Before you can consider moving to the cloud, you’ll need a full understanding of your current environment.

Our cloud readiness assessment identifies the lowest risk path with a phased approach — meaning you’ll have reassurance that pitfalls have been identified before a plan is actioned.

The assessment provides an extensive report – the Cloud Readiness Assessment Report which outlines how to ensure configuration is optimised. Budgetary costs for Azure are clearly sign-posted, bringing together all requirements including backup, DR, monitoring rather than being limited to information provided by any migration tool.

We join the dots of information to give you an accurate and informed picture of costs. The assessment also includes:

• Existing Azure readiness
• Monthly cost estimate
• Migration confidence rating
• Confirmation of infrastructural compatibility.

As a leading Azure cloud service provider in the UK, our experience has taught us a thing or two about taking businesses to the cloud.

We follow the Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure. To ensure you and your team have transparency and reassurance from end-to-end, each phase is methodically planned, presented and discussed. A new phase is only started with a clear rollback procedure in place to safeguard against outages or loss of data.

The Atech team is made up of certified Microsoft Azure Solutions Architects and Engineers to design, plan and migrate your current on-premises infrastructure. Our priority is to mitigate risk and guarantee seamless Azure implementation.

An assessment of your business’ current infrastructure, applications and network includes:

• Proposed Azure environment and topology
• Business case assessment aligned to your business requirements
• Proof of concept plan (if applicable)
• Live implementation planning
• Risk mitigation planning
• Security implementation planning
• Governance structure planning
• Architectural design
• A breakdown of the phased approach.

The time to complete a cloud migration project hinges on the complexity, size of the environment, number of applications, volume of data and current infrastructure.

When we start a cloud migration project, we conduct a thorough assessment of a client’s current posture and IT requirements, as well as their scalability. We then design and implement a landing zone for their digital assets and work to optimise the environment further for maximal value. Learn more in our article on what makes us an expert Azure services provider.

On its own, no. However, a well-optimised Azure landing zone can help save you money by ensuring your cloud architecture is aligned to your needs. By aligning your cloud architecture with your business objectives, you’ll receive a better return on your cloud spend. We ensure our Azure solutions follow Microsoft’s Cloud Adoption Framework, meaning we adhere to validated best practices.

Atech has helped many companies transfer systems to the cloud. Some common cloud migration obstacles we’ve encountered include poorly defined project scope and budget planning. Skills gaps and human error also hinder company-wide IT development. Managing workloads and downtime while maintaining full data compliance is another challenge businesses must overcome in their cloud migration strategy.

Migrating to Azure allows you to optimise sizing, licensing, and maintenance expenditure. You will also assure total regulatory compliance, mitigating business risk to your firm. All your devices and user information can be monitored and controlled from one centralised dashboard, making for the perfect solution for streamlining your IT admin and thus boosting your users’ performance.