What we do

Cloud, Data and AI Modernisation

Modernise platforms that unlock agility, insight, and AI at scale.

Modernising Cloud and Data Infrastructure for AI scalability

AI is only as powerful as the platform and data it runs on. Modernising your cloud and data infrastructure is essential to unlock agility, ensure compliance, and enable AI to deliver real business value.

Cloud Direct’s suite of services unlock immediate value through modernising your infrastructure, data, and AI foundations, allowing you to scale with confidence.

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Modernisation Services to Power Your AI‑Ready Enterprise

Our supporting professional and managed services give you the operational backbone to modernise with confidence.

From Azure migration and optimisation to managed AVD, hosted infrastructure, data platform management and CSP+ for Azure, we provide the expertise and ongoing support you need to run a modern, resilient and AI‑ready cloud environment

Azure Enterprise-Scale Landing Zone Deployment
Azure Infrastructure Migration
Azure Landing Zone Assessment
Azure Managed Services
Azure Migrate and Modernise
Azure Solution Assessment
Azure Synapse Migration Assessment
Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) Deployment

Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) Managed Services
Azure VMware Solution (AVS) Migration & Modernisation
Azure Well-Architected Review
CSP Plus Azure
Data & AI Readiness Assessment
Data Intelligence MVP
Data Platform Managed Services
Task Intelligence PoV

Outcomes that matter

Our cloud, data and AI modernisation solutions truly move the productivity needle, delivering measurable outcomes quickly to build an efficient, secure, and empowered Agent-Ready Enterprise.

Real-time insights

Move beyond slow, retrospective reporting. Modern cloud and data foundations deliver instant access to accurate, actionable insight, empowering leaders to make faster, smarter decisions that drive growth.

Accelerate value

AI only scales when built on a robust, modern platform. By unifying your cloud and data estate, you unlock agility, enable advanced analytics, and create a foundation for AI-driven innovation across the business

AI as a growth engine

Shift IT from “keeping the lights on” to enabling transformation. Our approach optimises technology investment, reduces operational overhead, and positions IT as a strategic driver of innovation.

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Cloud Modernisation

Cloud modernisation gives your organisation a secure, scalable and AI‑ready foundation to grow. Our cloud infrastructure transformation services redesign your core platforms, migrate and modernise workloads, and implement a resilient Azure architecture that improves performance, governance and cost control. By embedding Zero Trust security, automation and FinOps from the outset, you gain a cloud environment that’s easier to manage, faster to adapt and aligned to your long‑term digital strategy.

Modernising your cloud infrastructure also unlocks the full value of data and AI. With consolidated, well‑governed data and modern platform capabilities, your organisation can confidently adopt Microsoft Copilot, advanced analytics and AI‑powered applications. The result is greater agility, stronger resilience and a future‑ready cloud foundation that supports innovation across every part of the business.

AI-Ready Data

AI can only be as powerful as the data behind it. Becoming AI‑ready means modernising your data estate so it’s clean, connected, governed and accessible to the AI services that need it. Through a clear data modernisation strategy, organisations consolidate fragmented data sources, upgrade legacy platforms, and establish the governance and security needed to trust AI‑driven insights. This includes data transformation, improved data quality, and the shift to modern cloud data platforms that support real‑time analytics and Microsoft Copilot experiences.

Cloud Direct helps you get there faster. We assess your current data landscape, identify gaps, and build a roadmap to truly AI‑ready data, from platform modernisation to governance frameworks and intelligent automation. Our experts design and implement modern Azure data architectures that unlock value from day one, giving you a trusted, scalable foundation for AI, analytics and future innovation.

We’re cloud, data and AI modernisation experts

To become an Agent-Ready Enterprise, you need the right foundations.
We’ve been modernising cloud platforms and data estates to unlock agility, compliance, and AI-driven insight, helping our customers scale confidently and realise value faster.

We’ve been exclusively partnered with Microsoft for more than a decade, growing our skillsets and our offerings to match their pace of innovation.

Our relationship with Microsoft

Certified expertise

We have an extensive collection of Microsoft accreditations, covering cloud, data, AI and more.

We are customer zero

We’re at the forefront of innovation, providing solutions that we’re already seeing the impact of for ourselves.

Support at every step

From build and deployment to on-going Managed Services, our teams are here to help you succeed with AI.

Ambitious businesses we’ve worked with

For more than two decades, we’ve been helping organisations unlock the full potential of Microsoft solutions.

“Cloud Direct delivered a seamless transition from on-premises infrastructure to the cloud, and positioned us perfectly to unlock the power of our data and implement AI solutions.”

John Timson CTO, Biz123

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