09 · IT Consultancy
Cloud & Infrastructure Consulting
Plan infrastructure around workload needs, operational responsibility and cost visibility.
What this service is
Choose an infrastructure direction that matches real workloads, recovery needs, operating capability and cost.
Cloud and infrastructure consulting helps an organisation decide how its applications and information should be hosted, protected, monitored and operated. The engagement begins with workloads, users, service expectations and recovery needs rather than a preferred cloud product. This exposes where performance, access, resilience and cost requirements are genuinely different across the estate.
The recommendation compares proportionate target options and makes operating responsibility explicit. It can address cloud readiness, hosting refresh, backup and recovery, access control, observability, cost drivers and a staged transition. Provider services are assessed as components of an operating model, not treated as a complete answer on their own.
Typical situations
When this service is usually considered.
The examples below help frame suitability. The actual requirement, risks and intended outcome are confirmed during the initial review.
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Hosting has grown through isolated decisions and nobody has a complete view of workloads, dependencies or monthly cost drivers.
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A move to cloud services is being discussed before continuity, data location, access and operating responsibility have been defined.
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Recurring outages or slow recovery have exposed uncertainty around backups, monitoring, escalation and supplier boundaries.
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Infrastructure is approaching renewal and the organisation needs to compare retention, managed hosting, cloud and hybrid options.
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The technical platform may be adequate, but ownership of patching, capacity, security configuration and incident response is unclear.
Scope of work
What the assessment may cover.
Every item is selected and bounded in the written proposal. Inclusion here describes capability, not an automatic promise that all activities fit the starting price.
Workload and service profile
Documentation of relevant applications, users, demand patterns, data characteristics, dependencies, performance needs and acceptable service interruption.
Current infrastructure assessment
Review of authorised hosting, network, storage, access, monitoring, backup, support and supplier information relevant to the decision.
Resilience and recovery review
Assessment of failure scenarios, backup evidence, recovery objectives, concentration risks and the practical route for restoring service.
Target-state options
Comparison of realistic infrastructure directions with benefits, constraints, operating implications, dependencies and material uncertainty stated.
Cost and responsibility model
Identification of major consumption, licensing, support and operational cost drivers together with ownership for routine controls.
Transition roadmap
A sequenced plan for validation, preparation, migration, testing, cutover, rollback and post-change monitoring at the agreed level of detail.
Expected outputs
Useful artefacts, decisions and working results.
The output is designed to support operation, delivery or a clearly defined next decision—not to create presentation volume without practical value.
Workload and infrastructure assessment
A workload-led assessment linking infrastructure observations to service, data, continuity and operating requirements.
Target-state options and trade-offs
Documented target options showing technical, commercial and organisational trade-offs without hiding provider dependencies.
Migration or improvement roadmap
A staged migration or improvement roadmap with prerequisites, decision points, testing and recovery considerations.
Operating and monitoring recommendations
Clear recommendations for ownership, monitoring, backup, access, capacity and periodic review after the change.
Application
Common use cases.
These examples show how the service can be applied. They are illustrative and do not represent claims of completed client engagements.
Cloud readiness
Determine which workloads are suitable for change, what foundations are missing and what should remain in its current environment.
Hosting refresh
Compare renewal and replacement routes for ageing or poorly understood infrastructure before a contract or hardware decision.
Resilience improvement
Clarify backup, recovery, monitoring and failure-handling requirements around important business applications.
Operating ownership
Define the responsibilities shared between the client, cloud or hosting provider, application supplier and support team.
Service-specific approach
How NORYVIA approaches Cloud Consulting.
The method is adapted to the service rather than repeating one generic project formula across every requirement.
Start with workload evidence
The target platform follows application, information and service needs rather than a generic cloud-first assumption.
Make recovery testable
Backup existence is not treated as recovery assurance; dependencies, objectives, restoration steps and evidence are considered together.
Show the operating cost
Consumption is only one component. Support, licensing, monitoring, skills, connectivity and change effort remain visible.
Keep responsibility explicit
Every recommended control should have an owner, an operating rhythm and a clear supplier boundary.
