Exit the data centre — and actually get the cloud benefits.
End-to-end migration of on-premises estates to the cloud, engineered for cost, resilience, and security — not just a lift-and-shift that moves the problem.
Lift-and-shift alone often lands you with the same fragility at a higher bill. Real value comes from migrating with a landing zone, the right disposition per workload, and cost governance from day one.
If a few of these sound familiar, this is the work to start.
- 01A data-centre lease or hardware refresh is forcing a decision.
- 02Capacity is either idle and overprovisioned or maxed out and blocking.
- 03Disaster recovery is a document you have never actually tested.
- 04A previous lift-and-shift raised costs without improving anything.
What we do
Landing zone & foundations
Secure, multi-account cloud foundations — networking, identity, guardrails, and cost controls — before a single workload moves.
Workload disposition (the 7 Rs)
Assess each application and choose the right path: rehost, replatform, refactor, or retire — with a business case per workload.
Data & database migration
Move databases and petabyte data estates with minimal downtime using replication, CDC, and validated cut-over.
FinOps & resilience
Right-sizing, autoscaling, and multi-AZ/region resilience so the migrated estate is cheaper and more reliable than what it replaced.
A common scenario is an estate of a few hundred VMs facing a hardware refresh. We stand up a landing zone with identity, networking, and cost guardrails, assess each workload against the 7 Rs, and migrate in waves — rehosting the simple, refactoring the valuable, retiring the dead. The result is a smaller, cheaper, more resilient estate and no data centre to renew.
Illustrative scenario — not a specific client.
Discover and map the estate — dependencies, data flows, and constraints.
Stand up the landing zone with security and cost guardrails built in.
Migrate in waves, validating each before moving on.
Optimize and govern: FinOps, resilience, and decommission of on-prem.
Concrete artifacts, not a slide deck.
- A secure, multi-account landing zone with guardrails and cost controls.
- A per-workload disposition plan with a business case for each.
- Migrated workloads and data with validated, low-downtime cut-over.
- FinOps dashboards and right-sizing that keep spend under control.
- Tested multi-AZ/region resilience and a decommissioned data centre.
Good questions.
Which cloud should we use?
AWS is our primary, with Azure and GCP fully supported. We recommend based on your workloads, existing skills, and commercials — not a fixed preference.
How much downtime will migration cause?
For most workloads, minutes to none. We use replication and CDC for data and cut over only after validation, scheduling any unavoidable downtime around your business.
Will the cloud actually be cheaper?
Only if it is engineered to be. We build FinOps in from day one — right-sizing, autoscaling, and cost guardrails — which is where the TCO reduction comes from.