Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 Have Gone Mainstream
Your Peers Are Moving to AVD and Windows 365. Is Your Plan Ready?
More than 85% of Liquidware projects now involve Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), Windows 365 or both. If your organization isn't planning its move, now is the time.
Cloud desktops are no longer an experiment. A recent Gartner report projects Desktop as a Service spending will grow nearly 40% to $6.0 billion, and expects virtual desktops to become cost-effective for 95% of workers (Virtualization Review).
Liquidware completes AVD and Windows 365 with portable user environments, Modern App Delivery, experience monitoring and real-time support. From first assessment to day-to-day operations, we help you move faster, with better user experience and lower cost.
Why 85% of Our Projects Now Involve AVD or Windows 365
More than 85% of the projects Liquidware works on today have Azure Virtual Desktop, Windows 365 or both in mind. Five drivers come up again and again in our customer conversations:
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Renewals coming in high. Legacy VDI and platform renewal quotes are landing above expectations, forcing a fresh look at options.
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Moving to Microsoft. AVD and Windows 365 have matured, so consolidating on the Microsoft stack is now a realistic choice.
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Industry peers are moving. When peer organizations make the move, leaders ask whether they should too.
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MACC spend to use. AVD runs on Azure, so its usage draws down Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment (MACC) spend already committed.
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Modern, lower capex. Leadership sees a modern workplace strategy that also cuts hardware refresh and capital costs.
Real-world results: $800K saved in one year at a top-5 US mortgage lender that raised AVD density from 8 to 12 users per host with Stratusphere UX, and under 20-second logins for clinicians at a healthcare provider that moved to AVD with ProfileUnity and FlexApp.
How Liquidware Helps
Liquidware Completes AVD and Windows 365
Microsoft delivers the cloud desktop. Liquidware delivers what enterprises need to run it well, on both Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365.
What Liquidware adds:
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User Management with ProfileUnity™ Portable user environments and full policy management across platforms and OS versions, including for organizations moving to Entra ID, plus backup and recovery. Use it with FSLogix, or supersede it with ProfileDisk.
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Apps with FlexApp™ Modern App Delivery: package apps once and deliver them dynamically to any AVD host pool or Cloud PC, complementing Intune and keeping images lean.
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Monitoring with Stratusphere™ UX Assess and size before you move, troubleshoot during migration, and monitor experience and SLAs after go-live.
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Support with CommandCTRL™ Real-time endpoint support so the help desk can see and fix issues on cloud desktops as they happen.
One suite, both platforms:
Liquidware Essentials (ProfileUnity, FlexApp and Stratusphere UX) runs on both AVD and Windows 365. Add CommandCTRL with Liquidware Essentials Plus.
Every Phase
Help at Every Phase of Your Move
Whether you start from legacy VDI such as Citrix and Omnissa desktops, physical PCs or an AVD pilot, Liquidware supports you from first assessment through day-to-day operations.
Stratusphere UX baselines today's user experience, app usage and login times, then recommends AVD host sizing or Windows 365 Cloud PC tiers.
FlexApp packages apps once for Modern App Delivery, and ProfileUnity carries user settings and policies across platforms and OS versions with no lost settings.
Stratusphere UX finds over- and under-provisioned resources, and Stratusphere UX Optimizer reduces memory pressure so you can run leaner, lower-cost VM sizes.
Stratusphere UX monitors digital experience continuously to meet SLAs, and CommandCTRL gives the help desk real-time remediation on cloud desktops.
Industry Trends
Cloud Desktops Have Gone Mainstream
Desktop as a Service is no longer a remote-work stopgap. As industry coverage of Gartner's research puts it, “Desktop as a Service (DaaS) is now deployed in most organizations, though typically for a minority of employees” (Virtualization Review). That minority is growing fast, and Microsoft is at the center of it.
A recent Gartner report projects DaaS spending will grow 7.9% a year to $6.0B, and names Microsoft a Leader for Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 (Virtualization Review).
A recent Forrester study projects a three-year ROI of 94% to 217% for a composite 2,000-employee organization adopting Windows 365 and AVD (Forrester TEI, commissioned by Microsoft).
Renewal Pressure:
Legacy VDI such as Citrix and Omnissa desktops has changed ownership and pricing, and many customers are reassessing at renewal. “The renewal prices some enterprises are seeing are utterly astonishing,” writes Matt Vollmer of Coder.
Industries Switching Now
Every Industry Is Making the Move
Organizations in every vertical Liquidware serves are planning or moving now. Each has its own reasons:
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Legacy VDI renewal quotes are coming in high, Microsoft's cloud desktops have matured, peers are making the move, AVD usage can draw down committed Azure spend (MACC), and leadership wants lower hardware and capital costs. More than 85% of Liquidware projects now involve AVD, Windows 365 or both.
Many organizations use both. AVD offers multi-session hosts and more control over scale and cost; Windows 365 offers simple, per-user Cloud PCs. Liquidware Essentials runs on both, and the AVD & Windows 365 Platform Guide helps you compare.
Your choice. ProfileUnity can work with FSLogix to add portability, recovery and full policy management, or supersede FSLogix entirely with ProfileDisk, which can steer specific parts of a profile to VHDX storage. FlexApp complements Intune with Modern App Delivery.
Don't Wait for Your Next Renewal to Plan Your Move
Your peers are already planning or moving to Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365. Talk with a Liquidware expert about your environment, or start with a free assessment of your users and apps.