Cloud Migration Services for NZ Businesses

Cloud migration is moving business systems, data or individual workloads from on-premises servers, or from one cloud service to another, onto a hosted platform or cloud service. It can be a whole environment or a single set of mailboxes. A migration does not automatically make a system secure, so weak settings and unsupported software are dealt with as part of the plan.

Servers and line-of-business applications to the Exodesk hosted platform in New Zealand, email to Microsoft 365, file shares to SharePoint and OneDrive, and moves between Microsoft 365 tenants. Your scope lists each system, its destination and anything excluded.

It depends on application support, data volume, integrations, connectivity, vendor availability and the change windows the business can accept. Discovery and testing set the schedule. The overall project and the period when a particular system is unavailable are planned separately.

Some migrations need an outage or a period when users cannot make changes. We agree the expected window after reviewing the systems and testing the approach. The cutover plan says who approves go-live, what would trigger a rollback and how data created during the change is handled.

Sometimes, depending on what has changed. Once users write data to the new system, going back to the old copy can lose or split records. The plan sets a decision point, says how new data is handled and names an alternative recovery where reversing the move is impractical.

We check record counts, permissions, metadata, integrations and key business workflows, not just whether files arrived intact. The people who use each system test it and sign off acceptance. The old environment stays protected until acceptance and the agreed recovery period are complete.

We agree the scope and any cost of discovery first. Once discovery is complete, the agreed migration scope is quoted as a fixed figure, with assumptions, exclusions and how extra work is approved set out before migration work starts. The ongoing costs of hosting, licences, backup, connectivity and support are shown separately, along with any period of running old and new systems side by side.

No. Systems move in a planned sequence, with dependencies first and the riskiest move rehearsed most. Some systems are better retained for now or retired altogether, and our hybrid cloud service covers how retained systems keep working with everything that has moved.

No. The provider looks after the physical infrastructure, but a server still has an operating system and applications that need patching and maintaining. Your agreement says who does that work after the move.

Sometimes. It depends on the application, the export options, licensing and whether there is a suitable supported destination. We compare staying, moving to another provider or moving back against the same business requirements and costs, and exit options are considered before the original move.

Once the new system is accepted, the agreed recovery period is complete and any records you need are preserved, we agree retirement of the old server with you. It is not left running in a cupboard, and nothing is disposed of without your approval. Our secure IT disposal guide covers the options for retired equipment.

With discovery, before any platform or vendor commitments. We list what you run, what depends on what, and what should move, stay or be retired. That produces the plan and a fixed migration quote.