Itaca Technologies

Cloud and
infrastructure

Editorial illustration for the Cloud and infrastructure service

The problem

Infrastructure rarely gets designed; it gets inherited. A server someone installed years ago, a cloud account opened for one project, backups that run but have never been restored, and subscriptions that overlap because each one solved a different emergency. Every piece made sense when it arrived. Together, they are a structure nobody chose.

Changing it is where businesses get hurt: migrations started without a sequence, data moved before access is ready, systems that go down mid-move because a dependency was invisible. The work here is to design the target environment and the order of the move, so the operation keeps running while the ground changes under it.

When to use it

  • Servers, cloud accounts, and subscriptions have accumulated over years and no one designed how they fit together.
  • The business is moving to the cloud, or between clouds, and the order of the migration is not clear.
  • Backups exist on paper, but nobody has tested what recovery actually looks like.
  • An office move, growth, or a new location is forcing infrastructure decisions the business has been postponing.

How we approach it

  1. Understand

    We map the current environment: servers, cloud accounts, networks, backups, and the dependencies between them, including the ones nobody wrote down.

  2. Design

    We design the target environment and the migration path: what moves, what stays, what gets retired, and in what order, with cost and risk visible before anything changes.

  3. Implement

    We build and migrate in the agreed sequence, whichever platforms the target environment turns out to need, and document it as we go.

  4. Stay involved

    Infrastructure is never finished. After the move we keep reviewing it, maintaining it, and adjusting it as the business grows or changes shape.

A good fit

Businesses whose infrastructure grew by accumulation and now needs to be designed, migrated, or rebuilt without stopping the operation.

Not a fit

Buying licenses or cloud capacity for its own sake. A migration whose destination was chosen by a vendor before anyone mapped the current state. We don't resell software or take vendor commissions, so the environment we recommend is the one the business needs.

Founded in 2011
No software resale
No vendor commissions