Windows Server powers many of the worlds' largest datacenters, enables small businesses around the world, and delivers value ...

Windows Server powers many of the worlds' largest datacenters, enables small businesses around the world, & delivers value ...

An ideal server for small businesses, Windows Server 2012 Essentials provides a powerful & flexible solution that helps protect your business data while allowing you to access the information you need from virtually anywhere using almost any device. Windows Server 2012 Essentials supports the applications you need to run your business & also helps you to quickly connect to additional cloud-based applications & services to extend your servers functionality. Small organizations want to focus on their core business, not on managing an IT infrastructure. Windows Server 2012 Essentials can help to minimize the time, effort, & money that you spend on IT. Windows Server 2012 Essentials helps to provide you & your employees highly secure access to your companys data & applications so that you can be productive
- even when youre not in the office
- & offers you the flexibility to make technology decisions based on your individual business needs.

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Cost-effective infrastructure Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V improves both scalability & performance. It helps you deliver a fully-isolated, multitenant environment that

Includes:: tools to help guarantee SLAs, enable chargebacks, and support self-service scenarios. Windows Server 2012 provides storage scenarios which offer high availability on industry-standard server hardware. Make the most of your storage by thin-provisioning & trimming VM storage, pooling diverse storage resources, and abstracting them for flexible usage throughout your environment. Use file servers as file-based network storage for application data
- now with the high levels of performance & reliability those scenarios require. Modern app platform Windows Server 2012 is a broad, scalable, and elastic server platform that gives you the flexibility to build, deploy, and manage applications & websites on-premises, in the cloud, or in a hybrid environment, using a consistent set of tools & frameworks. Programming consistency & common development tools between Windows Server 2012 & Windows Azure can help ease the transition to the cloud, while enabling hybrid applications across on-premises, service provider, and Windows Azure clouds. Windows Server 2012 provides frameworks, services, and tools to help increase scalability & elasticity for applications that support multitenancy, and improve website density & efficiency. This both benefits IT professionals in traditional datacenters & also helps service providers to more effectively build, provision, and manage hosting environments. Anywhere access The modern workstyle is defined by flexibility in how & where users access their data & applications. In Windows Server 2012, centralized desktops & remote access solutions have been made easier to deploy & to manage, providing an easier way to give users more secure access to corporate infrastructure. Windows Server 2012 enables a personalized, rich user experience from many more devices while adapting to different network conditions quickly & responsively. Remote users can change locations or devices while maintaining an experience close to that of a laptop or PC, enabling them to maintain their productivity. Windows Server 2012 features intelligent security infrastructure that helps you enhance data security & compliance with granular access to data based on strong identity & device security status. These features also enable flexible & powerful audit rules, which help achieve compliance with applicable regulations.


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Remote Desktop Services (formerly known as Terminal Services) provides functionality similar to a terminal-based, centralized host, or mainframe, environment in which multiple terminals connect to a host computer. Each terminal provides a conduit for input & output between a user & the host computer. A user can log on at a terminal, & then run applications on the host computer, accessing files, databases, network resources, & so on. Each terminal session is independent, with the host operating system managing conflicts between multiple users contending for shared resources. The primary difference between Remote Desktop Services & the traditional mainframe environment is that the dumb terminals in a mainframe environment only provide character-based input & output. A Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) client or emulator provides a complete graphical user interface including a Windows operating system desktop & support for a variety of input devices, such as a keyboard & mouse. In the Remote Desktop Services environment, an application runs entirely on the Remote Desktop Session Host (RD Session Host) server (formerly known as a terminal server). The RDC client performs no local processing of application software. The server transmits the graphical user interface to the client. The client transmits the user's input back to the server. ...

Strengthen your security Help prevent malicious attacks & detect suspicious activity where it matters: your operating system & workloads. Rely on security features built into Windows Server 2016 to control privileged access, protect virtual machines, & harden the platform against emerging threats. Software-defined datacenter Bring flexibility & control to your datacenter while lowering costs with software-defined compute, storage, & networking. Run your datacenter with an automated & resilient operating system, & access many of the same cloud-efficient features found in Microsoft Azure datacenters. Cloud-ready application workloads Securely deploy & run your existing applications on Windows Server 2016 to transform them into new cloud-native models. Help developers to innovate & create on-premises & cloud applications using the latest technology—containers, microservices, & Nano Server. ...

Windows Server 2016 Standard: For physical or minimally virtualized environments. Windows Server 2016 is the cloud-ready operating system that supports your current workloads while introducing new technologies that make it easy to transition to cloud computing when you are ready. It delivers powerful new layers of security along with Azure-inspired innovation for the applications & infrastructure that power your business. Core Based Licensing: Windows Server 2016 Standard & Datacenter All physical cores in the server must be licensed. Servers are licensed based on the number of processor cores in the physical server. A minimum of 16 core licenses is required for each server. A minimum of 8 core licenses is required for each physical processor. Core licenses will be sold in packs of two. Eight 2-core packs will be the minimum required to license each physical server. The 2-core pack for each edition is one-eighth the price of a 2-processor license for corresponding Windows Server 2012 R2 editions. Standard Edition provides rights for up to two OSEs or Hyper-V containers when all physical cores in the server are licensed. For every two additional VMs, all the cores in the server have to be licensed again. The price of 16-core licenses of Windows Server 2016 Datacenter & Standard edition will be the same price as the 2-processor license of the corresponding editions of the Windows Server 2012 R2 version. Existing customers' servers under Software Assurance will receive core grants as required, with documentation. ...

Build your future with Windows Server 2019 No matter where you want to take your organization, get there with Windows Server 2019—the operating system that bridges on-premises environments with Azure services enabling hybrid scenarios & maximizing existing investments. Get the most out of Windows Server Windows Server 2019 is the operating system that bridges on-premises environments with Azure, adding additional layers of security while helping you modernize your applications & infrastructure. Hybrid capabilities with Azure Extend your datacenter to Azure to maximize your investments & gain new hybrid capabilities. Advanced multilayer security Elevate your security posture by protecting the datacenter, starting with the operating system. Faster innovation for applications Enable the creation of cloud-native apps, & modernize traditional apps using containers & microservices. Unprecedented hyper-converged infrastructure Evolve your datacenter infrastructure to achieve greater efficiency & security. ...

No matter where you want to take your organization, get there with Windows Server 2019
- the operating system that bridges on-premises
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Windows Server 2019 is built on the strong foundation of Windows Server 2016
- which continues to see great momentum in customer
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