Explore our server software options.
Browse the key features and selling points of each product to help your customers choose their ideal Microsoft® server software.
Windows Server 2012 Foundation provides a Windows Server experience for up to 15 users. Windows Server 2012 Foundation provides the core IT resources of Windows Server 2012, such as file and print sharing, remote access, and security. It provides a network foundation from which you can centrally manage settings on your computers that are based on the Windows operating system, and upon which you can run the most popular business applications. It also provides a familiar Windows Server user experience that lets you manage users and helps safeguard business information.
Windows Server 2012 Foundation is available via OEM licensing on new server hardware from all leading manufacturers and their distribution channel. Windows Server 2012 Foundation is supported by an extensive network of certified professionals who can provide service for your Windows Server network.
Windows Server 2012 Essentials is the ideal first server for small businesses with up to 25 users. It provides a cost-effective and easy-to-use solution to help protect data, organize and access business information from virtually anywhere, support the applications needed to run a business, and quickly connect to critical cloud services such as email and backup. It also provides a familiar Windows Server user experience that helps you manage users and safeguard business information via scripting or a graphical user interface.
Windows Server 2012 Essentials can help to minimize the time, effort, and money that you spend on IT. This enables small organizations to focus on their core business, not on managing an IT infrastructure.
Windows Server 2012 Standard is designed for physical or minimally virtualized environments. With continuously available and an easy-to-manage multiple-server platform, Windows Server 2012 offers excellent economics and breakthrough efficiency. It also provides a familiar Windows Server user experience that helps you manage users and safeguard business information via scripting or a graphical user interface. Windows Server 2012 is a broad, scalable, and elastic server platform that gives organizations the flexibility to build and deploy applications and websites on-premises, in the cloud, and in a hybrid environment, using a consistent set of tools and frameworks.
Windows Server 2012 empowers IT managers to provide users with flexible access to data and applications from virtually anywhere, on virtually any device, with a rich user experience, while simplifying management and helping maintain security, control, and compliance.
Windows Server 2012 Datacenter is designed for highly virtualized private cloud environments. Windows Server 2012 Datacenter can help many organizations achieve large scale benefits such as improved utilization, reduced power costs and reduced floor space requirements. You can add highly agile and flexible services with private and public cloud solutions together with System Center 2012.
Whether you want to virtualize, build a private cloud, scale your services through a public cloud, or mix all three, the virtualization and management solutions in Windows Server 2012 Datacenter can help you better manage your Datacenter today and accelerate your journey towards cloud computing.
Microsoft System Center 2012 is a comprehensive management platform that enables you to more easily and efficiently manage your IT environments, including your server infrastructure and client devices. With System Center 2012, you get the most cost effective and flexible platform for managing your traditional Datacenters, private and public clouds, client computers and mobile devices.
System Center 2012 is the only unified management platform where you can manage multiple hypervisors, physical resources, and applications in a single offering, versus multiple fragmented point solutions.
