Overview
We design and run your Azure environment, from networking and identity to servers, backup, and disaster recovery, with security and cost discipline built in from the start.
Whether you are migrating off aging on-premises hardware or tightening an environment that grew organically, we bring architecture, governance, and ongoing management so the cloud works for you.
How We Work
Assessment and design
We review your workloads and costs, then design an Azure architecture sized for what you run.
Migration and build
We migrate in planned waves, with security, backup, and networking built in from the first workload.
Operations
We monitor performance and spend, patch and back up continuously, and review the architecture as needs change.
What's Included
Architecture and design
Right-sized network, identity, and compute design built for security and cost.
Migration
Move workloads off on-premises hardware into Azure with minimal disruption.
Backup and disaster recovery
Protected data with tested restores and a recovery plan you can rely on.
Security and governance
Identity, network controls, and policy to keep the environment locked down.
Cost management
Ongoing right-sizing so you pay for what you need and no more.
Managed operations
Monitoring, patching, and support across your cloud footprint.
Migration Options
Three ways to start, depending on how much certainty you want before you commit. Estimates and rates are quoted in your proposal.
T&M Migration
- The full migration on time and materials, billed to actual hours as consumed
- A written estimate up front, revisited at every phase gate
- Design and build run in parallel: the blueprint evolves while early phases are already being delivered
- Scope stays flexible, with changes approved through a written change order
- Simpler footprints with a clear picture of their requirements
- Teams comfortable steering scope as the work unfolds
Fixed-Fee Discovery & Design
- The first phase of a full migration, run as a standalone engagement with its own deliverables (we call it Phase 0)
- Current state documented, future state designed, and the migration blueprint delivered
- A fixed-fee migration proposal, priced against confirmed scope
- Deliverables are platform-agnostic, not tied to Microsoft or to us, and detailed enough for any qualified partner to quote a fixed fee
- The fee is credited in full toward the migration if you proceed with us within three months
- Complex or unclear scope, where guessing is expensive
- Boards and leadership teams that prefer the certainty of a detailed roadmap and fixed-fee scope before implementation kicks off
Fixed-Fee Migration
- Follows a completed Discovery & Design engagement
- The migration at a fixed price, quoted against the scope confirmed in discovery and design
- Milestone billing tied to deliverables you can verify
- Change orders only when the scope itself changes
- Budget certainty required before kickoff
- Regulated or board-governed purchases
Support & Training Options
The build is a project; running it well is a relationship. Choose how much of it you hand to us. Flat-fee plans run on a rolling 90-day commitment; T&M carries none.
T&M support
- Support billed hourly, as you need it, with no monthly fee
- Escalation straight to the engineers who built your environment
- Changes and additions scoped in writing before work starts
- Teams with in-house admins who want expert backup
- Stable environments that change a few times a year
Flat-fee Azure management
- Reduced professional services rates for your migration
- SLA-backed support during business hours
- Ongoing administration, monitoring, and patching of Azure
- Cost reviews so the monthly bill stays sized to reality
- Backup verification and disaster recovery testing
- Teams without a dedicated administrator
- Leadership that prefers a fixed monthly fee and wants staff to ask for help without worrying about hourly charges
Fully managed IT
Everything in the flat-fee Azure management option, plus the rest of your IT:
- Our lowest professional services rates for your migration, as part of a holistic ongoing engagement
- Microsoft 365 administration
- Endpoint monitoring, patching, and security configuration
- Security monitoring, threat response, and email security
- IT vendor and license management
- vCIO strategic advisory
- SLA on system-blocking issues
- Companies that want one outside partner across the whole footprint
- Companies retiring their last on-premises hardware
Who This Is For, and Who It Is Not
A strong fit if
- You have on-premises servers approaching end of life or end of support.
- The environment grew server by server, and nobody can describe the network or who has access to what.
- You need backups with restores that have been tested, and a recovery plan someone has rehearsed.
- Line-of-business applications have to keep running and cannot move to software as a service.
- Your Azure bill climbs every month and nobody can explain the increase.
A poor fit if
- Everything you run is already software as a service, and the office needs internet and devices. There is no infrastructure to design.
- You want the cheapest hosting for a single workload. A small cloud host will serve that better.
- You want a lift and shift with no changes to identity, network, or backup. Moving an environment as-is carries its weaknesses across with it.
Frequently Asked Questions
All questionsWhat is Azure Infrastructure?
Azure is Microsoft's cloud: the servers, databases, and networks your systems run on, rented by the month instead of bought by the rack. Our service designs, migrates, and runs it, sized to what you use.
How much does Azure cost?
Azure is not licensed per user. You pay for what each resource consumes: compute by the hour it runs, storage by the gigabyte held, and data by what moves out. The bill is a function of what you deploy, which is why sizing happens during design rather than as an up-front quote. Steady workloads get cheaper with reservations or a savings plan, committing to a one-year or three-year term, and Azure Hybrid Benefit lets you reuse Windows Server and SQL Server licenses you already own. Microsoft's pricing overview and pricing calculator let you model a specific design.
How is this different from the server we own?
The server in your closet has to be bought for its busiest day, maintained, backed up, and eventually replaced, and it fails without a spare. Azure workloads scale with you, get patched and monitored as a service, and are backed by data centers with better physical security than any office closet.
When does moving to Azure make sense, and when does it not?
It makes sense when you have an aging on-premises server, a line-of-business app that needs to be reachable from anywhere, or disaster-recovery requirements you cannot meet with hardware. Not everything belongs in the cloud, though: a stable workload with flat usage can be cheaper on owned hardware, and that math gets done before anything moves.
Will you make us rip everything out and start over?
Our first move is the opposite: squeeze everything out of what you already license before adding anything new. Where we push for consolidation is where you are paying twice for the same capability, like Zoom and Teams side by side, or a legacy platform nobody has logged into in years.
How does pricing work?
Managed services run at a flat monthly rate per person, which covers their primary device; shared and additional devices are a small add-on. Project work is hourly and quoted in writing before it starts, or converted to a fixed monthly fee when you want budget certainty. Microsoft licensing passes through at list price.
Do you come on site?
We are remote-first, because most issues resolve faster over a screen share than a truck roll. When hands on hardware is the answer, we are on site within two business days in our metro areas, and we can schedule recurring on-site time as part of an agreement.
What happens in the first 90 days?
Weeks one and two are access and visibility: admin roles audited, MFA enforced, monitoring on your most critical systems, and a shared password vault. Weeks three to eight set the baseline: licensing rationalized, device management everywhere, backups running and test-restored. By week 13 you have a steady rhythm: a weekly status call, a patch cadence, playbooks you own, and a 90-day review that sets the roadmap.
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