solutions and services for Windows Server 2003 migration: Channel partners sales card

On 14 July 2015, Microsoft will cease all patches, updates Why your customers will care Cross-sell/upsell to offer better solutions and support for Windows Server 2003. Migration can be After July 2015, custom support for Windows Server 2003 and increase sales a lengthy and complicated process, so your customers may have an annual cost of up to US$1,000 per server. In ® Breakthrough hardware: using Microsoft Windows Server 2003 need to begin addition, Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI the transition to Windows Server 2012 R2 now. DSS) compliance will end. This means Visa and MasterCard • Servers: the next generation of Dell PowerEdge Dell and Microsoft’s longstanding partnership, coupled will no longer do business with your customers who are still and Dell PowerEdge VRTX with Dell's enablement tools and full end-to-end migration using Windows Server 2003. • Storage solution, delivers true value to enterprise IT organisations. Help your customers begin their migration to Windows • Networking Our combined efforts ensure seamless integration of Server 2012 R2 now to avoid risks, costs, security • Applications/workloads products, world-class services expertise and innovative breaches, compliance issues and especially the increased • Data centre solutions solutions that scale from device, to the data centre, support burden that will accompany Windows Server 2003 to the cloud. end of service. Client devices: • Tablets What’s in it for you? Scale with demand based on your • Laptops Dell is a single point of contact for you to serve all your customers' business needs: • Desktops customers’ Microsoft solution implementation, services • Provide high performance and help them prepare • Workstations and support needs. Whether your customers need a full for future data growth and security requirements. solution or you want to augment your own solutions with • Printers • Reduce energy costs by up to 80 percent with Dell software, hardware or services, the latest innovations virtualisation, while enabling them to use IT to in Dell Migration Solutions for Windows Server 2003 Flexible, expert services: grow their business. allow you to offer your customers increased sales, a • Proactive support, business process outsourcing, simplified migration process and accelerated benefits Manage more efficiently: consulting, deployment with Windows Server 2012 R2. • Ensure business applications and • App/cloud/managed services are always available. • Security • Respond to business users faster. • Financing • Offer differentiated services and Innovative software: operational efficiency. • Data centre/cloud Ensure agile and flexible IT: • Data protection • Rationalise and modernise an expansive • Information management applications portfolio. • Mobile workforce management • Leverage existing skills and training. • Security • Manage without borders. Customer qualification questions What to listen for Advance your customers’ cloud strategies Start the conversation with your customer about their • Limited physical space, data storage, power and cooling • Enjoy processing power, internal storage, networking transition plans. Deliver a solutions-based message and in the data centre and richer input/output (I/O) options for no-compromise validate the opportunity to help you establish next steps. dense virtualisation. • Need to get more out of virtualisation initiatives • Is your IT organisation able to keep up with the • Protect assets and avert threats with Dell SecureWorks • Constrained resources, silos, complexity and inflexible changing demands of your organisation? cloud security. IT environment • What are the primary challenges of your existing • Simplify cloud implementation and management with • Concerns about maintaining service levels, performance virtualised environment? vStart cloud reference architectures. and speed of delivery • Do your applications require increased performance or • Easily manage unstructured data with Dell DX Object • Currently using disparate tools that are complex and memory? If so, which applications? Storage optimised for Web 2.0. difficult to use • How many tools do you use to manage your servers? • A need to define a cloud strategy or an existing strategy Empower your customers’ mobile workforces • What have you done to optimise IT management of your that may not be complete • Dell PowerEdge servers power high-performance virtualised environment? • Issues with data security and application availability computing and key workloads: SharePoint®, Exchange™ • What challenges are keeping you from implementing and reliability and Lync®. a multihypervisor strategy? • Not meeting service-level agreement (SLA) requirements • Dell VDI and desktop virtualisation offer an • Are data and application availability and security end-to-end client solution. • Challenges in supporting the current mobile workforce a significant concern? • Dell Mobility Strategy consulting services help to • Growing concerns over bring-your-own-device (BYOD) • Do you have budgetary concerns or an initiative to manage, track and secure devices and data. data security and data protection transform IT to become more efficient? • Dell KACE appliances simplify end-user • Need to centralise management and control disparate • What are your plans for implementing a cloud strategy? device management. resources via virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) • What is your strategy to support your mobile workforce? • Dell SonicWALL virtual private network (VPN) Take your customers beyond virtualisation technology for secure remote access. • Are the processes in place to support this initiative? • Zero-touch deployment, embedded intelligence • How is this integrated with your cloud strategy? and more • Redundant hypervisors ensuring fast recovery from hypervisor failure — with zero uncontrolled downtime • Dell vStart for simple, faster deployment of a virtualised environment • Dell Consulting Services for virtualisation readiness assessments, reference architectures and best practices

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