Cloud Architecture and Migration Services
Moving to the cloud does not automatically make things cheaper, faster, or safer. Done without a design, it usually produces a higher monthly bill and a wider attack surface. The value comes from architecture, not from the migration itself.
What we do
Cloud that is designed, not just migrated
Microsoft 365, Azure, and AWS, architected around how your business actually works.
Microsoft 365
Tenant setup and hardening, Exchange, SharePoint, Teams, and Entra ID. Configured with conditional access and MFA from the start rather than bolted on after an incident.
Azure Infrastructure
Virtual networks, hub and spoke topology, site-to-site VPN and ExpressRoute, and hybrid identity. The same architectural patterns used in large enterprise environments, sized appropriately for your business.
Cloud Migration
Assessment, sequencing, and execution. We establish what should move, what should stay on-premise, and what should be retired instead of migrated. Not everything belongs in the cloud.
Identity and Access
Single sign-on, conditional access policies, and least-privilege permissions. Identity is the real perimeter once your data lives in someone else's data center.
Cost Optimization
Right-sizing, reserved capacity, and finding the resources nobody has touched in months. Cloud bills grow quietly and most businesses have never had anyone audit theirs.
Backup and Retention
Microsoft 365 does not back up your data the way most people assume. We implement genuine backup with retention that meets your actual recovery and compliance requirements.
How a cloud project runs
Design first. Migrations that skip the design phase are the ones that get redone.
Assess
Current environment, workloads, dependencies, and requirements. This is where we determine what should move and what genuinely should not.
Design
Network topology, identity model, security controls, and a realistic cost projection before anything moves.
Migrate and Optimize
Phased migration with rollback points at each stage, then tuning once real workloads are running against it.
Thinking about a cloud move?
A consultation will tell you whether it makes sense for your business and roughly what it costs. Sometimes the honest answer is that staying put is cheaper.
FAQ
Cloud questions we get asked
Sometimes, and not always. Cloud converts capital expense to operating expense and removes hardware refresh cycles, which suits many businesses. But a workload that runs constantly at high utilization is frequently cheaper on hardware you own. We model both before recommending either.
Not in the way most people assume, and this catches businesses out regularly. Microsoft guarantees service availability, not recovery of your data from a deletion or ransomware event outside a short retention window. Third-party backup for 365 is something we recommend to essentially every client running it.
For a small business moving email and files to Microsoft 365, typically two to six weeks depending on data volume and how much cleanup the source environment needs. Azure infrastructure projects run longer. The assessment gives you a real timeline rather than a guess.
Migrations get staged so the disruption lands on evenings and weekends, with mailboxes and files cut over in batches. Some brief interruption is realistic to expect, but a multi-day outage means something was planned badly.
Yes, and for many businesses it is the correct answer. Line-of-business applications, equipment that cannot be virtualized, and latency-sensitive workloads often belong on-premise while email and collaboration move to the cloud. Hybrid is a legitimate destination, not a halfway house.
