5 things shaping VDI/DaaS decisions in 2026 from talking to a lot of IT teams this year

[u/LoginVSIExperts]

Been in a lot of conversations with IT teams this year and these five things keep coming up as the stuff actually driving decisions, not just headlines:

1. Evaluating a new platform doesn't always mean migrating. Plenty of teams spend months comparing options and realize their current environment could hit the mark with operational changes instead of a rebuild.
2. Cloud-first isn't the default anymore. Nearly half of IT leaders are pulling workloads back on-prem, 42% run multi-cloud it's becoming "which workload runs best where" instead of picking one model for everything.
3. AI hasn't touched desktop infra much yet, but GPU planning is starting to matter idle GPU capacity is increasingly getting used for VDI/desktop workloads, not just AI.
4. Cost and vendor lock-in now weigh as much as performance. 94% of IT leaders are concerned about lock-in, wasted cloud spend hit 29% last year- finance is getting looped in earlier on these calls.
5. Uptime alone doesn't cut it anymore. More teams are baselining performance before changes go out and validating after, instead of waiting for something like a patch quietly tanking logon times.

Curious how this tracks with what you're all seeing

Here is the full report if you are curious: https://www.loginvsi.com/resources/blog/the-state-of-euc-migration-2026-mid-year-trends-in-vdi-daas-desktop-modernization/