Readiness and roadmap
Workload and dependency inventory, disposition decisions and prioritised migration waves with business constraints.
Cloud services
Modernise, migrate and optimise enterprise cloud environments.
OVERVIEW
Build a cloud environment that is fit for your business
Align cloud adoption with your workload requirements, cost priorities and operating model. We assess readiness, plan staged migration and agree resilience, security and operating responsibilities before changing the estate.
Together, we establish baseline costs per workload or transaction, service objectives and recovery requirements, and clarify your team’s responsibilities alongside any managed service scope. Discuss your cloud priorities.
WHAT WE DELIVER
What we deliver
Workload readiness, engineering and operations with clear responsibilities.
Landing zones and platform engineering
Target environment design, identity and access baselines, network controls and deployment configuration.
Migration and modernisation
Migration plans, data validation and cutover procedures. Link application refactoring to the modernisation scope.
Containers and DevOps
Cluster and deployment baselines where appropriate, automated pipelines, rollout checks and validated rollback procedures.
Cloud operations and observability
Monitoring, alerting, failure investigation and runbooks, with named client, provider and service responsibilities.
Cost and performance optimisation
Workload cost attribution, usage and performance review, and prioritised changes measured against agreed service objectives.
ILLUSTRATIVE USE CASES
A secure migration and operating model
Illustrative on-premises workload → assessed target and landing zone → migration waves → release gates → operations and optimisation loop.
1. Assess and establish foundations
Map workload dependencies and select a target environment. Agree IAM, network controls, recovery needs and cloud-cost ownership before migration.
2. Migrate with controlled releases
Modernise selected application capabilities and migrate in waves. Validate data and dependent integrations, cutover, service continuity and rollback.
3. Operate and optimise
Monitor workloads, investigate failures and test recovery. Review scaling, performance and spend with accountable operating owners, then prioritise the next change.
LINKFIELDS IP & ACCELERATORS
Accelerators for cyber-safe cloud delivery
Select delivery IP for migration, application engineering and assurance. Agree product fit and reusable versus tailored work during discovery.
Modernisation and release accelerators
The Modernisation & Integration Toolkit, Automated Testing & Release Assurance Packs and Cyber-Safe Delivery support the agreed migration and validation scope.
Linkworks
Cloud-native solutions, composable UI and REST APIs can support application modernisation within a cloud migration; these application capabilities do not replace cloud infrastructure.
testoriumz
Continuous testing, low-code automation and CI/CD integration can support release assurance for application and integration changes during migration.
Fit and licensing
Products are available by licence, subscription or SaaS, with or without a Linkfields services engagement. Discovery agrees product fit, reusable accelerator content and client-specific engineering.
SECURE BY DESIGN
From workload assessment to optimised operations
Step 1: Assess
Baseline business needs, workloads, dependencies and spend. Client owners confirm the platform scope, service objectives, recovery requirements and migration priorities.
Step 2: Design
Agree landing zones, IAM, network controls, recovery and cost attribution. Define client, provider and Linkfields responsibilities; security and quality requirements gate the design.
Step 3: Migrate and validate
Move or modernise workloads in waves. Test data, integrations, cutover, rollback and recovery against agreed acceptance criteria before the client release decision.
Step 4: Operate and optimise
Transfer monitoring, runbooks and escalation ownership. Measure cost, performance and recovery evidence; agree coverage, exclusions and response/restoration terms for any managed scope.
ACCEPTANCE & ACCOUNTABILITY
Acceptance for cutover and operations
Cutover acceptance includes data and integration validation, access-control checks, release evidence and tested rollback and recovery procedures. The client approves remaining risks; operating owners accept monitoring, runbooks and escalation boundaries.
Track workload cost and performance over an agreed period, separating rate discounts and right-sizing from architectural changes. Compare recovery evidence and service performance with agreed objectives - not an unconditional availability or savings promise.
See Our approach and commercial models for delivery governance and engagement details.
ENGAGEMENT & BUYER QUESTIONS
Plan the right engagement
Use Time & Materials for readiness and architecture discovery, or Fixed Price for agreed migration waves. A Dedicated Team supports platform engineering; Managed Service covers explicitly agreed cloud operations. Outcome-Based optimisation needs a comparable cost/performance baseline, exclusions and attribution.
Let’s connect
Tell us about your cloud modernisation priorities
What happens next
- We route your enquiry to the relevant portfolio specialist.
- Where needed, we agree an NDA before you share confidential information.
- We clarify your priorities and agree the right next step with you.