The cloud puts new demands on your organization to innovate faster in order to compete effectively. You make decisions every day about how to balance traditional IT responsibilities with cloud innovation. At the same time, your organization faces increased security threats from outside and within. For these reasons and more, organizations adopt cloud computing at different rates.
Windows Server 2016 is the cloud-ready operating system that supports your current workloads while introducing new technologies that make it easy to transition to cloud computing when you are ready. It delivers powerful new layers of security along with Azure-inspired innovation for the applications and infrastructure that power your business.
Security is consistently rated as a top priority for IT organizations. Companies are in the news for security breaches and failing to protect their customer and employee information. The operating system lives and works at a strategic layer in your environment, making it an ideal location to introduce new capabilities for security and control. Windows Server 2016 gives you new capabilities to prevent attacks and detect suspicious activity with features to control privileged access, protect virtual machines and harden the platform against emerging threats.
It delivers capabilities to help you create a more flexible and cost-efficient datacenter using software-defined compute, storage and network virtualization features inspired by Azure. It includes expanded capabilities in software-defined storage with an emphasis on resilience, reduced cost, and increased control, and also delivers key networking features used in the Azure datacenters to support agility and availability in your datacenter.
Windows Server 2016 Editions: Datacenter versus Standard
Windows Server 2016 editions have been streamlined to better support today’s changing business requirements. Windows Server 2016 Datacenter edition is ideal for highly virtualized datacenter environments and for businesses looking to deploy hybrid cloud solutions. On the flip side, Windows Server 2016 Standard edition aligns more to server environments that are more physical and less virtualized.
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