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Windows Server 2016 is the latest server operating system from Microsoft. It’s packed with new modern features that are designed for virtualization and the cloud while there are significant improvement in networking, security, storage and management. These new features (or feature improvements) will help take your organization’s infrastructure to the next level whether it is on premise, hybrid, or 100% in the cloud.

Some of the top new features that would most likely be affecting most organizations include the following:
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The traditional data center, or server rack, consists of a combination of: compute servers, storage appliances, and networking equipment. Each piece of the stack is its own entity, or known as “silos”, and usually require a separate team to maintain the stack. So what happens when one of these entities fail? It usually involves a data center “fire” and tons of downtime. So how can we consolidate these silos and create a resilient and highly available data center? Hyperconverged infrastructure may be a potential solution we are looking for! (depending on your requirements, that is…)

Hyperconverged infrastructures combine compute nodes, storage, and networking into a bundled solution that create highly available and scalable clusters. This allows for elasticity, easy, and rapid growth of equipment. The servers usually contain a hybrid setup of flash (SSD) caching disks, and HDDs, although recently providing all flash/SSD configurations. Management traffic and data traffic is intelligently routed amongst the switch to avoid performance hits and bottlenecks within the cluster.
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