

Windows Server 2019 Essentials rounds out the current SKU list (Opens in a new window) targeted at small businesses with up to 25 users and 50 devices. The two primary offerings are Standard and Datacenter. This SKU was released on Jand provides a bare-bones OS specifically tailored to host VMs. Windows Server 2019 comes in several different flavors to include the most recently released Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2019. Read our editorial mission (Opens in a new window) & see how we test (Opens in a new window). Since 1982, PCMag has tested and rated thousands of products to help you make better buying decisions. We'll look at some of the other features added in this release that address the hybrid cloud model as well. The goal of this benefit is to make it financially attractive to move your virtual machine (VM) workloads up to Microsoft Azure. To qualify for this benefit, you must be a Microsoft Software Assurance customer with a current contract in place. That's why it makes sense that Microsoft is focusing on deepening the relationship between Windows Server and its Microsoft Azure cloud service, evident in this iteration through what's called the "Azure Hybrid Benefit." While Windows Server isn't seen on customer premises as much anymore, it's still the most popular server OS, and that's across both on-premises data centers as well as in public clouds where it's widely used in Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) implementations. This release of Windows Server should especially appeal to IT professionals because of the huge number of functional scenarios it can address.

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