Manufacturing · Business Continuity · Cloud

Cloud Migration and Modernization

Q: How do you handle downtime during migration?

We use phased migration, database replication where appropriate, planned cutover windows, and tested rollback procedures. The acceptable interruption depends on the workload and architecture, so we define and validate that requirement before switching traffic.

Q: What about compliance requirements?

We design cloud architectures for SOC 2, ITAR, CMMC, HIPAA, and industry-specific compliance. This includes encryption, access controls, audit logging, data residency, and backup retention policies.

Q: Will cloud be more expensive than on-premise?

When properly architected, cloud infrastructure typically costs 20–40% less than equivalent on-premise when you factor in hardware refresh, power, cooling, and IT labor. We model total cost of ownership before migration starts.

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.

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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.

What Changes

What Cloud Migration and Modernization includes.

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.

Cloud Architecture Design

Design cloud architecture around your specific workloads — ERP, WMS, file servers, databases, and custom applications. Right-sized from day one.

Migration Planning

Dependency mapping, migration sequencing, cutover planning, and rollback procedures. Every application gets a migration strategy: rehost, refactor, or replace.

Data Migration

Secure data migration with integrity validation at every stage. Database replication, file system migration, and archive strategy for historical data.

Security & Compliance

Cloud security architecture with IAM, encryption, network segmentation, backup, and disaster recovery. Designed for SOC 2, ITAR, CMMC, and industry-specific compliance.

Cost Optimization

Right-sized instances, reserved capacity planning, auto-scaling policies, and ongoing cost monitoring. Cloud should cost less than on-premise, not more.

Managed Operations

Post-migration monitoring, patching, backup validation, and incident response. Your team focuses on the business while we keep the infrastructure running.

How It Fits Manufacturing

How this stage fits the manufacturing operation.

Cloud & InfrastructureWhich workloads should change, what continuity the business requires, and how security, recovery, access, integration, and cost will be governed.

Governance dependencyCloud work needs documented workload dependencies, access rules, recovery objectives, security controls, monitoring, cost ownership, and a tested operating model.

Workloads and controls to protect

business applications

databases and files

identity and access

integrations and networks

backup and recovery

What must be defined before engineering begins

What the manufacturing business needs to change and why.
Which systems, records, risks, and readiness gaps shape the work.
What should be built, how it fits the architecture, and in what order.

Related Services and Planning

What to evaluate next.

Follow the dependencies behind this service instead of treating it as an isolated project.

Cloud Services

Connect this requirement to architecture, migration, security, recovery, cost, and operations.

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Integration Engineering

Protect the interfaces and data movement the workload supports.

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Digital Operating Stack

See how infrastructure supports systems, data, workflows, reporting, and AI.

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New material work begins in Launchpad so Metrotechs can validate the operating need, evidence, feasibility, architecture direction, and sequence before engineering begins.

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Start With the Manufacturing Continuity Objective

Define the smallest sound response and delivery sequence.

Metrotechs determines what the operation actually requires before selecting technology. New material work begins in Launchpad so the evidence, feasibility, architecture direction, priorities, and sequence can be validated before engineering begins.

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Metrotechs designs, builds, integrates, and supports the approved solution so demand, fulfillment, and service commitments remain reliable.

A technical request does not bypass discovery. The proposed solution remains a working hypothesis until Metrotechs validates it in Launchpad and maps continuity before build.

Delivery sequence

How Metrotechs delivers Cloud Migration and Modernization.

Moving ERP, integration, analytics, portal, data, and custom application workloads should improve resilience and control without losing sight of the people, locations, and.

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.

FAQ

Questions to answer before changing this stage.

Straight answers to what manufacturing leaders ask before committing budget to this work.

Which cloud platforms do you work with?

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.

How do you handle downtime during migration?

What about compliance requirements?

Will cloud be more expensive than on-premise?