{"id":73,"date":"2015-04-08T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-03-07T23:43:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T07:43:20","slug":"microsoft-announces-nano-server-for-modern-apps-and-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/2015\/04\/08\/microsoft-announces-nano-server-for-modern-apps-and-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Announces Nano Server for Modern Apps and Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guest post by:<\/em>
\nJeffrey Snover, Distinguished Engineer and Lead Architect<\/em>
\nAndrew Mason, Principal PM Manager<\/em>
\nAlan Back, Principal SWE Manager<\/em><\/p>\n

Today we announced new container technologies as well as Nano Server, a purpose-built operating system designed to run born-in-the-cloud applications and containers. As customers adopt modern applications and next-generation cloud technologies, they need an OS that delivers speed, agility and lower resource consumption.<\/p>\n

Nano Server is a deeply refactored version of Windows Server with a small footprint and remotely managed installation, optimized for the cloud and a DevOps workflow.\u00a0 It is designed for fewer patch and update events, faster restarts, better resource utilization and tighter security. Informed directly by our learnings from building and managing some of the world\u2019s largest hyperscale cloud environments, and available in the next version of Windows Server, Nano Server focuses on two scenarios:<\/p>\n

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  1. Born-in-the-cloud applications \u2013 support for multiple programming languages and runtimes. (e.g. C#, Java, Node.js, Python, etc.) running in containers, virtual machines, or on physical servers.<\/li>\n
  2. Microsoft Cloud Platform infrastructure \u2013 support for compute clusters running Hyper-V and storage clusters running Scale-out File Server.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Nano Server will allow customers to install just the components they require and nothing more. The initial results are promising.\u00a0 Based on the current builds, compared to Server, Nano Server has:<\/p>\n