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Is your customer's cloud-first strategy missing a critical piece? When organisations look to migrate to the cloud, print infrastructure is often left behind – but this could be a mistake and something that resellers should be alive to, as Matthew Lee, product marketing manager at PaperCut, explains.
I often hear about the strategies that many organisations are applying as they consider their cloud migration options. And one thing tends to stick out. While many companies are forging ahead with cloud-computing – and that’s great – one legacy component is still lagging behind: print infrastructure. According to recent reports, organisations migrated 78% of their workloads to the cloud in 2025, but many are still running on-prem print servers that anchor them to clunky, outdated systems. What does this mean for efficiency and security?
that are working without issue, ‘we’ll just tackle print later’. It’s true that for many companies print simply isn’t front of mind. Organisations are focused instead on moving their applications, data and collaboration tools to the cloud. There’s a lot going on, and it’s easy for print to be pushed further down the list. The problem is, when committing to cloud-first, if print isn’t integrated properly, it can quickly become a significant problem. So why does print so often fall behind? There are a few reasons. Perceived legacy status. Unfairly or not, print is often considered ‘business as usual’ and not seen as part of the transformational agenda. For many organisations, their print server just sits quietly in the background. It doesn’t have the same spotlight as, say, their CRM or collaboration tools, even though print is just as important from a security, sustainability and visibility perspective. On-prem anchoring. As mentioned, while many workloads are moving off-prem, print
Matthew Lee
papercut.com
Why print infrastructure often lags behind
When in the middle of a cloud-migration or digital-transformation push, it’s easy to think, like with many technologies
often gets tied to on-site print servers, device drivers and network shares; with the latter often introducing its own problems due to incompatibility issues when moving identities to cloud platforms like Microsoft Entra ID or Okta. This creates extra drag on progress toward serverless or cloud-native setups.
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