Plan the network, cloud, and edge requirements that support how your organization actually operates.
Build a cloud environment around workload requirements, operating responsibilities, and a clear path to growth.
Select a capability to explore the approach and potential deliverables.
Assess applications, infrastructure, data, licensing dependencies, access requirements, and current operating processes. Identify workloads that may benefit from modernization and those that should remain in their existing environment.
Application inventory; dependency map; readiness assessment; prioritized opportunities.
Evaluate the fit of public cloud, dedicated infrastructure, private environments, and combinations of these models. Consider data location, application compatibility, latency, internal skills, and the commercial commitments involved.
Deployment-model comparison; workload placement criteria; phased target-state roadmap.
Organize workloads into migration waves. Evaluate whether to retain, retire, relocate, rehost, replatform, or redesign each application. Define pilot scope, data transfer needs, test criteria, cutover dependencies, and rollback decisions.
Migration wave plan; prerequisite register; pilot scope; cutover and validation checklist.
Review address planning, network segmentation, DNS, routing, remote access, and the connectivity between properties, business sites, data centers, and cloud services. Evaluate private connectivity and internet-based access according to workload needs.
Network requirements; connectivity options; segmentation and access considerations.
Compare virtual machines, containers, managed application hosting, and serverless approaches at the requirements level. Match the application lifecycle, scaling needs, integration dependencies, and support model to the hosting approach.
Hosting decision framework; capacity assumptions; deployment dependencies.
Map data types, access patterns, retention needs, backup requirements, and recovery expectations. Evaluate object, file, and block storage alongside managed database options and the implications of moving data between environments.
Data inventory; retention requirements; storage and database evaluation criteria.
Define identity sources, administrative boundaries, least-privilege access, multifactor authentication requirements, and environment separation. Plan logging, policy ownership, encryption requirements, and technical review with the responsible security team.
Access responsibility matrix; governance requirements; review and control checklist.
Translate business criticality into recovery time and recovery point requirements. Consider fault isolation, redundancy, backup retention, restore testing, and recovery procedures. Availability and recovery designs need validation against the selected services.
Workload criticality register; recovery requirements; backup and recovery test plan.
Assess recurring consumption, licensing, data transfer, storage growth, and support costs. Define tagging, budgets, ownership, and review cadence. Consider rightsizing and commitment options once usage patterns are understood.
Cost model assumptions; budget ownership; usage review and optimization priorities.
Connect monitoring, incident escalation, change control, patching responsibilities, release processes, and support ownership. Sequence modernization work so that the operating model evolves alongside the technical environment.
Operating responsibility map; monitoring requirements; phased modernization roadmap.
Illustrative scenarios to explain the approach; these are not customer case studies or promised results.
Create an inventory of sites, applications, dependencies, and existing infrastructure.
Identify constraints, business-critical workloads, and near-term decisions.
Develop options, sequencing, ownership, and requirements for outside providers.
Help translate the roadmap into a proposal review or scoped implementation plan.
Scope is agreed before the engagement. The right deliverable should help your team make a decision, coordinate responsibilities, or validate the next step.
Start with a conversation about what you need to solve.