Design, migration, hosting and ongoing management of secure, scalable Microsoft Azure infrastructure.
Microsoft Azure gives you scalable, pay-as-you-go infrastructure, but it needs designing, securing and managing to deliver value without runaway cost.
WhizzIT designs, migrates and manages your Azure environment end to end, keeping it secure, optimised and aligned to what your business actually needs.
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Azure is pay as you go, which sounds reassuring until the first bill arrives that nobody can explain. It is almost never one big mistake. It is a dozen small ones nobody owned.
Virtual machines get sized generously during a project and never revisited, so you pay for headroom you have never touched. Test environments spin up on a Tuesday and run all weekend because switching them off was somebody's job in principle.
Disks and public IP addresses outlive the machines they belonged to and keep billing quietly on their own. Nothing is tagged, so when the bill goes up nobody can say which project or department caused it.
Running everything at pay as you go rates when the workload is clearly permanent is the most common overspend we find. Reservations and savings plans exist precisely for predictable workloads, and applying them properly is often the single biggest reduction available without changing a thing technically.
None of this needs heroics. It needs somebody looking every month, which is what management means in practice rather than in a brochure.
Where the money usually leaks
This is the work we get asked for, so it is the work the page is about.
Moving servers and workloads off ageing on-premise hardware. Some things lift and shift unchanged, others are better re-platformed on the way across, and a few are genuinely better left where they are. We will tell you which is which rather than moving everything because it is billable.
Monitoring, patching, backups verified, capacity reviewed and spend examined every month. Right-sizing, reservations and switching off what nobody is using. This is the part that decides whether Azure saves you money or quietly costs more than the servers did.
Identity first, because in Azure identity is the perimeter. Conditional access, multi-factor authentication, privileged access controlled rather than permanent, network segmentation, and alerting that reaches a human. We are Cyber Essentials Certified and apply the same standards here.
Backups configured, retained to a period you have actually chosen, held so ransomware cannot reach them, and tested by restoring rather than by looking at a green tick. Recovery objectives agreed per workload up front.
Azure Virtual Desktop where it genuinely fits, which is more often than people expect and less often than the marketing suggests. See below for the honest version.
As a Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider your licensing, support and escalation come direct from us rather than through a reseller chain, so when something needs Microsoft it goes to Microsoft.
Azure Virtual Desktop earns its place in specific situations, and it is worth being clear about which. It is excellent when you need people working on company systems from equipment you do not control, so contractors, offshore teams, personal machines and anyone using their own laptop. It keeps the data in Azure rather than on the endpoint, which is a genuine security win. It suits a legacy application that refuses to behave on modern desktops. It is also the fastest way to onboard twenty people at once without waiting on hardware.
It is excellent when you need people working on company systems from equipment you do not control, so contractors, offshore teams, personal machines and anyone using their own laptop. It keeps the data in Azure rather than on the endpoint. It also suits a legacy application that refuses to behave on modern desktops, and it is the fastest way to onboard twenty people without waiting on hardware.
It is not automatically cheaper than buying laptops. Session hosts are virtual machines and they bill while they run, so the cost case depends entirely on sizing them properly and letting autoscale shut capacity down outside working hours. Get that wrong and you have bought an expensive way to run Windows. Profiles matter too, because user data has to live somewhere sensible or logins slow to a crawl, which is what FSLogix profile containers are for.
If you already have Microsoft 365 Business Premium or a Windows E3 or E5 plan, the desktop entitlement is typically already included, so you are paying Azure for the compute and storage rather than buying a whole new product. We will work out whether the numbers land in your favour before recommending it, and say so if they do not.
Independently assessed against the UK government-backed scheme, so our security fundamentals are verified rather than simply claimed. We help clients certify too.
How Cyber Essentials helps you
A direct partnership with Microsoft. We license, deploy and support Microsoft 365 and Azure for you, with escalation straight to Microsoft when it is needed.
Our Microsoft cloud servicesCyber Essentials is a UK government scheme run by the National Cyber Security Centre, delivered by IASME. You can verify what the certification covers at source.
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We plan and deliver your move to Azure, with the right architecture from day one.
We secure your environment with best-practice identity, access and network controls.
We monitor, patch and optimise continuously, keeping performance up and cost down.
We hold partner status with the vendors behind the tools we deploy, so your licensing, support and escalation come direct from the source rather than through a reseller chain.
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