Systems & Software
Moving applications and data to cloud infrastructure in a sequence driven by a measured constraint. Migrations that begin without one tend to reproduce the same problems at a different cost base.
Stated as we hear it, before any mention of what we would do about it.
Qualitative, because we do not publish numbers we cannot evidence.
Scope
Three to nine months depending on estate size and workload complexity.
How it works
Systems connected by people versus by integration
Before: three systems, each bridged by a person moving data across by hand. After: the same three connected directly through an integration layer, with one declared source of truth per record.
The boundary
Naming the boundary early removes the most common source of disappointment in an engagement.
Not automatically. It converts capital cost to operating cost and can be more expensive for steady, predictable workloads. The reliable gains are elasticity, deployment speed and recovery; cost savings depend on right-sizing after the move.
Rarely. Some workloads are cheaper and simpler where they are, and some are due for retirement rather than migration. A migration that starts by questioning what should move usually moves less and delivers more.
Moving applications and data to cloud infrastructure in a sequence driven by a measured constraint. Migrations that begin without one tend to reproduce the same problems at a different cost base.
Organisations facing a hardware refresh or hosting renewal; Teams whose release process is constrained by infrastructure; and Businesses with a recovery plan nobody has tested
Workload assessment: what moves as-is, what needs rework, what should be retired; Sequencing by risk and dependency, starting with something reversible; Cost modelling before the move, including the egress and support costs usually omitted; Migration with rollback planned per workload rather than for the programme; Monitoring, alerting and backup verified by restoring, not by configuration review; and Handover of runbooks and access to your team
Infrastructure cannot handle demand peaks or takes weeks to change; Hardware or a hosting contract is reaching end of life; and Recovery from a serious failure has never been tested and probably would not work
Capacity that responds to demand rather than being provisioned for the peak; Deployment and recovery that are routine rather than events; and Running costs that are visible and attributable
Three to nine months depending on estate size and workload complexity.
Connected
Describe where the work currently is and what it has to achieve commercially. We will tell you what we would scope, what we would leave alone, and whether this is the right service to be buying first.
