A migration factory that moves a legacy estate to the cloud and modernises it on the way — matching each workload to the right path rather than rehosting everything.
A sizeable on-prem estate needed to move to the cloud — compute, storage, and networking that had grown over years. Rehosting alone rarely pays off: industry analysis from Accenture notes that much of cloud's value comes from modernising applications, not simply relocating them, with a meaningful share of cloud spend going to modernisation.
The pattern is a repeatable migration factory: assess each workload, decide its path with the 6 Rs, and move it onto a hardened landing zone — modernising where it earns its keep.
Representative reference architecture from the NovasIQ cloud practice, illustrating how we approach this pattern. It reflects standard, proven cloud-engineering practice rather than a specific named client engagement, and outcomes are described qualitatively. The modernisation context above reflects published Accenture analysis. Industry figures are drawn from public research: Gartner, Accenture and Flexera.