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Cloud migration, planned like surgery

The cloud rewards the well-prepared and quietly bankrupts the hasty — preparation is the actual service.

Cloud migrations earn their bad reputation from the unplanned parts: the licence that does not transfer, the latency nobody measured, the first monthly bill that triples the business case, the cutover weekend that becomes a cutover fortnight. Our migration practice is built on removing surprises before they occur. We inventory what actually runs — applications, databases, integrations, scheduled jobs and their hidden dependencies — model the future cloud cost against real usage data before you commit, choose the right strategy per system (lift-and-shift, replatform, or leave it where it is), and rehearse the cutover until the real one is boring, with rollback plans that have been executed at least once in staging. AWS, Azure or European sovereign clouds when data-residency policy demands it; managed by a Romanian team on EU terms either way.

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What you get

Costs modelled before signing

A cloud bill forecast from your measured workloads, not the vendor calculator’s optimism — some systems are cheaper left on-premises, and we say which.

Cutover rehearsed, rollback ready

Every migration is executed in staging first and cut over in a planned window, with a way back that has already been tested on your own systems.

Optimised after arrival

Right-sizing, reserved capacity and autoscaling tuned in the first months post-move — where most cloud budgets are actually won or lost.

What we typically move

Line-of-business applications running on ageing on-premise servers, databases that have outgrown the machine under somebody’s desk, file shares, mail and identity, and the collection of scheduled jobs that quietly hold a company together while appearing in no inventory. Occasionally the right answer for one of them is to stay exactly where it is, and we will say so.

Each system gets its own strategy rather than a blanket policy: rehost when the application is stable and the goal is to leave the data centre, replatform when a managed database or container service removes real operational burden, rebuild only where the current design makes cloud economics impossible. Cost is modelled against measured usage before commitment and reviewed after arrival, because reserved instances alone cut 30–60% off on-demand pricing.

Frequently asked questions

How much downtime does a migration involve?

The cutover runs in a planned window, usually overnight or at the weekend. Its length is fixed during the rehearsal on your own systems rather than promised in advance, and the old environment stays available as a fallback for several weeks after the switch.

Will the cloud actually be cheaper for us?

Sometimes no — steady, predictable workloads can be cheaper on owned hardware. Cloud wins on elasticity, resilience and freed-up admin time. Our cost model shows both scenarios per system before you decide.

Can our data be required to stay in the EU?

Yes — we deploy to EU regions with residency controls, or to European sovereign cloud providers where policy excludes US hyperscalers, and we document the data locations for your compliance file.