Services
Cloud Migration
Moving production workloads with a rollback plan for every step, and a cost model that holds up when finance reviews it.
In this engagement
- A discovery report listing every dependency, including the undocumented ones
- A migration plan with wave sequencing, downtime budget and tested rollback steps
- A rehearsed cutover runbook with named decision points and abort criteria
- A decommissioning plan for what can be switched off, and a cost comparison either side
A migration fails on the day it goes live, and it fails on something nobody rehearsed: a batch job with a hardcoded hostname, a dependency nobody documented, a maintenance window that was shorter than the cutover.
So we treat cutover as a rehearsal before it is an event. Every dependency is discovered rather than assumed, the rollback is tested before it is needed, and the sequence is agreed with the people who can authorise an abort.
How engagements start
- A paid discovery that de-risks the largest wave first
- Wave-based migration with a working target environment early, not last
- Post-migration optimisation as a defined phase, not an afterthought
Capabilities
What cloud migration covers
The specific work we carry out. Anything not listed here is still something we can scope — ask.
Migration assessment and target platform selection
Data, database and storage migration with rollback plans
Hybrid coexistence and legacy decommissioning
Post-migration cost optimisation and rightsizing
Questions
What clients ask us first
If your question is not here, ask it directly — we would rather answer it before you commit than after.
How do you keep downtime to a minimum?
Most systems never need to be fully offline. Where the workload supports it we use replication and short cutover windows with old and new running in parallel. Where it does not, we schedule the window against your business calendar and rehearse it until the duration is predictable.
What if we need to roll back?
For every wave we define the abort criteria and the rollback path before we start, and we test it. The rollback is part of the plan you approve, not something we improvise under pressure at cutover.
Do we end up paying more?
Sometimes, in year one — lift-and-shift carries the old estate's inefficiency with it. That is why we include a rightsizing phase in scope from the start, and why we will tell you if your workload should stay where it is. Migration for its own sake is not a good use of your budget.
Where we apply it
Sectors this service is used in
The same engineering, applied against the constraints of your sector.
- Banking & Financial ServicesLending and servicing systems that survive audit, and data foundations that make automated decisions defensible.
- ManufacturingPlant-floor systems that work when the network does not, and models that read the machines properly.
- Retail, CRM & DistributionOne customer record across every channel, with campaigns and forecasting running off the same data.
Ready to talk about cloud migration?
Send us the problem in whatever detail you have. A senior engineer replies within one business day, and you will get an honest read on whether we are the right partner for it.