A move to cloud needs a workable plan
An infrastructure renewal, growth requirement, or changing application portfolio creates a decision. Understand the dependencies and operating needs before moving workloads.
Cloud / Adoption through ongoing operation
Build a cloud environment your business can depend on.
SOA helps organizations plan and implement cloud change, then maintain and improve the environment in use. Work can begin with adoption, a difficult migration, or an existing estate that needs more reliable operations and better cost control.
Discuss your cloud needsWhere we help
When cloud plans or operations need attention.
The environment is harder to run than expected
Costs rise, performance varies, or incident response depends on a few people. Establish visibility and address the configuration, architecture, and process behind the problem.
Releasing changes takes too much effort
Manual deployments and inconsistent environments slow teams down. Improve the platform, delivery pipeline, and controls supporting application releases.
The work
Plan, migrate, and improve cloud workloads.
Bring architecture, migration, and day-to-day operation into the scope the environment needs. A focused reliability or cost improvement can be an engagement in its own right.
Plan adoption and architecture
Review workload readiness, business requirements, dependencies, and operating constraints. Develop the target architecture, adoption roadmap, cost assumptions, and migration priorities, including the role of existing on-premises systems.
Establish the foundations
Implement landing zones, account or subscription structure, identity, networks, policy, and logging. Design hybrid connectivity and access so teams can use cloud resources within consistent security and governance controls.
Migrate and modernize
Plan migration waves, data movement, validation, cutover, and recovery. Execute workload migrations and modernize applications where containers, managed services, or architectural changes address a defined business or operating need.
Improve delivery and platform engineering
Create repeatable environments with infrastructure as code. Develop CI/CD pipelines, release checks, and shared platform patterns that help teams deploy, test, and maintain applications consistently.
Operate, observe, and optimize
Establish maintenance, monitoring, observability, backup, and recovery procedures. Review service reliability, capacity, performance, and spend, then prioritize improvements such as right-sizing resources or removing unused capacity.
Make ownership explicit
Document security controls, responsibilities, runbooks, and support arrangements. Prepare operational handover, validate recovery procedures, and agree the cadence for maintenance and continuing improvement.
Cloud providers
Work with the environment your business needs.
Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud support different estates and requirements. We shape the architecture and operating plan around your existing investments, workloads, and constraints.
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Microsoft Azure
Plan Azure adoption around your workloads, Microsoft environment, and operating requirements. Give identity, networking, governance, and hybrid connectivity the same attention as the applications being moved.
- Azure landing zones, subscriptions, policy, and Microsoft Entra ID
- Virtual machines, application services, containers, and data workloads
- Azure DevOps, infrastructure as code, monitoring, and cost management
- Hybrid environments and relevant Microsoft 365 or enterprise application integrations
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Amazon Web Services
Establish the account, network, and access structure for AWS workloads. Plan migration and modernization across compute, storage, databases, and application services, with release automation, observability, and cost controls built into operation.
- Account foundations, identity, networking, and workload migration
- Application modernization, automated delivery, and reliable operations
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Google Cloud
Design the organization, projects, access, and networks around the workloads you need to support. Migrate or modernize applications and data workloads, with container or managed-service choices tied to maintainability, performance, and cost.
- Project foundations, access, connectivity, and workload architecture
- Application and data migration, release pipelines, and ongoing monitoring
Where to start
Start with a workload or operating concern.
An engagement can resolve an architecture or migration decision, or carry out a change whose direction is established. Agree the work around the workload, dependencies, and intended improvement.
Assess the environment and plan the change
Examine a priority workload, its dependencies, current costs, and service requirements. Compare the relevant architecture or migration choices and organize the work into an implementation plan.
- A current-state assessment and target architecture
- A prioritized migration, modernization, or improvement backlog
- A plan for cost, security, cutover, validation, and operational handover
Implement or improve the environment
Begin with a landing zone, migration wave, delivery pipeline, or reliability improvement. Continuing operation is scoped around the environment, support needs, and responsibilities agreed for the engagement.
- The configuration or migrated workload meets agreed requirements
- Validation covers integrations, data movement, and recovery where relevant
- Monitoring, runbooks, and support responsibilities are ready for the agreed operating scope
The wider context
Prepare the people who will run the environment.
Operating preparation belongs in the change: runbooks, access, recovery checks, and a clear handover to the people responsible.
How handover worksFor an individual role within a cloud team you direct, share the environment, required experience, and responsibility to be filled. The role may support a transition or the operation of an existing workload.
Discuss your staffing needsStart with the challenge
What needs to change in your cloud environment?
Tell us what is happening today, what you want Cloud to make possible, and the constraints the work needs to respect.