New RZ software from Microsoft and VMware – Computer Week

Many companies and managers are waiting for the new Microsoft products and their functions. The most anticipated Microsoft software is certainly Windows Server 2016. Here the manufacturer to the new containers and the significantly improved virtualization attempts to come. At the same time wants Microsoft also improve the management of software components with the new System Center 2016th

Software for Data Centers
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Windows Server 2016

the successor of Windows Server 2012 R2 provides especially innovations for data centers and the cloud. So Docker container are integrated and extended to Hyper-V containers. The new nano-Server provides revised server installations, which are also particularly suitable for data centers and Storage Spaces Direct allows Hyper-converged storage, not only for Hyper-V. In addition, can be controlled with the new network controller of Windows Server 2016 virtual and physical networks centrally and monitored.

System Center 2016

Flanking of Windows Server 2016 appear in this year System Center 2016 with numerous new features. With this management platform allows all current technologies in Windows Server 2016 control and manage.

For hybrid clouds can be System Center 2016 even better connect to Microsoft Azure, than previous versions. System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2016 (SCVMM) can directly access the functions of the Network Controller in Windows Server 2016, System Center Operations Manager 2016 to monitor the functions. Moreover, SCVMM supports the new Hyper-V features in Windows Server 2016, such as the new binary file format for VMs (VMCX), production snapshots and adding NICs and changing the memory during operation. The works now, when the dynamic memory is not enabled.

An interesting innovation in SCVMM vNext is that now are also virtual network adapter in the provision of virtual servers. It makes sense that is at the pre-configuration of network adapters. With Consistent Device Naming (CDN) you can better configure Generation 2 VMs that are provided via templates. Thus, administrators with this technique to control the network connections by name in VMs and the name of the actual network connection summarize these or group.

In Windows Server 2016 can create centralized policies that determine the rate at which virtual and physical HDD applications are available. Here can be, for example, rules of “up to”, “minimal”, and “if / then” Create in style. This storage QoS policies are of course particularly interesting for virtual disks and virtual servers. Therefore, the guidelines in SCVMM can be integrated

1. emergency preparedness, information and backgrounds
   on the following pages you will find market data and surveys around in the subject RZ emergency preparedness.
2. business processes in IT
   business processes and their dependence on IT: Depending on the maximum tolerable fiscal damage define decision a maximum tolerable RZ downtime that the requirement for an emergency RZ architecture represents. At the same time the decision-makers is this clear which processes the extent to which the IT dependent.
3. Who takes care of things?
   Just under half of all SMEs dealing adequately Topics emergency preparedness and management.
4. What happens when
   Typical sequence of an emergency management
5. Which architecture is the right thing?
   challenge with the right choice of emergency RZ-solution is the two important factors are cost and recovery time with each other in the opposite ratio.
6. What triggers the emergency
   power failure and hardware errors are the most common reasons for IT emergencies.
7. What failure and pension costs
   The business interruption costs must be set in relation to adequate investment in emergency preparedness. On the one side are the costs per month for regular operation of the emergency data center architectures reaching certain data center recovery time objectives (RTO). On the other side of the folded-over per month maximum economic damage in a period of e.g. 5 years. The graph represents typical emergency RZ restart time periods depending on the emergency data center architecture and their relative costs.
8. failure analysis
   Based on a “business Impact analysis “(BIA) under an emergency Managament standards or its own but founded assessment should identify these counts as an important building block for an emergency strategy decision

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SQL Server 2016

SQL Server 2016 provides especially innovations in big data and real-time data analysis. With SQL Server 2016 Microsoft improves especially the in-memory technology. In this technique frequently used tables are stored directly in memory and are thus more readily available for the system.

Fashion far as a business intelligence system based on SQL Server, receives this data processing in many cases only at certain times, often only once a day. Take the BI system as for the analysis of payment transactions, previously the analysis could only be done with production data, when they were transferred to the server. In SQL Server 2016 is now regulated differently. You now have the ability already access in real time based on in-memory Columnstore and In-Memory OLTP to the source data of the data warehouse.

These are the new SQL version, the real-time analysis capabilities and In -Memory configurations integrated into the database. Applications that are based on this database, for example, to analyze the data, use the stored data transparent. This means that analysis applications themselves do not have to support the real-time analysis process because the database underlying manages the technical processes themselves. The application only needs to access the processed data.

SQL Server 2016 supports native JSON. So you can create directly from databases out JSON files and use in other applications. In addition, monitors and optimizes the SQL Server 2016 queries and can store them for later use on. While in previous versions, the data could be encrypted on the hard drive, you have to encrypt with the new SQL Server the ways data during use.

In-Memory tables support on OLTB base in SQL Server 2016 “Transparent Data Encryption” (TDE). If data is changed as in a table, SQL Server can save the modified table 2016 as a new version. Similar to SharePoint can now therefore create versions for databases and tables, and track the changes.

SQL Server 2016 can create versions for tables and so also store historical data
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the integration of AlwaysOn feature Microsoft has also improved high availability in SQL Server. Moreover, the system offers a higher number of replications. So you can use in SQL Server 2016 up to three synchronous replicas for automatic failover and across domains.