Here are the top 5 signs that you need to move your VDI to AWS:
- Loss of Trust in your current VDI Solution Stack
- Rising Cost of your current VDI Solution Stack
- Lack of IT Staff to maintain legacy infrastructure
- Everything else is on AWS already
- High latency, poor end user experience for current VDI solution
Let’s talk about each one of these in more detail.
Loss of Trust in your current VDI Solution Stack
There has been a dramatic change in the business landscape for the on-premises data center VDI solution stack as long time vendors focus on maximizing their profits from less than 5% of their customer base. Most of the customers that we talk are frustrated about the price increases, but more importantly they have lost trust in the vendors. Even if they agreed to new prices or contract terms or changes in support structure, what happens when the next renewal comes up? The most common phrase we hear is: “this is the last contractor we will sign with vendor”.
Rising Cost of your current VDI Solution Stack
Most customers have been running their existing VDI solution stack for many years, some for upwards of a decade. Through all this time, the cost of the solution has been predictable and well behaved in the IT budget. If different components of the solution stack now see price increases of 50-500% then these become really difficult to absorb.
Lack of IT Staff to maintain legacy infrastructure
As more and more applications and data transition to cloud and SaaS models, new entrants to IT are less interested in racking and stacking infrastructure. And it becomes more difficult to hire people for that purpose. And as the generation of IT staff that has experience with infrastructure ages out of the workforce, there are fewer and fewer people for companies to hire to manage infrastructure.
Everything else is on AWS already
Many companies have been on a multi-year journey to move infrastructure to AWS. Since VDI was such a complex workload to install and operate on-premises, many companies have been reluctant to move VDI to the cloud fearing another long-drawn migration process. But with the pressures with on-premises VDI solution stack, and with the experience many customers have gathered with AWS over the years, and the availability of solutions like Workspot DaaS on Amazon WorkSpaces Core, this is now a much simpler project to undertake.
High latency, poor end user experience for current VDI solution
We have not met many happy VDI users. The reasons are multiple, ranging from high latency, to noisy neighbor, un-optimized VDI stacks. With DaaS solutions like Workspot on Amazon WorkSpaces Core, you can deliver low latency, highly optimized virtual desktops to users anywhere in the world, resulting in positive end user sentiment.
