Pillar 2 — Cloud & Infrastructure
Modernise on a deadline.
Named project lead. Defined SLA. Microsoft, AWS and VMware migration without surprises.
Why cloud projects actually slip
Cloud projects don't fail because the technology is hard. They fail because the deadline slips, the budget bleeds, the cutover lands on a Friday before year-end, and three months later nobody's quite sure who owns the new environment.
You're modernising because something is timing out — a hardware refresh, a vendor end-of-support notice, an audit finding, a divestiture, a CPS 230 dependency review — or because the current state is quietly killing the in-house team. Either way, you don't have the calendar to absorb a project that runs late.
This pillar is shaped around the project, not the platform. Microsoft, AWS, VMware, Hyper-V, Azure Site Recovery — tooling matters, but the deliverable is the date, the cost, and the team that runs it on the Monday after.
Our approach
Five elements on every cloud and infrastructure engagement.
Project-shaped delivery — date, scope, budget, named lead
Every cloud engagement starts with a written scope, fixed deadline, costed budget and a named project lead. The lead is the single throat to choke. Colombo engineering depth provides bench capacity; the lead provides accountability.
Microsoft / AWS / VMware migration on rails
We migrate workloads to Azure, AWS and across VMware/Hyper-V with a documented method — discover, design, pilot, wave, cutover, hypercare. Terraform for IaC. Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions for CI/CD. Azure Arc to govern hybrid and multi-cloud estates. The method is boring on purpose.
Cost predictability — the FinOps line CFOs read
Cloud bills surprise mid-market firms. We baseline before migration, model steady-state, right-size on the way in, instrument tenant-level cost monitoring, and put a monthly cost report in front of finance. Reserved instances, savings plans, licensing optimisation, and turning off what nobody uses.
Disaster recovery you've actually tested
Untested DR plans are paperwork. We design DR for your tolerable disruption (CPS 230 language where it applies), run failover tests on a published cadence, and produce the test-report evidence auditors want. Azure Site Recovery, cross-region replication, runbook rehearsal with your ops team in the room.
Ongoing managed-cloud option — the day-after-migration question
Cloud projects don't fail at migration; they fail in month four. Optional ongoing managed-cloud rolls the project runbook into a steady-state service — patching, monitoring, cost reporting, identity hygiene, M365/Azure tenant lifecycle. Same people, different cadence.
“Sydney HQ, globally delivered. Named project lead, defined SLA, named architect. Engineering depth from Colombo for build and bench.”
What's on the contract
- Microsoft Solutions Partner (Azure, Modern Work, Security)
- AWS Partner
- VMware Partner
- ISO 27001
- Azure DevOps certified team
- Terraform / Infrastructure-as-Code practice
- Microsoft Sentinel-aware (security baseline only)
Tech stack on this pillar
- Azure
- AWS
- M365
- Azure DevOps
- Terraform
- Azure Arc
- Exchange Online
- Teams
- VMware
- Hyper-V
- Azure Site Recovery
- Azure Monitor
- Power BI
- Azure Automation
Engagement models
- Fully Managed cloud
- Co-Managed (your team keeps the seat)
- Project-Based (defined deliverable)
2-hour structured workshop
Migration Readiness Assessment
Two hours with a cloud architect. We walk your environment — workload inventory, identity baseline, network topology, dependency map, current spend, regulatory constraints (CPS 234, CPS 230, Privacy Act). You leave with a written readiness report: what's ready to move, what needs work first, rough wave plan, cost-band estimate.
Frequently asked
We baseline current-state spend before the migration, right-size on the way in, instrument tenant-level cost monitoring with Azure Monitor and Power BI, apply reserved instances or savings plans against your steady-state pattern, and report cost monthly with trend lines your finance team can take to the CFO. Cost optimisation is its own quarterly review item, not a one-off project task.
We design for the workload. Microsoft-centric tenants run best on Azure; AWS-native services have their own gravity; some workloads stay on VMware or Hyper-V on-prem because the economics or latency say so. Multi-cloud is real — Azure Arc and Terraform let us govern hybrid estates without reinventing the operating model per provider.
Quarterly failover tests are standard for managed-cloud customers; some regulated customers run monthly partial tests. Every test produces a report — what failed over, in what order, what the recovery time was, what didn't behave, what was fixed. The report is the evidence pack your auditor or board risk committee asks for.
Yes. Tenant consolidation (Azure AD/Entra, M365, Exchange, Teams), workload migration (one cloud to another, on-prem to cloud), identity untangling, and data-rationalisation projects are common engagements. We scope the carve-out or roll-up against the deal calendar and keep the legal-day-one delivery realistic.
Both, where each makes sense. We pilot a representative workload, decide per-pattern (rehost, replatform, refactor, retire, retain), and wave the migration with a published cutover calendar. Hypercare runs four to eight weeks past cutover with the project team still on it — month one is when the real questions arrive.
Cloud and Infrastructure builds the security baseline — identity, network segmentation, endpoint hygiene, conditional access, backup integrity, key management. The Managed Security pillar layers detection, response and security operations on top. We don't double-charge for the same control. If you take both pillars, the boundary is documented in a single RACI.
Where you have direct vendor partnerships and want to keep them, we work alongside them. Where you'd rather consolidate the partnership through us (single throat to choke, one invoice, one quarterly business review), we can do that too. Your call, not a default.
Then we don't migrate yet. The Migration Readiness Assessment exists for exactly this — sometimes the honest answer is "fix identity hygiene and clean up the file shares first; come back in six months." We'd rather tell you that than start a project that's going to slip.
Modernise on a deadline.
Twenty minutes. No obligation. We bring the migration method, a sample wave plan, and an honest read on the timing.
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