Inventory the estate
What runs where, what depends on it, and what the recovery position actually is today.
Infrastructure that stays available.
Moving off ageing servers, or building the environment a new platform runs in. Migration, hosting, and the work that keeps it available once it is live.
When the estate becomes the risk.
A server under somebody's desk holds a system the operation depends on. The recovery plan is a backup nobody has restored. The person who configured it left two years ago.
It works until it does not, and the cost of the day it stops is measured across the whole operation rather than in the server.
Modernisation runs in stages rather than as one migration weekend. Each stage leaves the estate working, which is what makes it safe to stop between them.
What we build.
Environments defined in code, so what runs in production is described rather than remembered. Monitoring that shows the state of the system before a user reports it, backups that are tested by restoring them, and access granted by role and reviewed.
Includes
- Cloud migration and legacy modernisation
- Environment and network architecture
- Infrastructure as code and repeatable deployment
- Monitoring, backups, and disaster recovery
- Security hardening and access management
- Cost review and right-sizing
How the work runs.
Sequence the moves
Ordered by risk and dependency, so each stage leaves a working estate behind it.
Migrate and verify
Run in parallel where the system allows it, with a tested route back before each cutover.
Operate
Monitoring, patching, backup testing, and a cost review that keeps the bill matched to the load.
Questions we get asked.
Is cloud cheaper than what we run now?
Not automatically. It is cheaper where load varies and more expensive where it is flat and predictable. We model your actual usage against current costs before recommending a move, and sometimes the answer is to stay.
Can we move without downtime?
Often, by running both environments in parallel and cutting over once the new one is proven. Where a system genuinely cannot run twice, the window is planned and the route back is tested first.
Which cloud provider?
AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud all do this work. The decision usually comes down to what your team already knows, what your other systems sit beside, and the commercial terms available to you.
Do you keep running it afterwards?
Where you want that. Monitoring, patching, and incident response sit under managed systems, or handed to your team with full documentation.
Start with the problem.
Describe what is slowing the operation down. We will come back with the approach, the scope, and what it costs.
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