Get off ageing servers — onto an Azure estate that runs itself.
Senior infrastructure engineers who migrate Windows Server and VMware workloads to Azure, modernise end-of-life estates, and hand you a secure, governed, cost-optimised landing zone — not a pile of orphaned virtual machines.
On-prem and VMware workloads to Azure, with end-of-life Server estates upgraded along the way.
Secure by design
Enterprise-scale landing zones with identity, policy and governance built in from day one.
Tested resilience
Backup, Site Recovery and DR you've actually rehearsed — with known RTO and RPO.
Cost under control
FinOps governance and right-sizing that ties every pound of spend back to a workload.
Platforms & tooling we work in
Microsoft AzureIaaS · PaaS · Arc · Migrate
Windows Server2012 → 2022 / 2025
Microsoft Entra IDHybrid identity
Infrastructure-as-CodeBicep · ARM · Terraform
The practice
Your platform should be invisible — until you need it to scale.
Most estates carry a tax: servers nobody dares patch, a domain controller that can't fail, a DR plan that's never been tested, and a cloud bill nobody understands. We take ownership of the whole stack — from Active Directory and Hyper-V to Azure landing zones and FinOps — and leave you with infrastructure that's secure, resilient and quietly affordable. Engineers who have run production estates, not just passed the exam.
What we deliver
The full Windows Server & Azure lifecycle.
Twelve connected capabilities — engaged individually to solve one problem, or end-to-end to run your platform for you.
Migration to Azure
On-premises Windows Server and VMware workload migration — rehost, replatform and re-architecture using Azure Migrate, with Azure Arc bringing hybrid estates under one control plane.
Windows Server core roles
Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, Failover Clustering, Hyper-V and File & Print — deployed, hardened and modernised by engineers who run them in anger.
Server modernisation
Assessment and remediation of end-of-life Windows Server 2012 and 2016 estates, with managed in-place and side-by-side upgrades to Server 2022 and 2025.
Azure IaaS
Virtual Machines, Virtual Networks, Load Balancers, Availability Zones and VM Scale Sets — with managed disk and storage design sized for performance and cost.
Identity
Microsoft Entra ID and hybrid identity with Entra Connect, Conditional Access, and clean Active Directory to cloud integration — single sign-on without the surprises.
Networking
ExpressRoute, VPN Gateway, Azure Firewall and Network Security Groups, designed into a hub-and-spoke topology that segments, secures and scales.
Resilience
Azure Site Recovery, Azure Backup, high-availability design and disaster-recovery planning — with the recovery actually rehearsed, not just documented.
Security & governance
Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Sentinel, Key Vault, Azure Policy and RBAC, wrapped in an enterprise-scale Landing Zone that bakes in compliance from day one.
Automation & DevOps
Infrastructure-as-Code with Bicep, ARM and Terraform, plus Azure DevOps build and release pipelines — environments that are repeatable, reviewed and auditable.
Operations & monitoring
Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Azure Automation and Update Management — patching and operational health you can prove, with alerting that means something.
Data platform
SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines and Azure SQL — deployment, migration and tuning that protects your most critical workload through the move and beyond.
Optimisation
Consumption governance, right-sizing, performance tuning and SQL optimisation — FinOps discipline that turns a runaway cloud bill back into a budget you control.
Our specialty
Migration without the cutover everyone dreads.
We don't lift-and-dump. Every workload is assessed for the right move — rehost what's fine as-is, replatform what benefits from managed services, re-architect what's holding you back — then migrated in waves with a tested fallback at every step. Azure Arc keeps anything that has to stay on-prem under the same governance.
Rehost — lift & shiftMove servers to Azure VMs fast, with Azure Migrate dependency mapping so nothing breaks on the way over.
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Replatform — modernise in flightShift databases to Azure SQL, retire ageing OS versions and adopt managed services where they pay off.
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Re-architect — build for scaleRedesign the workloads that warrant it around availability zones, scale sets and IaC — resilient by design.
How we engage
From discovery to a platform we can run for you.
