Windows Server 8 improves scalability, scope

15.09.2011

Again, there's more in storage to talk about, but those are the big highlights at this point.

Administrators deal with information governance challenges on a daily basis. With users and data growing seemingly exponentially, computing becoming distributed, new government and financial-service compliance rules multiplying, and budgets stagnant or shrinking, there's real pain on the part of enterprises everywhere when it comes to controlling access and distribution of sensitive corporate information.

The new dynamic access-control features allow companies to have the right compliance tools to avoid violating laws, see into their data shares and archives and control what's stored there, and get a full audit capability that lets others see the performance of these policies. This is all while making it almost brain-dead simple for a user to be in compliance, or get in compliance. The administrator applies appropriate access policies, audits access to information, automatically protects information using encryption, and applies relevant retention controls to that data.

How does this work? In four ways: