Cloud Solutions
Cloud migration and hosting for Sydney businesses, planned around how you actually operate — with an honest answer about which workloads should move and which should not.
The Problem
The problem is rarely the technology. It is that nobody has given you advice you could weigh up without wondering what the adviser earns from it.
It is out of warranty, past its supported life, and still running the thing the business depends on. Replacing it is expensive, moving it is disruptive, and doing nothing gets less defensible every month.
The advice you have been given arrives already shaped like a migration, because the party giving it is paid for migrations. Nobody has told you which parts genuinely benefit and which would just cost more in a different column.
Cloud is sold as simpler, then arrives as a monthly bill with line items nobody in the business can interpret. Without someone sizing it properly, you can pay more for less.
Our Solution
We start by separating your systems into the ones that clearly benefit from moving, the ones that are fine where they are, and the small number where it genuinely depends. Most businesses end up somewhere in the middle rather than fully migrated.
For anything we recommend moving, we model what it will cost to run before you commit — not just the project fee. Sizing infrastructure correctly at the start is the difference between predictable monthly spend and a bill that grows quietly.
And where the honest recommendation is to keep something on site for another two years, that is what we will tell you. We would rather give you a smaller piece of work you actually needed.
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From the decision through to running it afterwards.
A documented view of every system you run and where it genuinely belongs — including the ones we recommend leaving exactly as they are.
Moving servers, applications and file storage into Microsoft Azure or an appropriate hosted environment, sized for what you actually run.
What it will cost to run each month, worked out before you commit rather than discovered on the third invoice.
Staff reaching the systems they need from home, a client site or a phone, without a VPN that half the team avoids using.
Permissions and authentication rebuilt deliberately in the new environment, rather than opened up during the move and never tightened again.
Old equipment wound down in an orderly way — data verified as migrated, licences reclaimed, and drives disposed of securely.
How We Deliver
The assessment stage matters more here than on any other engagement, because it determines whether there is a project at all.
We document what you actually have — devices, licences, access, and where the risks sit. Nothing is proposed before this is done.
We agree what changes, in what order, and when. Anything that will interrupt your team is scheduled around your working week.
Work is done in stages so your business keeps operating. You know what is happening on any given day before it happens.
Configurations, credentials and procedures are written down and kept current — so support does not depend on one person's memory, including ours.
Systems are watched continuously rather than checked when something is reported. Most issues are picked up before anyone raises them.
We review what is working at agreed intervals and adjust. Technology that suited you last year may not suit you at twice the headcount.
Business Outcomes
Beyond removing a box from a cupboard.
No more planning capital expenditure around when a server reaches end of life, or hoping it lasts one more financial year.
A power outage, a burst pipe or a lift breakdown at your premises no longer decides whether anyone can work that day.
Adding people or storage becomes a setting rather than a procurement cycle, and you stop paying up front for capacity you might need in three years.
Because it was sized deliberately, the monthly figure behaves the way it was modelled instead of drifting upward unexplained.
Access is designed for it rather than tolerated, so staff stop inventing workarounds involving personal accounts and emailed files.
Restoring a system stops depending on specific physical hardware still existing in a specific room.
Who It Is For
A server out of warranty or approaching an operating system that stops receiving updates. The replacement quote is usually what starts the discussion.
If a problem at your premises means nobody in the business can work, that concentration of risk is worth pricing honestly.
Email is in the cloud, files are half moved, and a server is still running one critical application. The hybrid state was never designed, it just happened.
Typical Engagements
Situations we are called into most often. One of these will probably sound familiar.
The existing hardware needs replacing and somebody sensibly asked whether buying another one is still the right answer.
Relocating forces the question of what actually needs to travel. It is usually the cheapest moment to change the answer.
Headcount or data has outgrown what the existing environment was sized for, and adding to it is becoming uneconomic.
Two sites needing the same systems, where replicating the office setup a second time makes very little sense.
Already migrated by someone else, and the monthly cost has climbed with no clear reason. We reconcile what is running against what is needed.
A client contract or insurer expects the business to keep operating if the premises become unavailable, and the current arrangement cannot demonstrate that.
Optional
None of these are required. They are here because clients regularly ask whether we can cover them.
Where part of the environment stays on site by design, making the two halves work as one system rather than two that happen to coexist.
A consistent desktop that follows the user rather than the device, useful for shift-based, seasonal or contractor-heavy teams.
A periodic look at what is running against what is being used, so unused resources stop quietly accruing charges.
Technology
Platforms we work with day to day. If something you rely on is not listed, ask — this is not an exhaustive list.
These are platforms we work with day to day. Product names are trademarks of their respective owners and their inclusion here does not indicate a partnership, affiliation or endorsement.
Industries
Document-heavy, deadline-driven teams that need email, files and collaboration to be genuinely reliable.
Head office and site connectivity, mobile devices and project files that stay in sync across locations.
We deliver IT work as a subcontractor on government-funded engagements, working to the documentation and security standards those contracts require.
Works With
These are the services clients most often run alongside this one, and why.
Email, Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive set up with sensible permissions and data that stays protected.
Backups that are monitored and test-restored, because one nobody has tested is only an assumption.
Firewalls, switching and wireless designed for the building you are in, not a generic floor plan.
We take ownership of your technology day to day, so problems get dealt with before they reach your team.
FAQ
Sometimes, and sometimes not. It replaces a large occasional purchase with a smaller continuous one, which suits most businesses for cash flow reasons even when the total over five years is similar. What it reliably removes is the risk of hardware failing at an inconvenient moment. We model the actual figures for your situation rather than asserting a saving.
That is part of the assessment, and occasionally the honest answer is not yet. If your connection would become the bottleneck, upgrading it is part of the plan rather than a surprise afterwards — and in a few cases it is the reason we recommend waiting.
It becomes a more visible dependency, which is a fair concern. We usually address it with a secondary connection or mobile failover for the systems that genuinely cannot pause. It is worth weighing against how much of your business already stops without internet regardless.
For Australian businesses we default to Australian data centre regions, which matters for a number of sectors with data residency expectations. If your obligations require something specific, tell us during the assessment and it shapes the design.
Technically yes, though it is disruptive enough that the better answer is not migrating something that should not move in the first place. That is why the assessment exists and why we are comfortable recommending against it.
We will map every system you run against where it genuinely belongs, as part of the free consultation. If the conclusion is that most of it should stay exactly where it is, that is what the report will say.
