Organisations leaving ageing or constrained infrastructure
Move from on-premises, colocation, unsupported hosting, or inflexible environments without losing operational continuity.
Assessment, landing zones, workload waves, data movement, cutover, and operational transition
Cloud migration
Rokad plans and executes cloud migrations through workload assessment, target architecture, landing zones, migration waves, validation, cutover, and production handover.
Designed for / 01
A focused delivery model for the organisations that need it.
A cloud migration changes architecture, operations, security, cost, ownership, and recovery—not only hosting. Rokad assesses applications, data, dependencies, environments, compliance, performance, and organisational readiness before moving workloads through controlled migration waves.
Companies consolidating fragmented cloud estates
Standardise accounts, networks, identity, security, observability, deployment, cost, and ownership across workloads.
Product teams preparing for scale or assurance
Create a production foundation that supports growth, enterprise requirements, recovery, and controlled delivery.
Challenges / 02
The problems this service is built to solve.
Dependencies are poorly understood
Applications, databases, jobs, files, identities, network paths, vendors, and operating procedures create hidden migration risk.
A lift-and-shift would preserve existing problems
Moving unchanged workloads can reproduce fragility, manual operations, security gaps, and inefficient cost in cloud form.
The organisation cannot tolerate prolonged downtime
Data synchronisation, traffic transition, rollback, user communication, and production validation require explicit planning.
Capabilities / 03
What Rokad can deliver.
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Application, data, dependency, infrastructure, security, and cost assessment
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Cloud strategy, provider evaluation, target architecture, and landing zones
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Account, network, identity, policy, logging, and shared-service foundations
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Rehost, replatform, refactor, replace, retain, and retire decisions
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Migration waves, data movement, rehearsal, cutover, rollback, and validation
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Observability, backup, recovery, deployment, and operating-model transition
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Post-migration optimisation, decommissioning, documentation, and managed support
Solution components / 04
The system behind the visible product.
Migration portfolio
Inventory, criticality, dependencies, target pattern, effort, risk, sequence, ownership, and acceptance for each workload.
Cloud foundation
Accounts, networks, identity, policies, secrets, logging, connectivity, shared services, tagging, and financial controls.
Migration factory
Repeatable tooling, runbooks, data movement, testing, rehearsals, approvals, cutover, rollback, and evidence.
Operational transition
Monitoring, incidents, support, backup, recovery, cost, security, ownership, training, and legacy decommissioning.
Use cases / 05
Where this capability creates practical leverage.
Data-centre exit
Move applications, databases, storage, networks, and operational responsibility before a facility or contract deadline.
SaaS platform migration
Create scalable environments, deployment automation, observability, tenant reliability, backup, and cost controls.
Cloud consolidation
Bring independently created accounts and workloads under common identity, networking, policy, telemetry, and governance.
Regulated workload migration
Design data residency, access, encryption, logging, evidence, recovery, and supplier controls around assurance requirements.
Architecture and integration / 06
Designed to fit the wider technology environment.
Migration pattern per workload
Select rehost, replatform, refactor, replace, retain, or retire from business value, risk, dependencies, and operating economics.
Connectivity and coexistence
Control routing, DNS, identity, data synchronisation, latency, security, and ownership while old and new environments coexist.
Cutover evidence
Define performance, functional, data, security, recovery, and operational checks that must pass before responsibility moves.
Quality and control / 07
Production requirements are part of the build.
Secure by design
Identity, permissions, secrets, data boundaries, dependencies, change controls, and recovery are addressed throughout delivery.
Observable operation
Metrics, logs, traces, quality, cost, failures, and service outcomes are made visible and actionable.
Reproducible delivery
Configuration, tests, infrastructure, pipelines, artefacts, changes, and recovery procedures are versioned and repeatable.
Delivery / 08
A controlled path from requirement to operation.
Discover
Clarify the objective, users, systems, constraints, dependencies, risks, and measurable acceptance criteria.
Architect
Define the target design, interfaces, controls, migration or delivery sequence, and operating model.
Deliver and validate
Implement in controlled increments with testing, review, documentation, observability, and stakeholder validation.
Operate and improve
Establish ownership, service controls, measurement, support, and a prioritised improvement backlog.
Typical deliverables
Cloud migration assessment and workload inventory
Target architecture, landing-zone, and security design
Migration patterns, waves, schedule, risk, and ownership plan
Infrastructure code, connectivity, deployment, and observability foundations
Data migration, rehearsal, cutover, rollback, and validation package
Runbooks, operating model, decommissioning, and handover documentation
Engagement models / 09
Use the delivery structure that matches the work.
Assessment and roadmap
A bounded evidence review, target direction, prioritised risks, and executable next-stage plan.
Fixed-scope delivery
A defined implementation, migration, prototype, procurement, or transformation outcome with acceptance criteria.
Embedded specialists
Specialists working alongside internal product, engineering, data, operations, security, or procurement teams.
Managed lifecycle
Ongoing ownership, maintenance, monitoring, supplier coordination, reliability, security, and improvement.
Related capabilities / 10
Continue through the wider product and technology system.
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Platform engineering
Create the internal platform and golden paths around the new cloud foundation.
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CI/CD engineering
Automate build, test, deployment, promotion, and rollback across migrated workloads.
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Site reliability engineering
Establish service objectives, observability, resilience, and incident operations.
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Managed technology services
Application, cloud, security, reliability, maintenance, and continuous engineering operations.
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Software development
Custom applications, platforms, integrations, APIs, and software modernisation.
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Data engineering
Data pipelines, platforms, warehouses, analytics engineering, BI, and governance.
FAQ
Cloud migration
Scope, ownership, assumptions, delivery, security, and long-term operation are clarified before work begins.
01Does every workload need to move to cloud?
Does every workload need to move to cloud?
No. We evaluate business value, technical fit, compliance, latency, dependencies, cost, lifecycle, and operational capability before recommending migration, retention, replacement, or retirement.
02Can Rokad migrate without a long outage?
Can Rokad migrate without a long outage?
Often yes. Approaches can include replication, staged data movement, parallel environments, traffic switching, read-only windows, blue-green cutover, and rollback, depending on the system.
03Can you migrate between cloud providers?
Can you migrate between cloud providers?
Yes. We assess service equivalence, data movement, provider dependencies, networking, identity, operations, contract, cost, and exit risk before designing the transition.
04What happens after migration?
What happens after migration?
We validate service objectives, close migration exceptions, optimise architecture and cost, transfer operating ownership, document runbooks, and decommission legacy resources safely.
Cloud and DevOps
Move workloads with a clear target architecture and controlled operational risk.
Rokad can assess the estate, establish the cloud foundation, execute migration waves, and transition the new environment into reliable operation.
Contact / 05
Bring us the difficult technology problem.
Tell us what you need to build, improve, procure, deploy, or operate. We will respond with a practical next step.