Assessment
Reconcile inventory, dependencies, constraints, ownership, target disposition and freedom of movement.
Engineering divisionCloud & Platform Engineering
Modernize infrastructure
without losing control.
Assess, migrate, modernize and operate critical platforms through explicit workload decisions, controlled waves and evidence-based acceptance.
The problem
What has to work.
Infrastructure transitions fail when a destination decision is mistaken for an executable migration plan. Workloads, dependencies, exceptions, recovery and operating ownership must move together.
Who it is for
Infrastructure and cloud leadersApplication portfolio ownersData-centre exit programmesPlatform operations teams
What ApexFlo provides
What the engagement delivers.
Migration
Execute VMware exits, NC2/NCI/AHV transitions, on-premises to public cloud and cross-cloud moves in controlled waves.
Modernization
Improve landing zones, platform services, observability, automation and workload operation after transition.
Managed platform operations
Operate agreed platform layers with runbooks, service controls, reporting and documented ownership.
What is delivered
✓Estate and dependency baseline
✓Target platform and migration factory
✓Cutover, validation and recovery runbooks
✓Modernization backlog and managed-operations model
Operating ladder
Assessment → Migration →
Modernization → Managed operations
Assessment
Reconcile the estate, dependencies, ownership, constraints and target disposition before committing waves.
Migration
Move application-consistent groups through a tested factory with standard and specialist exception lanes.
Modernization
Improve landing zones, platform services, observability, automation and workload operation after transition.
Managed operations
Operate agreed platform layers through runbooks, service controls, reporting and clear ownership.
Source-agnostic, destination-specialized
Choose the target
from the workload.
A destination-fit assessment records what can move, what should modernize, what must remain and which dependencies shape the transition.
VMware exit
Move compatible workloads to NC2/NCI/AHV or native cloud while keeping application dependencies and recovery paths explicit.
On-premises to public cloud
Establish the target foundation, replication, test launch, cutover and operational handover.
Cross-cloud migration
Rebuild the destination foundation, remap dependencies and move application groups through controlled transition.
Private and sovereign platforms
Assess isolation, data location, control-plane ownership and operational requirements before selecting a target.
Migration factory
A production system
for controlled transition.
The factory is an operating model—not a custom migration app. It combines accountable specialists, repeatable gates, established tools and programme control.
People
Platform, network, security, database, application, validation and operations specialists.
Process
Wave intake, readiness gates, cutover, acceptance, hypercare and exception management.
Tools
Configure established migration, replication, ITSM, monitoring and reporting platforms.
Control
Control tower, risk and exception backlog, evidence, metrics, decisions and escalation.
Every wave follows the same evidence path
01Discover
02Engineer
03Replicate
04Test
05Cut over
06Validate
07Hypercare
Entry evidence: dependency complete, replication healthy, runbook approved, test signed off, backup ready.
Exit evidence: business validation, data reconciliation, monitoring active, recovery verified, acceptance recorded.
Every wave exits with business validation, monitoring, recovery and acceptance evidence.
Delivery evidence
Proof from delivery.
Validation on real systems.
Approximately 500 VMware workloads
Approximately 500 workloads moved to Amazon EC2 in six months through controlled replication, validation and cutover.
VMware to NC2 on AWS plus native EC2
An active mixed-destination migration context. Details remain bounded by the current engagement and approved evidence.
Deployment considerations
- The practice is source-agnostic and builds specialist depth around the destination selected for each engagement.
- Complex SAP, mainframe, database and appliance transformations begin with a dedicated specialist assessment.
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