Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter

Windows Server 2012 R2 datacenter

Windows Server 2012 R2 is a proven, enterprise-class cloud and datacenter platform that can scale to run your largest workloads while enabling robust recovery options to protect against service outages. It helps accelerate time to value by simplifying your underlying infrastructure and allowing you to reduce cost by taking advantage of industry-standard hardware. Windows Server 2012 R2 helps you build, deploy and scale applications and web sites quickly. It gives you the flexibility to move workloads between on-premises environments and the cloud. It also enables you to provide flexible, remote access to corporate resources while managing identities across your datacenter and it helps you protect critical business information.

PRODUCT FEATURES

Work Folders

With Work Folders you take advantage of a fully functional, secure file replications service. Work Folders save copies of files on both the server and the client, performing sync operations whenever a connection is established.

Health Report

A useful reporting tool is Health Report that is integrated by default. With this feature you can customize the system health reports to display items that you prefer to monitor.

Remote Web Access

Remote Web Access received an overhaul. This option is now optimized for touch devices and is enhanced with rich HTML5 support.

Storage Tiering

With Storage Tiering users have the ability to dynamically move bits of data between different classes of storage, such as SSDs and hard disks. Server 2012 R2 uses an algorithm to determine which chunks of data are seeing the most activity and automatically moves the most important data to the faster tier.

Write Back Cache 

The Write Back Cache option sets aside an amount of physical storage, to use as a write cache to help smooth out the positives and negatives of I/O during write-intensive operations.

Parallel rebuild

Windows Server 2012 R2 has the functionality to perform a parallel rebuild of a failed Storage Spaces drive. This greatly reduces the time it takes to perform a disk rebuild.

Workplace Join

This feature allows users to register personal devices with Active Directory. You can then gain certification-based authentication and single sign-on to enterprise apps and data.