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Doing nothing is also going to be a more expensive option. Fees for a custom support agreement after Windows Server 2003 EoS would typically range from $200,000 (around £150,000) in the first year and can compound, doubling or tripling annually1
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Inertia will also hold impact on productivity – and therefore your customers’ competitiveness and growth prospects. SMBs who employ technology achieve approximately 11 points higher in revenue growth than SMBs who use less technology2
72% of 500 small businesses surveyed believe new technologies will offer a bigger return on their investments than new employees3
be a better way to use investment and gain long- term returns than simply increasing headcount.
Delaying the upgrade or doing nothing is simply putting off the inevitable. OK, it defers the cost and the hassle for a while, but sooner or later, something will go wrong and it could be expensive and difficult to recover. Your customers will then be forced into rushing through an unplanned migration. Mistakes are more likely to be made.
On the other hand, stepping up to Windows Server 2012 R2 now will mean you can help to plan, minimise disruption and get it right. You can help your customers align the migration with their goals. It’s an ideal opportunity to reconfigure datacentre infrastructures, to expand virtualisation and automation, modernise applications and/or set up a private or hybrid cloud environment.
When the project is complete, they’ll have a platform that is ready to work with the latest solutions and services. You’ll help them to reduce management overheads and costs, so they can focus on their real business and priorities, and will have a platform on which they can build a new IT infrastructure to meet any current and future needs.
Fail audits . About
• Outdated software will mean card payments through Visa and MasterCard including suppliers like PayPal will no longer support Windows Server 2003 once it is phased out. This will mean your customers will most likely not meet industry wide compliance standards and will fail compliance audits
, so upgrading will Vulnerable to threat
• No more support, patches or security updates. Security patches and hot-fixes will no longer be available, leaving servers and applications vulnerable to security threats and downtime. To put that in perspective, there were 37 critical updates released in 2013 alone. Imagine what effect zero updates will have on your customers’ infrastructure. Inevitably they will face a less stable and secure IT environment
More expensive
• The workloads and applications running on Windows Server 2003 now will become much more expensive to manage and maintain
No new developments
• You’ll lose the opportunity to take immediate advantage of new IT infrastructure and applications developments, management tools, and cloud options
1 AppZero State of Readiness for Windows Server 2003 End of Support Survey, 2013 2 Huffington Post, For Small Business, Technology is Creating, Not Costing, Jobs, April 16, 2014 3 PRNewsWire, Fifth Annual Brother Small Business Survey, March 19, 2014
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