Cloud migration: The key stages from on-premises to full cloud

The transition to cloud is not all or nothing, and it’s not all at once. Instead, organizations advance in stages based on where they are now and what goals they are trying to achieve.

On-premises

VDI

Hybrid DaaS

Cloud-hosted management

Cloud-hosted workloads

In the cloud

Desktop as a Service

Use the left and right arrows below to tour the four key stages and to find out why you should move to the next one.

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1: On-premises: VDI

You’re delivering virtual desktops and your IT team is more productive.

  • Management and policy control are now centralized
  • You can roll out new apps and desktops from a single console
  • You can secure your data more effectively now that it is centralized rather than distributed

But if you’re ready for the next move…

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Here’s why you might move to Cloud-hosted management

  • You have goals that require greater flexibility or scalability
  • You want IT to spend less time managing infrastructure
  • You want stronger security for remote and/or temporary employees
  • Your on-premises software is due for an upgrade, and you’d rather use the budget to advance your cloud journey
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2: Hybrid DaaS: Cloud-hosted management

You have freed up your IT team from constantly having to update the feature set.

  • IT has less infrastructure to maintain
  • Your software now updates automatically
  • You have more scalable capacity, better policy controls, stronger data security
  • You can still run your desktops and apps on-premises

But if you’re ready for the next move…

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Here’s why you might move to cloud-hosted workloads

  • You still have goals that require greater flexibility or scalability
  • You want to grow your business without growing your datacenter
  • You need the agility to scale rapidly without compromise to end-user experience
  • You want a pay-as-you-go, consumption-based model, instead of provisioning and paying in advance
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3: Hybrid DaaS: Cloud-hosted workloads

You have better flexibility, while still getting value from your on-premises investments.

  • You can scale up and down on demand, adding workloads in the cloud or taking them down
  • You have your choice of public cloud vendors, and can pay on a consumption-based model
  • You have better integrations, richer analytics, can leverage global cloud datacenters for complex deployments

But if you’re ready for the next move…

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Here’s why you might move to desktop as a service

  • You still have goals that require greater flexibility or scalability
  • You want to simplify and concentrate your IT functions
  • You want to off-load as much complexity as possible to a trusted vendor who can do the work for you
  • You’re ready to go all in on the cloud
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4: Desktop as a service

Turnkey capacity, limitless scaling, complete flexibility—and you don’t have to manage anything.

  • The costs and burden of building out datacenters and maintaining infrastructure—eliminated.
  • Simplified accounting and predictable expenses—so you can make faster business decisions.
  • Welcome to the modern way of deploying desktops.
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Deliver desktop as a service (DaaS) from any cloud or datacenter.