Cloud, Microsoft 365 & Infrastructure
Azure cloud
Azure is the right home for some of your workloads and the wrong home for others. The useful conversation is about which, not about cloud in general.
What we do in Azure
- Design and migration of the workloads that benefit — file services, line-of-business applications, virtual desktops, backup targets
- Cost management, which is where unmanaged Azure quietly hurts: right-sizing, reservations, and switching off the things nobody is using
- Identity integration with Microsoft 365, so there is one directory rather than two
- Backup and site recovery configured and tested — see backup and disaster recovery
- Monitoring and patching of anything you run there, on the same schedule as everything else
When on-premises is still the right answer
If a clinical system or a gaming integration cannot tolerate the latency or the dependency on one internet connection, it belongs in the building. A rural practice or a club on a single service with no viable failover has a connectivity problem, and moving critical systems into the cloud converts a manageable problem into an existential one.
We have no commercial incentive to push you either way, and the audit is designed to surface this rather than assume it. See cloud and virtualisation for hybrid designs, and business internet for the failover question.
Cost, honestly
Azure is rarely cheaper than a server you already own, over the life of that server. It is frequently better — more resilient, more flexible, no capital event — and sometimes cheaper once you account for hardware, power, cooling and the rebuild you would otherwise fund. We will model it both ways rather than assert a saving.
Common questions
Will our costs be predictable?
More predictable than an unmanaged subscription, which is the usual complaint. We set budgets and alerts, review consumption monthly and right-size on a cycle.
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