Today’s datacenter is undergoing a transformation. The cloud has become an important extension of today’s IT infrastructure and the emergence of the software defined datacenter provides increased IT flexibility and efficiency. Windows Server 2012 R2 enables businesses to leverage their existing infrastructure and extend it into the cloud by providing many innovative capabilities that can make a tremendous difference in your datacenter, providing improved performance and availability, as well as potentially cutting your costs. In this technical guide, you will learn about some of the important transformational capabilities that Microsoft offers in the areas of storage, networking, and server virtualization.