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Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2

Windows Server 2012 R2 captures Microsoft's experience of delivering global-scale cloud services to provide an enterprise-class server and cloud platform. It lets you optimize performance for your most important workloads and helps to protect against service outages with robust recovery options. It reduces complexity and cost with comprehensive automation plus storage and networking virtualization solutions based on industry-standard hardware. It lets you build, run, and scale applications that can move between your datacenter and the cloud, and allows you to provide your users with flexible remote access from virtually anywhere and any device while helping to protect corporate information.

Windows Server 2012 R2 delivers significant value around seven key capabilities:

1. Server Virtualization - new levels of performance and cross-platform support 2. Storage - high performance and resiliency at a fraction f the cost 3. Networking - hybrid networking with breakthrough levels of flexibility and performance 4. Server Management and automation - increased management efficiency for a diverse datacenter 5. Web and Application Platform - Modern apps build and deployed to scale on-premises and in the cloud 6. Access and Information Protection - Consistent and Flexible user access to corporate resources while protecting data 7. Virtual desktop Infrastructure - great performance, easy to deploy and cost-effective

For over 30 years, HP and Microsoft are combining the intelligence of HP ProLiant Gen8 - the world's most self-sufficient servers, with the ease of management and virtualization capabilities of Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2. HP delivers Windows Server 2012 R2 Support for ProLiant Servers, see support details at www.hp.com/go/wincert. In addition, HP offers OEM licensing for the following editions:

Datacenter edition for highly-virtualized private cloud environments.
Standard edition for non-virtualized or lightly virtualized environments.
Essentials edition for small businesses with up to 25 users running on servers with up to two processors.
Foundation edition for small businesses with up to 15 users running on single processor servers.

NOTE: For more information on HP's offering of Windows Server 2012 R2 products, go to: http://www.hp.com/go/ws2012R2