Cloud migration consultants in Sydney

PicNet moves email, files and servers to Microsoft 365, Azure and AWS for Australian organisations, then manages and automates the environment afterwards. Our Sydney engineers have completed dozens of cloud migrations.

Are your core IT systems still on in-house servers?

Are your core business IT systems still running from servers in your office or in a data centre and you need help migrating them to the cloud?

Don't know which of your IT systems suit cloud migration?

You want to move your IT into the cloud but don't know which system can be moved?

Need IT systems that provide a better user experience when staff work from home?

Are your IT systems reducing your team's productivity when working from home?

Need to automate your cloud management?

Did you know that cloud computing allows you to automate the deployment and management of the infrastructure through code?

Run your apps and APIs without servers.

Did you know your web apps can run using serverless computing? We can help you to transition your application to use serverless technologies and save on hosting.

Email

Mailboxes, calendars and contacts into Exchange Online.

Files

File shares and network drives into SharePoint and OneDrive, with the folder structure reviewed on the way.

Identity and devices

Windows Active Directory to Entra ID, with Intune managing devices, policies and sign-in.

A secure tenancy

New tenancies configured for security from the start and hardened in line with the Essential Eight.

What cloud computing can do for your business

Increase the reliability, resiliency and security of your IT

For most small and medium businesses, using SaaS systems will provide you with a much more reliable, resilient and secure IT. When you have limited IT resources, SaaS offerings are able to offer better reliability and security compared to doing it "in-house".

Infrastructure review and recommendations

We can conduct a full review of your IT systems and provide a comprehensive list of recommendations on what systems can be migrated to the cloud, what cloud technologies to use and the benefits you will gain.

Cloud automation / "DevOps"

PicNet can assist you in maturing your cloud IT practices by implementing automation whereby infrastructure and services can be provisioned, duplicated, de-provisioned and changed through code.

Cloud migration implementation

You need to migrate your IT Services to the cloud, but you or your IT service provider lack the expertise to do it. Our cloud migration consultants in Sydney do the heavy lifting and implement your cloud migration project. We have completed dozens of cloud migration projects, including:

Email systems to Microsoft 365 (Office 365) / Exchange Online
File stores to SharePoint or Dropbox
In-house server to cloud servers at Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure
Windows AD to Entra ID plus Intune to manage user identities, device policies and authentication natively in the cloud
Extending your private network into public cloud services such as AWS or Azure
Migrate your app to the cloud

Assess

We audit what you have

We review your current environment and decide what should move to the cloud, what is better replaced by a SaaS product, and what should stay.

Design

We design the target

We design the target architecture first, so you don't lift and shift today's problems into a more expensive equivalent.

Migrate

In planned stages

Workloads move in planned stages, each with a rollback path, and the new infrastructure is defined as code.

Cut over

Monitored from day one

Monitoring and backup are in place before cutover, not added afterwards.

Run

Managed or handed over

PicNet manages the environment for you, or hands it to your team with documentation and the infrastructure-as-code definitions.

File system migration and simplification

Every company whether big or small have a need for a system to store files and documents. Although size normally also determines complexity, due to segregation of duties, company structure or as legacy or organic growth, some small business have rather complex file storage and access requirements. Migrating files and document storage from an in-house system to the cloud, will not only increase reliability, scalability, security and useability, it can also provide an opportunity for business to review their filing structure and simplify how and where their files and documents are stored.

Complex file system with no room for growth

The Cruising Yacht Club of Australia had company file and document storage system that had organically grown over the years to be rather complex with many different access groups, dozens of different network drives and the existing in-house storage infrastructure had run out of space for growth. Users didn't like to work from home because accessing files, required the use of the company VPN which at the time was cumbersome and slow.

Increased productivity and user satisfaction with less complexity

PicNet migrated the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia files system to SharePoint online and in the process drove a process of review and simplification of the filing structure. The result was that users could now securely access company files conveniently from any computer with an internet connection, allowing users to work from home (in time for COVID lockdown) and room for future data growth.