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Cloud solutions for businesses
Most companies are already in the cloud — just without a plan. We sort out what has grown, decide again service by service and then take over running it.
// Starting point
Cloud usually arrives on the side
Hardly any company ever sat down and resolved to move to the cloud. Instead a file store appeared for one project, accounts got a portal of its own, somebody set something up quickly for home working — and at some point company data lives in seven places behind six different sign-ins.
That rarely draws attention at first. It draws attention when a person leaves and nobody knows which accounts to close. Or when an invoice arrives for a service nobody has opened in two years.
So our work does not begin with a recommendation, it begins with a list: which services are running, who has access, where the data sits, what it costs together. Only once that list exists can you talk sensibly about direction.
// Three states
Where your cloud currently stands
Almost every environment we take over matches one of these three pictures.
Grown
Individual services arrived over the years, each with its own sign-in and its own contract.
- Nobody holds the complete list
- Accounts outlive the people who used them
- Cost is spread across many small line items
Relocated
Servers were moved and everything else stayed as it was — including the design faults from before.
- Same structure, new location
- Permissions were carried over rather than reviewed
- The expected benefit never turns up
Planned
Every service has a reason, an owner and a documented connection to the rest.
- One sign-in, one permissions model
- Clear what stays in the building, and why
- Cost and responsibility both visible
// Cloud topics
What we work on in detail
Cloud is not a product, it is a series of decisions. These are the ones we most often make together with our clients.
Cloud migration
Sequence, trial run and cut-over window for the switch — without work coming to a halt.
To migrationBackup & Disaster Recovery
Backups that sit outside the cloud environment — and a route back that has been rehearsed.
Data center & storage
What stays, for good reason, in your own building or in rented data center space.
Virtualization
Fewer physical servers, resources allocated clearly and faster restarts after a failure.
Unified Communications
Telephony, chat and video on the same accounts and permissions as everything else.
// Day to day
What people actually notice
Architecture does not win a workforce over. Three or four things that get easier every day do.
Work from anywhere
The same files and permissions in the office, on site and at home — without detours through second copies on personal devices.
One account, one switch-off
When somebody leaves, one account is disabled instead of seven. Less effort, and considerably less risk.
Grow without buying
More storage or compute gets switched on instead of purchased — and switched off again when a project ends.
// Cost
A cloud invoice you can explain
Cloud is rarely more expensive than owning hardware — it is expensive differently. Instead of a purchase every five years there is a monthly line that grows quietly. It only stays visible if somebody looks at it regularly.
How we workTerms, notice periods and contacts collected together instead of scattered across five mailboxes.
Who genuinely needs which level of service is something we review regularly, downwards as well as up.
Services nobody uses show up during the review and get switched off.
Every service comes with the question of how the data gets out again.
// Cloud questions
What companies want to know before deciding
Taken from first conversations with businesses that want to put a grown cloud estate in order.
01 Does everything really belong in the cloud?
No, and we do not push for it. Applications with heavy data throughput, older business software or links to machinery are often better kept in the building. We decide service by service and give reasons for every decision — including the ones against a move.
02 What changes for our staff day to day?
Ideally very little: files sit somewhere else, the route to them stays the same. Anything people will notice we announce in advance and support them through — new sign-in steps, for instance, or a different folder structure.
03 Who owns our data in the cloud?
You do. We set accounts up so your company remains the owner of both the accounts and the data at all times and can pull a complete export — including later, if you decide to work with somebody else.
04 Can we keep existing servers and still use cloud services?
Yes. Mixed operation is the rule among our clients rather than the exception. What matters is that the joins are clean: one sign-in, one permissions model, one documented route between the two worlds.
05 Do you look after the cloud once it is built?
Yes. Monitoring, updates, permissions and fault handling carry on through our managed services. Support and monitoring are available around the clock, and the response times are set out in the contract.
06 How do we start when nobody has the full picture?
With an inventory. We collect services, contracts, accounts and storage locations and show what runs twice, what nobody uses any more and what you pay for without knowing it. Direction comes after that.
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All solutions
The overview first, the decision second.
We go through your existing cloud services, contracts and accounts and tell you what belongs together, what runs twice and what you can switch off without losing anything.