{"id":7995,"date":"2016-08-25T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T16:00:41","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-03-07T17:20:49","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T01:20:49","slug":"windows-server-scalability-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/2016\/08\/25\/windows-server-scalability-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Server scalability and more!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
This post was authored by Jeff Woolsey, Principal Program Manager, Windows Server.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n We are about a month away from Microsoft Ignite 2016 in Atlanta and we are eager to see you and provide a first-class tour of Windows Server, System Center, OMS, Azure, along with so much more. For those of you who have been evaluating the Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview releases, a huge thank you. Your feedback has directly contributed to feature additions and refinements along the way to make sure we\u2019re building the best server for you, whether it\u2019s on-premises or in the cloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To start, let\u2019s begin with an area we haven\u2019t disclosed yet: scale. When it comes to development, there are a number of areas that are never \u201cdone.\u201d These are areas where we\u2019re always moving the bar to improve with hardware and to advance the state of the art. Security and performance are a couple of examples along with scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Back in Windows Server 2012, we raised the bar for Hyper-V, delivering industry-leading scalability across a number of scenarios. These numbers were so high, that when we delivered Windows Server 2012 R2 a year later, we didn\u2019t even bother to push the scale numbers further because we had no requests!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not this time. With Windows Server 2016, we had numerous requests to push Hyper-V scalability to new heights to embrace interesting new scenarios around data analytics and machine learning, which means really huge databases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now, you have it. With Windows Server 2016, we are delivering new industry-leading scalability to virtualize any and every workload without exception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n