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Stabilize and secure your infrastructure

Microsoft® will end support for Windows® Server 2003/R2 on July 14, 2015. This can have a dramatic impact on your business, because without any more updates or patches from Microsoft, your organization’s infrastructure will be less stable and secure.

Here are some of the issues that may arise when Microsoft ends its support of Windows Server 2003/R2:

No complianceAfter support ends, your organization may not meet many industry-wide compliance standards and regulations. As a result, you could lose business or pay high transaction fees and penalties, thereby dramatically increasing the cost of doing business.

No savings The costs of maintaining your legacy servers can add up quickly, and staying put will probably cost more in the end. Maintenance costs for aging hardware are likely to increase, and you will have to deal with added costs for intrusion detection systems, more advanced firewalls, and network segmentation—all simply to isolate your legacy 2003 servers.

No safe havenWithout continued support from Microsoft, your virtualized and physical instances of Windows Server 2003/R2 will not pass a compliance audit. Microsoft Small Business Server (SBS) 2003 will also be affected.

No updatesMicrosoft will no longer develop or release any updates after ending support. To put this in perspective, consider that 37 critical updates were released in 2013 for Windows Server 2003/R2 under extended support. Imagine the potential impact of zero updates.

Simply put, now is the time to modernize your data center and migrate to Windows 2012 with HP.

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Windows Server 2012 opportunities

The most important release of Windows Server in a decade, Windows Server 2012—along with Microsoft System Center 2012—delivers significant new functionality in the areas of virtualization, private cloud, enhanced security, and high availability, plus system and storage management.

This version of Windows Server is packed with many features that can benefit your organization. For one thing, you can choose your own interface. For another, a new Server Manager offers multiserver capabilities, which make it easy to deploy roles and features remotely to physical and virtual servers. Storage Spaces, another new Server 2012 feature, lets you use inexpensive hard drives to create a storage pool, which can then be divided into spaces that are used like physical disks.

Microsoft has also simplified its licensing. To avoid confusion and frustration, Windows Server 2012 is offered in only four editions: Datacenter, Standard, Essentials, and Foundation. The first two are licensed per processor plus a client access license (CAL), and the latter two (for small businesses) are licensed per server with limits on the number of user accounts (15 for Foundation and 25 for Essentials).

Follow a migration process

Your migration should ideally follow a process to make the planning and transition from Windows Server 2003/R2 to Windows 2012 as smooth as possible. That process will include assessing and preparing target workloads and software before you choose the right migration plan.

You’ve probably read about the benefits of moving to a modern standards-based infrastructure, but the “how” may seem daunting. Technical hurdles such as the following can stand between your organization and a seamless, positive, migration experience:

• Older applications must be upgraded and migrated, and sometimes replaced

• Customizations and code extensions need to be evaluated and migrated or replaced

• Migration steps need to be optimized to target the type of infrastructure that can deliver the highest performance at the lowest cost

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Plan Migrate & Build Operate

Prepare your organization and environment

• HP Transformation Workshop for Windows 2003 Migration

• HP Migration Assessment Service for Windows 2012

• HP Training Needs Assessment for IT Staff

• HP Migration Services for Windows Server 2012 (preparation, migration management)

• HP Deployment Accelerator Service for ConvergedSystem 700x for Microsoft Windows

• HP Consulting Services for Microsoft (Virtualization, Private Cloud, Collaboration, BI)

• HP Proactive Care – Personalized Support Option – Proactive Select Credits

• HP Education Services – Customized IT Staff training for Windows Server 2012

Smooth migration and speedy deployment

Proactive support and organizational readiness

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HP Transformation Workshop for Windows 2003 Migration

Your Windows 2003 migration initiative requires early collaboration from your IT and business teams in order to facilitate fast investment decisions. Without executive and key stakeholder support, or proper alignment between teams, you can face scope and budget roadblocks.

