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Cloud readiness and migration assessment

Know what you have, what it would cost to move, and in what order — before committing to a migration, a renewal or a hyperscaler deal.

Typical timing
3–5 weeks
Engagement
Fixed scope
Delivery framework
User researchDiscoveryAlphaBetaLive
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Objective

Build a fact base for the cloud decision: a complete inventory of applications and infrastructure, a disposition for each workload (retire, retain, rehost, replatform, refactor), a business case with realistic run costs, and a sequenced plan.

You may need this if

  • A data centre contract, hardware refresh or licence renewal is approaching
  • A cloud migration has been proposed without a costed business case
  • You are negotiating commitments with a cloud provider
How it runs

Activities, step by step

The plan follows our delivery framework. Steps that do not apply to this kind of work are left out rather than padded.

  1. 01 · User research1 week

    Stakeholder needs

    • Interviews with application owners, finance and security
    • Business drivers and constraints captured
    • Sovereignty and regulatory obligations identified
  2. 02 · Discovery2–3 weeks

    Inventory and analysis

    • Automated discovery of servers, dependencies and utilisation
    • Workload-by-workload disposition
    • Total cost of ownership modelled, including exit costs
  3. 04 · Beta1 week

    Plan and business case

    • Migration waves sequenced by dependency and risk
    • Target landing zone outlined
    • Business case presented to decision-makers

Deliverables

What you keep at the end.

  • Application and infrastructure inventory with dependency map
  • Disposition for every workload
  • Five-year total cost of ownership and business case
  • Wave plan and target architecture outline

Outcomes

What it is built to change.

  • A funded, defensible cloud decision
  • No surprises from hidden dependencies
  • Better terms in provider negotiations

Often combined with

Every engagement starts with a 45-minute working session with the SME who would own the work. No deck.

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