The migration we advised against — and the one we delivered
A workload-by-workload disposition assessment that stopped two of three planned migrations and cut projected three-year run cost by 31%.
31%
Three-year cost reduction
Migrate for a reason
Typical outcomes
31%
Average post-migration cost reduction
3 clouds
AWS, Azure and Google Cloud certified
Zero
Unplanned rollbacks in 2025
Capabilities
Per-workload disposition analysis and a governed landing zone with identity, network and policy baselines.
Rehost, replatform or refactor with wave planning, cutover rehearsal and documented rollback.
VMware, Hyper-V and Nutanix platforms integrated with public cloud for genuinely hybrid operation.
Tagging discipline, rightsizing, commitment planning and monthly showback that makes spend attributable.
Deliverables
No qualification call with a salesperson first — you speak to a consultant from the practice that would deliver the work.
Where it applies
Scale-up infrastructure, multi-region presence and the operational maturity investors ask about.
Regulated infrastructure, evidenced change control and support windows that respect market hours.
Store estates, EPoS and distribution centres kept trading — including through peak.
Proof
A workload-by-workload disposition assessment that stopped two of three planned migrations and cut projected three-year run cost by 31%.
31%
Three-year cost reduction
Questions
Regularly. Latency-bound manufacturing systems, heavily licensed legacy databases and low-change workloads on depreciated hardware usually have a weak case. We put that in writing with the numbers behind it.
Whichever your team can actually operate. Existing skills and licensing agreements move the business case far more than feature comparisons do.
Either through a defined handover to your team with runbooks and training, or as part of a managed service. We do not leave a landing zone without an owner.
Related services
Consulting
Independent technology strategy, architecture reviews and roadmaps that tie every pound of IT spend to a business outcome.
Operations
Fully managed monitoring, service desk and infrastructure operations under a contractual SLA, 24 hours a day.
People
Vetted, certified engineers dispatched to any site in 90+ countries — from a four-hour emergency call-out to a permanent resident engineer.
Cloud & Modernisation
Send us the shape of the problem — sites, timescales, what has already been tried. We will come back with an approach and an honest view of whether we are the right supplier.