The Great Windows Server 2003 migration
Varun Verma
Product @ Arctera | Dreamer & Storyteller | Advisor @Guidepoint | Passionate about enabling #digitaltransformation for customers.
End of Support Should Not End Your Business
Organizations running business applications on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 face this dilemma today. Microsoft Windows Server 2003 has already reached its end of product support life date on July 14, 2015. Microsoft will no longer provide support, provide software and content updates, nor automatically issue security patches. If your company is one of those still leveraging Microsoft’s Windows Server 2003 technologies read on…
Challenge of Legacy Systems
Not surprisingly, organizations see very little incentive to replace an unsupported but still functional OS — until there is an overwhelmingly urgent need to do so. Yet, it’s crucial for organizations to understand the risks of running an out-of-support OS against the costs and effort of migrating to a new one.
Protect Your Critical Data When Securing or Migrating Your OS
Backup and Recovery solutions from Symantec help you protect your critical data, help migrate your systems from physical to virtual, and integrate cloud offerings to improve protection and recovery flexibility. As your environment changes with this migration, it is critical to evaluate and take advantage of opportunities to improve overall IT efficiency and storage requirements.
Backup Exec and NetBackup software as well as NetBackup Appliances are vital data protection solutions that backup and recover entire servers, virtual machines, applications, databases and mission critical data; regardless if you choose to secure or migrate an OS. Always get a “last-known-good” backup done before you consider any changes to your IT infrastructure. These solutions can mitigate risk and provide greater flexibility for IT organizations by:
- Restoring data for test and development purposes
- Aid in the migration from one server platform to another (P2V, P2P)
- Ability to roll back servers, applications or data in production environments
Make the move today.