What leaders see
The system is in the cloud, but risk still feels local.
Performance, outage exposure, security questions, backup confidence, and monthly spend are still hard to explain.
Business Continuity · Cloud
Keep the business running while the infrastructure changes. Cloud migration should improve resilience, access, recovery, and control without creating new uncertainty for the people who depend on the systems. We map the business impact first, then sequence architecture, migration, validation, cutover, and ownership around it.
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The Problem
Cloud problems usually start when infrastructure is moved before ownership, recovery, cost control, and data dependencies are designed around the AI, ERP, and integration workloads.
What leaders see
Performance, outage exposure, security questions, backup confidence, and monthly spend are still hard to explain.
What is actually happening
Workload behavior, recovery requirements, network paths, observability, and operating accountability were not designed together.
What gets worse
The business pays for flexibility without gaining a stronger foundation for AI, ERP control, reporting, and data readiness.
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What Changes
Cloud migration should improve resilience, access, recovery, and control without creating new uncertainty for the people who depend on the systems. We map the business impact first, then sequence architecture, migration, validation, cutover, and ownership around it.
Design cloud architecture around your specific workloads — ERP, WMS, file servers, databases, and custom applications. Right-sized from day one.
Dependency mapping, migration sequencing, cutover planning, and rollback procedures. Every application gets a migration strategy: rehost, refactor, or replace.
Secure data migration with integrity validation at every stage. Database replication, file system migration, and archive strategy for historical data.
Cloud security architecture with IAM, encryption, network segmentation, backup, and disaster recovery. Designed for SOC 2, ITAR, CMMC, and industry-specific compliance.
Right-sized instances, reserved capacity planning, auto-scaling policies, and ongoing cost monitoring. Cloud should cost less than on-premise, not more.
Post-migration monitoring, patching, backup validation, and incident response. Your team focuses on the business while we keep the infrastructure running.
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How It Fits Your Operations
Related Foundations
Follow the dependencies behind this service instead of treating it as an isolated project.
Define identity, access, monitoring, protection, evidence, and operating controls for the cloud environment.
Explore next stepConnect cloud architecture to the databases, pipelines, reporting, and operating data it must support.
Explore next stepExplore the packaged Odoo, AWS, integration, data, and managed-operations path when the Roadmap supports it.
Explore next stepAssess readiness, dependencies, risk, architecture, and implementation order before engineering begins.
Explore next stepLaunchpad Before Engineering
Launchpad assesses the business and turns discovery into priorities, risks, readiness, architecture, and an implementation Roadmap. Metrotechs then engineers and supports the approved solution.
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Delivery sequence
Cloud migration should improve resilience, access, recovery, and control without creating new uncertainty for the people who depend on the systems. We map the business impact.
Inventory all on-premise systems, map dependencies, and define migration priorities based on business impact and technical readiness.
Design target cloud architecture with networking, security, compute, storage, and DR. Present cost model and migration timeline.
Migrate a non-critical workload first to validate the architecture, networking, and migration tooling. Prove the pattern before scaling it.
Migrate production workloads in planned waves with cutover windows approved by operations. Parallel running where needed.
Post-migration performance validation, cost optimization, and security hardening. Handoff to managed operations or your internal team.
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FAQ
Straight answers to what operators ask before committing budget to this work.
We design cloud environments around the workloads, data, recovery needs, and governance model the business has to own. ERP implementations may use dedicated instances, managed databases, or hybrid architectures that keep sensitive workloads on-premise while moving others to cloud.