Customers in this situation are quickly provisioning new hardware to provide advanced business capabilities and availability. With the growing number of physical and virtual machines, they are looking to consolidate hardware and provide advanced business capabilities on-premises or in the cloud to improve availability and disaster recovery. Many surveyed IT professionals are feeling pressure from businesses to extend some or all datacenter functions to the cloud. Of those moving or considering the move to the cloud, nine percent anticipate a move to the public cloud, 19 percent to a private cloud.

• Consolidation of physical and virtual machines to increase manageability and reduce costs
• Integrated management of third-party virtualization and solutions
• Minimized disruptive events through resource optimization and resilient design of infrastructure
• Reduced hardware and operating costs through consolidation of facilities and centralization of management functions
• Access to latest system updates and best practices for resolving issue through Microsoft Premier Support