Portfolio before pipes
Applications, data, and dependencies are inventoried, and each workload gets a disposition and a priced wave plan. Finance and engineering share one picture of risk and effort.
Cloud migration with the same names from assessment to go-live.
Arrow plans and runs cloud migrations with cutover paths, rollback plans, and a handoff to the team that already knows the estate. Security review is standard scope from the first wave.
Every wave, planned to the end.
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We plan cutover paths with rollback built in from day one.
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After go-live, the estate goes to the team that already knows it.
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Security review ships as standard scope, never bolted on after.
Why do cloud migrations stall?
Nobody owns the portfolio, landing zones get skipped, and modernization becomes either “rewrite everything” or “lift everything blindly.” Then go-live is treated as the end of the engagement. Arrow runs Migration & Modernization as a controlled program with a handoff that isn’t a reset.
Landing zones first
Guardrails, identity, networking, and logging go in before workloads land, with security review in that foundation.
Wave-based cutover
Controlled waves with rehearsed rollback, so production never rides on a single big-bang bet.
A controlled program, wave by wave.
How the move is matched to each workload, how paths are planned for cutover, and who stays when it’s done.
Modernization with intent
Should every workload be refactored?
No. Change what pays for itself. Lift-and-shift when that’s the right risk and value call, and refactor when the workload and the business case justify it.
- A disposition for every workload
- Modernize what pays for itself
- Don’t pay to move technical debt
Connectivity and cutover
Will the network hold during cutover?
It will when paths and capacity are part of the migration plan. Waves often need temporary bandwidth, private paths, or adjusted routing, so Arrow pairs the move with Cloud On-Ramp and Internet Access when public-internet paths won’t hold for replication or cutover.
- Temporary bandwidth for waves
- Private paths for replication
- Branch policy held through the move
Why Arrow
Same names from assessment through operations.
SI handoff cliffs are expensive. Arrow keeps assessment, wave execution, and optional managed operations connected, so the people who learned the estate during migration aren’t replaced by a queue that meets it for the first time on night one.
- No SI handoff cliff
- The same names on cutover night
- Managed operations when you want them
Waves, rollback, and a handoff
that isn’t a reset.
Match the move to the workload.
Different workloads need different paths. Arrow plans the mix workload by workload.
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Inventory to steady state, in a deliberate sequence.
Rollback is designed well before the night you switch. Exit criteria are written into the wave plan.
Inventory and disposition
Applications, data, and dependencies are inventoried first, so you’re not paying to move technical debt you should retire.
Landing zones and security review
Guardrails, identity, networking, and logging go in before production traffic, with security review as part of the foundation.
Wave-based cutover
Waves move what’s ready inside agreed change windows, with communication plans and rehearsed rollback.
Rightsize and decommission
After go-live, workloads are rightsized and old environments are decommissioned to close the loop.
Operations handoff
Handoff to Arrow Managed Cloud or your own team, with documentation. The people who ran the waves can keep operating.
Cloud Consulting & Engineering
Cloud architecture your operators can run, validated before it ships.
Hybrid & Multi-Cloud
One operating model across on-prem, private, and public cloud.
Cost & Workload Optimization
Rightsize the architecture, then keep it sized.
Cloud On-Ramp
Private, adjustable paths to AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
Managed Cloud
Operations go to the named team that already knows what moved, with monitoring, cost control, and incident response.
FAQs
Do you only move virtual machines?
No. Assessment decides what moves, what stays, and what gets rebuilt. Lift-and-shift is one option among several.
What if the cutover fails?
Rollback is designed well before the night you switch. Exit criteria and recovery expectations are written into the wave plan.
Who is on the floor during cutover?
The same names that assessed the estate. The sequence names who is accountable so cutover is not a stranger meeting production for the first time.
Does the work stop at go-live?
No. Modernization looks at the next stretch of years for the cloud estate, and operations hand off to a team that already knows what moved. Accountability continues past project close.
Can security be added after the move?
Security review belongs in the first architecture decision, before workloads go live. Standard cloud scope keeps security in the wave design.