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CHAPTER 3 | Application platform 
C H A P T E R
3 
Application 
platform 
In this chapter, we explore how Microsoft has made a focused shift to 
ensuring that customers today, whether they are in the public or private 
cloud, have a solid foundation for their application portfolio. We discuss 
two new technologies introduced in Microsoft Windows Server 2016: 
Nano Server
and 
containers
. With these new technologies, you can take 
advantage of a highly optimized, scalable, and secure experience for 
Application Platform. 
Modernizing traditional apps 
The cloud makes it possible for businesses to innovate quickly and deliver faster time-to-value with 
cloud-native applications and microservices architecture. But most businesses are grappling with how 
to manage and update thousands of existing applications while planning how to move to this new 
world. What is needed is a solution that helps you invigorate existing applications and create new, 
cloud-native applications. Windows Server 2016 can do both. 
Windows Server helps you to secure and modernize existing enterprise server apps with little or no 
code changes; package existing apps in containers to realize the benefit of a more agile DevOps 
model; and then deploy either on-premises, to any cloud, or in a hybrid model. Developers can create 
cloud-ready, business-changing apps and services, whether on-premises or in any cloud, using 
technologies such as containers and the lightweight Nano Server installation option. 
Windows Server 2016 can help you modernize your apps and innovate faster with a cloud-ready 
application platform. Figure 3-1 highlights the areas where you can take advantage of the technology 
today in Windows Server 2016 to move forward and be cloud ready or cloud native. 

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