Migrate to Cloud
Without the Chaos
Cloud migrations fail when teams rush to lift-and-shift without a strategy. We assess every workload, design the right migration path for each, and build a sequenced execution plan that keeps your business running while the move happens underneath.
Migration Strategy Deliverables
Everything your team and leadership need to greenlight and execute the migration.
Workload Assessment & Classification
Every application and database cataloged, scored on cloud readiness, and assigned a migration strategy — rehost, replatform, refactor, replace, or retire.
Migration Wave Plan
Sequenced migration waves grouped by dependency, risk, and business criticality. Each wave has a timeline, resource plan, and rollback procedure.
Risk & Compliance Matrix
Application-level risk assessment covering data sensitivity, regulatory constraints, downtime tolerance, and integration dependencies — with mitigation plans for each.
TCO Comparison Model
Total cost of ownership comparison between current on-prem/hosting costs and projected cloud costs — including migration labor, training, and operational changes.
Tooling & Automation Plan
Recommended migration tools (AWS MGN, Azure Migrate, etc.), automation scripts, and testing frameworks — matched to your workload types and team skills.
Executive Migration Roadmap
Board-ready presentation covering timeline, budget, risk profile, and business case. Designed to secure buy-in from leadership and finance.
Our Migration Planning Process
Inventory & Discovery
Catalog every application, database, and dependency. Map network flows, identify integration points, and document current performance baselines.
Week 1Workload Assessment
Score each workload on cloud readiness. Assign migration strategies based on complexity, business value, and technical constraints.
Week 2Architecture Mapping
Design the target cloud architecture for each workload group. Define networking, security boundaries, and managed service substitutions.
Week 3Wave Planning
Sequence workloads into migration waves ordered by dependency, risk, and business impact. Build rollback plans for each wave.
Week 4Roadmap Delivery
Present the full migration strategy to stakeholders, incorporate feedback, and deliver final documentation with implementation guides.
Week 5Planning a Cloud Migration? Strategy Before Execution
The biggest migration risks are decisions made without data. Let us build the plan before you move a single workload.
Schedule Free ConsultationThis Engagement Is Built For
Migration strategy advisory is most valuable at these decision points.
Enterprises Leaving On-Prem or Colocation
Data center leases expiring, hardware aging, or leadership mandating cloud. You need a migration plan that doesn't disrupt operations.
EnterpriseFinTech Firms Moving Regulated Workloads
Payments, lending, or insurance platforms where migration must satisfy regulators. Compliance can't be an afterthought in your cloud move.
FinTechTeams Burned by a Previous Failed Migration
You tried lift-and-shift and it didn't work. Now you need a structured approach with proper assessment, sequencing, and risk management.
RecoveryCompanies Consolidating Multi-Cloud Sprawl
Workloads scattered across clouds with no governance. You need a rationalization strategy that consolidates without disrupting live services.
ConsolidationWhy OpenMalo for Migration Strategy
We've planned migrations for regulated financial platforms, legacy insurance systems, and high-traffic SaaS — we know what can go wrong.
Start Your Migration Assessment
Tell us about your current environment and migration goals. We'll schedule a discovery call to scope the engagement.
Zero-Downtime Migration for an Insurance Platform
Cloud Migration Strategy for GreenLeaf Insurance
GreenLeaf ran 47 applications across two aging data centers with interconnected dependencies and zero documentation. We built a workload-by-workload migration strategy that moved everything to AWS over 16 weeks with zero customer-facing downtime.
Undocumented infrastructure with regulatory constraints
GreenLeaf's data center lease was expiring in 9 months. Their infrastructure had grown organically over 12 years with no architecture documentation, tangled dependencies, and insurance regulators requiring advance notice for any infrastructure changes.
Our Approach: 5-week strategy engagement: automated discovery with AWS Application Discovery Service, dependency mapping workshops, workload scoring, 6-wave migration plan with regulatory review gates, and TCO model showing 34% annual savings post-migration.
Frequently Asked Questions
Typically 4-6 weeks depending on the number of applications and complexity of dependencies. Larger estates (100+ applications) may need 6-8 weeks. The strategy phase is separate from actual migration execution.
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