Support from Microsoft for Windows Server 2008 R2 ended on 14 January 2020, while SQL Server 2008 R2 support ended over a year ago on 9 July 2019. After this time you may be finding maintenance costs quickly spiralling with the need to continually manage your aging hardware.
In addition, if your organisation is growing or has fluctuating capacity needs (who hasn’t had this recently), you need the kind of flexibility that allows you to scale IT resources up or down quickly – and cost-effectively.
Now is the time to use Windows Server and SQL Server end of support as an opportunity to modernise your application stack and optimise costs. Migrate your SQL Server and Windows Server 2008 to Azure to take advantage of intelligent security, seamless hybrid capabilities and unique cost savings options.
Migrate to Azure to access continuous innovation to support your organisation today and your visions for tomorrow.
Run your Windows Server and SQL Server workloads with confidence with the comprehensive Azure approach to security. With more than 3,500 cyber security professionals, $1 billion annual investment in security to help protect, detect and respond to threats and tools like Azure Security Center, Azure provides the broadest built-in protection available – across the cloud and on-premise.
Get significant savings with unique programmes that allow you to reserve your resources in advance, re-use your existing on-premise licences on the cloud and get free extended security updates.
Fully-managed infrastructure and services, freeing you up to spend more time creating. Take advantage of evergreen SQL and never patch or upgrade your SQL database again with Azure SQL Database Managed Instance. Simplify governance, compliance and resource management with built-in Azure Governance capabilities.
Azure is the only cloud with end-to-end hybrid infrastructure, allowing you to operate seamlessly across your data centre and the cloud. Easily connect your on-premise servers to Azure using Windows Admin Center to take advantage of backup, monitoring, disaster recovery and cloud storage.
And don’t forget, when you’ve made the move, the journey doesn’t stop there. We have Azure Managed Services that can ensure your environment remains secure, optimised, configured and delivering the outcomes that you want 24x7x365.
Learn more about Azure Essentials Managed Service or Windows Virtual Desktop Managed Services here.
We have a clear path to help customers no matter where they are on their Azure journey …
Are you wanting to make the move to Microsoft Azure, but unsure where to start? Talk to us about our Azure 101, Surveyor 360, Azure Essentials or Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) Essentials Managed Services to ensure you get the right solution in place for your organisations cloud adoption strategy.
Do you have a clear strategy and plan in place for moving to Microsoft Azure? Do you want to ensure that it goes as smoothly as possible when you make the move?
Talk to us about how our Surveyor 360 workshop can help your organisation understand the benefits of a cloud-based scalable architecture.
Made the move to Azure – great! You will be realising the benefits this brings, however, accessing the resources and expertise to handle the configuration, management of workloads, security and more can be a daunting task. Talk to us about our Azure Essentials or WVD Essentials Managed Service.
Security Teams are inundated with a high volume of alerts and spend far too much time in tasks like infrastructure setup and maintenance. As a result, many legitimate threats go unnoticed.
Talk to us about our range of Security, Risk and Compliance Workshops as well as our Azure Sentinel Managed Service.
Shutting down unused resources, configuring autoscaling, setting up budgets and taking advantage of Azure Hybrid Benefits. These are all ways to optimise costs within Azure, but Phoenix have a range of services and solutions to ensure that you’re getting the most from your investment.
Now that you are in Azure, you may be asking “what’s next?”.
Having all of that data in one place and connected opens up a world of possibilities to explore advanced workloads such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and internet of things (IoT).
The challenge facing many IT departments today is how do they go from where they are now to where they want to be. As a first step, Surveyor 360 can help your organisation understand the benefits of Azure for both allowing you to optimise your current data centre environment, but also in allowing you to deploy advanced workloads in areas like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and Internet of Things (IoT). By leveraging our Surveyor 360 offering we will help you move along this journey and answers questions such as:
As we have passed the date of SQL Server 2008 End of Support, there are still a lot of unanswered questions and we will answer a few of those within this short on-demand webinar.
Watch on-demand webinar nowBelow are just a few examples of our customers that have already made the move to Azure. Just look at the benefits that they are receiving and imagine what this move could make to you …
Watch how Phoenix has worked with East Suffolk and North Essex Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) to transform their infrastructure using Microsoft Azure and Windows Virtual Desktop to provide better services to staff and patients as well as deliver on their #TimeMatters digital programme.
Learn the full ESNEFT case studyJoseph Rowntree Foundation creates impact in the community by providing more people with care as a result of saving money with their move to Microsoft Azure.
Read the full JRF case studyUsing the power of Azure, National College for Advanced Transport & Infrastructure look to enable a new generation of highly-skilled professionals to lead Britain’s future high speed rail workforce.
Read the full NCATI case studyPhoenix enables digital transformation in the workplace, empowering UK organisations to innovate and transform with cloud and hybrid infrastructures data, AI, security, and collaboration tools. By understanding the individual goals of its customers, Phoenix delivers remarkable, outcome-focused IT solutions and services that allow UK organisations to make a difference to the lives of their employees, service users, and communities.
Phoenix is a signatory on the Race at Work Charter, and a Disability Confident and Living Wage employer. The company is also actively involved in encouraging more women into the IT industry.
