Cloud Migration & Modernisation
Move workloads to AWS, Azure, Google Cloud or hybrid and refactor the legacy systems that hold you back.
Cloud migration done well lowers cost, improves resilience and removes the hardware you were dreading replacing. Done badly it moves the same problems to a more expensive place. The difference is a readiness assessment, a target architecture and a runbook that is rehearsed before the real cutover.
Modernisation goes further: containerising applications, replacing brittle components and retiring what nobody uses, so the cloud estate is smaller and simpler than what it replaced.
- We give you the cost model before you commit, including the option of not migrating something.
- Cutovers are rehearsed in a staging environment so the real one is boring.
- Security and compliance controls are built into the landing zone from day one.
- An airline or bank with a data centre lease ending and workloads nobody has inventoried.
- A manufacturer running production systems on hardware past its support date.
- A group consolidating several acquired estates into one cloud landing zone.
- Hardware refresh proposals have arrived and the decision has been deferred twice.
- Nobody can list every application, its owner and what it depends on.
- An earlier migration moved the cost problem rather than solving it.
- Regulators or auditors have asked where data is held and how it is recovered.
What is included.
- 01
Readiness assessment
Application inventory, dependencies, data volumes, compliance constraints and a cost model per option.
- 02
Target architecture
Landing zone, networking, identity, security controls and the pattern for each workload.
- 03
Migration runbook
Wave plan, cutover steps, rollback points and test criteria per workload.
- 04
Execution
Migration waves delivered with monitoring and stakeholder communication.
- 05
Modernisation
Refactoring, containerisation and managed service adoption where it pays.
- 06
Cost optimisation
Rightsizing, reservations and tagging so the bill stays predictable.
Four steps, no surprises.
- 01
Assess
Inventory, dependency mapping and cost modelling across options.
- 02
Design
Target architecture and landing zone with security sign-off.
- 03
Migrate
Waves executed to the runbook with rollback available at each step.
- 04
Optimise
Post-migration tuning of cost, performance and operations.
From first meeting to steady state.
- 01Weeks 1 to 5
Readiness assessment
Application inventory, dependency mapping, compliance constraints and a cost model per option.
- 02Weeks 6 to 9
Target architecture
Landing zone, networking, identity and security controls designed and signed off.
- 03Months 3 to 8
Migration waves
Workloads moved wave by wave to a rehearsed runbook with rollback at every step.
- 04Month 9 onwards
Optimise
Rightsizing, reservations, tagging and operational tuning.
- Run cost of the migrated estate against the pre-migration baseline.
- Recovery time and recovery point achieved in rehearsal against target.
- Share of workloads migrated within their planned wave.
- Unplanned downtime during cutover against the agreed window.
- Cloud architect
- Migration lead
- Platform engineers
- Security engineer
- Programme manager
- Readiness assessment and cost model.
- Target architecture and landing zone.
- Migration runbook with wave plan.
- Migrated workloads with monitoring.
- Cost optimisation report.
Assessments are fixed scope and take three to five weeks. Migrations are scoped as fixed-scope waves once the assessment is complete, and typically run from two to six months depending on estate size. Ongoing cloud operations can move to a managed retainer afterwards.
DevOps & Platform Engineering
CI/CD, infrastructure as code and observability so teams ship safely and often.
IT ConsultingManaged IT & Support
Proactive monitoring, help desk and infrastructure management under a service level you can hold us to.
CybersecurityNetwork & Cloud Security Assessment
External and internal network tests and AWS, Azure and Google Cloud configuration reviews.
Cloud Migration & Modernisation, in plain terms.
The one that fits your workloads, skills and existing licences. We work across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud and often recommend keeping some things on-premises.
Most cutovers can be done with minutes of downtime or none. Where an outage is unavoidable it is scheduled, communicated and rehearsed.
Usually. Some are lifted as they are, some are containerised and some are replaced. The assessment tells you which applies to each.
Tagging, budgets, alerts and a monthly review. We build cost visibility into the landing zone so nobody is surprised.