Azure Migration

Assess, plan, and execute seamless Azure migrations

Organisations planning to move IT workloads, applications and data to Microsoft Azure face complexity and risk without a clear strategy. Our Azure Migration service helps you understand what you have today, determine readiness for Azure and plan how each workload should be moved. We focus on assessment, planning and execution to support predictable outcomes.
Using tools such as Azure Migrate, we carry out discovery and assessment of servers, databases and applications to build a migration roadmap tailored to your estate. Our approach includes migration execution with minimal disruption and clear post-migration optimisation activities to help you manage performance, cost and ongoing governance in Azure.

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Service Overview

Highlights

  • Comprehensive Azure assessment of workloads, apps, and dependencies
  • Azure-to-Azure tenant migration services for mergers, acquisitions, or restructuring
  • Migration of virtual machines, storage, networking, and applications
  • Governance and compliance-first approach for secure transitions
  • Post-migration optimisation and cost management

Business Benefits

  • Gain full visibility of workloads through detailed assessments
  • Ensure business continuity with phased migration strategies
  • Reduce risk with dependency mapping and governance frameworks
  • Optimise Azure spend with post-migration tuning and monitoring
  • Enable cloud scalability with a future-ready platform

Typical use cases

  • Moving on-premises servers and applications to Azure
  • Consolidating or restructuring Azure tenants following organisational change
  • Data centre exit programmes with fixed timelines
  • Modernising legacy infrastructure while retaining existing applications
  • Need for clearer cost, performance, and governance control in Azure

Objectives & deliverables

What Success Looks Like

  • Assess current workloads and determine readiness for Azure
  • Define a clear and realistic migration roadmap aligned to business priorities
  • Move workloads to Azure with controlled risk and predictable outcomes
  • Maintain service continuity during migration activities
  • Establish a platform that can be optimised and governed after migration

What You Get

  • Comprehensive Azure assessment report (workloads, apps, dependencies)
  • Migration strategy including timelines, phases, and risk mitigation
  • Tenant-to-tenant Azure migration plan (Azure-to-Azure)
  • Migration of VMs, networking, storage, databases, and apps
  • Security and governance baseline (policies, audit, monitoring)
  • Post-migration optimisation roadmap and cost management review

How It Works

  1. Assessment & Discovery - identify workloads, apps, dependencies, licensing, and compliance requirements
  2. Planning & Strategy - define migration method (lift & shift, refactor, re-platform), create phased roadmap
  3. Pilot Migration - move non-critical workloads to validate processes and dependencies
  4. Full Migration - migrate workloads into Azure or between tenants with minimal downtime
  5. Optimisation & Operate - tune costs, configure monitoring, align to roadmap

Engagement Options

  • Azure Assessment - discovery and dependency mapping, readiness report
  • Standard Migration - lift & shift or phased migration of core workloads
  • Enterprise Azure Migration - tenant-to-tenant Azure migration, global workloads, hybrid scenarios
  • Operate - ongoing optimisation, governance reviews, and cost management

Additional Information

Security & Compliance Notes

  • Migrations are aligned with Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) and Well-Architected Framework. We configure policies, monitoring, audit, DLP, and identity controls to ensure compliance with GDPR, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and industry standards.

Common Bundles

Customers who use this service often bundle with these services

VMware / Hyper‑V to Azure Transitions
Assess and migrate VMware or Hyper-V workloads to Azure with structured planning, controlled execution, and validated outcomes delivery.

Windows Server Upgrade Services (2012/2016 to 2022/2025)
Windows Server upgrade services planning, remediating, and upgrading legacy 2012 and 2016 environments to supported 2022 or 2025 releases.

Legacy SIEM to Microsoft Sentinel Migration
Migrate legacy SIEM detections, workflows and data into Microsoft Sentinel with phased cutover that maintains monitoring continuity for security operations teams.

Migration Planning Workshops
Structured workshops to define migration scope, risks, dependencies, and priorities, producing clear actions and a realistic plan documented.

IT Due Diligence & Discovery
IT due diligence and discovery for mergers and acquisitions, identifying risks, dependencies, and integration considerations that influence transaction outcomes.

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