Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard License

At the heart of the Microsoft Cloud OS vision, Windows Server 2012 R2 brings Microsoft's experience in delivering global-scale cloud services to your infrastructure. Windows Server 2012 R2 delivers exciting features and enhancements in virtualization, storage, networking, virtual desktop infrastructure, access and information security, and more.

Enterprise-Class

Advanced features allow you to take advantage of even better performance and more efficient capacity utilization in your Datacenter, helping you increase the agility of your business. Windows Server 2012 R2 delivers a proven, enterprise-class virtualization and cloud platform that can scale to run your largest workloads continuously while enabling robust recovery options to protect against service outages.

Simple and Affordable

Windows Server 2012 R2 also gives you flexible, multi-tenant-aware storage and networking capabilities for a wide variety of workloads. It provides these capabilities at a fraction of the cost of other solutions through the use of low-cost, industry-standard hardware. With the automation of a broad set of built-in management tasks, Windows Server 2012 R2 simplifies the deployment of major workloads and increases operational efficiencies.

Application Centric

Windows Server 2012 R2 helps you build, deploy, and scale applications and websites faster, and with more flexibility than ever before. Together with Windows Azure VM and System Center 2012, it unlocks improved application portability between on-premises environments and public and service provider clouds, increasing the flexibility and elasticity of your IT services. Windows Server 2012 R2 provides a scalable, highly available platform for mission-critical applications and offers advanced support for open standards, open source applications, and a variety of development languages.

User-Centric

Windows Server 2012 R2 makes it easy to deploy virtual desktop infrastructure and can significantly reduce storage costs by supporting a wide range of storage options and VHD deduplication. The virtual desktop infrastructure in Windows Server 2012 R2 makes it possible for R2 users to access IT from virtually anywhere, giving them a richer Windows experience while ensuring better data security and compliance. Windows Server 2012 R2 enables individuals to provide access to corporate resources and helps protect critical business information. With Windows Server 2012 R2, you can manage identities in your Datacenter and federated in the cloud, provide flexible remote access to applications and resources, and define the resources and level of access customers have to information based on who they are, what they are accessing, and what device they are using.