Cloud migraton partner recommendations

[imtoooldforthissh]

Hi,

 

We are currently investigating moving to the cloud and would be looking to use a third-party partner to carry out the migration. Could anybody recommend a company they have used to migrate them to the cloud? Any companies we should avoid?

 

I'm not keen on doing the migration myself as my time and experience are limited so I wouldn't have the spare time or expertise to sort out problems as we hit them and need things to go as smoothly as possible.

 

Thanks in advance.

[kennysarmy]

Hi,

 

We are currently investigating moving to the cloud and would be looking to use a third-party partner to carry out the migration. Could anybody recommend a company they have used to migrate them to the cloud? Any companies we should avoid?

 

I'm not keen on doing the migration myself as my time and experience are limited so I wouldn't have the spare time or expertise to sort out problems as we hit them and need things to go as smoothly as possible.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

https://commercial.co.uk/managed-services/

[FN-GM]

What is it you're migrating to the cloud?

[Mark182]

These guys are ace

[supportman]

Design and Management Systems Ltd | Home | DMS (dmsystem.co.uk)

 

Were very helpful with us and have migrated a number of schools I believe.

[imtoooldforthissh]

Hi,

Thanks for the posts - I'll check out your recommendations.

In reply to what are we migrating? - basically the Hyper-V server (Domain controller, File/print server and MIS Virtual machines) is old and needs repacing so it's either a new server, or look at going serverless. As the DfE is recommending that schools should be moving to cloud solutions, it seems like a good time to have a serious look at doing it.

[Jaymate]

Would suggest you just don't lift and shift to the cloud and look the cloud equivelants.

eg. InTune insread of SCCM, OneDrive & Sharepoint instead of File Servers, MIS - Cloud alternative - SIMS Connected instead of SIMS etc. and then Cloud Print solutions instead of print servers. May not all be possible but would likely save money and resources etc rather than just a lift & shift.

 

As Mark182 says above - These guys can help https://www.concero.education/

Edited March 5, 2024 by Jaymate

[kennysarmy]

 

 

We have one school that's gone fully cloud in the Trust and the management of policies via Intune compared to on-prem group policies is, shall I say, challenging!

 

We're planning to migrate another school's data to the cloud (SharePoint/OneDrive) in the next 6 months but we're leaving (for now) the PC's being managed by AD.

[imtoooldforthissh]

Excellent advice Jaymate and that's what we're hoping to do. I've already been talking with one company and I'm waiting for Concero to get in touch.