Cloud Consulting & Migration

Move to cloud for reasons you can state, on a path you can stop.

Overview

Cloud migrations disappoint most often when the reason was never specific — lifting servers unchanged onto rented hardware costs more and delivers less. Nextherrion starts with what you actually want from the move, assesses each workload on its own terms, and sequences the migration so it can be paused, reversed or stopped without leaving the estate half-moved.

Assessment, workload analysis, migration planning and execution, with the landing zone and cost model settled before anything moves.

Cloud Readiness Assessment

Which workloads should move, which should change first and which should stay — judged per workload rather than as one decision about the estate.

Cloud Strategy & Consulting

Deciding what the move is for — cost, elasticity, resilience, reach — because the answer changes the target architecture substantially.

Migration Planning

Sequencing by dependency and risk, with rollback defined for each stage, so a problem halts one workload rather than the programme.

Cloud Readiness AssessmentCloud Strategy & ConsultingMigration PlanningWorkload Migration

Landing Zone DesignData MigrationCloud Cost ModellingPost-Migration Optimization

WHAT WE DO

Cloud Consulting & Migration Services We Offer

Workload Migration

Executing the move — rehost, replatform or refactor per workload, chosen on merit rather than applied uniformly.

Landing Zone Design

Accounts, networking, identity and guardrails set up before workloads arrive, rather than retrofitted once the estate is already sprawling.

Data Migration

Moving data with its consistency requirements respected, including the cutover window and what happens if it has to be abandoned.

Cloud Cost Modelling

Modelling what the estate will cost to run before committing, since cloud converts capital expense into a monthly bill that grows quietly.

Post-Migration Optimization

The stage most often skipped: right-sizing and cleaning up once real usage is visible, which is where most of the savings actually are.

OUTCOMES

What a Considered Migration Changes

The gains come from changing how workloads run, not from where they run. A lift-and-shift with no follow-up usually costs more than the datacentre it left.

Capacity that matches demand
Costs modelled before committing
Migration you can pause or reverse
Guardrails in place from the start
Resilience designed, not assumed
Right-sizing after real usage

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Will moving to cloud save us money?

Only if workloads change to use it — elastic scaling, right-sizing, managed services. Moved unchanged, cloud is usually more expensive than the hardware it replaced.

Should everything move?

Rarely. Some workloads have no case for moving, and a few have regulatory or latency reasons not to. That is assessed per workload.

How disruptive is a migration?

It depends on sequencing more than on scale. Phased migration with parallel running keeps disruption to a cutover window per workload.

What if we need to stop halfway?

Then you should be able to. Sequencing assumes it — each stage is designed to be a viable resting point rather than a commitment to the next.

Which cloud provider should we use?

Driven by your workloads, existing commitments and the skills you have. Multi-cloud has real cost and is worth choosing deliberately, not by accident.

What happens after migration?

Optimization, which is where most savings appear. It is also the stage most often skipped once the project is declared finished.

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