{"id":826,"date":"2016-10-12T18:44:44","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T18:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/microsofts-windows-server-2016-is-now-generally-available.html"},"modified":"2016-10-12T18:44:44","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T18:44:44","slug":"microsofts-windows-server-2016-is-now-generally-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/microsofts-windows-server-2016-is-now-generally-available.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft\u2019s Windows Server 2016 is now generally available"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Microsoft\u2019s Windows Server 2016<\/a>\u00a0is now generally available and rolling out to customers. Presales for Server 2016 started on October 1 and Microsoft always said that\u00a0customers would get access to the actual bits in mid-October. Now that it\u2019s mid-October and the leaves are falling, the company is living up to this promise.<\/p>\n

In addition,\u00a0System Center 2016<\/a>, Microsoft\u2019s data center management solution for deploying and managing servers and desktops,\u00a0has now also hit general availability.<\/p>\n

Microsoft is using today\u2019s launch to put the focus on its hybrid cloud efforts and how Windows Server 2016 enables enterprises to run their applications both in their own data centers and in public clouds (including, of course, its own Azure cloud computing platform).<\/p>\n

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Microsoft\u2019s senior director for product marketing Mark Jewett also emphasized Server 2016\u2019s role in Microsoft\u2019s hybrid strategy when I talked to him about this release. \u201cHybrid cloud is not just about being connected \u2014 it\u2019s about being consistent,\u201d he argued. The company\u00a0sees Windows Server 2016 as only one product in its overall hybrid strategy, which also includes the likes Office 365 and its desktop productivity apps, Dynamics 365 and its desktop equivalent, as well as SQL Server and Azure\u2019s SQL Database service.<\/p>\n

With Azure Stack, Microsoft will soon offer a solution for businesses that want to run the core Azure services (compute, storage, networking) in their own data centers. Jewett tells me that the company is seeing strong interest in Azure Stack already, even though it\u2019s only in its technical preview phase right now.<\/p>\n

Jewett also stressed\u00a0how Microsoft\u2019s product portfolio can enable\u00a0consistent identity management, security procedures and DevOps processes\u00a0in these hybrid scenarios.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s worth noting that Windows Server 2016\u00a0will also feature built-in support for containers and come with commercial support<\/a> for the Docker Engine.<\/p>\n

AWS, Microsoft\u2019s largest competitor in the public cloud space, does not currently have much of a hybrid strategy, but\u00a0Amazon\u2019s cloud computing service is expected to announce a deal with VMware tomorrow that will make it easier for VMware customers to lift and shift their virtual machines into Amazon\u2019s public cloud. Given that tomorrow\u2019s AWS announcement is a bit of an open secret<\/a>, it\u2019s probably no surprise that Microsoft is trying to preempt Amazon\u2019s announcement tomorrow\u00a0by focusing on Windows Server 2016\u2019s ability to enable\u00a0these new hybrid cloud scenarios.<\/p>\n

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