Failure to upgrade your systems might hurt your organization significantly. If you are still running your servers on Windows Server 2008, you are potentially inviting attacks and huge surprises from cyber attacks. Here are six things you are about to face.
Hardware problems: If you are running Windows Server 2003, chances are very good that hardware is a decade old or older, which means it is long out of support from the vendor and also well past its recommended operational life. You run the risk of high failure rate, which could mean lost data, and good luck getting replacement parts. "A lot of people we know buy parts off eBay," said Tsai.
Operational costs: If you are running an eight to 12 year old server, then it's an old 32-bit server with barely any power management at all. Server vendors didn't get the power management religion until a few years later. Those old servers are inefficient and likely unvirtualized, and running at very low utilization. So in addition to being vulnerable they are also highly undesirable.
No compliance: Once support ends, your organization will likely fail to meet industry compliance standards such as HIPAA, PCI, SOX and Dodd-Frank, just to name a few. People in fields impacted by this regulation will likely shut you out and refuse interconnections.
Software compatibility issues: As mentioned previously, Windows Server 2003 is a 32-bit OS, and virtually everything is 64-bit now, from device drivers to apps. Companies are abandoning 32-bit apps for 64-bit apps. So don't expect to update your old apps.
Data breaches: All one needs to do is look at what the Home Depot and Target breaches did to those companies. That should be motivation enough to migrate. But those firms were big enough to recover. A smaller company might not be.
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