Azure Infrastructure Migration
Modernise Your IT Infrastructure with a Seamless Azure Migration
Ageing infrastructure, rising operational costs, and increasing demand on IT teams are forcing organisations to rethink their hosting strategy. Cloud Direct’s Azure Infrastructure Migration service provides a structured, low-risk path to the cloud, helping you move from on-premises or legacy environments to a modern Azure platform with confidence.
Outcomes That Matter
Migrating your infrastructure to Microsoft Azure is more than a technical upgrade, it’s a strategic move that delivers measurable business value. Cloud Direct ensures your Azure migration is designed to maximise performance, reduce costs, and future-proof your organisation.
Reduce Total Cost of Ownership
Optimise your infrastructure spend by moving away from expensive, ageing hardware and over-provisioned environments. Through right-sizing and a shift from CapEx to OpEx, your Azure platform is designed to deliver ongoing cost efficiency and financial predictability.
Strengthen Resilience and Reduce Risk
Improve business continuity with a secure, highly available Azure environment built to Microsoft best practices. Reduce the risk of downtime, enhance disaster recovery capabilities, and ensure your infrastructure is aligned to modern security and compliance standards.
Unlock Agility and Scalability
Empower your organisation to respond quickly to changing business demands. Azure’s scalable infrastructure enables rapid growth, supports acquisitions, and removes the constraints of legacy systems, giving you the flexibility to innovate and evolve with confidence.
Looking for an Azure partner to help you migrate?
You’re in the right place. We drive business transformation through best practice cloud migrations and operations that perfectly align with Microsoft’s Cloud Adoption Framework.
Assess
Plan
Implement
Operate
We set you up for success by considering security and ongoing operations at each stage of your migration, creating an environment that supports you in outpacing your competitors – not only in the sprint to the cloud, but in the marathon of operating there.
We also offer Azure Innovation Workshops for you to better understand an Azure migration in your unique business context. In a two-hour, no-strings engagement with our in-house experts, we’ll explore what’s possible, what you need to consider, and what your next steps might look like.
Assess and plan
Whether you are building a business case or you’re ready to migrate, our assessments and planning services will help you create a detailed Azure migration strategy that ensures the success of your project.
We review requirements from your stakeholders, alongside performing a workload analysis to gather all the necessary information from a data and requirement perspective.
You need a realistic view of operating in Azure. As such, we bake in considerations for security, AI readiness, estimated costs, and ongoing operations into our analysis. This helps you build a business case that reflects what is achievable within the constraints of your requirements.
Your workloads have different functions and requirements. Therefore, we can individually design the target state of each workload using the 5 pillars of Microsoft’s Well Architected Framework (WAF). Each workload is considered based on what you need it to do, which means you get the most ROI from your move to cloud.
If you want to learn more about how to create an Azure migration strategy, our step-by-step guide tells you everything you need to know.
Read the guide
Implement
With your route mapped out, it’s time for your journey to the cloud to begin.
Our migration services, designed and deployed in-line with the Microsoft Well-Architected Framework, will get your business in the cloud as smoothly and efficiently as possible.
We do this by breaking your migration down into two phases.
Identify and migrate the quick wins, to deliver fast returns on investment with minimal impact on your delivery.
Strategically plan and implement the re-architecting and migration of more sophisticated workloads, where return on investment is realised over a longer period of time.
By prioritising migrations in this way, we help ensure that your new environment is providing value as soon as possible.
As an Azure Expert MSP, we know a thing or two about getting the most out of Microsoft Azure. We understand that it is successful operations in the cloud, not just the cloud migration, that counts.
That’s why we build it right
Our Factory approach leverages proven design patterns to build your new environment in a sequential and repeatable manner, getting you operating in the cloud sooner.
We build automation into our processes to accelerate tasks and ensure accuracy at scale, providing you with a more fit-for-purpose environment that performs as you need it to.
We follow Microsoft and industry best practices, considering security, governance and compliance every step of the way to give you peace of mind that your systems and data are secure.
Landing Zone
Building solid foundations in the cloud is critical. Realising the full value of Azure relies on these fundamental structures that put security and performance at the core of your cloud environment.
With Azure Landing Zones in place, you’ll benefit from…
Increased speed
Access the tools and capabilities you need to migrate to the cloud and deploy new workloads quickly
Enhanced scalability
Build consistent environments with the same configuration and controls, enabling you to scale with ease
Improved security and performance
Leverage secure, scalable, and compliant architectures that incorporate Microsoft best practices and industry standards
Operate
Once you’ve reached your destination, your journey continues.
We make it easier for you operate effectively in Azure by planning for the target operational state from the outset, designing and building your environment with security in mind, and embedding your ongoing operations at the core of the project.
Find out more about how we improve your operations
Azure managed services
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'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
XN Leisure
Migrating XN Leisure safely and securely into Azure has driven business growth through a significantly improved customer experience. This is because their customers now enjoy the benefits of their hosting software being hosted in Azure.
Mid & South Essex NHS FoundationTrust
Cloud Direct understood the key priorities of Mid & South Essex NHS Trust, and by optimising & integrating their Azure operations, helped them to drastically improve the experience of their patients.
“Cloud Direct has been great. They sat down with us, asked what we were trying to achieve, then worked with us from planning through to implementation. I really value the personal level of service. Being able to pick up the phone and to speak to someone who knows what we’re trying to do from a business perspective makes a big difference”
Tom Bradley
Director of Operations, The Care Database
“Cloud Direct offered the online real-time portal, which is fantastic because it empowers us to see what the consumption is, how that relates to budget and what ongoing costs are.”
Avril Chester
Interim IT Director, Scope