Our lift and shift approach enables rapid migration of your existing applications to the cloud with minimal modifications, providing immediate benefits while paving the way for future optimization.
Migrate your workloads to Microsoft Azure with our proven methodology:
Transition to Amazon Web Services with minimal disruption:
Why choose this approach for your cloud migration?
Complete your cloud transition in weeks rather than months by minimizing application changes.
Maintain existing application architectures while gaining cloud benefits immediately.
Gain cloud advantages like scalability, reliability, and reduced capital expenses.
Creates foundation for subsequent cloud-native optimizations at your pace.
Maintain some workloads on-premises while migrating others to the cloud.
Leverage enterprise-grade cloud security for your existing applications.
A structured approach to ensure migration success
Inventory applications, dependencies, and performance characteristics.
Evaluate technical and licensing requirements for cloud hosting.
Develop phased migration plan with rollback strategies.
Validate approach with non-critical workloads.
Execute migration in waves with minimal business impact.
Tune cloud environment and plan next-phase enhancements.
Examples of successful migrations we've completed for clients
Migrated 120 store locations' POS systems to Azure over 6 weekends with zero downtime during business hours.
Results: 99.9% availability, 30% lower infrastructure costsLifted and shifted legacy ERP system to AWS with compatible EC2 instances and optimized storage.
Results: Improved performance, enabled DR capabilitiesTransitioned HIPAA-compliant application to Azure with maintained compliance and enhanced security.
Results: Achieved HITRUST certification, reduced audit findingsCommon questions about lift and shift migrations
Lift and shift works well for stable, monolithic applications that would require significant refactoring for cloud-native architectures. This includes legacy systems, ERP applications, and custom business applications where immediate modernization isn't feasible.
With proper planning, most migrations can be completed with minimal downtime. We typically schedule migrations during maintenance windows and use technologies like Azure Site Recovery or AWS Application Migration Service to minimize impact.
While cloud offers scalability advantages, lift and shift migrations typically maintain similar performance characteristics initially. We focus on optimizing the cloud environment post-migration to potentially improve performance through right-sizing instances, storage optimization, and network tuning.
We help navigate cloud licensing options including BYOL (Bring Your Own License), cloud-hosted licensing, and subscription models. Microsoft offers Azure Hybrid Benefit for Windows Server and SQL Server licenses, while AWS has similar programs for certain software.
Our cloud migration experts will assess your environment and recommend the optimal approach for your applications.