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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. Getting started Chapter 06 18 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. Getting started 06

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