Azure and hybrid infrastructure consulting
Cloud & Hybrid Infrastructure
For a data center lease or aging servers with a date on them, directories disconnected after an acquisition, or disaster recovery nobody has tested.
We give each workload its own answer on cost, risk, and dependencies, then move it to Azure in waves or manage it on-premises with Azure Arc. Disaster recovery is built in, with failover tested.
Which service do you need?
- 01Decide
Cloud Strategy and Roadmap
What moves, when, and why.
- 02Move
Azure Migration
Servers, applications, and data moved to Azure, and upgraded where it pays.
- 03Run hybrid
Hybrid Infrastructure
Azure management for what stays on-premises.
- 04Consolidate
Active Directory Migration and Consolidation
One directory after years of growth or acquisitions.
- 05Recover
Disaster Recovery to Azure
Backups and a standby copy of critical systems in Azure, with failover steps written and tested before you need them.
Questions we get
Do we have to move everything to Azure?
No. Azure Arc and Azure Local exist for workloads that belong on-premises. If you don’t yet know what should move, Cloud Strategy and Roadmap decides it workload by workload, on cost, risk, and dependencies, and sets the order.
What about our VMware or Nutanix investment?
We plan around it. Workloads that stay can keep their platform or move to another hypervisor, and the rest migrate to Azure in waves when the economics make sense.
Is disaster recovery a project or a managed service?
Both, as two services. Disaster Recovery to Azure is the project: recovery objectives per application, a standby in Azure, and failover tested for each application. Managed Backup and Recovery, under Managed IT Services, is the running service after it, with backups checked daily, restores tested, and a recovery exercise each year.
Which service covers on-premises Exchange?
Two, depending on what moves. Moving mailboxes to Exchange Online is Exchange and Microsoft 365 Migration, under Workplace & Productivity. A server that stays because applications still relay mail through it is part of Hybrid Infrastructure, on Exchange Server Subscription Edition.
Case studies
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Cloud & Hybrid Infrastructure
Azure migration for a global engineering nonprofit, read more
A global engineering nonprofit ran its systems from two aging data centers.
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Cloud & Hybrid Infrastructure
Active Directory consolidation for a statewide college system, read more
A statewide system of 12 community colleges and a system office needed one directory across its campuses, one way to manage devices, and its servers migrated.
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Talk to us about Cloud & Hybrid Infrastructure
It starts with a 60-minute call. If we need more to scope it, a short questionnaire follows. Then a written proposal and statement of work. Once you approve, we begin with the Assess phase.