IT Consulting & Professional Services
Cloud strategy, architecture and migration
Move to the cloud with a plan instead of a guess. We choose the right platform, build a secure foundation, connect it to your network and migrate workloads in rehearsed waves.
Your situation
Is this what you are looking for?
If any of these sound familiar, this service is for you.
- Your hardware is aging and a refresh is due
- You are being asked for cloud costs you cannot estimate
- Applications must reach both cloud and on-premises systems
- A first cloud move has stalled or overrun
The work involved
What needs to be done
Whatever the size of the project, these are the steps that decide whether it succeeds.
- 1
Inventory what you run today
List servers, applications, dependencies, owners, data sizes and licenses. Migration plans built on guesses fail at the first unexpected dependency.
- 2
Agree the goals and constraints
Decide what you want from the move, such as lower cost, resilience or exit from a data center, and note limits such as data location rules and downtime windows.
- 3
Choose the platform and design the foundation
Compare Azure, AWS, Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud against your workloads, then build the account structure, identity, network and guardrails before any workload moves.
- 4
Migrate in rehearsed waves
Start with low-risk systems, run test migrations, agree cutover windows and keep a rollback path for each wave.
- 5
Optimize, document and hand over
Right-size resources, set budgets and alerts, and document the environment so your team can run and change it safely.
How we can help
How we can help
This is what we do for you, so your team can stay focused on running the business.
Strategy and assessment
Inventory of servers, dependencies, performance and licensing, then a target platform recommendation, a right-sized design and a cost estimate with the reasoning written down.
Ask about thisLanding zones and architecture
Subscriptions or accounts, identity, networking, logging and guardrails built to the Azure Cloud Adoption Framework, or the equivalent for AWS, Google Cloud and OCI.
Ask about thisHybrid and Azure networking
Virtual networks, hub-and-spoke, site-to-site VPN or ExpressRoute, private DNS and firewall design, planned around address ranges that do not overlap your on-premises VLANs.
Ask about thisVM migration
Replication and cutover from VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix and physical servers using Azure Migrate, AWS Application Migration Service or Migrate to Virtual Machines, with test migrations and rollback.
Ask about thisCost optimization
Right-sizing, reservations or savings plans where they pay off, budgets with alerts and shutdown schedules for non-production resources.
Ask about thisInfrastructure as code
Bicep or Terraform with deployment pipelines, so every environment is reviewed, repeatable and easy to recreate.
Ask about thisWhat is included
The main areas covered inside this service.
Cloud platforms
Networking and connectivity
Migration and operations
Hands-on skills
End-to-end delivery
One team owns the whole path, and each stage ends with evidence you can review.
- 1
Design
- Workload and cloud fit
- Landing zone and IP address plan
- Security, cost and governance design
- Written design for your approval
- 2
Build
- Landing zone and networking
- VPN or ExpressRoute connectivity
- Replication and migration tooling
- Pipelines and monitoring
- 3
Test
- Reachability and DNS between sites and cloud
- Test migrations of pilot workloads
- Throughput and failover of links
- Cost and tagging reports
- 4
Verify
- Results against acceptance criteria
- Security and access review
- Policy compliance check
- Sign-off recorded with you
- 5
Deliver
- As-built diagrams and documentation
- Cutover and operations runbooks
- Handover and training
- Defined support period
What you get
Outcomes we aim for on every Cloud strategy and migration engagement.
- A prioritized migration plan with dependencies mapped
- A secure landing zone ready for production workloads
- Short, rehearsed cutovers with minimal downtime
- Costs estimated before you commit and tracked after
Common questions
Which cloud should we choose?
We compare Azure, AWS, Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud against your applications, licensing, skills, compliance needs and budget, and recommend one with the reasoning written down.
Should we use more than one cloud?
Often not. Each extra cloud adds cost, skills and security work. It makes sense when a workload needs a specific service, a regulation requires separation or an acquisition brings a second cloud. We say so if one cloud is enough.
How much downtime should we expect?
Replication-based migration keeps the source running while data copies, so downtime is usually limited to the final cutover. We rehearse it first and agree a maintenance window.
VPN or ExpressRoute?
A VPN is quick and inexpensive; ExpressRoute gives a private, more predictable link. We compare them against your bandwidth, latency, uptime and budget, and can start with a VPN and add ExpressRoute later.
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