Moving to the cloud requires a top-to-bottom strategy. You must take into consideration the following factors:
- Right cloud approach — private, public or hybrid
- Right architecture and security
- Migration of legacy applications and how to change future deployment patterns
- Development of best practices to minimize risk
Accelerate the virtualization of your infrastructure with Dell™ PowerEdge™ 12th-generation servers running Microsoft® Windows Server® 2012. Discover versatile, available and scalable solutions to help you improve productivity, lower costs and prepare for cloud computing.
PowerEdge servers can help power cloud computing and manage complex infrastructure in a simpler, centralized and more automated way. With Hyper-V® enabled in Windows Server 2012, you can also run business-critical applications in a secure and protected environment even without migrating these applications to Windows Server 2012.
Windows Server 2012 running on PowerEdge servers offers:
- Virtualization capabilities to consolidate the workloads of physical servers to a single system
- Scalability to ensure the capacity you may need in the future
- Integrated management to help reduce complexity, save time, achieve efficiency, control costs and improve productivity
- Faster network pipe by providing networking adapters that support partitioning and built-in network virtualization
- Cloud and business applications to run server management operations with fewer staff and less hardware from a central management location
These capabilities present an opportunity to consolidate your infrastructure for highly integrated servers, storage and networking that use less power, require less space and offer innovative technologies — helping your business succeed in the future.