HP helps partners with smooth transition for Windows Server 2003

 HP along with Microsoft has announced a new program to enable channel partners to capitalize on the $10-billion opportunity presented as customer's transition from Windows Server 2003.

As Microsoft ends support for Windows Server 2003, customers are turning to HP channel partners for help assessing, planning and implementing their migration. With the HP Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Migration Program, partners can rapidly and safely meet customer needs with reduced risk and cost, increased return on investment, and fast implementation.

"The success of customer migrations from Windows Server 2003 depends on thorough planning, disciplined migration execution and post-migration support. Our migration approach offers partners optimal flexibility and support, whether they are transitioning their customers’ workloads to a private, public or hybrid cloud or modernizing their applications and IT infrastructure to achieve better business results," said Neelam Dhawan, Vice-President & General Manager, Enterprise Group and Country Managing Director, HP India.

Nick Parker, Corporate Vice-President, Device Partnerships, Microsoft, said, "Today’s joint Windows Server 2003 EOS program announcement is another example of the differentiated end-to-end offerings that our customers and partners can rapidly and safely deploy, whether on premises with HP’s latest innovative server platforms or in the cloud with Microsoft’s Azure platform."

As one of Microsoft’s largest original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and Gold Certified Partners, HP has been named as "Microsoft Global Enterprise Partner of the Year" five times. HP provides full support, training and migration, cloud, mobility, collaboration, and big data consulting for Windows Server, built on more than 30 years of partnership with Microsoft.

The HP Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Migration Program is available now.