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3 reasons youll want Windows Server 2016 now
Table of Contents
Introduction 3
Reason 1: Better security now starts at the OS 4
More security. Better security. 5
Prevent and limit the damage of stolen credentials and insider threats 6
The moment a VM is stolen, its worthless 7
Deploy in the cloud with confidence knowing your OS is secured 8
Detect intrusions and threats earlier 9
Reason 2: Improve efficiency and reduce costs across your data center 10
Improve data center efficiency and get ready for the cloud 11
Spend more resources innovatingand learn the secret to 12
getting more budget next year
Spend less time managing network infrastructure and get ready for hybrid 13
Stop spending your weekends upgrading 14
Get your workloads cloud-ready 14
Reason 3: Develop and migrate apps quickly and more securely 15
Accelerate business agility with apps built on Windows Server 16
Secure fabric to protect virtual machines 17
Containerize existing apps 18
Build cloud-native and hybrid apps 19
The OS you know and love with innovation for the future 20
Introduction
In todays enterprise, business decision makers must make some tough
choices about their corporate IT. You must support your companys
ability to innovate, but respect your IT departments responsibility to
keep resources secure and controlled. Choosing the right combination
of technology resources and services is a balancing act. It takes time and
careful consideration of your organizations needs versus desires.
The process begins with asking a series of questions:
What are your key security concerns?
What are the steps your organization has in place when a security
breach occurs?
What does your leadership hope to achieve?
What role does technology play in your companys
competitive position?
What infrastructure will you need to make those goals a reality?
What is the timeframe? Are there specific needs or goals driving
that deadline?
Individually, these questions will help you identify each departments
wants and needs. Taken together, they will give you a 360-degree view
of your organizations overall priorities. In this e-book, well show you
how Windows Server 2016 can help you satisfy the technology needs
and requests of your entire organization. Read on to see how Windows
Server 2016 can help you balance your business in three core areas:
Built-in Security
Software-Defined Data Center
Enterprise Application Development
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REASON 1
Better security now
starts at the OS
More security.
Better security.
When you think about your organizations security, what comes
to mind? Is it your server operating systems? In todays world of
sophisticated hackers, ever-evolving threats, and breaches, you need
more layers of security for prevention and detection. Heres why:
How does Windows Server Help?
Breaches are on the rise. Attackers are targeting identity
as the top entry point into an organizations network. Windows Server 2016 has new layers of security built in
Major corporations and government agencies have to help protect your company against a security breach.
been publicly criticized for failing to prevent attacks. Past These include:
hacks have exposed sensitive customer and employee Prevent and limit the damage related to stolen
information, including social security numbers and credentials and insider threats
payment information.
Detect intrusions and threats earlier
Hackers are in control. The bad actors have more time Deploy in the cloud with confidence knowing your OS
on their hands to attack you than you do to defend is secured actively
against them. A hacker can gain access because of vendor
vulnerabilities or because you didnt do enough to protect
your company. Lets face it: Often hackers have more time Keep reading to learn more about these
to innovate than you do. built-in protections.
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Detect intrusions and
threats earlier
First host Domain admin More than 200 days Attack
compromised compromised (varies by industry) Discovered
Hard to deploy and operate. Lack of integration between Server footprint is too big. Consistency.
Global, 24/7 organizations solutions. Not all features are required Software-defined data
require flexible access and no An increased need for mixed for many of todays workloads center based on public cloud
downtime. Finding time to environments (Linux, etc.) and apps. A bloated server innovation and consistency on
deploy and operate beyond the necessitates quick onboarding. footprint is neither portable premises is the samenot a
basic requirements can nor agile. version ofthe hypervisor.
be difficult.
Watch now:
Software-defined
Storage with
Windows Server 2016
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Spend less time
managing network
infrastructure and get
ready for hybrid
Windows Server 2016 simplifies day-to-day management, freeing you
to plan your organizations hybrid migration. Notable features include:
Software-defined networking optimizes traditional networking.
Processes that have traditionally taken 2 to 3 days to complete
now take a few minutes. Integration with the cloud also has been
improved using the Azure data plane in your data center.
Software can now be defined with touching a switch.
Manage by policy instead of by configuration. Eliminate errors,
create the policy, and let the network controller do the rest.
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REASON 3
Develop and migrate
apps quickly and
more securely
Accelerate business
agility with apps built
on Windows Server
The cloud enables businesses to innovate quickly and deliver faster
time-to value with cloud-native applications and microservices
architecture. But most businesses are grappling with how to manage
and update thousands of existing applications while planning how
to move to this new world. What is needed is a solution that helps How do you rationalize
you invigorate existing applications and create new, cloud-native
applications. Windows Server 2016 can do both. Windows Server ambitious new projects
helps you secure and modernize existing existing enterprise .NET with legacy technology?
and line-of-business server apps with little or no code changes.
Package existing apps in containers to realize the benefit of a
more agile DevOps model, then deploy either on premises, to any
cloud, or in a hybrid model. Developers can create cloud-ready,
business-changing apps and services, whether on premises or in any
cloud, using technologies such as containers and the lightweight
Nano Server installation option. Windows Server 2016 can help
you modernize your apps and innovate faster with a cloud-ready
application platform.
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Containerize existing apps
Move your traditional applications into a modern DevOps
environment with little or no code changes. Gain benefits such as
consistency across dev, test, and production using the same tooling,
which enables rapid deployments, continuous integration, and
continuous delivery, all with better security. Use containers to gain
control and consistency by enabling write-once, run-anywhere
apps that can be deployed on premises, to any cloud, or in a hybrid
By containerizing legacy
architecture across clouds. applications using Windows Server
For an additional layer of isolation, deploy your app in a containers, we gain better consistency
Hyper-V container, which packages the same container image and control between developers,
with its own dedicated kernel, ensuring tighter isolation in multi-
tenant environments.
testers, and deployment teamsa
full DevOps environmentwithout
changing the application.
Matthew Roberts
Principle Software Engineer
Tyco International
Cumbersome scale. Clone the app Rapid scale. Deploy each service
on multiple servers, VMs, containers. independently creating instances
of the services across servers,
VMs, containers.
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