Your Assignment: Case Project 2-6: Server Upgrades Darts is a sporting goods company with outlets in most of the western states. This company has a network of 10 servers and 273 client computers that have the following operating systems: Eight Windows Server 2012 servers Two Linux servers running Red Hat Linux Enterprise 20 computers running Mac OS X version 10.10 Yosemite 32 computers running Windows 10 80 computers running Windows 8.1 46 computers running Windows 7 12 computers running Windows Vista Darts realizes that with the projected growth of the company, they need to upgrade the computers and servers on their network. The CEO understands that cloud computing and virtualization have advantages and wants you to recommend a server platform that will allow the company to more easily work with virtualization and the cloud while staying with Microsoft Server. However, he also sees the benefit of Linux compatibility because the company is currently running two Linux servers. Finally, he is interested in consolidating physical servers into virtual servers whenever possible. What server OS do you recommend and why?

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