With built-in, enhanced web capabilities & included virtualization technology, Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard is designed to increase the reliability & flexibility of your server infrastructure while helping save time & reduce costs. Powerful tools give you greater control over your servers & streamline configuration & management tasks. Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard provides organizations with the ability to deliver rich web-based experiences efficiently & effectively, with enhanced administration & diagnostics, advanced development & application tools, & lower infrastructure costs. Many organizations find that patch management, resource utilization, maintenance costs, & server sprawl are among their biggest challenges. Server virtualization technologies included in Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard, such as Windows Server Hyper-V & enhancements to Remote Desktop Services can help you address these challenges. Utilizing the virtualization capabilities in Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard will enable you to consolidate resources & realize significant infrastructure & management cost savings. The ongoing management of servers in the datacenter is one of the most time-consuming tasks facing IT professionals today. Any management strategy you deploy must support the management of both your physical & virtual environments. To help with this problem, Windows Server 2008 R2 has new features to reduce the ongoing management of the operating system including common day-to-day operational tasks.