How to Compare: Windows IoT 2019 provides the same powerful features as 2019, including the development and management tools that you’ve come to expect—as well as Windows Server IoT ten years of OS support and updates. The key differences come down to usage and licensing. vs. Windows Server 2019

Usage and Licensing Windows Server IoT 2019 Windows Server 2019

Usage Dedicated, fixed-purpose appliances General purpose

OEM channel with Multiple channels including volume licensing, Licensing dedicated use licensing terms retail, and OEM Standard, datacenter, Standard, datacenter SKUs essentials, Telecom, and & essentials storage (Standard/Workgroup)

CAL Requirements CAL-less program available Normal Windows Server CAL requirements

Windows Server IoT 2019 Windows Server IoT 2019 Powers Edge-to- Offers Fixed-Purpose Cloud Solutions Licensing Terms

Designed for heavy-duty edge computing, Windows Server IoT Windows Server IoT 2019 licensing accommodates scenarios that 2019 is ideal for solutions that enable you to run data process- are unique to IoT deployments. In addition to Standard, Datacenter ing, machine learning, and analytics workloads on fixed-purpose and Essentials SKUs, Windows Server IoT 2019 provides for Tele- intelligent devices. com and Storage Standard & Workgroup use cases.

With Windows Server IoT 2019, you can build and secure Windows Server IoT 2019 also offers specific allowances and server-class, fixed-purpose devices with powerful compute restrictions in the license agreement. This means that if you are capabilities that enable high-capacity storage and seamless connecting multiple devices, it’s the more cost-effective way to go. scalability between the cloud and edge, delivering enterprise Windows Server IoT 2019 also offers a CAL-less program, support- manageability to your IoT solution. ing the use of embedded servers in IoT. This option enables you to connect an unlimited number of users or devices to your server cost effectively.

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Designed for demanding edge workloads, Windows Server IoT 2019 is the ideal solution for fixed-purpose devices, offering features and capabilities to accelerate and secure your IoT solution.

Unique Hybrid Capabilities

Storage Migration Service System Insights VM protection Synchronizing file servers to Azure Azure network adaptor

Unprecedented Hyper-Converged Infrastructure

Unified Management Cluster OS rolling upgrade Distributed firewall and micro-seg- mentation Storage spaces Mixed OS mode cluster Hybrid SDN gateways Enhanced Storage Spaces Direct Site-aware failover clusters Improved SDN gateway Mirror-accelerated parity Persistent memory Converged RDMA Nested mirror-accelerated parity and Free BSD workloads Precision Time Protocol (PTP) *Storage class memory Hot add and remove for disk, memory, USB thumb drive (as cluster witness) and network Leap second Storage Replica Network controller HTTP/2 Storage Quality of Service (QoS) Virtual networking Latency Optimized Background Trans- Cloud Witness port - LEDBAT Data deduplication Storage health monitoring IP Address management (IPAM) and Deduplication for ReFS DNS Cluster-wide monitoring Virtual machine storage resiliency MultiPoint services role Cluster sets Software load balancer (SLB) High-availability RDS connection broker Virtual network peering SDN with IPv4/IPv6

Enhanced Security Capabilities

*Enhanced Windows Defender Ad- SDN encrypted subnet Control flow guard vanced Threat Protection (ATP) Cluster hardening Remote Shielded VMs for Windows SDN encrypted subnet Device guard (code integrity) Shielded VMs for Linux Just-enough administration Dynamic access control HSG offline mode for shielded VMs VM Connect for shielded VMs Just-in-time administration AppLocker Cluster hardening *Credential guard *BitLocker

Faster Innovation for Applications

*Linux containers Group Managed Service Accounts PowerShell 5.1 *Windows Server containers (gMSA) PowerShell Desired State Configura- *Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) tion (DSC) * base container image Visual Studio Code *Nano Server base container image Hyper-V isolation .NET Core Server Core features on demand Azure Service Fabric for Windows Server *Kubernetes platform support

* Innovations for IoT scenarios Let’s talk, contact us at [email protected]