This module reviews trends, Windows Server at the heart of the cloud OS, and Windows Server momentum, and provides a Windows Server 2012 R2 capability overview. It describes customer challenges and opportunities and provides reasons for choosing Windows Server 2012 R2.

This module provides an introduction to Windows Server 2012 R2 and describes scalability, performance, security, multi-tenancy, and flexible infrastructure. It also explains high availability, resiliency, and virtualization innovation.

With services spanning multiple sites and multiple clouds, having the ability to create an infrastructure that enables VMs to move seamlessly between clouds is becoming increasingly important. This module describes open, extensible, and standard based networking, Hyper-V Network Virtualization, and Hyper-V Extensible Switch. 

This module explores how Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview helps you build highly available and reliable storage solutions with cost-effective hardware. It provides an overview of the greater variety of choices for deploying storage infrastructure and previews highlights of the new storage and file system features in Windows Server 2012 R2.

Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview is a great operating system for many servers and the devices that connect them, whether physical or virtual, on-premises or off-premises. In this module, view a cloud-optimized operating system that provides customers with a standards-based, simplified routine task platform and enables efficient and productive multi-server manageability and automation capabilities.

This module reviews how to manage challenges across multiple devices, apps, and data, enabling users to work in any location. Learn more on unifying your environment and how to deliver a unified application and device management on-premises and in the cloud.

The explosion in the number of consumer devices and the way they are used, together with ubiquitous information access, is changing the way that people perceive their technology and how that technology shapes their personal and work lives. The constant use of information technology throughout the day, along with the easy access of information, is blurring traditional boundaries between work and home life. Watch this module to learn more.

Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview and System Center 2012 R2 Preview offer a great foundation for our customers to deliver private and hybrid cloud services to their constituents. Learn more about how to make it easy and cost-effective to set up on-premises or hosted cloud infrastructure while meeting critical multi-tenancy, manageability and chargeback requirements.