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The cloud offers a new model that delivers faster time to value
and innovation. Many organizations, however, face business
requirements that are best met by a hybrid cloud model.
For organizations that need it all — security, efciency, and
innovation — Windows Server 2016 delivers. It is the cloud-ready
operating system that supports your current workloads while
introducing new technologies that make it easy to transition to
cloud computing.
Security at the OS level
Windows Server 2016 includes built-in breach resistance to help thwart
attacks on your systems and meet compliance goals. Even if someone nds
a way into your environment, the layers of security built into Windows Server
2016 limit the damage they can cause and help detect suspicious activity.
• Protect your virtual machines. Use the unique Shielded Virtual Machines
feature to encrypt your VMs with BitLocker and help ensure they can run
only on hosts approved by the Host Guardian Service.
• Help secure admin credentials. Protect admin credentials from Pass-
the-Hash attacks using Credential Guard and Remote Credential Guard,
and control administrator privileges with Just-In-Time Administration and
Just Enough Administration, which together help minimize the time and
capability granted for specic privileges.
• Protect the operating system. Resist breaches with built-in Control Flow
Guard, which helps prevent memory corruption attacks, and Windows
Defender, optimized for server roles. Help ensure only trusted software
can be run on the server with Device Guard.
• Improve ability to detect attacks. Use advanced auditing capabilities
to help detect malicious behavior.
• Meet compliance requirements. Built-in security components help
address certication requirements for government and industry
data-protection regulations, including SOX, ISO 27001, PCI DSS 3.2,
and FedRAMP. Find more information at www.microsoft.com/en-us/
cloud-platform/windows-server-security#compliance.
Secure. Evolve. Innovate.
with Windows Server 2016
Run Windows Server 2016
in the cloud
Most organizations today run a mixture of
on-premises and cloud-based workloads.
Windows Server 2016 is designed to
work as well in the cloud as on-premises.
Many customers already “lift and shift”
applications into a Windows Server-based
IaaS virtual machine in the cloud; they
gain immediate benets of scale and
agility, while letting someone else run
the compute and storage infrastructure.
Others are updating traditional .NET-based
applications by moving them into Windows
Server containers. Containers provide
immediate agility benets, and make it
easier to update and extend applications
using new cloud-based services.
Save up to 50 percent on Azure
Windows Server customers with Software
Assurance can use their existing licenses to
save up to 50 percent on Azure IaaS virtual
machines. Check out the Azure Hybrid Use
Benet to get started at www.azure.com/ahub.
“ We’re moving towards a world where we
don’t need to know where our data is
—
on-premises or in the cloud. The
combination of Storage Spaces Direct,
Hyper-V, scale-out ash storage, and SMB3
allows us to focus on functionality rather
than location. With Windows Server 2016,
migration is no longer a project, just a task.”
– Ulf Preisler, IT Director
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