Azure Landing Zones aligned to Microsoft CAF, VMware HCX migration waves, AVS deployments, ExpressRoute and Direct Connect connectivity, and hybrid-cloud designs for regulated industries. One regulated manufacturer migrated in six months - competing consultancies had quoted eighteen.
Most cloud projects that go off the rails do so for one reason: the foundation was built workload-by-workload instead of architecture-first. Identity sprawls. Networking is a knot of point-to-point peerings. Governance is a wiki page that hasn't been updated since the first VM landed. By the time the third migration wave hits, the cloud team is spending more time fighting drift than shipping features.
We design the landing zone first, codify it with policy-as-code, and then migrate workloads against a foundation that scales. The migration takes longer to start and finishes faster - usually by a factor of two or three on enterprise engagements.
CAF-aligned landing zones with management groups, subscription topology, identity federation, hub-and-spoke networking, Azure Policy as code, and audit-grade governance. The foundation that your workload migrations will inherit for the next decade.
HCX deployment, network extension, bulk migration, replication-assisted vMotion, and RAV cutover sequencing. Phased migration of VMware estates into Azure with rollback playbooks and validation gates at every wave.
AVS sizing, deployment, identity integration, network connectivity to native Azure services, and ExpressRoute design. The right answer when your VMware estate is large and your team is VMware-skilled.
Hybrid connectivity design - ExpressRoute circuits with dual provider edge, BGP routing, FastPath for low-latency, integration with on-prem WAN. AWS Direct Connect for multi-cloud architectures. Resilient by design.
Account / project topology, VPC architecture, IAM design, Transit Gateway / VPC peering, and workload migration via AWS MGN, CloudEndure or VMware Cloud on AWS. GCP foundations using the Cloud Foundation Toolkit.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud, AWS Security Hub, Wiz, Prisma Cloud, Lacework - implementation, baseline policy, alert tuning, and integration with your SIEM. Cloud security that gets used, not ignored.
A regulated manufacturing enterprise needed to retire an aging on-prem data center and migrate its full VMware estate into Azure - with audit-grade compliance, ExpressRoute connectivity, and zero disruption to production lines that ran 24/7. Two competing consultancies had quoted an 18-month engagement. They engaged Aspire IT Systems instead.
We delivered a Microsoft CAF-aligned landing zone in eight weeks - management group hierarchy, hub-and-spoke networking, identity federation, Azure Policy as code, audit-evidence capture. Then ran phased HCX migration waves into AVS over the following four months, with replication-assisted vMotion and rehearsed rollback at every wave. ExpressRoute went live in parallel.
Total elapsed time: six months. ExpressRoute performance exceeded the SLA by a wide margin. The in-house team operates the platform today; we handed over runbooks and walked away clean.
We deploy at depth in each cloud, with the multi-vendor networking and security expertise to integrate them cleanly with what you already run on-prem.
Workload inventory, dependency mapping, compliance scoping, TCO model across on-prem, AVS and native cloud. Decisions emerge from the data - not from sales decks.
Management groups, identity, hub-and-spoke networking, policy-as-code, audit-evidence capture. The foundation deploys before any workload touches it.
ExpressRoute / Direct Connect, hybrid identity federation, conditional access, privileged access, monitoring integration. The connective tissue tested before migration starts.
Workload waves with HCX or MGN replication, parallel run periods, validation gates and rollback playbooks. No big-bang cutovers. Every wave proves itself before the next one starts.
Right-sizing, reserved-instance planning, FinOps integration, monitoring dashboards, runbooks and 30/60/90 hypercare. You own and operate the platform end-to-end.
An Azure Landing Zone is the secure, scalable foundation you deploy *before* migrating workloads - covering identity, networking, governance, security and monitoring per Microsoft's Cloud Adoption Framework. Skipping it is the most common cause of a migration that's technically successful but operationally painful. We deploy CAF-aligned landing zones with policy-as-code, so future workload onboarding inherits the controls automatically.
Six to twelve months end-to-end for a typical mid-market migration - landing zone in 6 to 8 weeks, then phased HCX migration waves over the remaining time. We delivered a regulated manufacturer's full migration in six months when two competing consultancies had quoted eighteen. Speed comes from disciplined phasing, not heroics.
AVS (Azure VMware Solution) is the right call when your VMware estate is large, your operational team is VMware-skilled, or your applications aren't ready for re-platforming. Native Azure IaaS or PaaS is the right call when you have budget for re-architecture and want to consume cloud-native services. Many migrations are hybrid - AVS as the initial landing, then selective workload re-platforming over the following 12-24 months.
ExpressRoute design depends on your traffic profile, redundancy requirements and Microsoft peering geography. We architect ExpressRoute circuits with dual provider edge, BGP routing, FastPath for low-latency workloads, and integration with your on-prem WAN. Most enterprises need ExpressRoute Direct only for very high throughput; Provider-Managed ExpressRoute is the right answer for most.
Yes. Multi-cloud is increasingly the norm for risk diversification and best-of-breed workload placement. We design multi-cloud networking with consistent IP planning, route policy across ExpressRoute and Direct Connect, and unified security policy via SASE. The hard part isn't running two clouds - it's running them with consistent governance, which is what our landing zone work handles.
Yes. We've delivered Azure migrations for regulated manufacturing, healthcare and financial services. Landing zone design includes audit-evidence capture, policy-as-code controls aligned to PCI, HIPAA or NIST 800-53, encryption-at-rest and in-transit enforcement, and segregated subscriptions for sensitive workloads. Compliance is built in, not bolted on.
30-minute call with someone who has actually delivered the migration you're planning. Honest read on timeline, cost and the things the marketing decks leave out.