Estimate your exposure to extended-support costs, then model a faster path off unsupported Windows, Linux, and SQL Server environments — with near-zero downtime and far less manual effort than doing it yourself.
Rebuild reconstructs the application environment from scratch. RiverMeadow modernizes the environment that already works. The choice determines whether OS modernization scales — or stays a labor-bound, server-by-server project.
A reinstall resets the application to factory default — years of accumulated customizations, certificates, scheduled tasks, and configuration are lost unless rediscovered and rebuilt by hand. UAT is compressed into the cutover window, against a reconstructed environment. Scale comes only from adding more engineers.
Application, configuration, customizations, and data move with the workload — nothing is recreated, nothing is lost. Modernization runs on an isolated clone; production stays untouched until cutover. UAT runs against the real, modernized workload for as long as application owners need, delta-synced until cutover. Scale comes from repeatable automation, not headcount.
Start with extended-support exposure — use a quick blended average, or break it out by the specific OS versions and editions in your environment for a closer directional estimate. Every projection is based on editable assumptions, not a guaranteed quote.
Based on 3,000 workloads at the $/VM/year rate from your calculator inputs above — cumulative Microsoft ESU spend if nothing changes, no discounting or growth applied.
Both paths run on the same Workload Mobility Platform. Pricing is scoped to your environment — a RiverMeadow specialist will walk through options and numbers with you directly.
Select the concern that would shape your first technical and executive conversation.
Sequence parallel workload groups across your Windows Server estate with a controlled validation pattern.
The original process followed the rebuild model — 4–6 manual hours per workload, inside a maintenance window. Automated on a clone: no source downtime until a cutover measured in minutes.
16,000-VM program executed as a repeatable factory — Windows 2008/2012, SQL 2008/2012, and RHEL 6 modernized to Windows 2019 and RHEL 9, with runbooks and cutovers aligned to production windows.
Linux, Windows, and SQL upgrades handled in-line with near-zero production impact — migration and cutover were business-as-usual.
Extended support and manual patching can defer the decision. RiverMeadow removes the underlying technical debt through repeatable, automated modernization — and it's the only automated OS modernization technology endorsed by Microsoft for Windows OS upgrades.
Extended-support avoidance creates urgency. The durable value is a more current, secure, optimized, and repeatable operating model across your hybrid and multi-cloud estate.
Move eligible workloads off unsupported systems instead of continuing ESU spend.
Reduce manual, server-by-server upgrade work through automation instead of repeating the same patch cycle on every workload.
Reduce the operational burden created by aging Windows, Linux, and SQL Server estates.
The same platform also handles workload mobility (migrate to AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Red Hat OpenShift, HPE Morpheus) and workload optimization (server & storage rightsizing, CIS benchmark hardening).
Distributed data transfer architecture supports rapid, parallel migration of thousands of workloads.
500,000+ workloads migrated and 100,000+ man-hours saved across enterprise deployments.
Debt isn't created by deploying old systems — it's created by the calendar. Every OS running today has a published end-of-support date. If modernization velocity is lower than the rate your estate ages out of support, the backlog isn't being eliminated — its growth is being managed.
Review your environment, validate the assumptions, and identify a low-risk first wave with RiverMeadow.
