Legacy-to-Cloud Migration for EU-Hosted Systems
Move off ageing servers into an EU cloud — phase by phase, at a fixed price
Most legacy platforms are not broken — they are simply immovable. The system still runs, but nobody dares touch it, and the cost of that standstill compounds every quarter. We break the deadlock without a big-bang cutover: each component is assessed and moved on its own terms, rehosted, replatformed or refactored, with a rollback path at every milestone. As an EU-based engineering partner, we migrate into infrastructure hosted in Germany with an EU fallback, so the move settles your sovereignty and GDPR questions instead of trading one dependency for another.
Trusted by mid-market companies building a future-proof IT infrastructure
ChallengesWhy aging servers put your business at risk
An on-premises estate rarely fails loudly. It degrades quietly: vendor support lapses, hardware falls out of warranty, undocumented dependencies harden into technical debt, and the one engineer who understands the wiring moves on. Each of those risks is survivable alone — together they decide the migration's timing for you, usually at the worst possible moment and at a price you no longer control.
Rising maintenance costs
Old servers need more care, more frequent repairs, and expensive replacement parts. At the same time, they deliver less performance than modern cloud infrastructure. The cost-to-benefit ratio deteriorates year after year.
Availability risks
Without redundant systems, a single hardware failure is enough to shut down your business. Many mid-market companies run business-critical software on single servers without failover. That's an unnecessarily high risk.
Dependency on individuals
Often, only one person knows the entire infrastructure. If that person is unavailable, your company loses its ability to act. This single point of failure is one of the biggest risks for mid-market companies.
Lack of scalability
When your business grows, your IT must grow with it. Procuring, setting up, and operating new servers takes weeks. In the cloud, you scale within minutes.
Compliance pressure
GDPR, industry-specific regulations, and rising IT security requirements make operating your own servers increasingly demanding. Without professional patch management and monitoring, gaps emerge.
BenefitsYour path to the cloud: structured, predictable, and secure
Our legacy-to-cloud package follows a proven three-phase model: analysis, plan, migration. Each phase has clear deliverables and a fixed price.
No big-bang risk
Step-by-step migration with rollback strategy for every milestone. Your business operations continue without interruption.
Fixed price per phase
Each phase has a transparent fixed price. No hourly billing, no unpleasant surprises. The analysis can be booked separately.
40 % cost reduction proven
Legacy ERP migrated from on-prem to Azure — operating costs reduced by 40 %, availability increased from 95 % to 99.9 %.
EU cloud for digital sovereignty
You choose the right platform: Azure, AWS, or servers in Germany (EU fallback available). For companies with strict GDPR requirements, EU providers offer full data sovereignty. We advise honestly on what best fits your case.
Knowledge transfer included
After migration, your team understands the new infrastructure. We document everything and train your staff.
Analysis bookable as an entry point
Unsure whether migration is worthwhile? Book the analysis as a standalone first step. Afterward, you decide freely whether and how to proceed.
ProcessThree phases for a secure migration
Migrations fail when the plan outruns what anyone actually knows about the estate. So we gate the work: each phase ends in a deliverable you can act on independently, and nothing starts until the phase before it has proven its assumptions. You can stop after any one of them — including after the analysis, with the report in hand.
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Analysis
We capture the current state of your entire IT landscape. This includes all systems, dependencies, data flows, and interfaces. We assess risks and identify the right migration strategy for each component: rehost, replatform, or refactor. This phase can be booked as a standalone service.
Detailed analysis report with concrete recommendations and a solid decision basis.
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Migration plan
Based on the analysis, we create a step-by-step migration plan. Each milestone has a rollback strategy. We define the migration sequence, plan test windows, and align the timeline with your business operations.
Binding migration plan with rollback strategies and an aligned timeline.
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Migration and optimization
We migrate your systems step by step into a cloud-native environment. After each component, we verify performance and stability. After completion, we optimize availability and cloud costs. Your team receives complete documentation and a knowledge transfer.
Fully migrated, cloud-native infrastructure with documented knowledge transfer.
ServicesWhat our legacy-to-cloud package includes
We don't deliver PowerPoint slides — we deliver measurable results. Every service is implemented together with your team so knowledge stays in the company.
System analysis and inventory
Complete capture of all applications, databases, interfaces, and dependencies. You receive a clear overview of your IT landscape, often for the first time in documented form.
Migration strategy per component
Not every system needs the same approach. We decide per component: lift-and-shift for stable systems, replatform for cloud optimizations, refactoring for critical modernizations. Where it makes sense, we guide the transition from monolith to microservices to reduce technical debt and ensure long-term maintainability.
Cloud platform advisory
Azure for Microsoft-centric environments. AWS for the broadest service range. Servers in Germany (EU fallback available) for digital sovereignty, GDPR compliance, and attractive pricing. We advise honestly and vendor-independently — ensuring your cloud solution matches your compliance requirements.
Step-by-step migration with rollback
Every migration step is reversible. We define clear acceptance criteria and test every milestone before proceeding. Your business operations continue at all times.
Infrastructure as Code
Your new infrastructure is defined as code with Terraform or Pulumi. This makes it reproducible, versioned, and auditable. Manual server configuration is a thing of the past.
Performance and availability optimization
After migration, we optimize your systems for the cloud. Auto-scaling, load balancing, monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana, and automatic alerts.
Documentation and knowledge transfer
Every system, every configuration, and every process is documented. Additionally, we train your team on the new infrastructure. You are not dependent on us.
Where the migration actually pays off
A cloud migration is worth doing twice over when the destination is chosen deliberately. Hosting in Germany with an EU fallback keeps your workloads and backups outside the reach of the US CLOUD Act, which is why digital sovereignty is increasingly the reason European companies leave their basement racks rather than a happy side effect of it. Azure and AWS remain on the table where their service depth earns its place — we advise on the trade-off rather than on a partner tier.
The second payoff is financial, and it is not automatic. Lifting an unexamined estate into the cloud usually reproduces its waste on someone else's invoice; the 40 % we cut for one client came from right-sizing and retiring what nobody had questioned in years. That is the same discipline behind cloud cost optimization as a standalone engagement, and it is why the analysis phase pays for itself before any workload moves.
Migration also exposes what the old server was hiding. If the deeper problem is an ageing codebase rather than ageing hardware, technical debt and legacy systems is the more honest starting point. And once you are running cloud-native, someone has to operate it — SRE and DevOps enablement hands that capability to your team instead of turning us into a permanent dependency.
ReferencesResults that speak for themselves
Cost reduction
A client's legacy ERP was migrated from on-prem to Azure. Operating costs dropped by 40 % — through optimized infrastructure and the elimination of local server maintenance.
Availability
For the same client, availability increased from 95 % to 99.9 %. Multi-hour outages due to hardware problems are a thing of the past.
Legacy-to-Cloud Migration for EU-Hosted Systems — let's talk about it
Let us discuss how we can support your team.
“We don't shy away from legacy systems. Quite the opposite: that's where the biggest leverage lies. When we move an old system to the cloud, it's not a quick job — it's a well-thought-out migration where every step is secured. That's our craft.”
