Windows Server 2012 R2 provides a wide range of new and improved features and capabilities including server utilization, storage, software-defined networking, server management and automation, web and application platform, information and access protection, infrastructure virtual desktop and much more.
Advantages
Building on Microsoft's Cloud OS, Windows Server helps customers transform the data center, leveraging technical advances and new hybrid cloud capabilities to increase resiliency, reduce costs, and accelerate service delivery to the business. .
Windows Server 2012 R2 is a proven enterprise-class cloud and data center platform that can scale to run the largest classes of work while enabling robust recovery options to protect against service interruptions. It enables faster time to value by simplifying the underlying infrastructure and reducing cost by leveraging industry standard hardware. Windows Server 2012 R2 helps you quickly build, deploy, and scale applications and websites, and offers flexibility to move workloads between on-premises and cloud environments. It allows you to provide flexible and remote access to corporate resources, through identity management in the data center and its federation in the cloud, and protect critical company information.