Five compelling reasons to migrate to Atlassian Cloud
Last October, Atlassian’s CEO Scott Farquhar announced that Atlassian Server was reaching end-of-life (EOL) and customers have two options: either migrate to Atlassian’s own public cloud solution or move to Atlassian Data Center.
To ensure customers have plenty of time to consider these options, Atlassian is taking a phased approach. Since February 2021, organizations are no longer able to buy new Server licenses. However, they can still upgrade or downgrade their Server products until February 2022, and they can renew and receive maintenance and support for their licenses until February 2024. In practical terms this means that most customers with large data migrations will need to migrate to either Atlassian Cloud or Atlassian Data Center by Summer 2023.
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Atlassian announced last month that over the next three years, it will phase out support for its Server products, which allow customers to run software like Jira and Confluence on their own data centers.
This change will force customers to either move to Atlassian s cloud offering or its Data Center offering – a more costly subscription tier for large businesses.
Some partners and customers – especially in Europe – are concerned about this change due to data regulations like GDPR, as well as the higher cost of the Data Center option, which could be prohibitive.