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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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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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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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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