Cloud infrastructure built for scale, security and cost control.
Moving to cloud, off VMware, or taking control of an estate that grew without a plan: we design it, move it, and leave your team able to run it.
Outcomes you can expect.
Cloud strategy & readiness
We map what you run and what depends on what, decide each workload's disposition with the 6Rs (rehost, replatform, refactor, retire and more), and give you a costed roadmap.
Who it is for
- Teams about to commit to a cloud move who cannot yet say what is in the estate or what depends on what.
- Organisations whose last cloud programme stalled, and who want to know why before trying again.
- Boards and finance leads who need a costed plan before approving the spend.
What you get
- A dependency map you can hand to the teams doing the work
- A disposition for every workload, with the reasoning
- A wave-by-wave roadmap with costs and the order of moves
- A short list of decisions only your leadership can make
What we do
Inventory the estate
We discover what is actually running with agentless tools such as AWS Migration Hub, Azure Migrate or Google Migration Center, and flow data, not the spreadsheet.
Map dependencies
We trace which applications call which, which share a database or a batch chain, and which cannot move without the others.
Decide each workload's path
Every workload gets a disposition: rehost, replatform, refactor, repurchase, retire or retain, with the reason written down.
Cost the roadmap
We model run cost and migration effort per wave, including licensing and data egress, often the largest lines and the most often missed, and set up tagging so FinOps can follow spend.
Cloud readiness assessment
A bounded look at what you run, what depends on what, and which workloads should move, change or stay, ending in a written report and a costed roadmap.
What is examined
- Which servers, applications and jobs are actually running, found with tooling rather than from a spreadsheet
- Which applications depend on which, and which share data
- How each workload is licensed, supported and changed, and what that does to the cost of moving it
- The state of identity, networking and backup that any move would inherit
How it works
- 01 Scope. We agree with you which environments, applications and questions are in, and who we need to talk to.
- 02 Discover. We gather inventory and usage data with read-only tooling, and talk to the people who know the systems.
- 03 Assess. We map dependencies and give each workload a disposition, with the reasons and the cost of each path.
- 04 Report. We write up findings, the roadmap and the decisions only leadership can make, in plain language.
- 05 Review. We walk through the report with your team, answer questions and agree what happens next.
What you receive
- A written report with prioritised findings
- A dependency map and a disposition for every workload
- A costed, wave-by-wave roadmap
- A readout session with your team
- If the answer is to move, we can plan and deliver the migration, or hand the roadmap to your own team.
- If the answer is to stay, you keep a clear record of why, and of what to revisit.
Scope and timing are agreed on a call, before anything is committed.
Landing zone, migration & hybrid cloud
We build the landing zone as Terraform, move workloads in planned waves with a tested rollback, and run private or hybrid platforms alongside public cloud.
Who it is for
- Teams with an agreed plan who need the destination built and the move carried out without stopping the business.
- Organisations moving off ageing data-centre hardware, an expiring contract or a change in virtualisation licensing.
- Regulated businesses that must keep some workloads on their own hardware, and show an auditor how access and logging are controlled.
What you get
- A working landing zone built from reviewed code, with documented baselines
- A platform recommendation with the trade-offs written plainly
- Migrated workloads running and verified, with a runbook and rollback for each wave
- Backup, restore and monitoring that have been tested
- A recorded handover so your team can extend and run it
What we do
Design and build the landing zone
We separate environments with AWS Organizations and Control Tower, Azure landing zones or Google Cloud folders, lay a hub-and-spoke network, and set federation and guardrails, all as reviewed Terraform.
Choose the platforms
For workloads that stay private, we compare VMware, Proxmox, XCP-ng, Red Hat, Nutanix and Hyper-V on cost, skills, support and exit options, not on preference.
Group workloads into waves
We order moves by dependency and risk, so early waves are small, and pick the method per workload: AWS Application Migration Service, Azure Migrate, Migrate to Virtual Machines, or re-platforming.
Rehearse and move
Each wave has a written runbook, a rehearsal against a safe copy and a clear point at which we roll back, then we migrate and verify against agreed tests.
Connect and support
We join private platforms to public cloud over private links such as Direct Connect, ExpressRoute, Cloud Interconnect or site-to-site VPN, stay on call through the first weeks, and hand over runbooks for running it.
Resilience & disaster recovery
We design for the failures you can name, across zones or regions, set RTO and RPO per system, and run failover exercises so recovery works before you need it.
Who it is for
- Teams whose recovery plan exists as a document that has never been exercised.
- Regulated organisations that must demonstrate recovery objectives to an auditor or regulator.
- Businesses where an outage is measured in lost trade or reportable incidents.
What you get
- Recovery limits agreed for each system, in plain language
- A resilient architecture, built and documented
- Results from real failover and restore exercises
- A runbook your on-call team can follow at night
What we do
Agree what recovery means
With the business owners we set the recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) each system can tolerate, and rank systems accordingly.
Design the architecture
We choose backup and restore, pilot light, warm standby or active-active designs, across zones, regions or providers, that meet those limits at a cost that is justified.
Build backup and failover
Cross-region replication (S3, geo-redundant storage), immutable backups with Object Lock, and Route 53 or Traffic Manager failover are built as code and protected from the accidents they guard against.
Exercise it
We run planned failovers, restores and game days, inject faults, record what broke, fix it and repeat until the exercise is routine.
Ready to get started?
Book thirty minutes with our team for a clear view of scope and cost.