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Windows Server 2012 Standard is designed for physical or minimally virtualized environments. When it comes to building a private cloud, offering cloud services, or connecting more securely to clouds, the message is clear: Your organization wants a consistent, integrated approach that helps you solve fundamental business & IT challenges. You also want assurance that a growing set of devices can take advantage of more applications & services that can be deployed on-premises & in public cloud environments. Using Windows Server 2012 to cloud optimize your IT provides an optimal solution to meet these unique needs. Windows Server 2012 captures the experience Microsoft has gained from building & operating public clouds to deliver a highly dynamic, available, & cost-effective server platform for your datacenter & your private cloud. It offers businesses & hosting providers a scalable, dynamic, & multitenant-aware cloud infrastructure that connects more securely across premises & allows IT to respond to business needs faster & more efficiently. If you want the flexibility of a private cloud, implementing solutions in a virtualized environment is not enough. Windows Server 2012 lets you go beyond virtualization to deploy & more securely connect to private clouds in a flexible IT environment that adapts dynamically to changing business needs. More & enhanced features provide high performance & scalability to enable a truly multitenant infrastructure where networking, compute, & storage resources are isolated among tenants on the same host. ...

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Windows Storage Server 2012 is the Windows Server 2012 platform of choice for network-attached storage (NAS) appliances offered by Microsoft partners. As part of a network-attached storage appliance, Windows Storage Server 2012 can help reduce the storage costs associated with building modern datacenters & private clouds. It enhances the traditional file serving capabilities & extends file based storage for application workloads like Hyper-V, SQL & Internet information Services (IIS). Windows Storage Server 2012 delivers excellent economics for a shared storage solution by leveraging industry standard hardware matched with robust storage capabilities. It delivers continuous availability that is designed to protect from a range of failures & prevent downtime in a scalable & reliable manner. Windows Storage Server 2012 based NAS appliances are best suited for you if you are seeking to deploy a dedicated turnkey solution for highly reliable, high-performance shared storage, for example your database needs. If you are a customer who wants to deploy a converged private cloud infrastructure which also

Includes:: the ability to run physical or virtual workloads including line-of-business applications, you should consider Windows Server 2012 for your needs.

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