HP Transformation Workshop for Windows 2003 Migration accelerates your planning in one day through a highly visual, interactive, and structured—yet very customized—process. At the workshop, facilitated by experienced HP consultants, you can discuss your Windows 2003 migration planning as well as standardization, virtualization, automation, and cloud options for broader IT infrastructure modernization. With all of your key stakeholders, you can:

• Prepare for Windows 2003 end-of-support, and explore your strategic options and critical success factors

• Mitigate project and budget risks through shared understanding, objectives, and vision

• Achieve faster decision-making and alignment, from days to hours

• Share best practices in migration, automation, governance, operations, and customized high-level planning

HP Migration Services for Windows 2003

HP Windows Server 2012 Migration Services help you move from Windows 2003 to Windows 2012 without worrying about disrupting your business. We help ease the implementation through a step-by-step migration assessment, preparation, execution, and transition to operations. The services facilitate “ready-to-use” HP ConvergedSystem and IT infrastructure modernization along the way.

Benefits• Count on well-defined, packaged, standard services delivered by a worldwide

consulting organization

• Simplify the process of migrating your existing Microsoft environment to the HP ConvergedSystem for Windows Server 2012

• Ensure migrated Windows Server 2012 Certification so that your HP ConvergedSystem is in a “ready-to-use” state

• Look to HP to share knowledge and provide you with best practices regarding HP ConvergedSystem for Microsoft

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What HP offers

Assess • Complete a business-case/ROI study

• Gather technical and business requirements

• Review Windows levels and components

• Perform an OS, hypervisor, and database assessment

• Review workload profiling metrics

• Conduct a custom application review

• Complete a detailed design and implementation planning document

• Properly scope and manage the project through on-/off-shore resourcing

Prepare • Complete prescribed Windows Server, operating system, database management system,

and hypervisor upgrades

• Conduct designated custom application remediation

• Deploy the Windows Server 2012 future state reference architecture

• Complete all Windows Server 2012 migration tests

• Apply any required system adjustments and tuning

• Provide upgrade and migration test validation

Migrate• Ensure that all backups and recovery points exist

• Complete Windows Server 2012 developer migration

• Complete Windows Server 2012 production migration

• Provide Microsoft certification and acceptance

• Deliver a successful production cutover

Manage• Complete training and knowledge transfer

• Transition operations and support processes

• Decommission legacy systems and infrastructure

• Ensure that Windows System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) elements are measured and monitored

Move to the New Style of IT with HP and Microsoft

Together, HP and Microsoft solve today’s virtualization, collaboration, and Big Data challenges, while providing a foundation for secure private cloud computing. We offer modular, easy-to- consume transformation workshops and assessments, along with design, migration, deployment, integration, and education services. Our deep expertise in deployments leverage HP ConvergedSystem and Microsoft solutions for private clouds, Big Data, collaboration, and virtualization built on Microsoft Windows Server 2012 with Hyper-V, Microsoft System Center 2012, Microsoft SQL 2012 and Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync® 2013.

HP Consulting Services for Microsoft Private Cloud can help you extend HP ConvergedSystem for virtualization to the Microsoft Private Cloud by developing a private cloud strategy, roadmap, and service catalog, and then implementing the automation required to bring it all together. For example, HP ConvergedSystem 700x for Microsoft Deployment Accelerator Service is designed to rapidly deploy the software stack associated with the management and compute infrastructure of HP ConvergedSystem 700x for Microsoft. Each order of HP ConvergedSystem 700x for Microsoft includes the Deployment Accelerator Service to provide an elevated customer experience.

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Move to SQL 2012 and experience the power of Big Data

If you’ve read about the advanced features and functions of Microsoft SQL Server 2012, then you know this version of the product offers revolutionary capabilities and tremendous benefits, including improved visualization of your data, enhanced data quality, performance, and scalability.

