Microsoft Datacenter
Optimization (DCO)
Accelerate your hybrid cloud services journey and unlock exceptional customer outcomes on Azure
Get the expertise and resources you need for your hybrid cloud journey
The Microsoft Datacenter Optimization (DCO) is a global initiative to help partners supplement their on-prem business and benefit from the cloud simultaneously. Get incentives, free resources, tooling, engineering support, and proven guidance for your hybrid cloud journey with your customers. We meet you where you are at - whether you are already a partner or looking to become one - to help you move forward with confidence.
Podcast
In this podcast, you'll discover the cutting-edge hybrid and cloud solutions and strategies helping partners build a more flexible and profitable business, even for customers not ready to migrate yet.
LinkedIn Group
Network, share best practices and interact on business topics with thousands of members from the Hybrid Cloud Partners community.
Why move to the cloud?
Pay as you go
Focus your capital expense on strategic and core capabilities while accessing enabling capabilities "as a service"
Scale on-demand, limitlessly
Allocate resources as you need them, without buying new infrastructure and hardware and installing and maintaining them upfront
Meet customer's needs
Offer your customers the security, innovation, scalability, and global availability that come with moving to the cloud
Reduce EOS infrastructure
Get best-in-class networking, storage, and compute performance with IaaS or modernize with PaaS to never patch and upgrade again
Accelerate your revenue growth with the DCO team
Equip your team with tools, resources, and support for acquiring new customers, retaining existing ones, and launching existing offerings
Cloud Ascent
Identify customers with the most likelihood to purchase Microsoft products with an AI and ML-driven propensity modeling tool
Referrals from Microsoft
Share your capabilities and manage referrals through a trusted, transparent, simple, and responsive process
Deal support & review
Automatically stream campaign content and start capturing and closing marketing qualified leads through increased demand generation activities
Partner Marketing Center
Access customizable marketing, sales, and readiness content and materials such as pitch decks, playbooks, copy blocks, email templates, videos, and more.
Azure Migrate
Discover and assess on-premises resources to gather technical and business insights into infrastructure, databases, and applications
Azure Rapid Assessment Estimator
Quickly identify Azure IaaS and/or Azure PaaS services for your existing infrastructure and workloads with similar or even better capabilities
Digital Marketing Content OnDemand
Get technology and strategy guidance on your strategic or large deals and opportunities
Best practice guidance
Take advantage of our team to help you quickly implement best practices and proven guidance when moving to Azure
Azure Advisor
Get actionable recommendations to help you optimize Azure resources for reliability, security, operational excellence, performance, and cost
Offers & incentives
Maximize your earning opportunity for accelerating Azure consumption with a tailored incentive plan
Engineering escalation support
Utilize another conduit to drive issue resolution with Microsoft support
Migration planning
Execute on your migration vision by building a business case, deciding on your migration strategies, and tracking success
Migration tooling
Utilize Azure native tooling like Azure Migrate or 3rd party solutions to get you running quickly
Migration partners
Accelerate your move to Azure and be prepared for what's next when you need that extra assistance
For End of Support, meet your customers where they're at
Modernize and unlock new capabilities
Modernize with Azure App Service and Azure SQL Managed Instance to avoid end of support and always stay up-to-date. Upgrade your OS version and offload management tasks to focus on delivering innovative apps and customer experiences
Get free extended ESUs with hybrid
Get free Extended Security Updates for three years after end of support in Azure, which includes destinations such as Azure Stack HCI and Azure VMware Solution to migrate on your own terms. Combine this with Azure Hybrid Benefit to save big on Azure
Purchase ESUs
Purchase Extended Security Updates enabled by Azure Arc for seamless and automated patching. Get more flexibility with a pay-as-you-go model and extend Azure operations and management to hybrid and multicloud environments
See how partners are unlocking value with the DCO program
Achieved 100% application infrastructure uptime and 45% cost savings
Deployed the landing zone with a HIPAA compliance networking architecture and used Azure migration tools to migrate the IaaS systems to Atmosera's CSP within a hybrid IaaS / PaaS solution to improve reliability and economics.
Achieved 250% growth in 1 Year with the DCO program
By taking the step of pivoting from a hosting company to a managed service they have continued to steadily grow their net new business since the completion of their first DCO contract.
Modernize your data center and grow a profitable Azure cloud business
Learn how you can optimize your data center licensing while building a profitable public cloud business. Hear from a partner, Tierpoint, who has successfully leveraged essential Microsoft programs and licensing changes, as a part of the DCO program to grow managed services.
Proven business opportunity, independently validated by a third-party
Discover how MSPs are capturing additional growth and efficiencies by moving their hosted applications and managed services to Azure
Download the Forrester study
76% ROI
Over a period of three (3) years achieved by other partners
31% Gross margins
Received by companies leading to significantly increased valuations
$40M NPV
For companies building new cloud-based managed and professional services