Cloud strategy & roadmap
Assess workloads, risk, dependencies and value to define a phased cloud direction rather than a blanket migration.
Cloud · MereSimplicity Build
When a system slows down, who knows what to do?
Know who owns the system, what it costs and how problems will be handled.
Unclear ownership, unexpected costs and difficult recovery can turn technology into a daily distraction. Start with the workloads your business relies on, then agree the access, monitoring and support needed to run them.
The challenge
What gets in the way.
Cloud estates can grow without consistent ownership, cost visibility, security controls or an operating model for incidents and change.
Where we fit
Who this helps.
Organisations planning a cloud move, improving an existing Azure environment, strengthening security or needing dependable operational support.
Cloud strategyAzure foundationsSecurity and governanceCost and performance optimisationManaged operations
How we help
Make the system serve the work.
Choose the parts that address your problem. The scope follows the work that needs to become easier, with changes introduced in manageable stages.
Azure foundation
Design identity, networking, environments, policy and deployment patterns for controlled growth.
Migration & modernisation
Move or improve suitable workloads in planned stages with testing, rollback and continuity requirements.
Security & governance
Establish least-privilege access, policy, logging, backup, recovery and accountable ownership.
Optimisation
Review consumption, architecture and performance to identify justified cost and reliability improvements.
Managed services
Provide visible monitoring, incident handling, maintenance and service reporting against an agreed scope.
How the work moves
Know what is changing and why.
Assess
Understand workloads, dependencies, controls, cost and business priorities.
Architect
Define the target foundation, operating model and safe sequence of change.
Transition
Implement in controlled stages with testing, observability and recovery paths.
Operate
Monitor service health, manage change and report on agreed performance.
What changes
The improvements we work toward.
Clear ownership and visibility across the cloud estate
Security and governance built into everyday operations
More predictable cost, performance and reliability
A documented foundation for future systems and data
Platforms & approaches
Selected to fit the work.
Microsoft AzureCloud securityIdentity and accessObservabilityInfrastructure automationManaged operations
The architecture and platform are chosen for the organisation's requirements. Not every engagement uses every technology listed.
Start with the business need
What keeps getting in the way?
Tell us where the process slows down or the information becomes difficult to trust. We’ll review what already works and agree a useful next step.
Intelligence & Build
Understand the system. Engineer the improvement.
MereSimplicity Intelligence is being developed to understand the system, investigate performance and determine what should improve. MereSimplicity Build engineers the processes, software and connections that make those improvements possible. Measurement establishes whether the change worked.
- Build the systems
- Capture the activity
- Understand the information
- Choose an action
- Measure and learn