Lead-IT Expert Consulting

Cloud transformation

Beyond lift-and-shift: adoption strategy, landing zone, migration with the right approach per workload, modernisation, hybrid and multi-cloud architecture, FinOps and security designed in from day one.

Moving servers to the cloud is the easy part and, on its own, rarely delivers the cost, agility or resilience benefits promised to the board. Organisations migrate to AWS, Azure or Google Cloud and find that bills go up, teams are no more productive and the security posture is more complicated than before. The cause is almost always the same: the workloads moved, but the architecture, the operating model and the cost discipline did not.

Our approach

  • Strategy and adoption framework - what moves, in what order, to which platform and why; principles, guardrails and an operating model that scale beyond the first applications.
  • Landing zone - account structure, networking, identity, logging and security baselines established as code, before the workloads arrive.
  • Migration - rehost, replatform, refactor or replace, chosen per workload, with minimal disruption, rollback paths and validated cutovers.
  • Modernisation - containerisation, managed services, platform engineering and re-architecture for resilience and elasticity.
  • Hybrid and multi-cloud - coherent connection of cloud and on-premises infrastructure, and multi-cloud strategies without operational sprawl.
  • FinOps - visibility, accountability, right-sizing and commitment management, so spend follows value.

We are genuinely platform-neutral: deep expertise on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform, and a recommendation of the right fit for your workloads, skills and commercial position. Start with a cloud readiness assessment: a clear picture of the infrastructure, a target architecture, a migration roadmap and a credible cost model.