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Cloud that was planned, not just switched on
Migration is the easy part. What determines whether cloud works for you is the design, the identity model, the cost controls and who watches it afterwards.
How it fits together
Start with the workloads, not the platform
A lot of South African organisations moved to cloud quickly, and are now paying for it twice: once in monthly consumption they cannot fully explain, and again in the on-premises kit that never actually got decommissioned.
The diagram is illustrative. It shows the shape of the capability rather than any specific customer environment.
Overview
In practice
We start with a readiness assessment — what you run, what it depends on, what it costs today, and what genuinely benefits from moving. Some workloads belong in Azure. Some belong in a private or hosted environment for latency, licensing or data residency reasons. Some should stay exactly where they are until the hardware is due for refresh.
The output is a migration plan with sequencing, rollback positions and a cost model you can put in front of a CFO.
What changes
Outcomes we are measured on
The point of the work, stated as results rather than product names.
01
A cost model you can defend
Right-sizing, reservation planning and tagging so that consumption maps to departments and projects.
02
Identity done first
Entra ID, conditional access and MFA established before workloads move, not retrofitted afterwards.
03
Reduced hardware exposure
Less capital tied up in equipment that ages, and fewer single points of failure in a server room.
04
Recovery you have actually tested
Cloud backup and DR designed to stated RPO and RTO targets, with documented restore tests.
Capabilities
What sits inside this practice
Capability areas we design, implement and support. Scope for any engagement is agreed and documented in writing.
Strategy and assessment
Deciding what moves, in what order, and why.
- Cloud Strategy
- Cloud Readiness Assessments
- Cloud Architecture
- Workload Analysis
- Total Cost Modelling
- Migration Planning
- Cloud Governance
Microsoft Azure
Infrastructure and platform services in Azure.
- Azure Infrastructure
- Azure Virtual Machines
- Azure Networking
- Azure Storage
- Azure Backup
- Azure Site Recovery
- Azure Virtual Desktop
- Azure Identity
- Infrastructure as a Service
- Platform as a Service
Microsoft 365
The productivity and collaboration layer.
- Microsoft 365 Migration
- Exchange Online
- SharePoint Online
- OneDrive
- Microsoft Teams
- Tenant Management
- Microsoft 365 Security
- Licensing Optimisation
Cloud operations
Running it after go-live.
- Cloud Monitoring
- Cloud Cost Optimisation
- Cloud Security
- Cloud Backup
- Disaster Recovery as a Service
- Cloud Storage
- Virtual Servers
- Hybrid Cloud
- Private Cloud
- Public Cloud
- Virtual Desktop / DaaS
How we deliver
A sequence, because order matters here
Each stage produces something you can review before the next one starts.
Discover
Application and infrastructure inventory, dependency mapping and a current-state cost baseline.
Design
Target architecture, identity model, network design, security controls and landing zone structure.
Migrate
Staged migration by workload group, each with a test window, a cutover plan and a rollback position.
Optimise
Post-migration review of cost, performance and security posture, then ongoing management.
Questions
The things people ask before signing anything
No, and we will tell you when it is not. Cloud usually improves flexibility, resilience and time-to-provision. Whether it lowers cost depends on workload profile, licensing and how disciplined the environment stays afterwards. That comparison belongs in the assessment, before the decision.
Yes. Hybrid is a legitimate long-term architecture, not a halfway house. Line-of-business systems with licensing constraints or latency requirements often stay local while identity, email and collaboration move.
Data residency requirements are captured during assessment and drive region selection and service choice. Where a requirement cannot be met by a given service, we say so rather than working around it.
Whoever you want to. We can hand over a documented environment to your team, run it under a managed service, or split responsibilities under a co-managed model.
Related
Usually discussed alongside this
Technologies supporting this capability
Cloud & Productivity
Backup & Data Resilience
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