Who’s Migrating & Why? Initial Assessments Migration with System Center 2012 SP1 Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter Automation Toolkit Summary

Who’s Migrating & Why? Initial Assessments Migration with System Center 2012 SP1 Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter Automation Toolkit Summary

“With System Center 2012, we have much more granular insight into and control over the services we’re delivering to the business. This is critical in helping Pella make great windows

and doors.” - Jim Thomas, Director of IT Operations, Pella

Pizza Chain to Switch 10,000 Store Servers to Hyper-V to Increase Reliability, Performance Domino’s is switching its in-store virtualization software to Hyper-V and uses System Center data center solutions to manage those servers To stay competitive, Apartments.com needs to introduce new services frequently and deliver outstanding web performance. It found that its VMware-based infrastructure was too inflexible to meet developer needs and too expensive to deploy in production “After virtualizing our Taiwan data center using Windows Server 2012, we expect to save $600,000 a year. The potential savings across all our global data centers could be up to

five times higher.” - Harry Richards, Group Enterprise Architect, Acer

Who’s Migrating & Why? Initial Assessments Migration with System Center 2012 SP1 Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter Automation Toolkit Summary

Who’s Migrating & Why? Initial Assessments Migration with System Center 2012 SP1 Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter Automation Toolkit Summary

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Who’s Migrating & Why? Initial Assessments Migration with System Center 2012 SP1 Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter Automation Toolkit Summary

Who’s Migrating & Why? Initial Assessments Migration with System Center 2012 SP1 Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter Automation Toolkit Summary

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Who’s Migrating & Why? Initial Assessments Migration with System Center 2012 SP1 Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter Automation Toolkit Summary

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