Windows Server 2012 Standard: for physical or minimally virtualized environments. Windows Server 2012 Essentials: unique cloud-enabled offering for up to 25 users. Windows Server 2012 Foundation: a Windows Server experience for as many as 15 users.
A complete virtualization platform that delivers a fully isolated, multitenant environment that includes tools to help guarantee service-level agreements (SLAs), enables chargebacks through use-based billing, and supports self-service delivery.Increased scalability and performance through a high-density, scalable environment that can adapt to perform optimally based on your changing needs.Connectivity to cloud services using a common identity and management framework for security-enhanced and reliable cross-premises connectivity.
Flexible storage. Improve performance, availability, and storage resource efficiency with the storage of your choice.Continuous availability. Provide cost-effective, highly available services-with protection against a wide range of failure scenarios-for a single server or an entire data center.Management efficiency. Windows Server 2012 helps IT departments automate a broad set of management tasks and simplify the deployment of server roles as you move toward full, lights-out automation.
Flexible, to enable build hybrid and symmetrical applications across the data center and the cloud.Scalable and elastic, to provide frameworks, services, and tools to increase scalability and elasticity for multitenant-aware applications and websites.Open, to build mission-critical applications and take advantage of open frameworks, open source applications and various development languages.