Cloud Services Built Around Your Business, Not the Other Way Around
Whether you are moving to the cloud, optimising what you have, or building a hybrid environment, we make it work.
The Cloud Is Not Optional Anymore
By 2026, 78% of UK businesses run at least some workloads in the cloud. The holdouts are finding it harder to recruit IT staff, harder to maintain ageing hardware, and harder to meet the resilience expectations of clients and regulators.
But cloud migration done badly is worse than not migrating at all. We have seen firms lose weeks of productivity to botched migrations — email outages, missing files, applications that stopped working because nobody tested them in the new environment. That is not a technology problem. It is a planning problem.
How We Approach Cloud Migration
Every migration starts with a thorough assessment. We document your current environment: servers, applications, data volumes, dependencies, and integration points. We identify what moves to the cloud, what stays on-premise, and what needs replacing entirely.
Then we build a migration runbook. This is a step-by-step plan that covers every workload, every user, and every risk. It includes testing milestones, rollback procedures, and a communication plan for your team. Nothing moves until the runbook is reviewed and approved.
Azure migration is our most common engagement. We move file servers to SharePoint and OneDrive, email to Exchange Online, line-of-business applications to Azure Virtual Machines or Azure App Services, and backups to geo-redundant cloud storage. For firms with specific compute or AI requirements, we also deploy on AWS.
Hybrid Cloud for Regulated Firms
Many of our financial services clients cannot move everything to the cloud. Data sovereignty requirements, legacy trading platforms, and low-latency connectivity needs mean some workloads must stay on-premise or in a London-based colocation facility.
We design hybrid cloud architectures that give you the flexibility of the cloud where it makes sense and the control of local infrastructure where it is required. Azure Arc and site-to-site VPN tunnels keep everything connected and manageable from a single pane of glass.
Ongoing Cloud Operations
Migration is the beginning, not the end. We monitor your cloud environment continuously, manage patching and updates, optimise costs, and ensure your security posture keeps pace with the evolving threat landscape. You get monthly reports showing spend, utilisation, and recommendations — no surprises.
Why choose Nerdster
Migrations Done Right
We have completed over 80 cloud migrations without a single instance of data loss. Every migration follows a tested runbook with rollback procedures at every stage.
Costs You Can Control
Cloud bills spiral when nobody is watching. We monitor utilisation, right-size resources monthly, and flag waste before it hits your invoice.
Hybrid When It Makes Sense
Not everything belongs in the cloud. We design hybrid architectures that keep sensitive workloads on-premise while moving everything else to where it runs best.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
How long does a typical cloud migration take?
A straightforward migration for a 50-person company typically takes 4-8 weeks including planning, testing, and cutover. Larger or more complex environments may take 3-6 months.
Should we use Azure or AWS?
For most of our clients, Azure is the natural fit because it integrates deeply with Microsoft 365 and Active Directory. We recommend AWS when specific workloads benefit from its services. We are certified in both.
Will our team experience downtime during migration?
We schedule cutovers for evenings or weekends and run parallel environments during transition. Most users experience less than 30 minutes of downtime during the final switchover.
What happens to our on-premise servers after migration?
We help you decommission old hardware responsibly, including secure data wiping and recycling. If some servers need to stay, we integrate them into your new hybrid architecture.
How do you handle cloud costs?
We implement tagging, set up budget alerts, review utilisation monthly, and right-size resources. Most clients see 20-35% cost reduction in their first quarter after our optimisation review.
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