Managed GCC
Cloud Services
The migration is the easy half. What determines whether cloud was worth it is how the estate is run in year two.
Most cloud disappointment traces back to the same thing: the workload was lifted as-is, nobody owned the bill, and the operating model stayed exactly what it was on-premises. The platform was never the problem.
Getting there
We assess each workload against a simple question - does moving this change anything for the better? Some things should be re-platformed, some rehosted, some retired, and some genuinely belong where they are. A migration plan that recommends leaving workloads alone is usually an honest one.
Microsoft 365 and the modern workplace
Tenant configuration, identity, device management, and the collaboration sprawl that accumulates when nobody sets a policy. Most tenants we inherit are over-licensed and under-configured at the same time.
Azure and AWS
Landing zones, network design, backup, and the governance guardrails that stop a development subscription from quietly becoming a production dependency.
Day two: the part that gets skipped
Cost anomaly alerting, rightsizing reviews, reserved capacity planning and a monthly report that attributes spend to the teams generating it. Cloud bills do not drift because of one bad decision - they drift because nobody looks.
What good looks like
- Spend attributed to an owner, every month, with no unallocated bucket.
- Licence counts reconciled to actual humans, quarterly.
- Recovery from backup tested rather than assumed.
What is included
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Workload assessment
Rehost, re-platform, retire or leave alone - decided per workload, with the reasoning shown.
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Microsoft 365 management
Tenant, identity and device configuration, plus the licence reconciliation nobody schedules.
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Landing zones
Azure and AWS foundations with network, backup and governance guardrails in place first.
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Cost control
Anomaly alerting, rightsizing and spend attributed to the teams that generate it.
Common questions
Before you ask
No. Most engagements start with either an assessment or a co-managed arrangement where we take tickets and after-hours while your team keeps everything else. Expanding from there is a decision you make with two quarters of evidence rather than a sales promise.
Per user per month for the recurring service, with servers and sites priced separately. Project work, migrations and hardware are quoted individually so the monthly fee never becomes the place surprise costs hide.
A dedicated offshore team working only for you, in an entity we set up and run to your standards. It is not a shared outsourcing pool - the people are yours, and if you want to own the entity eventually, the transfer date goes in the contract up front.
Below roughly 50 seats the governance overhead usually eats the saving. Between 50 and 150 it works if the work is coherent enough to justify dedicated leadership. Above 150 the economics are almost always favourable if retention holds.
Frequently, and it is one of the arrangements that works best. We agree a written split of responsibilities before starting so nothing lands in the gap between two teams, and we work inside your ticketing system rather than making you adopt ours.
Related
Often bought together
Managed IT Services
Monitoring, patching and service desk - plus managed application services for the ERP and legacy systems your business actually runs on.
ExploreCo-Managed IT & Help Desk
Your internal team keeps the strategy and the relationships; we take the tickets, the nights and the overflow.
ExploreCybersecurity
Managed detection and response, endpoint hardening, and the evidence your insurer and clients now demand.
ExploreReady to find out what your IT is really costing you?
A 45-minute working session gets you an honest read on estate health, security posture, and the two or three changes that would pay for themselves first.