Windows Server 2016 also helps to prevent malicious attacks against your system with a strengthened security suite that also detects any suspicious activity as a preventative measure. Users can change existing applications into cloud-ready solutions and help developers to create new apps using containers, microservices, and the new Nano Server. Your data center can be run with an automated and resilient operating system and will have access to many of the same cloud-efficient features found in Microsoft Azure data centers.

Enhance security and reduce risk with multiple layers of built-in protection

Help prevent malicious attacks and detect suspicious activity where it matters: your operating system and workloads.

Build highly available, scalable software-defined storage and reduce costs

Move your network-control layer from hardware to software. Automatically balance and shift workloads without setting switches.

Help protect container-based applications with Hyper-V containers. Use the distributed firewall, a software-defined networking capability, to control internal and external network traffic to virtual machines.

Combine the benefits of containers with Nano server, Azure Service Fabric, and Windows Server for true business agility in cloud-native apps.