It is essential for IT to provide applications and services that are always up and always on. Windows Server 2012 provides high service uptime, new capabilities which can endure many failures transparently – without interrupting service – and faster recovery when failures do occur. These features help improve the availability of individual servers, clusters, and even across datacenters.

To maximize business productivity, efficiency, and service levels, IT should make applications, services, and information continuously available and resilient to failures. Resource pooling of compute, storage, and network resources into virtualized private cloud environments can provide resiliency against hardware failures. Windows Server provides improved resiliency for your workloads, including features which can endure many failures transparently, and help you recover quickly when failures do occur.