Cloud Expertise and Migration
Move from on-prem to cloud with zero surprise downtime and a lower run-rate.
Workload assessment, landing zones, infrastructure as code, Kubernetes, data migration, wave planning and FinOps guardrails for estates that cannot afford a bad cutover.
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The problem we solve
The lease ends, the hardware is old, the budget is flat
A migration is a hundred small cutovers with one deadline. We inventory everything, pick the right of the 7 Rs for each workload and run the waves with rollback plans, so the deadline is the only surprise-free part.
- “Our data center lease ends in 14 months.”
- “We lifted and shifted two years ago and the bill doubled.”
- “Every migration vendor quotes the first wave and vanishes before the hard ones.”
What we deliver
Deliverables, not decks
- Workload assessment against the 7 Rs: rehost, replatform, refactor, repurchase, retire, retain, relocate
- Landing zone and account design
- Terraform and infrastructure as code
- Kubernetes on EKS, AKS or GKE
- Database and data migration with validation
- Wave planning and cutover runbooks
- FinOps cost guardrails and rightsizing
How an engagement runs
Fixed scope first, then sprints
Assess Weeks 1 to 3
Inventory, dependency mapping, 7 Rs disposition and a costed wave plan.
Land Weeks 4 to 7
Landing zone, identity, network and guardrails as code.
Migrate Weeks 8 onward
Waves of two to four weeks each, rehearsed before cutover.
Optimize Final 2 weeks
Rightsizing, reserved capacity plan and the FinOps dashboard.
First engagement: Migration assessment and wave plan, 3 weeks, written decision record included. See the full process.
Proof
What this looks like in production
Read the example case study for this practice, then run the tool below with your own numbers.
Tools and platforms
- AWS
- Azure
- Google Cloud
- Terraform
- Kubernetes
- EKS
- AKS
- GKE
- AWS DMS
- Velero
- Datadog
- CloudHealth
$ terraform plan -var-file=prod.tfvarsmodule.landing_zone.aws_organizations_account.workloads: 4 to addmodule.network.aws_vpc.hub: 1 to addmodule.guardrails.aws_config_rule[*]: 23 to addPlan: 212 to add, 0 to change, 0 to destroy.$ terraform apply -auto-approveApply complete. Resources: 212 added, 0 changed, 0 destroyed.wave-01 cutover rehearsal: 14 apps, 0 rollbacks$ ▌Interactive
Migration readiness calculator
Enter your estate. Get a readiness score, a 7 Rs split, a duration range and a three-year cost comparison, with every assumption listed.
Questions we get
Before you book
Next step
Talk to the cloud practice lead
A 30-minute call about cloud expertise and migration: your estate, your deadline, and whether the first engagement fits. We reply within one business day.
30-minute call, no slides. We reply within one business day.
