router into a single piece of hardware. But the one-two punch of a Microsoft/Cisco device could be an attractive alternative, especially as this appliance functions in reverse — a Cisco box is running Windows Server 2008, rather than a software router running on an application server. Cisco’s WAN optimization lets an IT department stream applications from a central location, yet perform as if they are running locally at that branch, the vendors promise.
Cisco also says that an Enterprise License of the box is optimized for many popular Microsoft applications including: Microsoft Exchange (MAPI), Microsoft Windows file sharing (CIFS), SharePoint and Windows print services.
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