Remember that breaking your migration
down into elemental steps can contribute
to a more successful migration. You can
start this process with a few applications,
and then expand to other applications in
your environment.
The benefits of migration will be
immediately apparent in your time and
budget savings. The cloud will allow you to
be more agile and, in many cases, respond
to business needs faster. The cloud may
even lower your TCO by as much as 84
percent,⁶ freeing you to take that savings
and invest it back into your business to
drive modernization faster. Plus, you can
explore PaaS and SaaS options, decreasing
your TCO even more while expanding your
IT capabilities.
Prepare for Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2
end of support.
Sign up for an Azure free trial—$200 credit for
30 days, 12 months of free services.
To learn more about options that meet
your unique migration needs, visit the
Azure migration center.
Additional resources:
Azure migration guide for Windows Server.
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⁶ Migrating VMware to Microsoft Azure: Total cost of ownership guidance. Microsoft. November 2017.
Retrieved from: https://azure.microsoft.com/mediahandler/files/resourcefiles/vmware-to-azure-migration-
tco-guidance/VMware_to_Azure_migration_TCO_guidance.pdf
Use Azure to manage the Windows Server
2008 end-of-support transition. Azure
now includes three more years of security
updates for Windows Server 2008 and 2008
R2 at no additional charge. This means
you can migrate your Windows Server
workloads to Azure and get more time to
upgrade—as well as add powerful Azure
security options for additional protection.
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