Engagement sequence
Six stages with visible decisions.
Activities can overlap where appropriate, but each stage has a clear purpose and produces evidence for the next one.
Frame the decision
Agree workloads, locations, service expectations, constraints, evidence sources and the decisions the review must support.
Gather the baseline
Collect authorised architecture, utilisation, incident, backup, access, contract and cost information.
Assess requirements
Connect technical evidence to performance, continuity, security, support and data-handling needs.
Compare options
Evaluate feasible target patterns and document trade-offs, dependencies and unresolved questions.
Plan the transition
Sequence preparation, validation, migration, testing, cutover and operating ownership.
Decision walkthrough
Present the recommendation, challenge assumptions and record the next approved actions.
Relevant capabilities
The disciplines brought into the work.
The precise technical or advisory depth depends on the accepted scope, available evidence and client environment.
Workload assessment
- Application and dependency profiling
- Demand and capacity review
- Data and location requirements
- Continuity and recovery objectives
- Current cost-driver analysis
Platform controls
- Hosting and network patterns
- Identity and access boundaries
- Backup and recovery design
- Monitoring and alerting direction
- Configuration and change ownership
Transition planning
- Readiness and dependency actions
- Migration-wave planning
- Test and acceptance conditions
- Cutover and rollback considerations
- Post-transition operating model
Client contribution
Information and access needed from the client.
Good delivery depends on timely, authorised access to relevant people and evidence. Missing inputs are surfaced as assumptions or constraints rather than quietly filled with guesses.
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A list of relevant workloads, owners, users and business-critical service periods.
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Available hosting, network, backup, monitoring and architecture information.
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Representative usage, incident, capacity and monthly cost evidence where available.
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Supplier contracts, renewal dates, licensing constraints and support boundaries.
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People who understand application behaviour, operational impact and current recovery practice.
Scope, price and timing
A defined starting point—not a blank cheque.
The displayed price is an indicative starting guide for a bounded initial engagement. Before work begins, a written proposal confirms the selected activities, deliverables, assumptions, client responsibilities, exclusions, timetable, payment schedule and any third-party costs.
Indicative engagement shapes
Focused hosting decisionTypically 1–2 weeks
Cloud readiness and roadmapTypically 2–5 weeks
Multi-workload transitionPlanned as discovery and migration-readiness stages
Factors that may change scope, price or duration
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Number and diversity of workloads, environments, locations and providers in scope.
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Quality of monitoring, inventory, cost and architecture evidence available.
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Depth of resilience, recovery, access and cost modelling required.
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Number of target options, migration waves and supplier dependencies to compare.
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Required workshops, documentation detail and leadership or technical walkthroughs.
Scope boundaries
What is not automatically included.
Boundaries protect both parties from assumptions. A separate requirement can still be assessed and included where it is suitable and confirmed in writing.
Provider and licence charges
Cloud consumption, connectivity, licences, managed services and third-party support are separate client or supplier costs.
Automatic migration execution
Implementation, data movement and production cutover are included only where a separate delivery scope expressly confirms them.
Guaranteed savings or availability
Recommendations can improve cost visibility and resilience planning, but cannot guarantee future usage, provider performance or uninterrupted service.
Service FAQ
Questions about Cloud Consulting.
Project-specific answers depend on the current environment, intended outcome and evidence available during review.
No provider is selected by default. The review considers workload fit, data, skills, existing commitments, operating responsibility and commercial constraints before options are compared.
Yes. A hybrid or no-change recommendation may be appropriate where migration creates more risk or cost than value. The reasoning is documented.
The standard consulting engagement produces the decision and roadmap. A bounded implementation or migration stage can be proposed separately after prerequisites and responsibilities are understood.
They can be included at the depth agreed in scope. A consultancy review does not replace regular restoration tests or specialist continuity and security assurance.
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Start with clarity
Start a conversation about Cloud Consulting.
Use the structured questionnaire to explain the current situation. NORYVIA will review suitability and respond with questions or a proposed next step.