Introducing Windows Server 2016 - John McCabe

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If you run an IT environment today, how do you meet the aforementioned challenges? Can your applications and infrastructure meet the demands placed on it? Can you meet the rate of innovation the cloud offers or the agility and speed of delivery? In these respects, there are an increasing number of challenges facing the on-premises infrastructure.

However, not everyone is ready to move to the cloud, and there will be many cases in which you can’t because of a multitude of reasons; for example, contractual commitments that stipulate data can’t move to the cloud.

Simply put, Windows Server 2016 is the cloud-ready operating system (OS) that delivers new layers of security and Microsoft Azure-inspired innovation for the applications and infrastructure that power your business. For this release, Microsoft has spent a considerable amount of time reaching out to customers and gathering feedback of what is important and how it can meet the future needs for customer’s infrastructures.

Windows Server 2016 gives you the power to prevent attacks and detect suspicious activity with new features to control privileged access, protect virtual machines (VMs), and harden the platform against emerging threats.

• Build highly available and scalable software-defined storage at a fraction of the cost of a Storage Area Network (SAN) or Network-Attached Storage (NAS). Storage Spaces Direct uses standard servers with local storage to create converged or hyper-converged storage architectures.

• Create affordable business continuity and disaster recovery among datacenters with Storage Replica synchronous storage replication.

• Ensure that users of business-critical applications have priority access to storage resources using Storage Quality of Service (QoS) features.

Microsoft loves Linux!

It is no secret that Microsoft has made major investments to ensure Linux gets an enterprise grade experience in the Microsoft ecosystem. Microsoft has made contributions to the Linux kernel and actively maintains the Linux Integration Services (LIS) to ensure a fully enlightened experienced while running Linux on Hyper-V.

Microsoft fully supports the following distributions on Hyper-V today, with more being added in the future.

• Red Hat Linux
• SUSE
• OpenSUSE
• CentOS
• Ubuntu
• Debian
• Oracle Linux