Windows Server 2012 Standard R2

Greater flexibility and agility with Windows Server 2012 R2

At the heart of the Microsoft Cloud OS vision, Windows Server 2012 R2 brings Microsoft’s experience delivering global-scale cloud services into your infrastructure with new features and enhancements in virtualization, management, storage, networking, virtual desktop infrastructure, access and information protection, the web and application platform, and more.

With the world of information technology (IT) changing rapidly, traditional approaches to solving infrastructure problems are inadequate. 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.