Cloud Architecture Consulting

Migration strategy, workload placement, and design review, including the finding that says leave it where it is.

Vendor-neutral by design Named engagements Signed deliverables

Illustrated cloud platform with data moving between systems

The call

Someone has to say whether this workload should move at all, and mean it.

A colocation renewal is ninety days out and the numbers don’t obviously favor either direction. A platform vendor sent over a target architecture that reads well until page nine. A workload moved last year, the monthly spend tripled, and nobody on the team wants to be the one who says it should come back.

Your engineers could answer any of these. What they cannot do is answer them and stay booked solid through the quarter at the same time. It is a question of hours, not ability. We take the question, do the analysis, and hand back something you can defend in front of a board. Sometimes the answer is to leave the workload exactly where it is.

What you get

The analysis, in a form you can defend.

Migration readiness assessments

Dependencies, data gravity, licensing, latency and the things that will break on cutover. Written up application by application rather than as a maturity score.

Workload placement analysis

Workload by workload: what should move, what shouldn’t, and what should move later. The reasoning sits next to each call, so you can argue with it.

Target architecture and phased plan

Target-state diagrams and a phased migration plan sequenced into waves your engineers can execute without us in the room.

Cost models and comparison matrices

Cost models that survive procurement review, and vendor and platform comparisons with the criteria stated up front so the choice is documented rather than assumed.

How we work

One question, a few weeks, one answer.

One decision, defined up front

We start from the call you actually need to make. A defined question, a defined deliverable and a defined end date, all in writing before we begin.
Weeks of work, then an ending

Most cloud engagements run a few weeks, sized to the question you brought us. When the work is done it is done, and the next phase is a separate decision you make later.
Briefed, then we step out

We design it, document it and brief your engineers. Your team owns the build and the document set outright, and nothing in it needs us in the room to make sense.

Why independent matters

Independent advice can end in “don’t move it”.

Keeping the hybrid split you already have is a finding. So is staging the move for next year, or bringing a workload back on-premises. And if the target architecture already on your desk is sound, the review says that as plainly as it would say the opposite.

Engagements are named and attributable. Our name goes on the analysis and never disappears under another firm’s brand. When you defend a placement decision, the first question is who made it. You should be able to answer that in front of a client, a board, or an auditor.

Where we hand off

IZT TECH advises. IZT CLOUD provides.

We assess, design, model the cost and review the plan. We don’t run the result. When a design calls for a hosted platform, our sister division IZT CLOUD can provide it: separate division, separate contract, named in the deliverable as a finding like any other. A hyperscaler, a different provider, or the racks you already own are equally valid outcomes, and if that is where the analysis lands, that is what the deliverable says.

IZT CLOUD Infrastructure consulting

The rest of the practice

Five neighbouring problems we also take.

Network Architecture, segmentation, wireless Infrastructure Data center, virtualization, recovery Connectivity Carrier selection, SD-WAN design Cybersecurity Assessments, design review Compliance Framework readiness, evidence

All technical consulting

Need help with something?

Tell us the decision you’re trying to make. We’ll tell you whether it’s an engagement, a referral to one of our sister divisions, or something you don’t need us for.

We’re here for you, so you can focus on what matters.

The IZT TECH team