Cloud infrastructure that was built on purpose.
Most mid-market cloud environments weren’t designed — they accumulated. A Microsoft 365 tenant someone set up in 2018. Azure resources from a migration that got 70% done. AWS from a single project that never got decommissioned. An on-prem file server nobody will touch. We turn the accumulation into an architecture.
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We start with an architecture review — not a sales call. Two engineers walk through your current state: what’s where, what talks to what, what’s costing you money, what’s a single point of failure, and what would be hard to restore if it died tomorrow. You get a diagram and a prioritized list of issues whether or not you engage us further.
From the review we build a target architecture. For most mid-market companies this means consolidating around Microsoft 365 as the identity and productivity backbone, Azure or AWS for infrastructure workloads, and a defined place for each thing. Hybrid stays hybrid when it should, and goes fully-cloud when it makes sense.
Migration is engineered. We don’t “lift and shift” blindly — that’s how you end up with a cloud bill three times your on-prem costs. We right-size workloads, eliminate what doesn’t need to move, and plan cutover windows that don’t blow up your operations.
We also run our own private cloud
Public cloud isn’t always the right answer. Some workloads are more cost-effective, more performant, or more compliant on dedicated infrastructure you can see and touch. For clients with those requirements, we operate our own private cloud across multiple Canadian data centers — with multi-carrier connectivity, automated backups, and disaster recovery failover to our secondary facility.
This is a full alternative to AWS or Azure for the workloads where it fits: line-of-business applications with predictable load, data-heavy environments where egress fees dominate, hybrid setups where latency to an on-prem location matters, and compliance-sensitive deployments where Canadian data residency isn’t negotiable. It’s common for us to run a client’s infrastructure partly in public cloud and partly in our private cloud — using each for what it’s best at, rather than forcing a single model.
When private cloud is the right call
- You’re paying more than you should for predictable workloads in AWS or Azure — cloud bills that ballooned as data volume grew
- You need data residency in Canada with stricter guarantees than public-cloud region selection provides
- You’re coming off traditional on-prem and don’t want the overhead of running your own data center anymore
- You have workloads that need guaranteed performance rather than best-effort shared tenancy
- You need a DR target that’s geographically separated and not dependent on a public-cloud provider
How it works
Architecture review (Week 1–2)
Engineer-led review of your current cloud and hybrid footprint. We document every environment, every identity provider, every backup job, and every line of spend. Output: current-state diagram, target-state diagram, and a gap list ranked by impact and effort.
Roadmap and cost baseline (Week 2–3)
We produce a migration and optimization roadmap with timing, cost, and risk for each phase. We also establish a cost baseline — where your cloud spend is going today vs. where it should be. Most engagements recover 20–40% of cloud spend in the first quarter just from cleanup.
Migration and consolidation (Month 2–6)
We execute the roadmap in phases: identity first, then email, then files, then workloads. Each phase has a cutover plan, a rollback plan, and explicit go/no-go criteria. Nothing moves during business hours unless it’s invisible.
Ongoing operations (monthly)
Monthly cost reports with actual recommendations. Backup verification. Identity reviews to catch drift. Capacity planning before you hit limits. Security posture maintained on the same schedule as our cybersecurity service.
What’s included
- Full architecture review and current-state documentation
- Microsoft 365 tenant design, deployment, and administration
- Azure and AWS workload design and operations
- Identity consolidation — Entra / Azure AD, SSO for major SaaS apps
- Migration services — file server to SharePoint/OneDrive, Exchange Online, on-prem to cloud
- Backup strategy — Microsoft 365 backup, cloud workload backup, disaster recovery design
- Cost monitoring and monthly optimization reports
- Network design — VPN, ExpressRoute, site-to-site connectivity
- Conditional access and Zero Trust architecture
- Capacity planning and quarterly cost reviews
- SaaS management — vendor relationships, license true-ups, and renewals
What makes Vusix different
We’re vendor-flexible.
Some MSPs are Microsoft shops and will sell you Microsoft for everything. We lead with what fits your environment. If your dev team lives in AWS, we won’t force a migration just to consolidate vendors. The right answer is almost always “use what you already have better,” not “rip and replace.”
We right-size, not “lift and shift.”
A common mid-market pattern: a previous vendor lifted on-prem VMs directly into Azure at the same specs. The result was a 2–3× cost increase with no performance benefit. We review every workload before migration — is it even needed? Can it be refactored to managed services?
Cost management is continuous, not a one-time cleanup.
Cloud costs drift upward ~15–20% a year if nobody’s actively managing them. We do monthly reviews with actual remediation. Clients routinely see 20–40% cost reduction in the first quarter and flat-to-declining costs afterward, even as they grow.
Tools: Microsoft 365 E3/E5 · Azure · AWS · Entra / Azure AD · Azure Virtual Desktop · Windows 365 · Veeam · Commvault · Terraform · Private hosting on our own infrastructure for compliance or performance requirements
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Two of our engineers spend 60–90 minutes in your environment and send you a written report — what’s working, what’s quietly broken, and what would fail an audit tomorrow. No obligation.
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