Move to the cloud — or between clouds — without stopping the business.
We assess, plan, migrate and then run estates on AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Microsoft 365. Thousands of mailboxes from Exchange to 365, a ~120 TB big-data platform from AWS to Google Cloud, a HIPAA platform across two Azure regions: each one planned per application and tested per phase.
Migration, DevOps, infrastructure, governance and 24×7 support
Cloud infrastructure management
Network, storage, backup, firewall and server management, with security built in.
Database management
SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL and MongoDB administration and performance tuning.
Security & compliance
Network, cloud and endpoint security; IPS/IDS, encryption, IAM, MFA, SIEM, SOC; HIPAA and PCI DSS.
Server operations
Operating systems, licensing, clustering, RAID, DFS, domains, virtualisation and anti-virus.
Application operations
COTS and custom applications, run as managed solutions.
Collaboration services
SharePoint, Microsoft 365, Exchange, Skype for Business, Teams and Gmail.
The cloud migration path
Assess
- Capture inputs from the assessment phase
- Resource management
Migration path
- Define the migration plan
- Align resources
- Choose a strategy per application
Test & validate
- Test each phase after migration
- Customer acceptance testing
Transition
- Post-migration fixes
- Transfer deliverables to stakeholders
Production
- Cutover
- Hand over to operations
How a cloud assessment runs
Assessment & identification
- Define objectives, review operations
- Analyse data, infrastructure and history
- Customer and management interviews, workshops
Gap analysis & prioritisation
- Prioritise and define project scope
- Project costing and timelines
- Missing data, ownership and tools
Architecture & service strategy
- Business strategy and information policy
- Application landscape and roadmaps
- Technical architecture toward the cloud
Business case & management
- Develop and evaluate the business case
- Programme plan, launch and management
- Lifecycle cost and benefits
The six Rs — chosen per application
Automated or manual moves with migration tooling and VM import/export.
Redesign the application; serverless on AWS Lambda and Azure Functions.
A new platform underneath: AWS RDS, Elastic Beanstalk, Azure SQL.
Move to COTS or SaaS licensing, such as Salesforce.
Depreciating applications that stay where they are.
What the business no longer needs.
What you can count on
- Cost-effective solutions
- High availability and disaster recovery
- An effective operating model
- Security by design
- Quality maintained with ITIL
- 24×7 operations
Delivery models
| Model | What we run | Platforms |
|---|---|---|
| SaaS | Email, application and database hosting | Microsoft 365 · Azure SQL · Web Apps · RDS |
| PaaS | App services, serverless, caching, data migration | Azure App Services · CDN · Redis · API Gateway |
| IaaS | Compute, network and storage | VMs · vNet · managed disks · EC2 · S3 · containers |
| Hybrid | Stretch database, Active Directory, extended infrastructure | AWS · Azure |
Platforms & tools
Cloud Services in practice
A big-data platform moved from AWS to Google Cloud while it ran
Exchange, Skype, SharePoint and 3,700 archives to Microsoft 365
A HIPAA-compliant, multi-region platform on Microsoft Azure
Tell us what you need to build, move or run.
An engineer reads every enquiry, not a sales script. We come back with an approach, a team and a plan you can hold us to.