Cloud Migration & Infrastructure

The timeline for cloud migration varies based on the complexity of your infrastructure, but most mid-sized businesses can complete a phased migration in 3-6 months. This includes the initial assessment phase, where we analyze your current infrastructure, applications, and dependencies to create a detailed migration roadmap. Our approach prioritizes business-critical applications and implements a staged migration that minimizes disruption to your operations. We've developed specialized tools and methodologies that accelerate the migration process while maintaining security and compliance throughout the transition.

Most organizations see a 30-60% reduction in total infrastructure costs after migrating to the cloud, with the most significant savings coming from reduced hardware maintenance, power consumption, and physical space requirements. Cloud infrastructure also eliminates the large capital expenditures associated with hardware refreshes every 3-5 years, converting your IT spending to a predictable operational expense. Beyond direct cost savings, the cloud's elasticity means you only pay for resources when you need them. Our clients typically see a 40-50% reduction in overprovisioning costs, as cloud resources can scale up during peak demand and down during quieter periods, unlike on-premises hardware that must be sized for maximum load.

Security is integrated into every phase of our cloud migration methodology, starting with a comprehensive security assessment of your current environment and designing cloud security controls that meet or exceed your existing protections. We implement defense-in-depth strategies including network segmentation, encryption for data at rest and in transit, and identity and access management controls tailored to your organization's needs. Post-migration, we deploy continuous security monitoring tools that provide real-time threat detection and automated remediation capabilities. Our cloud security implementations typically include automated compliance scanning, vulnerability management, and security event monitoring that actually improves your security posture compared to on-premises infrastructure, contrary to common misconceptions about cloud security.

The ideal cloud provider depends on your specific business requirements, existing technology investments, and long-term strategic goals. We conduct a thorough analysis of your workloads, compliance requirements, geographic distribution, and budget constraints before recommending AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or a multi-cloud approach. Rather than pushing a one-size-fits-all solution, we evaluate each provider's strengths in relation to your needs. For example, organizations heavily invested in Microsoft technologies often benefit from Azure's seamless integration with those tools, while businesses requiring advanced AI capabilities might leverage Google Cloud's strengths in that area. Our vendor-neutral approach ensures you get the right cloud environment for your specific business challenges.

Legacy applications require a specialized approach to cloud migration, and we've developed a proven methodology for modernizing these systems while minimizing risk. While many providers default to rehosting (lift-and-shift) because it's faster initially, we've found this approach typically costs 10-30% more long-term and fails to deliver the true benefits of cloud computing. Instead, we prioritize cloud-native approaches through replatforming (lift-and-optimize) and refactoring where possible. These approaches require more initial planning but deliver significantly better ROI by reducing ongoing cloud costs and enabling scalability, resilience, and performance improvements impossible with lift-and-shift. For applications that truly cannot be refactored, we implement containerization strategies and middleware solutions that create compatibility layers between legacy code and modern cloud infrastructure, still capturing more cloud benefits than a simple lift-and-shift.