What we do
Cloud Migration
We plan the move, build the landing zone it arrives into, and migrate workloads in waves your change board can approve.
- Frameworks
- CAF: Plan, Ready, Adopt · Well-Architected: Reliability, Cost Optimisation
- Good first step
- Microsoft CAF Readiness Assessment, a baseline in 3–4 weeks
The problem
Most migrations stall between the business case and the first workload. The assessment usually assumes lift and shift, and the estate turns out to be more varied than that. While the plan is reworked you pay twice: for the datacentre that was due to close and for the cloud that was meant to replace it.
You probably need this if
- The migration business case was approved and the datacentre contract has been renewed anyway
- It's unclear which workloads should be rehosted, which replatformed and which retired
- The last migration attempt moved the easy servers and then stopped
- Dependencies are recorded in a spreadsheet that predates the people now running the estate
What the service covers
- 1Migration assessment: discovery and dependency mapping with Azure Migrate, then a disposition we assign per workload: rehost, replatform, refactor, retire or retain
- 2Landing zone readiness before the first wave, so workloads arrive into governance that is already in place
- 3Wave planning your change board can approve: bounded groups, stated downtime, and a rollback path per wave
- 4Cutover runbooks written and rehearsed well before the move
- 5A cost model per wave against the run rate it replaces, so finance can see the crossover point
- 6Decommissioning evidence for the estate left behind, so finance can confirm the saving
Other areas we work in
All 8 areasAzure Platform Architecture
We design the Azure platform, check that it holds under its own governance, and hand it to your team with the controls already deployed.
Cloud Security Architecture
We design the detection, tune it to your estate, and hand your team a backlog they can work through.
Governance & Compliance
We set up Cloud Adoption Framework governance as working controls in Azure, with the evidence to show an auditor when they ask.
The first piece of work
Before any wave is planned, we run a migration assessment with Azure Migrate so that every workload has a disposition. It also shows how much of the original business case still holds, which is useful to know before the datacentre contract comes up again.