Lifting servers into Azure without changing anything usually produces a more expensive data centre with someone else's hardware. We design the landing zone first, migrate deliberately, and put cost and resilience controls in place before the bill teaches you about them.
Almost always for the same four reasons, and none of them are the platform's fault.
Untagged resources, no budgets, no owner accountability and no right-sizing. Spend rises quietly until it becomes a board topic and then a panic.
Virtual machines were migrated as they were, so you now pay cloud prices for data centre design without gaining elasticity, managed services or resilience.
No naming standards, no tagging, inconsistent network design and ad hoc permissions — all of which are dramatically more expensive to fix afterwards.
Everyone believes the environment fails over. Nobody has tried it, the runbook is out of date, and the recovery objectives were never formally agreed.
The order matters more than the tooling. Landing zone, then governance, then migration — retrofitting the first two onto a populated environment is where cloud programmes lose their business case. Landing zone, then governance, then migration
Measured against your current infrastructure run cost, recovery objectives and change velocity.
Typical saving against an unmanaged cloud estate through right-sizing, reservations, schedule automation and removing orphaned resources.
Every resource tagged with an owner, environment and cost centre, so spend is attributable and clean-up is possible.
RPO and RTO agreed in writing and demonstrated through actual failover testing rather than architecture diagrams.
Typical reduction in time to deliver a new environment once landing zone, templates and automation replace manual builds.
Budget alerts and policy enforcement that prevent untagged or non-compliant resources being created in the first place.
Network, identity, security and recovery design documented and handed over, so the environment does not depend on us to be understood.
How to read these: the figures above are typical ranges we plan and measure against, not guarantees. In your first engagement we agree the baseline, the target and the measurement method in writing, then report against them.
Whether you are planning a first migration, cleaning up an estate that grew organically, or running one long-term.
Landing zone architecture covering identity, network topology, governance, security baseline and cost controls — before any workload moves.
Every workload assessed for the right disposition, then migrated with testing, cutover planning and rollback.
Ongoing platform operations with an explicit cost and resilience discipline, reviewed quarterly rather than annually.
Scoped individually or combined into a migration programme with defined waves.
Management group hierarchy, subscription strategy, network topology, identity integration, policy guardrails, naming and tagging standards.
Every workload assessed for dependencies, sizing and disposition, with a modelled running cost per option including the do-nothing case.
Executed in waves with dependency-aware sequencing, testing, cutover runbooks and rollback plans for each wave.
Site-to-site connectivity, ExpressRoute, DNS design and firewall architecture for environments that will remain hybrid for the foreseeable future.
Recovery objectives agreed in writing, backup and replication configured to meet them, and failover tested on a schedule with documented results.
Budgets, alerts, tagging enforcement, reservation and savings-plan modelling, schedule automation and periodic right-sizing.
Where an environment grew without governance: cost analysis, orphaned resource clean-up, retrospective tagging, permission rationalization and a remediation roadmap.
For healthcare, financial services, legal and public sector: region selection, data residency controls and evidence to satisfy regulatory and contractual obligations.
Foundation first, then waves. No single wave large enough to threaten the business.
Inventory, dependency mapping and current cost baseline, including the systems that quietly depend on each other.
Agree recovery objectives, cost targets, governance standards and the disposition for each workload.
Landing zone and target architecture designed and built before migration begins, with policy guardrails active from day one.
Migration in dependency-aware waves, each with testing, cutover runbook, rollback plan and a post-wave review.
Right-sizing after real usage data arrives, reservation purchasing once patterns stabilize, and quarterly cost and resilience reviews.
Not everything should move. Assessment routinely identifies workloads better left on premises, replaced with a SaaS product, or retired entirely. Those recommendations are in the report even though they reduce the size of the migration.
Plenty of partners can move a virtual machine. Fewer will own the bill afterwards.
Budgets, tagging enforcement and right-sizing are part of the build. We do not deliver an estate and then offer a cost optimization engagement to fix it.
Recovery objectives are agreed in writing and demonstrated through real failover tests with documented results.
We build the landing zone first, because retrofitting naming, tagging, network and permission standards onto a live estate is where the savings disappear.
Because we also run your identity, security, endpoints and applications, the cloud design accounts for them rather than stopping at the subscription boundary.
Illustrative engagements, written in the structure we use for real case studies.
Workload assessment led to a mix of rehosting, replatforming and retirement instead of a uniform lift-and-shift, with governance built first.
An Azure environment had grown across departments without standards. Remediation restored cost visibility and permission hygiene without disrupting research work.
Demo content: the organizations and measurements above are illustrative placeholders written to show the structure of a real story. Replace them with verified client results and approved references before publishing.
Material for teams planning, or recovering from, a migration.
Identity, network topology, policy, naming, tagging and cost guardrails — and why building them after migration costs several times more.
Read moreThe five recurring causes of cloud cost drift, and the governance controls that address each of them at source.
Read moreDependencies, licensing, recovery objectives, connectivity, cutover windows and rollback criteria to confirm before wave one.
Read moreAn assessment gives you a workload-by-workload disposition and a modelled running cost, before you commit to anything.
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