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Cloud Modernization
Most estates were never designed. They accumulated. Modernization is deciding what the estate should be, then getting there without stopping the business. [Draft copy]
The problem
A decade of reasonable decisions, none of them made together.
Workloads were moved when a contract expired. A platform was chosen because someone had used it before. Identity was configured for the estate as it was in 2019. Each decision was defensible on the day it was taken.
The result: an estate nobody can draw, a bill nobody can attribute, and controls that take a fortnight of manual work to evidence. [Draft copy]
What enterprise-grade looks like here
The difference is evidence, not tooling.
Enterprise-grade cloud is not a longer list of services. It is a landing zone with its design decisions written down, boundaries that match how your organisation is governed, and controls mapped to the obligation that put you here.
Each of those is a document your auditor can read and a configuration your team can change without calling us. [Draft copy]
This framing repeats on every capability page. It is the differentiator, and it should read consistently across all twelve (§9 T3).
What we do
Four moves, in this order.
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Establish the current estate as a fact
Inventory, dependencies, spend and control coverage. Two weeks, run by a founder. You keep the document either way.
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Design the target and the boundary
Landing zone, identity, network segmentation and data residency. Each decision is recorded with the option we rejected.
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Move in tranches tied to business risk
Sequenced by what your obligation forces first. Not by what is easiest to build.
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Hand over the operating model
Runbooks, cost ownership, control evidence, and training so it sticks. [Draft copy]
What you end up owning
Documents and configuration, not a dependency.
| Deliverable | Owned by |
|---|---|
| Estate baseline and dependency map | Your platform team |
| Landing zone with recorded design decisions | Your platform team |
| Control register mapped to your obligation | Risk & compliance |
| Cost attribution model | Finance and IT jointly |
| Runbooks and handover training | Operations |
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Tell us what you are being asked to prove.
Bring the finding or the questionnaire. We will tell you whether cloud modernization is the answer. Sometimes it is not.
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