Cloud and modernization solutions designed for professional services firms across the DMV.
What firms find when their cloud setup gets reviewed honestly.
The migration was supposed to cut costs. Two years in, the cloud bill is bigger than the on-premise spend it replaced, and nobody’s quite sure why.
Some things should be in the public cloud. Some shouldn’t. Most firms ended up putting everything in one place because that was the path of least resistance, and now it’s costing them in performance, compliance, or budget.
The firm pays for Business Premium licenses and uses email and Teams. The advanced security features, the compliance tools, the Power Platform, and Copilot are all paid for and all unused.
The migration moved the servers to the cloud but didn’t change how the team works. Hybrid staff still rely on VPNs, and the cloud hasn’t delivered the flexibility it was supposed to.
Each workload mapped to public, private, or hybrid cloud based on what the firm needs from it, not where the vendor wants it.
The advanced features your firm pays for are deployed and adopted, including the security controls, compliance tooling, and productivity tools the team uses every day.
Cloud spend is monitored and managed against budget, with the architectural decisions that keep the bill from drifting upward year after year.
Cloud setups designed for how professional services firms work today, with the team using the same tools whether they're at a desk, at home, or on the road.
Cloud and modernization for legal, accounting, financial, and pharma firms across the DMV, with industry-specific obligations factored into every architectural decision.
30 days of engagement with 100% of your fees refunded if the work isn't delivering what we promised.
“From the very start of our partnership, they have consistently delivered outstanding, professional, and timely data security and tech support services.
Their proactive approach to helping us set up and maintain our data security measures has been a game-changer for our firm.”
Microsoft 365 is the productivity backbone for most professional services firms in the DMV. We handle deployment and ongoing management of the full platform, including Exchange, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, and the security and compliance tooling that comes with the right license tier. Most firms get more from their existing licenses than they realize once the deployment is set up properly.
Most cloud migrations underdeliver because they treat the cloud as a destination rather than a redesign. We plan migrations in stages and validate the new setup before anything gets shut off. The result is a migration that delivers what the cloud was supposed to deliver in the first place.
Cloud workloads run in different places for different reasons. Some belong in public cloud (Azure, AWS), private cloud, or a hybrid setup that spans both. We design and manage the right hosting model for each workload, with cost, performance, and compliance positions matched to what your firm needs.
Virtual desktops let the team work from anywhere with the same setup they’d have at the office. We deploy and manage VDI environments that give hybrid staff a consistent experience across devices, with the security controls professional services firms need built in from the start.
Cloud decisions get made best when the advice isn’t tied to a particular vendor’s product. We work as cloud consultants for professional services firms in the DMV, helping leadership think through architecture, vendor selection, and the long-term cost implications of each decision before any contract gets signed.
Common questions when firms scope cloud and modernization work with us.
Each workload gets evaluated against four things: how it’s used, what it costs to run, what its security and compliance requirements are, and how it integrates with the rest of the firm’s environment. The output is a recommendation per workload, not a blanket move-everything-to-cloud answer.
“Public cloud” means shared infrastructure run by Azure, AWS, or another major provider. “Private cloud” means infrastructure dedicated to your firm, either hosted by us or in a co-location facility. A hybrid cloud combines the two, using public cloud for some workloads and private for others. Most professional services firms end up with hybrid because different workloads have different requirements.
It depends on the scope. A Microsoft 365 migration typically runs four to eight weeks. A full infrastructure migration with on-premise servers moving to the cloud runs three to six months, often phased so the firm keeps operating throughout. Each engagement gets its own timeline as part of the scoping work.
Done right, cloud workloads can be more secure than on-premise systems because the major cloud providers invest in security at a scale most firms can’t match individually. Done wrong, cloud creates new exposures, including misconfigurations, identity-related risks, and inherited compliance gaps. We design cloud security alongside the cloud setup, mapped to your firm’s specific obligations.
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