While upgrading to SQL Server 2012 makes good business sense, the process itself may seem overwhelming. The reality is that deploying and migrating to a new data warehouse requires a focused team of Big Data and business intelligence (BI) professionals who can analyze your BI needs, your data, and your overall environment. HP experts accelerate the planning and implementation, along with personalized support of your SQL and SQL-based BI solutions.

With HP Technology Services for Microsoft SQL at your side, you can:

• Build a Big Data solution—The HP ConvergedSystem 300 for Microsoft Analytics Platform (APS) is purpose-built, factory-integrated, and optimized for the data-intensive workloads you require for your Big Data, BI, and analytics applications.

• Reduce technology, uptime, and support issues by standardizing on modern Microsoft software running on HP servers, storage, and networking. At the same time, you can evaluate ways to cut costs by optimizing and consolidating the SQL infrastructure.

• Use new SQL Server 2012 capabilities to achieve greater performance, security, and availability, as well as deeper business insights.

Improve your productivity, collaboration, and communication through Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync migrations

If you’re using earlier versions of Microsoft SharePoint, Exchange, or other systems such as IBM Lotus Notes or network file shares, it’s time to migrate to the latest Microsoft collaboration and communication platforms. By doing that, you can improve collaboration, take advantage of the latest mobility innovations, leverage search capabilities, make content available from anywhere and on any device, simplify content management, increase data security, and more.

When delivered as part of a broad Windows migration, collaboration, or mobility transformation, HP Microsoft Exchange 2013 SharePoint Design, Deploy, and Migration services can deliver the foundation for the next generation of cross-organizational communication and collaboration. We utilize a proven methodology—the HP Migration Framework—and best-of-breed tools to assess, analyze, and migrate data, applications, and business logic. At every step, we help make the transition between your source systems and the target platform as smooth and seamless as possible.

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Working with HP experts, you can:

• Upgrade Microsoft Exchange Server 2003/2007/2010 to Exchange Server 2013

• Migrate heterogeneous, third-party messaging services and Lotus Notes/Domino to Microsoft Exchange Server 2013

• Migrate applications from Lotus Notes to Microsoft SharePoint or standalone .NET applications

• Build a foundation for your Lync 2013 or SharePoint 2013 implementations

• Build the on-premises component of your hybrid Office 365 deployment

HP Support Services for Microsoft

Serving as a single point of contact and accountability for your HP Converged Cloud and Virtualization Solutions for Microsoft, HP supports all HP hardware and software components as well as Microsoft software. You gain access to solution experts located in 35 solution centers around the world. Our experts are trained in problem management and resolution, and they are ready to apply that knowledge for rapid repair and incident prevention. With HP, one call is all it takes for fast and accurate problem resolution.

With our recommended three-year HP Proactive Care with Personalized Support Option and HP Proactive Select credits, these personalized proactive services resolve problems quickly while providing proactive features that help prevent issues before they occur. If you prefer, you can upgrade from HP Proactive Care to higher service levels, including HP Critical Service.

HP Education Services for Microsoft

Recognized as an IDC MarketScape leader for IT education1, HP Education Services offers a comprehensive curriculum of Microsoft-approved courses designed to give you the necessary skills to support a successful Microsoft implementation. In addition, HP Education Services utilizes skills assessments to develop custom solutions to support you in moving to new Microsoft and HP technologies. By building organizational skills and awareness, you can help to reduce the risks associated with any major transformation and simultaneously manage the effects of change to create a smooth transition to the New Style of IT.

1 IDC MarketScape, Worldwide IT Education and Training 2013 Vendor Analysis, doc #239139, January 2013

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To build a private cloud, advanced virtualization, collaboration, or Big Data solution on extensible architectures and other technologies, a partner with vast expertise can help you start with objective planning, analysis, and a fast implementation path. Our intellectual property, open integration, and expertise combine to make it happen. And, to help you to make a smooth migration to Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and to private cloud solutions built on HP Converged Infrastructure and Microsoft System Center, HP has created a Microsoft Virtualization and Cloud Center of Excellence.

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