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Microsoft Infrastructure

A cloud foundation built to be governed, secured and grown

Design the Azure foundation properly, move workloads to it safely, and modernise what is worth modernising, with governance, cost control and resilience designed in from the start.

The challenge

Why this matters

Most cloud disappointment traces back to the same root cause: workloads were moved before the platform underneath them was designed. Subscriptions sprawl, networking becomes hard to change, costs drift, and every new project inherits the compromise.

We start with the landing zone, covering identity, network topology, subscription and management group structure, policy, monitoring and backup, then we migrate in waves against a proven pattern. The result is an Azure estate your team can actually govern, and a migration path that does not put the business at risk.

Scope at a glance
Landing zone design & architecture
Azure cloud migration
Application modernisation
Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD)
Business continuity & disaster recovery
Service scope

What’s included

The capabilities we deliver within Microsoft Infrastructure, and what each one covers in practice.

Landing zone design & architecture

Management group and subscription structure, network topology and connectivity, identity integration, Azure Policy guardrails, naming and tagging standards, cost management and monitoring baselines, aligned to the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework and Well-Architected Framework.

Azure cloud migration

Discovery and dependency mapping, workload assessment and disposition (rehost, replatform, refactor, retire), wave planning, pilot migration, cutover runbooks and rollback plans, for servers, databases, file services and line-of-business applications.

Application modernisation

Moving beyond lift-and-shift where the business case supports it: containerisation, Azure App Service and Azure SQL migration, managed platform services in place of self-managed VMs, and CI/CD foundations that make future change cheaper.

Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD)

Secure, scalable desktop and app delivery for hybrid teams, contractors and remote users: host pool design, image management, FSLogix profile strategy, scaling and cost control, and conditional access integration for secure access from any device.

Business continuity & disaster recovery

Backup and recovery design against agreed RPO/RTO targets, Azure Site Recovery, regional resilience options, immutable and ransomware-resistant backup, plus documented and tested recovery runbooks, because an untested DR plan is a hypothesis.

Customer benefits

What you get out of it

Predictable, visible cost

Tagging, budgets, reservations and right-sizing built into the design, so cloud spend is attributable and controllable from day one.

A governed estate

Policy guardrails prevent the drift and shadow-IT sprawl that make cloud environments expensive and hard to secure later.

Lower migration risk

Wave-based delivery, pilot-first validation and tested rollback plans keep business disruption to a planned window.

Scale on demand

Capacity that follows the business instead of a three-year hardware refresh cycle, with no data-centre lead times.

Resilience you have tested

Recovery objectives agreed with the business, designed for, and then actually proven in a test.

A platform your team owns

Documented architecture, standards and runbooks handed over so your engineers can run and extend it confidently.

How we deliver

Our approach to Microsoft Infrastructure

A staged method with clear checkpoints, so you can evaluate progress and change direction before committing to the next phase.

Stage 1

Assess

Estate discovery, dependency mapping, licensing position and a workload disposition matrix.

Stage 2

Design

Landing zone architecture, network and identity design, security baseline and migration wave plan.

Stage 3

Migrate

Pilot wave, validation, then repeatable production waves with cutover and rollback runbooks.

Stage 4

Optimise

Right-sizing, reservation strategy, monitoring, backup validation and handover with documentation.

Questions

Microsoft Infrastructure FAQs

A landing zone is the pre-built Azure foundation, covering subscription structure, networking, identity, policy, monitoring and backup, that workloads land on. You can migrate without one, and many organisations do, but the cost shows up later as sprawl, inconsistent security and networking that is expensive to change. Building it first typically adds a few weeks and saves far more than that afterwards.
Yes, and you almost certainly will for a period. Hybrid connectivity, identity synchronisation and co-existence for file and application services are a standard part of the design, and Azure Arc can bring on-premises and other-cloud servers under the same governance and monitoring.
Cost control is a design decision, not a monthly clean-up exercise. We build tagging and budget alerts into the landing zone, right-size during the assessment rather than lifting oversized VMs as-is, apply reservations and savings plans to steady-state workloads, and use auto-shutdown and scaling for non-production and AVD host pools.
It depends entirely on the use case. AVD is usually strongest for contractors, offshore teams, task-based workers and scenarios where data must not leave the platform. For a standard knowledge worker with a managed device it may not be. We model the actual cost against your usage pattern before recommending it either way.
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Works best alongside

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Talk to us about Microsoft Infrastructure

Book a short consultation and we will walk through your current position, the realistic options and what an assessment would involve.