Your data-center
lease expires.
We get you out.
Migrate lifts legacy infrastructure off on-prem racks and sets it running in the cloud before the next renewal cycle hits — without weekend outages, without rewriting your applications, without replacing your team.
67%
avg. cost reduction
11 wks
median migration
0
unplanned outages
Your infrastructure today — over-provisioned, under-utilized, expiring.
01 — The Diagnosis
We've heard every version
of this conversation.
The CTO who just got the Broadcom renewal quote. The IT Director whose DR node has been offline for six months. The CFO who learned hosting costs doubled while utilization sits at twelve percent.
Click any card to see how we address it — specifically, not generically.
Every engagement starts with a no-cost infrastructure audit. No boilerplate. No assumptions.
Hosting costs doubled. Utilization sits at 12%.
You're paying for three years of peak capacity you provisioned in 2021 and never reached. Every renewal cycle, the bill grows. The CFO wants answers. The answer isn't a better spreadsheet.
Our Methodology
- 1Full infrastructure audit — we map every VM, every idle rack, every forgotten dev environment
- 2Right-sizing analysis against actual workload telemetry (not estimates)
- 3Cloud cost modeling with committed-use discounts and reserved instances factored in
- 4Phased decommission plan that kills the data-center lease on schedule
Avg. 67% reduction in hosting OpEx within 6 months of cutover
SOC 2 audit in 90 days. Your DR node is offline.
Compliance frameworks assume redundancy you can't demonstrate, audit trails you haven't implemented, and encryption at rest on systems that pre-date the requirement. The auditor isn't going to wait.
Our Methodology
- 1Gap analysis against SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, or HIPAA — whichever applies to your renewals
- 2Cloud-native compliance controls: CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Security Hub pre-configured
- 3Multi-AZ replication replacing the offline DR node — live before the audit window opens
- 4Automated evidence collection so the next audit takes days, not months
Clients pass their first cloud-era compliance audit within 60 days of migration
Your VMware team retired. The replacement quotes $340/hr.
The institutional knowledge walked out the door. The remaining team can keep the lights on but can't safely expand or modernize. Contractor rates for legacy VMware expertise have tripled since 2022.
Our Methodology
- 1Knowledge transfer sessions — we document what exists before we touch anything
- 2Migration designed around your team's current skill set, not ours
- 3Cloud-native tooling (Terraform, CDK, native monitoring) your team can actually operate
- 4Handoff training included — not a separate SOW
Teams operate their new cloud environment independently within 8 weeks of cutover
Broadcom acquired VMware. Your licensing costs just reset.
The per-CPU perpetual model is gone. The new subscription pricing is 3–5x what you were paying. And the next renewal is in 47 days. This isn't a negotiation — it's a migration timeline.
Our Methodology
- 1Emergency assessment: which workloads can leave VMware in 30 days vs. 90 days
- 2Hypervisor-agnostic migration path — we're not selling you another vendor lock-in
- 3Containerization roadmap for workloads that benefit from it, lift-and-shift for those that don't
- 4License audit to identify what you can stop paying for immediately
Average VMware cost eliminated: $280K/year for a 400-VM estate
02 — The Approach
Three paths. One right answer
for your specific estate.
| Approach | Migration CostLower is better | Time to ValueFaster = higher bar | Execution RiskLower is better | Long-Term ROIHigher is better |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Lift & Shift Move VMs as-is to cloud IaaS. Fastest path off the data center. | Medium | 4–8 wks | Low | Moderate |
Re-PlatformRecommended Migrate to managed services (RDS, ECS, S3) with minimal code changes. | Low–Med | 6–12 wks | Medium | High |
Re-Architect Redesign as cloud-native microservices. Maximum long-term efficiency. | Low (long-term) | 16–32 wks | High | Very High |
Re-Platform is our default recommendation for estates with 50–500 VMs and a data-center lease expiring within 12 months. It delivers 60–70% cost reduction without the timeline risk of a full re-architecture. We scope every engagement individually — book an assessment to get your specific numbers.
Migration Cost
Total project cost including tooling, labor, and cutover support
Time to Value
From kick-off to running 100% in cloud with legacy lease terminated
Execution Risk
Probability of unplanned downtime, scope creep, or missed deadline
Long-Term ROI
3-year TCO improvement vs. renewing on-prem at current rates
03 — The Proof
Real numbers. Real clients.
Real data-center leases terminated.
Meridian Financial Group
Financial Services
Before → After
"The lease was expiring in 90 days. Migrate had us out of the data center in 11 weeks without a single weekend outage."
Vantage Logistics
Supply Chain & Logistics
Before → After
"We had 340 VMs running on VMware. Post-Broadcom acquisition our renewal quote was $2.8M. We migrated instead. Best infrastructure decision in a decade."
04 — Next Step
The server room lights
don't have to keep blinking.
An assessment takes 48 hours. We map your estate, model your cloud costs, and tell you exactly what's achievable in your timeline — before you've committed to anything.
Get Your Migration Assessment
We'll map your current estate, model your cloud costs, and tell you exactly what's possible in your timeline — no obligation.
Download the Migration Readiness Checklist
48-point self-diagnostic. Know exactly where you stand before the first conversation.