Business outcome
Use this capability when the framework shows that availability, access, recovery, security, data movement, or infrastructure risk is interrupting the people and systems required to keep a customer promise.
Services
Cloud & Infrastructure · Business Continuity · Cloud
Cloud Migration and Modernization
Keep the business running while the infrastructure changes.
Moving ERP, integration, analytics, portal, data, and custom application workloads should improve resilience and control without losing sight of the people, locations, and partners that depend on them. We map operating impact first, then sequence architecture, migration, validation, cutover, and ownership.
Launchpad assesses the operating need and creates the Roadmap. We engineer this capability when the approved plan calls for it.
A strong fit when
- Aging systems create uncertainty around uptime, recovery, security, and the ability to support the next stage of growth
- Employees and locations cannot reliably reach the applications and information they need
- Backups exist, but leadership cannot clearly explain recovery time, ownership, testing, or business impact
- Cloud cost, security, performance, integrations, and vendor accountability are managed as separate technical questions
Why this service exists
Connect the technology decision to the work the manufacturing business must control.
System responsibility
Cloud engineering provides the controlled infrastructure, access, connectivity, security, observability, backup, and recovery that connected business systems require.
Ownership and control
The manufacturer should understand workload dependencies, access, recovery objectives, cost, controls, vendors, and the operating practices required to change or recover the environment.
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The Problem
Infrastructure risk becomes business risk.
Cloud problems begin when workloads move or grow without a clear account of the business dependencies, access, recovery, security, monitoring, ownership, and cost behind them.
What leaders see
Reliability, access, and cost are difficult to explain.
Teams know the infrastructure matters but cannot connect incidents, spending, recovery, or performance to the work it supports.
What is actually happening
The workload has no complete operating model.
Dependencies, controls, recovery objectives, monitoring, and ownership are distributed across tools, vendors, and individual knowledge.
What gets worse
Migration moves the uncertainty instead of resolving it.
The platform changes while weak access, integration, recovery, cost, and support practices remain.
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What changes
Make the operating responsibility visible and governable.
Moving ERP, integration, analytics, portal, data, and custom application workloads should improve resilience and control without losing sight of the people, locations, and partners that.
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Operating outcome
Keep the business running while the infrastructure changes.
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Workloads and controls to protect
business applications, databases and files, identity and access
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Decision and exception path
Which workloads should change, what continuity the business requires, and how security, recovery, access, integration, and cost will be governed.
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Ownership and continuity
Cloud work needs documented workload dependencies, access rules, recovery objectives, security controls, monitoring, cost ownership, and a tested operating model.
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Architecture
Build the service around the business record and decision.
Which workloads should change, what continuity the business requires, and how security, recovery, access, integration, and cost will be governed.
01Source record
02Governed connection
03Validation
04Business system
05Accountable owner
Workloads and controls to protect
business applicationsdatabases and filesidentity and accessintegrations and networksbackup and recovery
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Engineering scope
What Metrotechs engineers for Cloud Migration and Modernization.
The exact scope follows the approved business objective, source records, dependencies, controls, and delivery sequence.
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Cloud Architecture Design
Design cloud architecture around your specific workloads — ERP, WMS, file servers, databases, and custom applications. Right-sized from day one.
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Migration Planning
Dependency mapping, migration sequencing, cutover planning, and rollback procedures. Every application gets a migration strategy: rehost, refactor, or replace.
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Data Migration
Secure data migration with integrity validation at every stage. Database replication, file system migration, and archive strategy for historical data.
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Security & Compliance
Cloud security architecture with IAM, encryption, network segmentation, backup, and disaster recovery. Designed for SOC 2, ITAR, CMMC, and industry-specific compliance.
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Cost Optimization
Right-sized instances, reserved capacity planning, auto-scaling policies, and ongoing cost monitoring. Cloud should cost less than on-premise, not more.
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Managed Operations
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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Delivery sequence
From operating reality to a solution the business can own.
Assessment
Inventory all on-premise systems, map dependencies, and define migration priorities based on business impact and technical readiness.
Architecture
Design target cloud architecture with networking, security, compute, storage, and DR. Present cost model and migration timeline.
Pilot Migration
Migrate a non-critical workload first to validate the architecture, networking, and migration tooling. Prove the pattern before scaling it.
Phased Migration
Migrate production workloads in planned waves with cutover windows approved by operations. Parallel running where needed.
Validation & Optimization
Post-migration performance validation, cost optimization, and security hardening. Handoff to managed operations or your internal team.
Related services and systems
Continue through the connected operating environment.
Use these connected services and references to understand the records, workflows, and systems surrounding this work.
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FAQ
Questions to answer before implementation begins.
Clear answers for manufacturing leaders evaluating the work, operating responsibility, and delivery path.
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.