Every vendor has a migration to sell you. We spent our careers building those services quotes, so we know what is in them, what is padding, and when the honest answer is to stay put and renegotiate. When a move is right, we plan it, cost it properly and lead it through to cutover, and we are not paid on the services that follow, so the recommendation is the real one.
What we migrate
Moving between arrays, between vendors or between sites, and consolidating a fragmented estate onto fewer platforms without a performance cliff.
Whether a Broadcom renewal justifies a move, and if it does, the migration to the platform that fits, sequenced so you are not over a barrel at the next renewal either.
Moving workloads to cloud, back from it, or into a hybrid estate, on a business case built from your numbers rather than the launch deck.
Retiring ageing platforms, disaggregating from converged stacks, and consolidating the tools around them, handed over service by service so nothing goes dark.
What you get
These are the moves we are asked to lead most often, not a boundary. If it is a migration or modernisation a high end IT consultancy would take on, we take it on, with the vendor side view of what it should cost. The decision to move sits with cloud and data centre advisory. The commercial side of the platform you are leaving sits with vendor renewal defence, and the platform you are buying with technology acquisition.
Proof
A global enterprise ran ageing arrays from several top tier vendors, each bought on a different refresh cycle. We planned and led the consolidation onto fewer platforms, migrated the data without a performance cliff, and cut the cost of running the estate. Read the storage case study.
Questions
By costing it against the alternative of staying, on the same term. A migration is worth doing when the total cost of moving, including professional services, parallel running, retraining and the risk of disruption, is lower than the cost of staying and renegotiating. Often it is not, and C4C will say so, because we are not paid on the services that follow a migration.
The licence or platform price is usually the smallest part. The costs most estimates miss are professional services, running the old and new platforms side by side, support overlap on the platform you are leaving, and the time your own teams spend. C4C builds the full figure before you commit, and the storage migration cost guide gives ranges by size and type.
Yes, when the numbers say it is the right move. C4C first works the Broadcom renewal, because staying and renegotiating is often the cheaper outcome. When exit is genuinely right, we plan and lead the migration onto a platform that fits your workloads and structure it so you are not left exposed at the next renewal.
C4C plans, leads and governs the migration. Hands on delivery is done by your own teams, a delivery partner of your choosing, or C4C with a partner where that is the right answer, and we say which. Where we supply or implement a partner platform, we say so on the page.
By handing over service by service rather than switching everything on one date. The old platform keeps running for each workload until the new one has been proven against a real test, then it is switched off. It is slower to start and much faster to finish, and nothing is ever running blind.
Send us the business case or the services quote. We will tell you whether the move is worth making, what it will really cost, and how to run it so nothing goes dark.
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