For businesses
Cloud that is planned before it is purchased
Cloud projects fail in the planning, not the execution. We assess what you run and what it depends on, cost the realistic options honestly — including staying where you are — and then migrate in waves so the cutover is a scheduled event rather than a weekend everyone dreads.
- Costed comparison of cloud, hybrid, and on-premises refresh
- Migrations planned in waves with per-workload validation
- Azure Local and Azure Arc for hybrid environments
- Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace tenant migrations
- Azure Virtual Desktop design and deployment
- Cost governance with concrete reduction actions
What we deliver
Decide before you move
The most expensive cloud decisions are made before any workload migrates. This is the part worth slowing down for.
- Workload assessment with dependency mapping and criticality tiering
- Costed comparison of public cloud, hybrid, and on-premises refresh
- Honest identification of workloads that should not move at all
- Licensing analysis, including what your existing agreements already cover
- Target architecture documented before procurement is committed
Migrate without drama
Planned in waves, executed inside maintenance windows, validated per workload before anything is switched off.
- Migration wave planning grouped by criticality and business function
- Test migrations across a representative set of every workload type
- Server and application migration to Azure, AWS, or Azure Local
- Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace tenant migrations in either direction
- Post-migration validation with your application owners before acceptance
Run it properly
Ongoing administration of the environment, including the governance that stops it drifting.
- Azure and AWS platform administration, patching, and monitoring
- Azure Virtual Desktop deployment and session host management
- Azure Arc onboarding for unified management of hybrid servers
- Identity, access, and conditional access administration
- Backup and disaster recovery configured for cloud-hosted workloads
Control the bill
Cloud spend rarely surprises anyone in month one. It surprises them in month nine.
- Tagging strategy and enforcement so spend can be attributed to a department
- Right-sizing analysis against actual utilization rather than provisioned capacity
- Reserved instance and savings plan modeling against real usage patterns
- Idle and orphaned resource identification with a remediation plan
- Recurring cost review as part of your quarterly business review
Platforms we work in
Named platforms, not categories — so you can tell at a glance whether we already know your environment.
- Microsoft Azure
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- Azure
- Azure Local
- Azure Arc
- Azure Virtual Desktop
- Azure Site Recovery
- Azure Migrate
- Amazon Web Services
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- EC2
- S3
- RDS
- VPC
- IAM
- CloudWatch
- Productivity
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- Microsoft 365
- Exchange Online
- SharePoint
- Teams
- Google Workspace
- Hybrid
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- Windows Server
- Hyper-V
- VMware
- HPE ProLiant
- Storage Replica
- Governance
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- Azure Policy
- AWS Organizations
- Cost Management
- Terraform
How it runs
From first call to sign-off
Every engagement is governed by a written statement of work naming deliverables, assumptions, and who is responsible for what.
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Assessment and business case
What you run, what it depends on, and what each option would actually cost over three years. Sometimes the recommendation is not to migrate.
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Design and statement of work
Target architecture, network design, identity model, and migration wave plan, with a fixed schedule of fees you approve before work begins.
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Phased migration
Non-production first, then tier two and three, then business-critical workloads on planned cutovers. Application owners validate before each wave is accepted.
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Optimize and operate
Post-migration performance benchmarking, cost review once real usage data exists, then ongoing management under a managed agreement if you want it.
Questions
What people ask
Cloud that is planned before it is purchased — questions
Is moving to the cloud actually cheaper?
Frequently not, and any provider who says otherwise without seeing your workloads is guessing. Cloud wins clearly on elasticity, geographic resilience, and avoiding capital refresh cycles. Steady-state workloads that run at constant utilization are often cheaper on hardware you own. We model both and show you the arithmetic before recommending either.
Our VMware renewal doubled. What are the realistic options?
Four, broadly: absorb the increase, move to Azure Local for hybrid management through Arc, move to Hyper-V if you already hold Windows Datacenter licensing, or move to Proxmox if cost is the driving factor and your staff are comfortable with Linux. Each has a different capital profile and a different operational burden. We cost all of them rather than steering you to a preferred product.
How disruptive is a migration to our staff?
Far less than most people expect when it is planned in waves. Non-production moves first and nobody notices. Production workloads move inside maintenance windows agreed with you — overnight, weekends, or during a scheduled shutdown. The cases that go badly are the ones where everything moves at once because the planning was skipped.
Can you take over a cloud environment somebody else built?
Yes, and it is common. We start with a documented assessment of current state — what exists, what is exposed, what is costing money for no reason — and give you a prioritized remediation roadmap. Inherited environments almost always contain orphaned resources and over-provisioned instances that pay for the assessment several times over.
Who owns the Azure or AWS subscription?
You do. We work in your tenant with the access you provision, and we do not need to sit between you and Microsoft or Amazon in the billing relationship. If you would rather consolidate billing through a provider, we can work with that too — but it is your choice, not a condition.
Get the arithmetic before the decision
Tell us what you run today and what triggered the question — a renewal, a refresh, or a board conversation. The trigger usually shapes the right answer.