Product description
Windows Server 2008 R2 builds on the great foundation of Windows Server 2008, expanding existing technology and adding some features to enable organizations to increase the reliability and flexibility of their server infrastructures. Virtualization tools, web resources, management enhancements help save time, reduce costs, and provide a platform for a dynamic and efficiently managed data center. Powerful tools combine to give customers greater control, increased efficiency, and the ability to react to front-line business needs faster.
Product features
- Virtualization
Virtualization is a major part of the data centers. The operating efficiencies offered by virtualization allow organizations to dramatically reduce operational effort and power consumption. Windows Server 2008 R2 provides the client and server virtualization provided by Hyper-V and presentation virtualization with Remote Desktop services. - Reduce the ongoing management of servers
The ongoing management of servers in the data center is a time-consuming task facing IT professionals. Any management strategy you deploy must support the management of both your physical and virtual environments. To help with this problem, Windows Server 2008 R2 has great features to reduce the ongoing management of Windows Server 2008 R2 and to reduce the administrative effort for common day-to-day operational tasks. - Great power
Windows Server 2008 R2 is capable of unprecedented workload size, dynamic scalability, and across-the-board availability and reliability. A host of some updated features will be available, including leveraging sophisticated CPU architectures, increased operating system componentization, and improved performance and scalability for applications and services.