Microsoft Azure: plan, migrate and run your cloud.
Lanmark designs, migrates and supports Microsoft Azure environments. We plan the move around your goals, build it with security and compliance included, and monitor and tune it afterwards. Lanmark is a Direct Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider.
What does Lanmark do with Microsoft Azure?
We take you from a plan to a running environment, and then keep it running.
- Strategic cloud planning
- We assess your current IT, your business goals and your objectives, then design a cloud strategy that fits them.
- Architecture design
- A custom Azure design that is robust, scalable and cost-effective, built to use resources well and fit with the systems you already have.
- Migration
- We guide you through each step of moving to Azure, using proven methods to keep disruption to your operations to a minimum.
- Security and compliance
- Security is part of the design from the start, with controls that meet the industry standards and regulations that apply to you.
- Optimisation and support
- After the move we monitor your environment and tune it for performance and cost, and support you when something needs attention.
Why would a business use Azure?
Scalability: resources can be scaled up or down as your business grows or demand changes, so you pay for what you use.
Security: Azure has a strong security framework, with layered protection, encryption and threat intelligence. Using it well takes expertise, which is what a professional service provides.
Strategy: a cloud project works best when it follows your business goals and is not just a technical upgrade.
Azure cost optimisation for UK businessesWhat has Lanmark built in Azure?
Clients have moved from servers in the office to the cloud, or moved applications to Azure so they can scale quickly.
Azure is also where we build AI that works on your own documents, with your data kept inside your own Azure environment.
AI servicesWhat do people ask about Azure?
Do I need Microsoft Azure?
Not every business does. Azure suits businesses moving servers out of an office or hosted setup, building systems that need to grow, or running AI on their own data. We start by looking at what you have and what you are trying to achieve, and we say so if you do not need it.
Will moving to Azure disrupt my business?
We plan the move before we make it, then guide you through each step of the migration using proven methods, so disruption to your operations is kept to a minimum.
Is my data secure and compliant in Azure?
We design security and compliance into the environment from the start, adhering to industry standards and the regulations that apply to your business, and monitor it once it is running.
Can Azure costs be reduced?
Often, yes. We monitor your environment after the move and tune it for performance and cost. Our guide to Azure cost optimisation for UK businesses sets out where the savings usually are.
Where to go next
Book a free IT review.
We look at what you have, what it costs and where the risks are, and tell you plainly if you do not need to change anything.
Book a free IT review