Discover the value of working with an Azure Expert MSP
Leverage vast experience in operating Azure environments to gain support and optimisations, or simply offload some donkey work to drive business efficiencies and growth. Spend your resources where it matters – on delivering value to your customers and driving business projects forward.
Drive long-term operational success
Once in Azure, you need a robust operating model that aligns your people, processes, and technology with cloud best practices. Allowing you to drive you towards future goals such as innovation and AI readiness. We support you by evaluating your situation, identifying risks and gaps, and suggesting fixes.
To fully understand your requirements and create a solution to fit them, we offer services to:
Understand your current state
This is the current alignment of people, processes, and technology that operate cloud technologies across your organisation.
Map your future state
This is your ideal state of your cloud operations, where you’re getting the full value from your investment in cloud.
Design & transition you to your service
We build and onboard you to a service that complements your strengths, mitigates your weaknesses, and fully plugs any gaps.
A helping hand
Without a true proper understanding of your Azure workloads, and how each must be managed to function as expected, you’ll only be successful in reducing the effectiveness of your environment.
A deep understanding of Azure management, paired with knowledge of your workloads’ business purposes allows our experts to offer support in continually optimising your platform.
Our expertise will help you avoid…
Environmental drift
Security pitfall
Spiralling costs
Low availability
Poor performance
Managed Azure Aligned with the Well Architected Framework
Our team of Azure experts aligns your environment with Microsoft best practices. We accomplish this by continuously monitoring against the 5 Well-Architected Framework pillars, with an additional focus on Sustainability. You’ll receive regular optimisation reports, updates on how your environment scores in each area, and feedback on the work we are doing.
You’ll receive regular scores on how you perform against:
Reliability
Design and operate mission-critical systems with confidence
Security
We help you build and manage proactively secured workloads in Azure
Cost Optimisation
Manage and optimise your cloud costs, allowing you to focus on what matters most.
Operational Excellence
Ensure your applications run effectively across infrastructures, providing customers with an optimised experience.
Performance Efficiency
Prioritise scalability through design and implementation, reducing maintenance costs, increasing agility, and improving user experience.
Sustainability
Use regular sustainability reports to monitor your carbon emissions. We’ll advise you on the greenest ways to optimise your Azure environment.
Why Cloud Direct?
We’re Azure Experts
As one of the first Azure Expert MSPs, we’ve got a long track record of meeting Microsoft’s highest standards and delivering our services to the correct quality and scale.
Microsoft recognises us as an expert partner for Infrastructure
We’ve been thoroughly vetted by Microsoft. They say we’re experts in Infrastructure and we’ve got the solution designation assessment to prove it.
We maximise funding opportunities
We’ve secured more funding for our customers than any other Microsoft partner in the UK. We accelerate project timelines while reducing your financial risk.
We're a Microsoft Partner of the Year for Solution Assessments
We know a thing or two about Microsoft’s Solution Assessments. Working alongside Microsoft, we show you the art of the possible and provide a detailed roadmap to achieving it.
Don’t just take our word for it
“Around 80% of what we do now is focused on helping the business to move forward. We don’t worry about maintenance or upgrades at all thanks to Cloud Direct.”
Jason Moon
Head of IT, Simarco
“Cloud Direct offered the online real-time portal, which is fantastic because it empowers us to see what the consumption is, how it relates to budget and what the ongoing costs are.”
Avril Chester
IT Director, Scope
Start your journey
We’re ready to transform your business. Are you?
Send us a message and one of our experts will get back in touch to arrange an initial conversation.
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