Microsoft Datacenter
Optimization (DCO)

Accelerate your hybrid cloud services journey and unlock exceptional customer outcomes on Azure

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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.

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LinkedIn Group

Network, share best practices and interact on business topics with thousands of members from the Hybrid Cloud Partners community.

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Why move to the cloud?

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Pay as you go

Focus your capital expense on strategic and core capabilities while accessing enabling capabilities "as a service"

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Scale on-demand, limitlessly

Allocate resources as you need them, without buying new infrastructure and hardware and installing and maintaining them upfront

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Meet customer's needs

Offer your customers the security, innovation, scalability, and global availability that come with moving to the cloud

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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


For End of Support, meet your customers where they're at

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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

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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

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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

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See how partners are unlocking value with the DCO program

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.

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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

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Download the Forrester study

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76% ROI

Over a period of three (3) years achieved by other partners

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31% Gross margins

Received by companies leading to significantly increased valuations

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$40M NPV

For companies building new cloud-based managed and professional services

Ready to accelerate with the DCO team?