Microsoft will increase pricing for key SPLA products such as Windows Server, Remote Desktop Services and Office by 10% on January 1, 2022.

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What products will be impacted?


Product Family SKU Price Increase Product Family SKU Price Increase
Win Rmt Dsktp Svcs SAL 6WC-00002    10% Office Multi Language Pack 79H-00128 10%
Windows Rights Mgmt Services CAL         T98-02400 10% Project Professional H30-03425 10%
Windows Server DC Core 9EA-00039 10% Project Server H22-01677 10%
Windows Server STD CORE 9EM-00562 10% Project Standard 076-04015 10%
Core Infrastructure Svr Ste DC Core 9GS-00495   7% Visio Professional D87-03215 10%
Core Infra Svr Ste Std Core 9GA-00006  5% Visio Standard D86-03116 10%
Office Professional Plus 79P-01747 10% Visual Studio Enterprise NL7-00024 10%
Office Standard 021-08183 10% Visual Studio Professional C5E-00746 10%

Visual Studio Test Professional N3F-00077 10%

  


 How can I lower my Microsoft costs?

1) Transform to a future-ready DC! Free access to Core Infrastructure suite.

Use Core Infrastructure Suite to access Microsoft System Centre for comprehensive infrastructure management solution so that you can enable multiple benefits, including shared resources and the elasticity to scale up and down on-demand to meet hanging business needs—thereby minimizing downtime and failures while maximizing cost efficiencies. 

Try before you buy: Test System Centre on your internal network for 90 days free of charge.
Free PoC: Provide customer evaluation for 60 days free of charge for up to 50 users.
One-month free*: You tested it, your customer tested it and now its production time. We will still help you. rhipe will pick up your bill for the first month in production for any net new usage of Core Infrastructure Suite or System Centre under SPLA.

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2) Let rhipe help you decide which CLOUD is best for your customer. Build your service offering via Private, Hybrid or Cloud with the expertise from rhipe! 
Understand which customer is better off on-premises or in the cloud. We can help to provide you with a detailed “cloud business case” to assist in your customer’s choice to place their workloads.

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What is System Centre? Why does it matter?

Microsoft System Centre delivers a unified experience of management across on-premises, service providers, and Azure environments. It includes critical aspects of infrastructure management and DevOps for resource provisioning, configuration, monitoring, automation, service management, endpoint protection, and backup and recovery. With consistent and unified management, System Centre helps in transforming your datacentre into modern IT. 




 

System Centre – key capabilities

Service providers want a comprehensive infrastructure management solution that can enable multiple benefits, including shared resources and the elasticity to scale up and down on demand to meet hanging business needs—thereby minimizing downtime and failures while maximizing cost efficiencies. System Centre offers a comprehensive set of datacentre management capabilities:

  • Infrastructure provisioning: Seamlessly deploy, configure, and manage your software-defined datacentre infrastructure across compute, networking, storage, and security.
  • Infrastructure monitoring: Diagnose and troubleshoot hardware infrastructure, workload, or application issues before they result in costly downtime or slow performance.
  • Automation: Automate your datacentre tasks with built-in orchestration and IT service management for lower overhead and focused resources.
  • Backup and recovery: Protect your data with backup, storage, and recovery for private cloud deployments, physical machines, clients, and server applications.
  • IT service management: Automate service delivery for incident resolution, change control, and asset lifecycle management.