What if you could safeguard your business with enhanced security? Improve the efficiency & productivity of your organization? The Hewlett Packard Enterprise & Microsoft partnership combines technologies to help your business reach its full potential & operate with increased agility, extra layers of security, higher resiliency & performance for your Windows based servers. Microsoft Windows Server 2016 is the cloud-ready operating system that supports your most demanding workloads while introducing new technologies that make it easy to integrate hybrid cloud services. It delivers powerful new layers of security along with innovations to elevate your business to new levels of efficiency & productivity. Windows Server 2016 paired with HPE servers, storage, & networking solutions provides the technology that helps achieve your business goals. Features Safeguard your data whether on-premise or in the cloud – helping mitigate risk & avoid business disruption. Features such as Windows Defender, Trusted/ Secure Boot, Shield VMs, & Host Guardian Services are just a few of the additional layers of security offered in Microsoft Windows Server 2016. Increase ROI IT investments with flexible storage solutions, such as Storage Replica, Storage Spaces Direct, & Rolling Cluster OS Upgrades to deliver increased efficiency data protection. Meet business requirements for scaling applications quickly & provides enterprise level security with Windows Server Containers & Hyper-V Containers. Ideal solutions whether in private, hybrid, & private Cloud environments. Prevent risks associated with compromised administrative credentials. Use new privileged identity management features to limit access to “just enough” & “just in time” administration. Windows Server Containers bring the agility & density of containers to the Windows ecosystem, enabling agile application development & management. Use Hyper-V Containers for a unique additional level of isolation for containerized applications. Windows Server 2016 Editions Windows Server 2016 Datacenter: For highly virtualized datacenter & cloud environments.
Includes:: new datacenter functionality, including shielding virtual machines, software-defined networking, storage spaces direct & storage replica. Windows Server 2016 Standard: For physically or minimally virtualized environments. Windows Server 2016 Essentials: For small business with up to 25 users & 50 devices. What is HPE ROK? Hewlett Packard Enterprise & Microsoft bring together the world’s leading server hardware & software innovations, applications, resources, & support. HPE sells Microsoft Server licenses in a number of ways. To ensure our customers purchase the right HPE Pro Liant server with the right Windows Server edition, we developed the HPE OEM Microsoft Server Reseller Option Kit (ROK) that delivers, through our reseller partners, value pricing, flexible choices, one-stop ordering, & single source support to help you be more productive, achieve more with your investment & keep your business running smoothly. Hewlett Packard Enterprise resellers can preinstall the Windows Server operating system you choose to deliver a solution that is entirely customized to your needs & immediately ready to use. How is HPE ROK different from other versions of Microsoft Windows Server? HPE ROK is the very same Windows Server operating system you would get directly from Microsoft. However, through our OEM agreement with Microsoft, Hewlett Packard Enterprise is able to customize & optimize Windows Server specifically for Pro Liant servers & it is BIOS-locked to ensure it can only be installed on Pro Liant servers. HPE ROK may only be purchased with a new Pro Liant server. Resellers must affix the COA (Certificate of Authenticity) to the server before shipping to a customer. HPE ROK cannot be purchased as a st&-alone or separate option. Benefits of Pro Liant servers & HPE ROK Our customers need tools that accelerate the complexity of getting servers deployed quickly & inexpensively. Hewlett Packard Enterprise Intelligent Provisioning (HPE IP) provides a server-provisioning tool that eliminates media & time-consuming effort as all required drivers & software tools are pre-loaded onto your Pro Liant Server. No configuration CDs to use, no drivers to find, no guesswork. HPE IP recognizes if system software is out-of-date & automatically downloads the latest version’s update direct from the Internet, eliminating 45% of server configuration steps & deploying servers 3x faster.