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Azure Migration

Your workloads moved to Azure, with the cutover rehearsed before it is real.

We migrate your servers, applications, and data to Azure on a governed landing zone, in waves, with each cutover tested before it runs. You get the estate on Azure, the legacy hosting retired, and a team that knows how to run it.

Investment
Scoped per engagement
Duration
3–6 months
Format
Remote-first, on-site for cutover

At a glance

Investment
Scoped per engagement
Duration
3–6 months
Format
Remote-first, on-site for cutover
Markets served
DACH and Benelux

Who it's for

  • A datacenter lease or hardware refresh is forcing a move, and you want it on Azure rather than new tin.
  • A previous migration stalled, or moved workloads as-is and left them expensive and fragile.
  • You need the move sequenced and rehearsed, not lifted over a weekend and hoped for.
  • Your current hosting contract renews soon at a price increase, and you want the Azure number in hand before you negotiate or walk away.
  • You are migrating SAP alongside general infrastructure and need the two sequenced together, not as separate projects that trip over each other.

Scope and format

Three to six months depending on the size of the estate, remote-first with on-site presence for cutover. We assess and group workloads into migration waves, build or reuse the Azure landing zone, then migrate by wave: rehost, replatform, or re-architect per workload, each with a tested cutover and rollback. The team leads, with 1,000+ servers and 300+ applications migrated to Azure, including a rescued national-airline migration. We retire the legacy hosting as each wave lands and hand over operations.

What you get

Migration plan and wave grouping

Workloads grouped into waves by dependency and risk, with the approach set per workload: rehost, replatform, or re-architect.

Landing zone ready for the move

The governed Azure foundation the workloads land on, built or reused from an existing one.

Migrated workloads, wave by wave

Each wave moved, tested, and cut over with a rehearsed rollback, not a one-shot weekend.

Data migration and validation

Databases and data moved with integrity checked on both sides before cutover. That covers SQL Server and Azure SQL estates, and SAP workloads moving as part of the same wave plan.

Legacy retirement

The old hosting decommissioned as each wave lands, so you stop paying for both.

Post-move performance baseline

Each migrated workload checked against its pre-move performance for thirty days, so a regression surfaces as evidence, not a support ticket six months later.

Handover and runbook

Operations documented and a working session so your team runs the estate after we leave.

Pricing

Scoped per engagement. We price against the number and complexity of the workloads and fix the figure before the first wave.

If you ran a Microsoft Landscape Assessment or an Azure Architecture Review with us in the last eight weeks, that fee comes off this engagement.

Where your data sits

The migration runs into your tenant, in the Azure region you are bound to. Access is least-privilege and scoped to the engagement. Where data residency matters, the landing zone is configured in the Germany West Central Azure region, and we sign your data processing agreement before we start.

Governance & compliance

  • Built and migrated in your tenant and your region, with residency enforced in the landing zone.
  • Each cutover tested with a rehearsed rollback before it runs in production.
  • Data integrity validated on both sides of every data move.
  • A signed data processing agreement before kickoff.
Read our governance approach

Common questions

How long does it take?

Three to six months, depending on the size and complexity of the estate.

Lift-and-shift or modernise?

Per workload. Some rehost as-is, some are worth replatforming or re-architecting on the way. The plan says which and why before any workload moves.

What about downtime?

Each cutover is scheduled and rehearsed with a rollback. Most workloads move with minimal or no downtime; the few that need a window get one you agree in advance.

Do you run it afterwards?

We hand over to your team with a runbook and a working session. If you want us to keep operating it, we scope that separately.

What if our migration already stalled, or is already underway and going wrong?

We've taken over a migration mid-flight before, including a national-airline move that had stalled. We assess what's already moved and what's broken, then replan the remaining waves instead of starting over.

Who decides if a cutover rolls back?

You and your change board set the rollback trigger before the wave starts, so no one decides live during the cutover. If a workload fails its post-move checks, we roll back against that agreed criteria and retry in the next window.

What happens to systems that can't move to Azure?

Some workloads won't move: a vendor appliance bound to specific hardware, a dependency you can't touch. We flag those in the wave plan and either exclude them from the migration or ringfence them on the legacy estate until they're replaced, rather than forcing a move that breaks something.

Do you migrate SAP workloads?

Yes, as part of the same wave plan if SAP is in scope. SAP moves get their own testing and cutover rehearsal inside the wave that carries them, since the tolerance for downtime is usually lower.

What if we want to change hyperscaler later, not stay on Azure forever?

That is a different conversation from this engagement. What we build, the landing zone and the workload architecture, is documented well enough to move again if you choose to, but re-platforming off Azure is not part of this scope.

How do you price a migration before you know the full workload count?

We run a short discovery pass first, typically inside an Azure Architecture Review or a Microsoft Landscape Assessment, to get an accurate workload count and complexity read. The migration price is fixed against that count, not against complexity discovered mid-project.

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