Don’t look now, but Microsoft’s Windows Server 2008 R2 tied with IBM’s perennially bullet-proof AIX v7. Both were rated by corporate users as the most secure among 18 major server operating system distributions. Nine out of 10 — 90 percent — of the 468 respondents to ITIC’s 2010-2011 Global Server Hardware and Server OS Reliability survey rated the security of Windows Server 2008 R2 and IBM’s AIX v7 as “Excellent” or “Very Good.” Survey participants gave IBM and Microsoft the highest security ratings out of 18 different server operating system distributions.
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Microsoft Surprises With Stellar Server Security Marks
Posted by: Laura DiDio April 20, 2011 11:12 AMDon’t look now, but Microsoft’s Windows Server 2008 R2 tied with IBM’s perennially bullet-proof AIX v7. Both were rated by corporate users as the most secure among 18 major server operating system distributions. Nine out of 10 — 90 percent — of the 468 respondents to ITIC’s 2010-2011 Global Server Hardware and Server OS Reliability survey rated the security of Windows Server 2008 R2 and IBM’s AIX v7 as “Excellent” or “Very Good.” Survey participants gave IBM and Microsoft the highest security ratings out of 18 different server operating system distributions.