You always know the state of the estate and who owns what — from the first assessment to the operational handover or managed-service run.
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Assess & map
Discovery of every server, dependency and identity, with an honest view of risk, end-of-life exposure and current spend — using Azure Migrate and Arc as the baseline.
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Design the landing zone
An enterprise-scale Azure Landing Zone — networking, identity, security, governance and naming — agreed before a single workload moves.
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Migrate & modernise
Workloads moved in waves with tested fallback, end-of-life servers upgraded, and everything deployed as reviewable Infrastructure-as-Code.
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Operate & optimise
Monitoring, patching, backup and DR running steadily — plus ongoing right-sizing and FinOps governance to keep the bill where it should be.
Why now
Windows Server 2012 is already out of support. 2016 is next.
An unsupported server estate is a security and audit problem that compounds every month — no patches, rising premiums for extended support, and a growing list of things your cyber-insurer wants to know about.
Know your exposure in weeksA clear inventory of every end-of-life server, what it runs and what it would take to move or upgrade it.
Upgrade without the firefightManaged in-place and side-by-side upgrades to Server 2022 and 2025, sequenced around your business calendar.
Or skip the refresh entirelyMigrate the workload to Azure instead — often cheaper than buying new hardware and licences for another five-year cycle.
Moving a 24/7 operation off ageing servers — without a missed shift.
A typical end-of-life migration, the way we run it. The shape below mirrors how we sequence this work; we'll share named references and figures relevant to your sector on request.
Windows Server · VMware · Azure
ScenarioServer 2012 EOLVMware
The challenge
A round-the-clock operation running production on out-of-support Windows Server 2012 and ageing VMware hosts — no patching headroom, a looming hardware refresh, and zero tolerance for downtime.
How we run it
Assess & map the estateAzure Migrate discovery and dependency mapping before anything moves.
Migrate in tested wavesWorkloads moved around the production calendar, with a rehearsed fallback at every step.
Retire the end-of-life kitThe unsupported servers — and the hardware refresh — decommissioned for good.
No missed production windowsLower ongoing run cost than a refresh
Illustrative engagement shape. Named client references and sector-specific metrics available under NDA on request.
Enterprise-scale landing zone
What you get
A platform that's secure, resilient and quietly affordable.
A governed landing zoneIdentity, network, security and policy designed in from the start — not retrofitted after an audit finding.
Resilience you've actually testedBackup and DR with rehearsed recovery and known RTO/RPO — so a bad day stays a bad hour.
A bill you understandRight-sized resources, consumption governance and FinOps reporting that ties spend back to workloads.
Engineers who stay accountableSenior people who can run the estate as a managed service — or hand it over clean to your team.
We're on VMware — can you move us, or only Hyper-V?
Both. We migrate VMware and Hyper-V workloads to Azure using Azure Migrate, and we're equally happy modernising a Hyper-V estate in place. The assessment tells us the right target for each workload before anything moves.
Do we have to go all-in on cloud?
No. Plenty of estates stay hybrid for good reasons — latency, data residency, hardware not yet depreciated. Azure Arc lets us govern on-prem and cloud servers under one set of policies, so hybrid doesn't mean ungoverned.
Our cloud bill is already out of control. Can you help?
Yes — and you don't need a migration to engage us for it. We run right-sizing, reserved-capacity and consumption-governance reviews on existing Azure estates, typically finding meaningful savings in the first few weeks and putting guardrails in place to keep them.
Can you run the platform afterwards, or just build it?
Either. We can hand over a clean, documented, IaC-defined estate to your team, or run it as a managed service — monitoring, patching, backup, DR and optimisation — with one accountable team. Most clients start with a project and keep us on for the run.
How does this connect to our SAP, Dynamics or Oracle work?
Directly. The infrastructure, identity and SQL platform underneath your ERP is exactly what we run — so the same accountable team can own the landing zone your enterprise applications sit on, end to end.
Ageing servers, a runaway bill, or a migration to plan?
An infrastructure assessment, an end-of-life review, or a managed Azure estate — a senior engineer replies within one business day.
