Question 1

What does a cloud consultant do?

Accepted Answer

A cloud consultant assesses your current IT environment, designs the optimal cloud architecture for your business, manages cloud migrations, and provides ongoing cloud management. For most UK SMEs, this means: cloud strategy (which workloads should move to cloud and when), Microsoft 365 or Azure migration, cloud security implementation, and cloud cost optimisation. Coreitech's cloud consultants are Microsoft-certified (AZ-500, AZ-104) engineers who have delivered cloud migrations for 200+ UK businesses.

Question 2

What is a cloud strategy consultant?

Accepted Answer

A cloud strategy consultant helps you define which workloads and applications should move to cloud, in what order, and on what timeline — aligned to your business goals, budget, and risk tolerance. This includes: cloud readiness assessment, platform selection (Azure, M365, SaaS alternatives), business case, total cost of ownership analysis, and a phased migration roadmap. Coreitech provides cloud strategy consultancy as a standalone engagement or as part of our managed IT service.

Question 3

How much does a cloud consultant cost in the UK?

Accepted Answer

Cloud consultancy from Coreitech is available as fixed-price project work: cloud strategy assessment (from £750), M365 migration (from £1,500), server-to-Azure migration (from £4,500), or as part of our managed IT service (from £50/user/month). All project work is scoped and priced upfront — no hourly billing.

Question 4

What is cloud cost optimisation?

Accepted Answer

Cloud cost optimisation is the process of identifying and eliminating waste in your Azure or cloud spending — right-sizing over-provisioned VMs, purchasing reserved instances for predictable workloads, implementing auto-scaling, deleting unused resources, and optimising storage tiers. Coreitech typically reduces Azure spend by 20–40% within the first 3 months. Cost optimisation is included as part of our managed Azure service.

Question 5

What are hybrid cloud solutions?

Accepted Answer

Hybrid cloud solutions combine on-premise infrastructure with public cloud services (typically Microsoft Azure) — allowing some workloads to remain on-premise while others run in the cloud. This is common for businesses with: latency-sensitive applications, data sovereignty requirements, legacy systems that can't be moved to cloud, or phased migration plans. Coreitech designs and implements hybrid cloud architectures using Azure Arc, Azure VPN Gateway, ExpressRoute, and Microsoft Entra hybrid identity.

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