Cloud - Optimize your business with Windows Server 2012 R2
The Microsoft vision for this new era of IT is to provide one consistent platform for infrastructure, apps, and data: the Cloud OS. The Cloud OS spans customer datacenters, service provider datacenters, and the Microsoft public cloud. At the heart of the solution is Windows Server 2012 R2. With Windows Server 2012 R2, you gain an enterprise-grade platform to cost-effectively cloud optimize your business.
At the heart of Cloud OS is Windows Server 2012 R2. Delivering on the promise of a modern datacenter, modern applications, and people-centric IT, Windows Server 2012 R2 provides a best-in-class server experience that cost-effectively cloud-optimizes your business. Windows Server 2012 R2 includes the following types of new and enhanced features:
- Enterprise Class - With Windows Server 2012 R2, you can achieve automated protection, recovery of assets, and cost-effective business continuity on-premises and in the cloud, enabling you to improve your workload service level agreements (SLAs) while reducing downtime risks.
- Application focused – Windows Server 2012 R2 helps you build, deploy, and scale applications and websites quickly, easily, and flexibly. In concert with Windows Azure and System Center 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012 R2 provides improved application portability between on-premises environments and public- and service-provider clouds, increasing the elasticity of your IT services.
- Simple and cost-effective - The use of cost-effective, industry-standard hardware makes these capabilities available at a fraction of the cost of other solutions. With automation of a broad set of management tasks built-in, Windows Server 2012 R2 simplifies the deployment of major workloads and increases operational efficiencies.
- User centric: - You can manage an end user’s identity across the datacenter and into the cloud, providing secure remote access and defining the resources and level of access they have based on who they are, what information they are accessing, and what device they are using.