Move servers, databases and applications to Microsoft Azure on a planned cutover rather than a hopeful weekend. Assessment, landing zone, migration and hypercare for Australian businesses, with data kept in Australian regions.
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Migration is mostly preparation. These are the pieces that make the cutover uneventful.
Not everything should move the same way and some things should not move at all. Every workload is scored against these six during the assessment.
Lift and shift the workload as it is. Fastest path off ageing hardware, and the usual choice when a data centre contract is ending.
Move it, but swap the parts that are cheaper to run as a managed service, such as a database server becoming Azure SQL.
Change the application to suit the cloud. The most expensive option, worth it only where the current design is the actual constraint.
Replace the workload with a SaaS product instead of migrating it. Often the right answer for commodity systems nobody wants to maintain.
Switch it off. Most estates carry servers nobody has used in years, and the assessment is usually where that finally gets confirmed.
Leave it where it is, for now. Licensing, latency or compliance sometimes make staying put the correct decision this year.
We inventory your servers, databases and applications, map the dependencies, and score every workload against the six R's. You get the findings and a wave plan whether or not you engage us for the migration.
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Five phases, so nothing about your estate is discovered during the cutover.
Inventory, dependency mapping and a six R's decision for every workload, with the surprises found now rather than at cutover.
Landing zone, networking, identity and residency agreed and built as code before a single workload moves.
A low-risk workload moved end to end first, so the runbook is proven on something that will not hurt.
Workloads moved in waves, each with a rehearsed cutover window and a rollback decision point.
Right-sizing and reservations applied once real usage data exists, then handover or ongoing management.
Commitments about how the work is run, not averages borrowed from someone else's project.
Workloads and backups pinned to Australian Azure regions, documented for audit.
Rehost, replatform, refactor, repurchase, retire or retain, decided before anything moves.
Someone on call through the switchover window, not just business hours.
Appther has been delivering cloud and platform engineering since it was founded.
Chosen per estate. Where a native Azure tool does the job, we use it rather than adding a third-party licence.
Six sectors we migrate to Azure, each with a different reason the cutover window is hard to get.
Regulated workloads where the migration itself needs an audit trail.
Patient data that cannot leave the country or sit unencrypted mid-move.
Estates that cannot cut over during a promotion, so timing drives the plan.
Remote sites and links too thin to move bulk data over the wire.
Term dates decide the window, so migrations run between teaching periods.
Small estates that still cannot afford an unplanned day offline.
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Field notes from real migrations. No hype, just what worked and what didn't.
What managed Azure covers, how pricing works locally, and how to pick a provider.
The same move-or-stay decision, applied to the system most businesses migrate last.
A worked migration: assessment, staging, data validation and cutover.
Tell us what is running today and we will tell you what should move, what should change on the way, and what should simply be switched off.
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