DataGnu / Cloud / Azure
Azure migration, modernization, AI, data and security.
Landing zones, AKS, Fabric, Azure OpenAI and Defender. We design, migrate and operate.
Services
Professional and managed services
Each discipline can be a scoped project, an ongoing managed service, or a project that becomes one.
Migration
Discovery through to production, inside an enterprise-scale architecture.
Professional services
- Estate discovery and dependency analysis with Azure Migrate
- Business case and TCO modelling, including hybrid benefit
- Enterprise-scale landing zone with management groups and Azure Policy
- Server and database migration with Azure Site Recovery and Azure DMS
- Workload disposition and wave planning
- Cutover rehearsal, execution and rollback
Managed services
- Landing zone, policy and governance management
- Cost management, reservations and Azure Hybrid Benefit optimisation
- Backup, patching and Azure Site Recovery operations
- Architecture review against the Well-Architected Framework
Modernization
Off virtual machines and onto services that cost less and change faster.
Professional services
- Containerisation onto Azure Kubernetes Service and Container Apps
- Serverless and event-driven design with Functions and Event Grid
- Database modernization to Azure SQL and Cosmos DB
- Integration modernization with Logic Apps and API Management
- CI/CD with Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions, plus Bicep or Terraform
Managed services
- AKS cluster lifecycle, upgrades and capacity management
- Platform engineering and developer self-service
- Release engineering and deployment support
- SRE practice, SLOs and incident response
Artificial intelligence
Azure OpenAI and AI Foundry, past the pilot and into daily workflows.
Professional services
- Generative AI applications on Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Foundry
- Retrieval-augmented generation with Azure AI Search
- Copilot and agent integration into existing line-of-business systems
- Document intelligence and extraction pipelines
- Machine learning on Azure Machine Learning
- Evaluation, content safety and responsible AI controls
Managed services
- Token consumption monitoring and cost optimisation
- Model and deployment version lifecycle management
- Output quality monitoring and drift detection
- Search index and knowledge base curation
Data & analytics
Scattered reporting consolidated into a governed platform, increasingly on Fabric.
Professional services
- Lakehouse and warehouse design on Microsoft Fabric
- Azure Synapse and Azure Databricks platform build
- Ingestion and orchestration with Azure Data Factory
- Streaming with Event Hubs and Stream Analytics
- Governance and lineage with Microsoft Purview
- Semantic models and reporting in Power BI
Managed services
- Pipeline monitoring, SLAs and failure remediation
- Data quality and reconciliation controls
- Capacity, performance and cost tuning
- Purview governance and access review operations
Security
Identity-first security, because on Azure identity is the perimeter that actually matters.
Professional services
- Security assessment and Microsoft Secure Score remediation
- Microsoft Entra ID design, conditional access and PIM
- Zero-trust network architecture and segmentation
- Microsoft Defender for Cloud deployment and hardening
- Microsoft Sentinel SIEM design, onboarding and detection rules
- Key and secret management with Azure Key Vault
Managed services
- Managed detection and response on Microsoft Sentinel
- Continuous compliance monitoring and reporting
- Vulnerability and patch management
- Privileged access review and access certification
Delivered work rather than a partner tier. Our AWS Select Tier Partner status is separate.
Getting started
How we start
One size fits all rarely works. We map the estate, then match each workload to a strategy.
Assess
The existing estate — workloads, dependencies, costs, risks and the constraints nobody wrote down.
Plan
A target architecture, a disposition per workload, and a sequence that delivers value before the end.
Execute
Landing zone, migration waves and modernization work, rehearsed before it is done for real.
Operate
A managed service with agreed response targets, and continuous cost and security review.
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