It rarely starts
with technology.
It starts with a renewal quote at three times the price, a cloud bill nobody can explain any more, an acquisition with a fixed date, or a finding from an audit. Four situations, one pattern: a large change that has to pass through live operations.
Four situations we see every week.
Platform & vendor change
“Our vendor has changed the rules: prices, licensing model, roadmap. Now we have to look at moving seriously.”
Your vendor changed the rules, not you. We assess your options: stay, move or reduce. And if you move, we do it before the renewal date decides your negotiating position. What changed at VMware and when a move pays off is on the page about the VMware exit. If Proxmox VE is the target platform: this is how we introduce and run it.
Cloud strategy & cost
“Our cloud bill grows faster than our business. We need a solid answer on which workloads should run where.”
Egress charges, questions of sovereignty, steady loads on elastic infrastructure: we cost out what you have and tell you what stays in the cloud and what belongs back on your own hardware.
M&A, carve-out & restructuring
“We have to separate or merge IT landscapes, under time pressure and without putting operations at risk.”
A carve-out to a fixed date, a merger after an acquisition, a move to another site: we cut your business-critical systems apart again, migrate them and hand them over ready to run. Even when the date is already set.
Resilience & regulation
“The environment has grown, the documentation lags behind. And the audit asks for evidence we cannot produce like this.”
Old systems out of support, single points of failure, patchy documentation: we bring your environment to a state that stands up to the real thing and to the auditor. NIS2, DORA and BSI make that evidence mandatory.
The one situation that needs no trigger: this is the only one that justifies a project of its own even without a change coming up. It makes your environment demonstrably robust and shows you the next decision before it presses.
The diagnosis opens every initial call.
What is coming up for you, what is driving it, and by when do you have to decide? Only after that do we talk about technology.
Your situation is not listed?
Consolidation, a rebuild, a question of sites: that is often the solution already, and behind it sits one of the four situations. In the initial call we work out which.
Initial call: the diagnosis
30 minutes, no obligation. The situation, the timing, the environment. Afterwards both sides know whether this is a fit.Book a call