Windows Server 2012 Overview

With Windows Server 2012, Microsoft delivers a server platform built on our experience of building and operating many of the world's largest cloud-based services and datacenter. Whether you are setting-up a single server for your small business or architecting a major new datacenter environment, Windows Server 2012 will help you cloud-optimize your IT so you can fully meet your organization's unique needs.

Discover Windows Server 2012

• Beyond Virtualization
  Offers a dynamic, multitenant infrastructure to help you scale and secure workloads and build a private cloud. Windows Server 2012 can help you provide:

  • Complete Virtualization Platform

   A fully-isolated, multitenant environment with tools that can help guarantee service level agreements, enable usage-based chargeback, and support self-service delivery.

  • Improved Scalability and Performance

   A high-density, scalable environment that you can modify to perform at an optimum level based on your needs.

  • Connecting to Cloud Services

   A common identity and management framework to enable highly secure and reliable cross-premises connectivity.
• The Power of Many Servers, the Simplicity of One
  Delivers a highly available and easy to manage cloud-optimized platform. Windows Server 2012 can help you provide:

  • Flexible Storage

  Diverse storage choices that can help you achieve high performance, availability, and storage resource efficiency through virtualization and storage conservation.

  • Continuous Availability

  New and improved features that provide cost-effective, highly available services with protection against a wide range of failure scenarios.

  • Management Efficiency

  Automation of a broad set of management tasks and simplified deployment of workloads as you move toward full, lights-out automation.
• Every App, Any Cloud
  Offers a cloud-optimized server platform that gives you the flexibility to build and deploy applications and websites on-premises, in the cloud, or across both. Windows Server 2012 can help you deliver:

  • Flexibility to Build On-Premises and in the Cloud

  A consistent set of tools and frameworks that enables developers to build symmetrical or hybrid applications across the datacenter and the cloud.

  • A Scalable and Elastic Infrastructure

  New features to help you increase website density and efficiency, plus frameworks, services, and tools to increase the scalability and elasticity of modern applications.

  • An Open Web and App Development Environment

  An open platform that enables mission-critical applications and provides enhanced support for open standards, open-source applications, and various development languages.
• Modern Workstyle, Enabled
  Provides users with flexible access to data and applications while simplifying management and maintaining security, control, and compliance. Windows Server 2012 can help you offer:

  • Access to Applications and Data from Virtually Anywhere, Any Device

  Seamless, on-demand access to virtualized work environments from virtually anywhere.

  • A Full Windows Experience Anywhere

  A personalized and rich user experience from virtually any device that adapts to different network conditions quickly and responsively.

  • Enhanced Data Security and Compliance

  Granular access to data and corporate resources based on strong identity, data classification, and centralized policy administration and auditing.

  Source : http://www.microsoft.com