Web hosting company, Attenda Limited, will provide full support of the new Microsoft Windows Server 2008, as well as the migration of its first client, reed.co.uk, to the major new operating system.

Mark Ridley, Director of Technology at reed.co.uk noted, "We are committed to continually improving the service that we deliver to jobseekers and recruiters that use reed.co.uk. Our technology platform is fundamental to delivering the service that they expect, so we continually strive to assess and adopt new technologies such as Windows Server 2008. As with every change we balance the benefits of the change with the risk of implementation and our relationship with partners such as Attenda and Microsoft allow us to benefit from new technologies, confident that they will provide the performance and reliability we demand."

Attenda has been working closely with reed.co.uk since September 2007 with beta versions of Windows Server 2008. This will allow reed.co.uk to immediately benefit from the highly secure, easy-to-manage platform that Windows Server 2008 provides for developing the UK's leading recruitment site - today, over 1.6 million jobseekers visit reed.co.uk every month, making over 50,000 job applications everyday, offering more than twice the number of jobs of any other UK job site.

Simon Hansford, Vice President of Products and Marketing at Attenda added, "We believe that simplified management, increased security, and both performance and extensibility improvements within Windows Server 2008 such as Internet formation Services 7.0, will mean that our clients will wish to rapidly migrate to this new operating system. We will be able to deliver to our clients the benefits of improved performance and scalability."

To fully support Windows Server 2008, Attenda has further invested into its operations platform, Attenda M.O. This industry defining technology automation platform is a combination of a specialist team of 'combat' experienced IT operations staff, ITIL based processes refined over years of practical operational experience and a technology investment that demonstrably increases application availability, performance and security.

Martin Walker, UK Hosting Lead at Microsoft UK remarked, "Attenda is one of a few elite service providers whose high level of operational excellence lets them deliver the highest quality of managed hosting services on the Microsoft platform and the latest endorsement of Windows Server 2008 reinforces their investment and expertise in Microsoft technologies."