Windows Server 2012 Datacenter provides licensing rights for unlimited Windows Server virtual machines on a single physical server. Windows Server 2012 Datacenter enables you to blend your on-premises solutions with the cloud without having to re-engineer infrastructure, systems management, or applications.

Microsoft delivers global-scale cloud services to provide an enterprise-class server and cloud platform. 2012 R2 lets you optimize performance for your most important workloads and helps to protect against service outages with robust recovery options. Reduce complexity and cost with comprehensive automation plus storage and networking virtualization solutions based on industry-standard hardware.

Build, run, and scale applications that can move between your datacenter and the cloud and provide your users with flexible remote access from virtually anywhere and any device while helping to protect corporate information.

Datacenter Server roles include:

• DHCP Server
• DNS Server
• Fax Server
• File Services
• Hyper-V
• Network Policy & Access Services
• Print & Doc Services
• Remote Access
• Remote Desktop Services
• UDDI Services
• Web Server (IIS)
• Windows Deploy Services

Windows Server 2012 R2 makes it easier to deploy a virtual desktop infrastructure, and can lower storage costs significantly by supporting a broad range of storage options and VHD de-duplication. Virtual Desktop Infrastructure in Windows Server 2012 R2 makes it possible for users to access IT from virtually anywhere, providing them a rich Windows experience while ensuring enhanced data security and compliance.

Windows Server 2012 R2 is the cloud-ready operating system that supports your current workloads while introducing new technologies that make it easy to transition to cloud computing when you are ready. It delivers powerful new layers of security along with Azure-inspired innovation for the applications and infrastructure that power your business.

Each purchase includes 16 core licenses and can be used to run two Operating System Environments – either virtual or physical. If your server has more than 16 cores, you will need to buy additional licenses. You also need to purchase Windows Server Client Access Licenses (CALs) for every user or device accessing the server.

Built-in security

Improve security and limit risks with multiple layers of protection built into the operating system.

Develop your data center

Save money and become more flexible with software-based computer, storage and network technologies inspired by Microsoft Azure.

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. Windows Server 2012 R2 offers exciting features and enhancements across virtualization, storage, networking, virtual desktop infrastructure, access and information protection, and more.

Enterprise-class
Enhanced 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 offers a proven, enterprise-class virtualization and cloud platform that can scale to continuously run your largest workloads while enabling robust recovery options to protect against service outages.

Simple and cost-effective
Windows Server 2012 R2 also gives you resilient, multi-tenant-aware storage and networking capabilities for a wide range of workloads. It delivers these capabilities at a fraction of the cost of other solutions, through the use of low-cost, industry-standard hardware. 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.

Application focused
Windows Server 2012 R2 helps you build, deploy and scale applications and web sites quickly, and with more flexibility than ever before. In concert with Windows Azure VM and System Center 2012 R2, it unlocks improved application portability between on-premises environments and public and service provider clouds, increasing flexibility and elasticity of your IT services. Windows Server 2012 R2 provides a scalable, highly available platform for mission-critical applications and offers enhanced support for open standards, open source applications and various development languages.

User-centric
Windows Server 2012 R2 makes it easier to deploy a virtual desktop infrastructure, and can lower storage costs significantly by supporting a broad range of storage options and VHD de-duplication. Virtual Desktop Infrastructure in Windows Server 2012 R2 makes it possible for users to access IT from virtually anywhere, providing them a rich Windows experience while ensuring enhanced data security and compliance.

Windows Server 2012 R2 enables you to provide access to corporate resources and helps protect critical business information. With Windows Server 2012 R2, you can manage identities across your datacenter and federated into the cloud, provide flexible remote access to applications and resources, and define the resources and level of access users have to information based on who they are, what they are accessing, and what device they are using