Cloud Modernization & Optimization
Moving workloads out of a data center, or tidying up a cloud estate that grew faster than anyone planned, including the bill.
How we approach itArchitecture & Advisory
Rebuild, migrate, or leave it alone?
An independent view on a technical decision before you commit budget to it. We look at the current systems, write down the options with their costs and risks, and recommend one.
The problem
What we usually find.
Large technical decisions are often made on a vendor demo and a slide deck. The real constraints, such as a legacy system nobody can change, a contract that ends next year, or a team of three, surface only after the budget is spent.
What we do
Services.
- Architecture reviews of existing systems or proposed designs
- Build-versus-buy and platform selection, including cloud and data vendors
- Modernization roadmaps sequenced around business risk
- AI strategy, together with our AI engineering work
- Second opinions on supplier proposals and estimates
What you get
Deliverables.
- A written assessment of the current landscape, based on the systems themselves rather than only on interviews
- Two or three options, each with cost, risk, and what it rules out later
- Architecture decision records your team can keep updating
- A sequenced roadmap with the first three months planned in detail
A decision you can defend
You get a recommendation with the reasoning written down. Six months later, anyone can see why the choice was made and which assumption to check if things change.
Architecture decision recordsC4 diagramsCost modelingVendor assessment
Typical engagements
Where this usually starts.
Data Platform Modernization
Replacing an ageing warehouse or a tangle of scripts with a lakehouse, without a big-bang cut-over.
How we approach itContact
Facing a decision you want a second opinion on?
Send us the proposal or a short description. We will tell you which questions we would ask before signing.