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Today is the GA for the Cloud OS!
Brad Anderson
Sep 08, 2018Iron Contributor
First published on CloudBlogs on Oct, 18 2013
Over the last year, we have made some incredible developments with Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2, and the new release of Windows Intune – and I am incredibly excited for these products to reach general availability today! Leading up to this, our team has worked incredibly hard to share as much information as possible about this new platform and its vast array of capabilities – and I encourage everyone to dive into this material in the What’s New in 2012 R2 series we produced over the summer. Here are a few sources of information that I recommend checking out – and you will probably notice that each of these pages have been entirely redesigned and repopulated specifically for R2:
Over the last year, we have made some incredible developments with Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2, and the new release of Windows Intune – and I am incredibly excited for these products to reach general availability today! Leading up to this, our team has worked incredibly hard to share as much information as possible about this new platform and its vast array of capabilities – and I encourage everyone to dive into this material in the What’s New in 2012 R2 series we produced over the summer. Here are a few sources of information that I recommend checking out – and you will probably notice that each of these pages have been entirely redesigned and repopulated specifically for R2:
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Windows Azure Pack
I believe this offering is simply amazing. It delivers code written for Windows Azure that can run inside your on-prem datacenter. These technologies include rich, self-service, multi-tenant services and experiences that are consistent with Microsoft’s public cloud offering. This has been particularly compelling for service providers who can now put new offers into market more quickly. WAP is now generally available along with Windows Server 2012 R2 and System Center 2012 R2 at no additional charge . One thing to point out here is this is tremendous execution and deliver on our promise to deliver consistency across clouds and to deliver to you all that we learn in our datacenters for you to run in your datacenters. -
Hyper-V Recovery Manager
This Windows Azure service can help protect your most important services and data by coordinating the replication and recovery of System Center private clouds at a secondary location. This offering will be broadly available as a public preview later this month. -
Windows Azure Backup
Protecting important server data is vital, and this service does exactly that by automatically storing this data in Windows Azure where it can be easily restored. WAB makes it possible to use Windows Server and System Center Data Protection Manager to backup your servers to Azure for reliable off-site data protection. This service will move from preview to general availability later this month. -
System Center Management Pack for Windows Azure
This management pack helps IT pros monitor their Windows Azure infrastructure from the common and familiar OpsMgr console. This offering is also now available. This gives you a consistent console to manage the applications running across public, private and hosted clouds – hybrid cloud computing.
To read more about all the great things GA’ing today, spend some time (it’s Friday , you deserve it!) reading through the GA-centric posts on the Windows Server Blog , Server-Cloud Blog , System Center Blog , and Windows Intune Blog . These posts are incredibly detailed , incredibly helpful , and they are each written by the same engineers who built the products!
Published Sep 08, 2018
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