Infrastructure Services

Accelerate the transformation of your Windows Server 2003 infrastructure

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Enterprises migrating from Windows Server 2003, spurred by Microsoft’s withdrawal of support in July, 2015, must avoid disrupting business operations that depend on that platform. Avanade helps you mitigate those risks with a robust set of migration services that deliver a modern, agile computing infrastructure. We start with a comprehensive assessment of your technical and business requirements resulting in a strategic migration plan that delivers a highly flexible technology solution designed to meet the needs of the business today and into the future.

Windows Server 2003 support1 ends in July 2015! What's your plan?

What is Avanade’s solution for Windows Server 2003 migration? Avanade’s proven migration offering (methodology, services, migration and management tools, together with our deep knowledge of Microsoft technologies) ensures a smooth transformation to the right target Microsoft environment.Avanade clients gain a scalable, agile, cost-effective platform that fosters growth by making the right infrastructure choices for the business applications that are the technology foundation for growth.

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Windows Server 2003 limits your technology agilityThough a proven platform for enterprise computing, Windows Server 2003 platforms are not a strategic platform for the future. With the loss of Microsoft support (including security and bug fixes) in July of 2015, corporate IT must assume the often challenging and costly burden of maintaining this legacy environment, especially for applications with security/compliance exposure. Beyond such risks are the realities of operating a 10+ year old, 32-bit architecture that lags the current release by several generations and is ill-suited for the modern applications and cloud computing deployments needed by your business users. Today’s IT organizations need a modern computing infrastructure that offers flexibility and scalability- delivered in a cost-effective way, thus allowing IT to better support the strategic requirements of the business.

Migration - if poorly managed - puts your business at risk.Migration of an enterprise infrastructure is a challenging process that requires a deep understanding of both source and target platforms. Without it, platform migration exposes your organization to potential costly disruption of business operations. But migration within the enterprise is complicated by the proliferation of servers, networks, the applications they support (bespoke and third party), the integration dependencies and usage patterns of those applications, and a range of other factors. Decisions about the target infrastructure should be guided by an understanding of business requirements for your strategic applications, ensuring that the right platform is chosen to address both current and future requirements. With business operations increasingly technology-assisted - if not technology-driven – IT can become a key partner in helping the business achieve its goals.

Migration techniques fall into three essential options based on the application and its criticality. Disposition of servers and applications is designed to align the least cost and risk technique for each situation.

AUTOMATED UPGRADE

• Tools based approach to migrate application to new

• Server OS• Ideal for low criticality application

scenarios• Limited app compat issues

• Install a new instance of the application on a new Server OS

• Upgrade or replace applications with significant compat issues

• Upgrade or replacement is part of an existing project

• Server OS is linked to functionality, e.g. Domain Controllers are 2003 so an AD upgrade project is required

UPGRADE

PROJECT

Trust Avanade’s experts to transform your environment.Avanade’s combines proven methodology, tools and expertise to manage all aspects of your Widows Server 2003 migration, inclusive of ongoing management of the resulting infrastructure - whether virtualized, cloud (public and/or private) or both. Avanade focuses on the business requirements of the applications to be migrated. Through an understanding of the intersection of process, applications and infrastructure, Avanade mitigates end-user disruption

and delivers a new, agile computing infrastructure that is technology-aware, but not technology-constrained. With Avanade’s deep understanding of Microsoft’s infrastructure technologies, we can recommend the appropriate platforms, cloud or premises-based, reflecting consideration of operational costs, performance implications, user access, security, and other considerations. If appropriate to your needs, Avanade can also take on management of the computing infrastructure.

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What Avanade’s Private Cloud can do for customersBy offering guidance and services that will deliver the right target platform for your applications, Avanade can help deliver improved performance at often significantly reduced cost.

• Unilever accelerated IT service delivery by 40%.

• One customer was able to virtualize over 60% of their servers through deployment of an Avanade-managed private cloud.

• Another customer reduced their infrastructure costs by 30%.

About AvanadeAvanade helps customers realize results in a digital world through business technology solutions and managed services that combine insight, innovation and expertise focused on Microsoft® technologies. Our people have helped thousands of organizations in all industries improve business agility, employee productivity and customer loyalty. Avanade combines the collective business, technical and industry expertise of its worldwide network of experts with the rigor of an industrialized delivery model to provide high quality solutions using proven and emerging technologies with flexible deployment models–on premises, cloud-based

or outsourced. Avanade, which is majority owned by Accenture, was founded in 2000 by Accenture LLP and Microsoft Corporation and has 21,000 professionals in more than 20 countries. Additional information can be found at www.avanade.com.

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Avanade’s top-down approach focuses on business processes and applications. Understanding relationships between processes, applications, servers, and other supporting components reduces end user impact and allows for better risk management.

OUR APPROACH

BUSINESS PROCESSApplication

Server Server Server Server

Storage

Network

Shared Service

Shared Service

Shared Service

Shared Service

Application Application

A full understanding of what application and infrastructure components must move together, along with a detailed view of the components that are migrating at one time, allows the business and user impact of any migration to be known during planning.