Cloud readiness assessment
Workload-by-workload analysis of dependency, data gravity, licensing and regulatory constraints, with a disposition per application.
Service 04
Cloud & Infrastructure Advisory
Cloud adoption planned properly: landing zone design, migration sequencing and a cost model that still holds twelve months in.
Overview
Sequencing beats enthusiasm.
Cloud programmes rarely fail on technology. They fail on sequencing, on landing-zone decisions taken too late, and on a cost model nobody owned.
Solvidian advises on cloud and infrastructure programmes from the decision stage through to migration planning and steady-state operations. We assess which workloads should move, which should stay, and which should be retired, then design the landing zone and the sequence to get there.
We are equally direct about when not to move. Some workloads are cheaper, faster and safer where they are, and a hybrid estate designed on purpose beats a half-finished migration every time.
Scope
What's included
Scope is agreed in writing before an engagement starts. These are the components we most often build it from.
Landing zone design
Account and subscription structure, network topology, identity model, tagging standard, guardrails and policy baseline.
Migration planning
Wave planning by dependency, cutover approach per workload, rollback criteria and a realistic critical path.
Cost modelling & FinOps
Total cost of ownership modelling, commitment strategy, showback design and the controls that stop spend drifting.
Resilience & continuity design
Recovery objectives agreed with the business, then designed for: backup, replication, failover and tested recovery runbooks.
Infrastructure-as-code review
Review of module structure, state management, environment promotion and pipeline controls for your provisioning code.
Deliverables
What you receive.
Tangible artefacts you own outright, in editable formats, with no dependency on us to read or maintain them.
- Workload disposition matrix with rationale
- Landing zone design and guardrail policy set
- Wave-based migration plan and critical path
- TCO and run-rate cost model with sensitivities
- Recovery objectives, DR design and test plan
- Reference infrastructure-as-code structure
Approach
How we run it.
Four stages, with a decision point at the end of each. You can stop after any of them.
01
Inventory
Applications, dependencies, data volumes and licence positions collected into a single workload register.
02
Disposition
Each workload assigned an outcome (retain, re-host, re-platform, refactor or retire) with the reasoning attached.
03
Landing zone
Foundations designed for identity, network, security and cost governance before the first workload moves.
04
Sequencing
Waves planned around dependency and risk, with cutover and rollback criteria defined per wave.
What changes
What you should expect to be true afterwards.
If these are not true at handover, the engagement has not finished.
- A defensible answer for every workload, including the ones that stay
- Cloud foundations built once, correctly, rather than retrofitted
- Run-rate cost that matches the model within a predictable band
- Recovery objectives that have actually been tested
Questions
Common questions
No. We work across the major hyperscalers and regional providers, and the choice is driven by your workload profile, data residency requirements and commercial position.
Yes. Data residency and sector-specific requirements are treated as first-class design constraints in the disposition and landing-zone work, not as an afterthought at the end.
Related
Other service lines
IT Strategy & Consulting
Independent advice on where your technology should go next, plus a costed, sequenced plan for getting there.
Network Design & Consultancy
Network architecture, segmentation and performance engineering: designed on paper, validated in test, documented for the people who run it.
Systems & Communications Software Design
Design of software that runs on and around computer systems and communication equipment: device interfaces, control planes and the platforms that manage them.
Next step
Bring us the symptom. We will help you name the problem.
A short scoping call costs nothing and usually saves a great deal of specification work later.
At a glance
What a first conversation covers
- What is actually happening, in your words
- Which discipline the problem belongs to
- Whether we are the right firm for it
- Rough shape, effort and sequence if we are
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