Azure Virtual Desktop Business and Adoption Plan - 2 Week Assessment

Decentralised Information Technology systems can limit an organisation’s ability to scale, make it difficult to reduce costs and impact regulatory compliance. In our modern world where hybrid work models require constant access to head office resources, and cybersecurity threats are ever present, centralising IT infrastructure has never been more important.

Desktop virtualisation is one method used to centralise access to resources and limit security risk, however on-premises Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) deployments are very complex and expensive to implement. An Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) Business and Adoption Plan illustrates how cloud Virtual Desktop minimises cost and deployment complexity when compared with traditional VDI or End-User Compute solutions.

How we help

Insight’s team of virtualisation specialists will guide you through a two-week engagement that will provide you with a Total Cost of Ownership for Azure Virtual Desktop and a customised migration plan to help get you started.

Following this engagement, you will receive the following deliverables:

• A definition of business goals, requirements and deployment options.
• A detailed analysis of your current End-User Compute and application delivery landscape compared with Azure Virtual Desktop including a 3 to 5 year Total Cost of Ownership breakdown.
• A cost benefit analysis of migration options and high level deployment recommendations aligning to the Azure Virtual Desktop reference architecture.
• A customised migration plan highlighting next steps and key action items.

What to expect:

Ideation & Discovery We’ll begin by exploring your organisation’s End User Compute landscape to understand your goals and identify Key Virtualisation Scenarios. We will meet with key stakeholders to understand your use cases for virtualised desktops while analysing the cost of your existing environment to provide a comparison.

Analysis & Assessment The information collected during discovery will enable our team to prepare a three and five year Total Cost of Ownership analysis to highlight the cost savings of an Azure Virtual Desktop solution. Our experts will consider the varying deployment options available and assess which deployment methods would be best suited for your organisation.

Output We will provide you with a written definition of your business goals and requirements captured during discovery alongside recommended deployment options and the three to five year cost analysis. We will also present a customised migration plan that will guide the rollout of Azure Virtual Desktop within your organisation.

Our team will help to ensure that you are prepared with the business case for the best Virtual Desktop experience on Azure: Azure Virtual Desktop.