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Some estates only make sense to the one engineer who built them. Some migration deadlines have slipped so often nobody quotes dates any more. And some on-call rotas never get a quiet night. We fix all three: Azure foundations designed, migrated and run so infrastructure stops being the story.

Azure cloud infrastructure services

Migration · Landing Zones · Resilience

Azure Infrastructure, Built to Be Boring

The highest compliment infrastructure can earn is that nobody talks about it. Applications deploy, storage scales, networks route, and the on-call phone stays quiet. Getting to boring takes deliberate engineering, and that is what this practice does: Azure foundations designed, migrated and run so the interesting conversations can happen higher up the stack.

Migrations are where most engagements start, and ours are assessment-led. Every workload gets an explicit treatment decision (rehost, replatform or refactor) because the cheapest migration and the cheapest five years of running costs are rarely the same option. Waves are planned around dependency maps, cutover is rehearsed, and every wave carries a rollback path. See the full comparison on our cloud practice page.

Everything lands on a landing zone aligned to the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework: identity, networking, policy and cost management defined in Bicep or Terraform, so governance enforces itself and every later environment inherits the same guardrails. As a Microsoft Solutions Partner for Infrastructure (Azure), this is the designation we hold because it is the work we do most.

And because estates increasingly exist to serve data and AI, we build the specialised layers too: GPU-backed compute for training and inference, high-throughput storage for analytics, and the private networking that keeps AI workloads inside your compliance boundary. The infrastructure team behind our Fabric, Databricks and Azure AI Foundry builds is this one.

Azure infrastructure built on Microsoft reference architecture

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What We Deliver

Key capabilities

Virtual Networks, Storage & Compute

Networks, storage and compute sized for the workloads you actually run, not the peak someone once guessed at, with costs visible from the first deployment.

  • Hub-and-spoke and Virtual WAN network architectures
  • Right-sized compute with cost visibility from day one
  • Defined in Bicep or Terraform, deployed through pipelines
  • ExpressRoute, VPN and Azure Arc for hybrid estates

High-Performance Computing & Big Data

Compute and storage built for the jobs that flatten ordinary infrastructure: large-scale simulation, heavy batch analytics and data processing that has to finish overnight.

AI/ML & GPU-Powered Computing

GPU-backed infrastructure for training and inference, provisioned when needed and released when not, so data science teams stop queueing and finance stops wincing.

Edge, Serverless & SDN Networks

Processing moved closer to where data is created, and servers removed from the equation where they add nothing, so there is less estate to patch, monitor and pay for.

Hybrid & Multi-Cloud Strategies

Migration and connectivity strategies that treat on-premises, Azure and other clouds as one estate, with an explicit treatment decision made for every workload that moves.

  • Per-workload rehost, replatform or refactor decisions
  • Dependency mapping and migration waves with rehearsed cutover
  • Rollback paths planned before anything moves
  • Microsoft funding programmes assessed for qualified migrations

Rapid Application Deployment

Automated provisioning, containerisation and orchestration that take a release from repository to running in Azure without a change-freeze meeting in sight.

8 wks

To a secure Azure landing zone in production

100%

Aligned to Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework

IaC

Every environment defined as code with a rollback path

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Explicit treatment decision per migrated workload

Common Use Cases

Where Infrastructure earns its keep

Azure landing zone

Deploy a CAF-aligned landing zone with networking, identity, policy, monitoring and connectivity ready for application and data workloads.

Data centre exit and cloud migration

Plan and execute lift-and-shift, re-platform or re-architect moves from on-prem or legacy clouds onto Azure with minimal disruption.

Hybrid and multi-cloud connectivity

Design ExpressRoute, VPN, Azure Arc and multi-cloud networking so workloads run wherever they make the most sense.

Infrastructure for AI and big data

Provision GPU-backed compute, high-performance storage and networking tuned for training, inference and large-scale analytics.

Container and serverless platforms

Run AKS, Container Apps, Azure Functions and Logic Apps with the right mix of performance, cost and developer experience.

Resilience and disaster recovery

Design multi-region, multi-zone architectures with automated failover, backup and tested recovery procedures for mission-critical services.

How We Work

A proven delivery approach

  1. 01 Step

    Assess

    Review current estate, workloads, costs and compliance needs to set a clear Azure target state.

  2. 02 Step

    Design

    Architect the landing zone, networking, identity, security and resilience model aligned to the Cloud Adoption Framework.

  3. 03 Step

    Build

    Deploy infrastructure-as-code, migrate the first waves of workloads and integrate with observability and DevOps.

  4. 04 Step

    Optimise

    Run FinOps, right-sizing, reservation and performance reviews, optionally under Synapx-as-a-Service.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

How long does a typical Azure migration take?

A landing zone and first-wave migration usually takes 8–16 weeks. Full data centre exits for mid-market and enterprise clients typically run 9–18 months, depending on application estate size and modernisation appetite.

Do you follow the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework?

Yes, as our default. We use the CAF and Azure Well-Architected Framework to structure strategy, plan, ready, adopt, govern and manage phases, while tailoring the detail to your organisation’s maturity and risk appetite.

How do you control Azure costs?

We implement FinOps from day one – tagging, cost alerting, rightsizing, reserved instances / savings plans, autoscaling, and workload-specific tuning. Clients moving from un-optimised estates typically see 20–40% reduction in the first six months.

Can you support hybrid and multi-cloud?

Yes. We design Azure-first but pragmatically support hybrid scenarios with Azure Arc, ExpressRoute, on-prem connectivity and integrations with AWS or GCP where they already exist.

Is this suitable for regulated industries?

Yes. We run Azure programmes for financial services, healthcare and public sector clients using private endpoints, customer-managed keys, sovereign regions, Defender for Cloud and detailed audit evidence for regulators.

Can you run the Azure estate for us?

Yes. Synapx-as-a-Service delivers managed Azure operations, patching, monitoring, cost optimisation and enhancement, with UK-based engineers who already know your environment.

Our Clients

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Lanware
Micheldever Tyre Services
Midwich
Mount Anvil
Nuevo Partners
Pro Global
Seras Energy
Skanska
Ocean Conservation Trust
WA Comms
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Start with a cloud readiness assessment

We review your estate, map workload dependencies and hand you a migration plan with honest dates. Two weeks, read-only access, and a report you can act on either way.

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