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Migration and modernisation.

Legacy systems rarely fail all at once; they get slower, riskier and more expensive to change. We move them to modern architecture without stopping the business.

AssessmentReplatformingContainerisationDatabase migrationCutover planningDecommissioning

What the practice covers.

01

Assessment & dependency mapping

What the system does, what depends on it, and what nobody has touched in years.

02

Migration strategy

Lift-and-shift, replatform or rebuild, decided per workload on remaining life and business value.

03

Replatforming & containerisation

Applications moved onto managed services and containers, with configuration and secrets brought under control.

04

Database migration

Schema and data moved with validation at both ends, including the tables you cannot lock.

05

Cutover execution

Rehearsed cutovers with parallel running, verification checklists and a tested rollback path.

06

Decommissioning

The old estate retired properly: licences cancelled, data retained where required, costs actually removed.

How we run a migration.

Rehearsed cutovers, reversible steps, and a rollback plan you never have to use.

01

Discovery

Inventory, dependencies and risk register for the current estate.

02

Wave plan & target platform

A wave plan that moves low-risk workloads first, and the networking, identity, pipelines and monitoring stood up before any workload arrives.

03

Migrate in waves

Each wave rehearsed, executed and verified, with the rollback path tested first.

04

Optimise & decommission

Right-size on the new platform, then shut the old one down and confirm the savings.

Service features

Move the system, keep the business running.

The risk in a migration is concentrated in a few hours. We spend the engagement making those hours boring: rehearsals, parallel running and a documented way back.

Plan a migration
No big-bang cutover
Work is sequenced into waves, each small enough to reverse.
Rehearsed, not improvised
Every cutover is practised against production-like data before the real one.
Regulatory awareness
Data residency, retention and audit requirements handled as constraints, not afterthoughts.
Knowledge transfer
Your team learns the new platform during the migration, not after we leave.
Savings confirmed
We verify the old estate is actually off and the bill reflects it.