Move what belongs in the cloud, keep what does not, and stop paying for the parts nobody uses. We plan and run cloud migrations for small and mid sized businesses, administer Microsoft 365 properly, and keep the monthly bill honest.
We work with everyone, small or big. The scope changes with the project. The standard of the work does not.
Most small businesses are on Microsoft 365 and most tenants are running on the defaults they shipped with. That leaves email open to impersonation, sharing open to the internet, and security features you are already paying for switched off. We migrate businesses onto 365 from on premises servers and other platforms, and we configure the tenant the way it should have been from the start: multi factor authentication, conditional access, email protection, retention, and backup of the tenant itself, which Microsoft does not do for you.
If you are already there, a tenant review is a short engagement that usually finds several things worth fixing and a few licenses worth cancelling.
Not everything belongs in the cloud. A line of business application that runs well on a server in the office, a recorder holding camera footage, or a workload with heavy local data may be better left where it is. We look at each workload on its merits, cost, performance, resilience and compliance, and we design a mix that fits rather than a wholesale move that looks good on a slide.
For workloads that do move, we build on Azure or AWS following the vendors' own well architected guidance, with identity, backup and monitoring in place before the first user is cut over.
Cloud spend grows on its own. Licenses for people who left, storage nobody cleaned up, virtual machines that were supposed to be temporary. We review spend as part of ongoing management and we report it in a form a business owner can read. Clients are regularly surprised by what the first review finds.
A migration is planned around your business hours, rehearsed before it runs, and cut over with a rollback path. Users are told what will change and when, and someone is available the morning after. We have done enough of these to know where they go wrong, and most of what we do is preventing that.
Usually most of it, rarely all of it. Email, files and collaboration almost always belong in Microsoft 365 or the equivalent. Some applications and some data are better kept local. We assess each workload rather than recommending a wholesale move.
Not in the way most people assume. Microsoft keeps the service running and offers limited retention, but recovering a mailbox deleted months ago or a SharePoint site hit by ransomware requires a separate backup. We include one in every tenant we manage.
A small business moving email and files to Microsoft 365 is typically a few weeks from planning to cutover, with the actual switch happening over a weekend or an evening. Larger and more complex environments take longer and are done in phases.
Yes. Line of business applications often have specific hosting requirements, and we coordinate directly with the vendor so the application keeps working through and after the move.