Cloud & Datacenter Migrations
Move email, files, servers, and applications to Microsoft 365, Azure, AWS, or a colocation rack, with a planned cut-over and no surprises on the bill.
Stuck in the clouds? Most businesses are already there: Microsoft 365 for email, a few things in Azure or AWS, maybe NetSuite or QuickBooks Online for the books. The question is rarely whether to use the cloud. It is whether the cloud you have is set up to deliver what it promised. CaneData answers that first, then plans and executes whatever move, cleanup, or consolidation makes sense for your workloads.
Already in the cloud? Make it earn its keep
- License audit: remove unused seats and mismatched plans, and buy only what people use
- Security baseline: multi-factor authentication, conditional access, and admin accounts locked down
- Backup for Microsoft 365 and cloud servers, because the subscription does not include one
- Right-sizing Azure and AWS resources so the monthly bill reflects real usage
- Connecting NetSuite, QuickBooks, and Microsoft 365 to the rest of your systems instead of exporting spreadsheets
- Automation with Power Automate and scheduled jobs for the work people are still doing by hand
- Short training sessions so staff use what you are already paying for
Migrations we handle
- Email and calendars from on-premises Exchange, POP/IMAP hosting, or Google Workspace to Microsoft 365
- File servers to SharePoint, OneDrive, or Azure Files, with permissions preserved
- Windows servers and line-of-business applications to Azure or AWS virtual machines
- SQL Server databases to cloud VMs or managed database services
- Aging on-premises hardware to a colocation rack with remote hands
- Datacenter-to-datacenter moves and consolidations
- Hybrid setups with Active Directory synchronized to Entra ID
- Accounting and ERP moves, such as QuickBooks Enterprise to QuickBooks Online or to NetSuite, with the data cleaned on the way
- Bringing a workload back in-house or into a colocation rack in the rare case that is the better answer
How a migration runs
- Inventory and dependencies What runs where, who uses it, and what talks to what. Most migration surprises come from the one system nobody remembered.
- Cost comparison Three-year cost of cloud versus colocation versus a hardware refresh, including the items that get left off vendor quotes: licensing, backups, bandwidth, and data egress.
- Pilot Migrate a small group or a non-critical system first and fix what breaks while it is cheap to fix.
- Cut-over Scheduled after hours or over a weekend, with a tested rollback plan and someone on the phone Monday morning.
- Clean-up Decommission old servers securely, update documentation, and train users on what changed.
See the numbers first. Cloud is part of every free assessment: you get a written list of what to fix, what to cancel, and what to leave alone before anything is proposed.
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Ready to stop worrying about IT?
It starts with a free assessment. You get a plain-language summary of where you stand and a straight answer on what it would take to fix, from the engineer who would do the work.