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Your Cloud Bill Keeps Climbing and Nobody Can Tell You Why

Get the right workload on the right platform, a flat and predictable spend, and one accountable partner for migration, backup, and day-two operations. No single-vendor agenda.

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500+ partner networkExperience managing Fortune 1000 accountsVendor-neutralSecurity-first
The problem

The cloud was supposed to be simpler and cheaper. It became neither.

Your public cloud bill balloons with surprise costs month to month and no one can explain what's driving it. The Broadcom acquisition turned a routine VMware renewal into a roadmap-breaking price increase, while aging hardware piles on. The hybrid sprawl you built for agility now hides what's running where, what it costs, and whether your backups would actually restore. And most teams assume Microsoft 365 backs up their email and files. It doesn't.

  • 83%of enterprises that moved workloads to public cloud plan to bring some back to private infrastructure (Dell)partner go-to-market guide
  • 95%of enterprises still run hybrid environmentsindustry battlecard
  • Broadcom reduced its VMware partner ecosystem from around 4,000 VCSPs to roughly 100 worldwide (just 15 in the U.S.); after October 31, 2025, removed partners can no longer onboard new customersindustry survival-guide battlecard
  • 25%FinOps services help clients reduce public cloud costs by 10-25%industry battlecard
How we solve it

Vendor-neutral, security-first, brokered for best fit

We don't resell one stack and bend your workloads to fit it. We assess first, place each workload where it actually belongs, then run it under defined SLAs with one accountable partner. The result is predictable spend, real resilience, and an exit you keep.

  1. Assessment before spend moves

    We start with a low-risk cloud assessment that pinpoints waste and surfaces immutability and DR gaps before any migration. Then FinOps (budgeting, forecasting, right-sizing, alerts) keeps spend on track, typically taking 10-25% off public cloud.

  2. Right workload, right platform

    Because we're vendor-neutral, we broker the best fit from a deep partner bench: VMware alternatives, right-sized private cloud, GPU/AI-ready capacity, S3-compatible object storage, or managed AWS, Azure, and GCP. No lock-in, no single-vendor roadmap.

  3. Beat the Broadcom clock

    We solve VMware and Broadcom uncertainty with bridge licensing and migration paths to right-sized alternatives, so you avoid the panic renewal and modernize on your timeline, not Broadcom's fiscal year.

  4. Microsoft 365 done right

    We migrate Exchange, mailboxes, file shares, OneDrive, and SharePoint with Active Directory integration so users keep working through the cutover. We right-size licensing, add independent M365 backup, and own escalations to Microsoft.

  5. Resilience that actually restores

    Immutable, tested, offsite backups; documented and regularly exercised DR plans; and recovery aligned to what the business needs back first. A deletion or ransomware event becomes recoverable, not catastrophic.

  6. Security and governance wrapper

    Every deployment ships with hardening, MFA, identity and access controls, observability, and compliance alignment (HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, FedRAMP), plus DaaS/VDI so sensitive data lives in the cloud, not on a laptop that can walk out the door.

What you get

Outcomes you can hold us to.

  • A flat, right-sized cloud spend you can forecast, with 10-25% typically taken off public cloud cost and kept there
  • A clear inventory of what runs where, what it costs, and which workloads belong on which platform
  • An exit from the Broadcom renewal trap, with migration to a right-sized alternative on your timeline
  • Microsoft 365 migrated cleanly, licensing right-sized, and an independent backup so deletion or ransomware is recoverable
  • Immutable, offsite backups and a documented, tested DR plan instead of a move-and-pray assumption
  • Sensitive data off individual laptops and into governed virtual desktops, lowering breach and turnover risk
  • One accountable partner for compute, backup, patching, monitoring, and Microsoft escalations under defined SLAs

Outcome patterns seen across the industry

  • A mid-sized firm overspending on a hyperscaler with a small IT team repatriated to a right-sized, fully managed private cloud, cutting monthly spend roughly in half (51% lower) while strengthening security and compliance.
  • A company hit with a sudden 300% spike in object-storage costs from misconfigured immutability moved to a properly tuned multi-copy architecture, halving storage requirements and returning costs to normal.
  • An organization given roughly 60 days to exit its colocation space avoided a six-figure hyperscaler migration estimate by consolidating compute, backup, and firewall into one managed service and hitting the deadline.
  • An enterprise facing a steep VMware renewal used short-term bridge licensing to avoid a forced renewal, then migrated to a competitively priced multi-tenant cloud on its own timeline.
  • A multi-location organization on fragmented IT standardized onto one managed platform with 70% faster issue resolution, fewer tickets, and confident expansion to new sites.

