Introduction

Windows server 2016 is the latest server operating system released by Microsoft.

It has many advantages, especially for companies that are always looking for security but especially for creating profits while reducing costs.

Security

Windows server 2016 has an integrated protection system that can detect suspicious activity against a company’s systems. It also limits the damage in an environment if ever an intrusion is noticed. The various security features for companies using Windows server 2016 are as follows:

  • Virtual machines’ protection: allows the use of BitLocker to encrypt virtual machines and ensure that they only work on hosts that are approved by the Host Guardian Service.
  • Securing administrator credentials: helps protect administrative account credentials by using the Credential Guard and Remote Credential Guard features. It’s also possible to control administrator privileges.
  • Operating system protection: Resists breaches by using the Control Flow Guard security feature that helps prevent memory corruption attacks and Windows Defender. With the Device Guard, we can ensure that only trusted applications will run on the server.
  • Improved attack detection capability: Advanced auditing features help detect malicious programs and behaviors.
  • Application’s isolation: helps protect applications with Windows Server containers that do not share kernels with other containers. There is also the option to use Distributed Firewall, a software-defined network capability to control internal and externa network traffics to the machines.

Infrastructure evolution

Enterprises struggle to reduce costs while managing more data traffic from their datacenters. Windows Server 2016 enables them to address operational and security challenges, free up IT resources to plan a strategy using cloud-based solutions for applications and systems.

Elasticity

  • Workloads managed by a corporate class hypervisor: workloads work on Hyper-V, which is used by Microsoft to process scalable data centers around the world. A migration facility allows you to transfer a Hyper-V workload from a site to a Windows Server virtual machine in Azure.
  • Effective infrastructure improvement: upgrade infrastructure clusters to Windows Server 2016 with zero downtime for Hyper-V workloads and no new hardware, using OS Mix mode cluster upgrades.
  • Stay open: deploy applications on multiple operating systems with the most suitable support for Linux on Hyper-V.
  • Automate server management: PowerShell and the desired state configuration automate routine operations.

Affordable high performance storage

Storage systems are critical to the performance of most business applications. However, expensive and manually configured traditional storage systems can prevent businesses from realizing the efficiency benefits of a software-defined datacenter. To overcome this, Azure-inspired storage features in Windows Server 2016 use rules and automation to reduce costs.

  • Cost reduction: Ability to create highly scalable software-based storage solutions based on SAN or NAS price. By including the Storage Spaces Direct feature in Windows Server 2016, Microsoft allows users to use standard servers with local storage or high-speed disks such as SSDs.
  • Creating Affordable Economic Continuity: synchronous storage replication (Storage Replica) enables datacenters’ disaster recovery. This feature allows companies to avoid the worst in terms of financial and hardware.
  • Priority to storage resources: organizations will be able to ensure that critical applications receive priority access to storage resources by using QoS strategies

Microsoft Azur based networking

Organizations can react more quickly to changes imposed by the market by moving the network control layer from hardware to software to create a software-based network. This allows them to centrally configure and manage physical and virtual network devices such as routers, switches, and gateways (routers, etc.), resulting in automatic load balancing and the ability to move workloads without setting switches. Information systems can continue to use existing physical switches, routers, and other hardware devices with virtual controllers while achieving deep integration between virtual and physical networks.

Application innovation

More and more organizations are using apps to stand out from the competition. Apps help win and support customers. Developers tend to have little patience when it comes to understanding the realities of an IT infrastructure. They want the applications in production to have the same operation as in their test environment. Windows Server 2016 supports application innovation using container technology and microservices.

  • Secure structure for applications: helps with client-server applications. Businesses can run existing applications on Windows Server 2016 without modifying them, allowing them to take advantage of enhanced security and efficiency features in the framework.
  • Provide container benefits to existing applications: Containers isolate the application at the operating system level and allow existing ones in a modern DevOps environment with little code change while gaining benefits such as seamless integration and better security. Containers can help introduce new architectures, including microservices that enhance agility and scale applications. In addition, when developers create applications, they help standardize on a platform that streamlines on-premise deployment, on any cloud, or on a hybrid architecture across the cloud.
  • Create native and hybrid cloud applications: implement new microservice applications using fewer and more compressed resources, as well as agile technlogies. Use containers to create, test, and deploy applications on any cloud, including the Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure.

Conclusion

Windows server 2016 is the cloud-based operating system by introducing technologies that facilitate the transition to the cloud. It’s a “must have” for businesses that need security, efficiency and innovation.

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