Outcome patterns from across the industry: the shape of results vendor-neutral delivery produces.

Questions, answered

Frequently asked

Key facts
  • 83% of enterprises that moved workloads to public cloud plan to bring some back to private infrastructure, and 95% still run hybrid environments.
  • Broadcom cut its VMware partner ecosystem from roughly 4,000 VCSPs to about 100 worldwide, with just 15 in the U.S.
  • Microsoft 365 guarantees uptime, not your data; Exchange, OneDrive, and SharePoint are not protected against deletion or ransomware beyond a short native window.
  • FinOps services typically reduce public cloud costs by 10-25%, and 75% of SMBs say they could survive only three to seven days after a ransomware attack.
  • Vendor-neutral cloud brokers place each workload on the best-fit platform (public, private, hybrid, or on-prem) without single-vendor lock-in.
Won't going directly to AWS or Azure be cheaper and simpler than a managed provider?
Direct-to-hyperscaler is usually where the runaway-bill problem starts. 83% of enterprises that moved to public cloud plan to bring some back, and 95% still run hybrid. Because we're vendor-neutral, we right-size each workload to the right platform, then run FinOps that typically takes 10-25% off public cloud spend and keeps it there. No single-vendor agenda.
We're locked into VMware and a forced Broadcom renewal. Do we have any choice but to pay the increase?
More than the renewal clock suggests. Broadcom cut its partner ecosystem from roughly 4,000 VCSPs to about 100 worldwide (15 in the U.S.), so most resellers can't even onboard you anymore. Bridge licensing lets you avoid the panic renewal, then migrate to a right-sized multi-tenant or private-cloud alternative on your timeline, not Broadcom's fiscal year.
Microsoft 365 already backs up our email and files, so why do we need separate backup?
Microsoft guarantees uptime, not your data. Exchange, OneDrive, and SharePoint content isn't truly protected against accidental deletion or ransomware beyond a short native window. A misconfigured immutability setting drove one organization's object-storage cost up 300%. We add an independent backup layer so a deletion or ransomware event is actually recoverable.
A cloud migration feels too risky. How do we avoid breaking the business during the cutover?
We don't touch anything first. We inventory the existing environment, map dependencies, and run a staged lift-and-shift with Active Directory integration so users keep working through the cutover. For hot data we use maintenance windows or a copy-then-verify approach, so we never move-and-pray. Plan before spend moves.
We're too small to be a ransomware target. Is this really urgent?
The probability a business experiences a breach is 29.6% and trending up over 14 years of research, and one SMB that called itself 'too small to be a target' lost $200,000 to ransomware weeks later. About 90% of successful breaches start with human error, and 75% of SMBs say they could survive only three to seven days after a ransomware attack. Security-first isn't a luxury at your size.
Won't switching cloud providers just trade one vendor lock-in for another?
That's exactly why we're vendor-neutral and broker from a deep partner bench instead of reselling one stack. We favor portability: S3-compatible object storage that re-points with an endpoint URL change, infrastructure-as-code for repeatable environments, and egress economics that don't punish you for leaving (some platforms run egress at $0.005/GB vs. hyperscaler $0.09/GB). You keep your exit.

Start with a free evaluation, not a big-bang transformation

We begin with a low-risk cloud assessment that pinpoints waste and surfaces your DR and immutability gaps before any spend moves. Many engagements start as a small proof of concept and scale on results, not lock-in. You prove the value on a slice before you scale.

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Updated October 7, 2026. Written by Bert Frichot.