High availability IT, zero downtime, no hardware to buy.
LANIX moves UK businesses to public or private cloud on a standard four‑week timeline. 100% of our last 50 cloud migration clients saved money — running at less than 0.01% downtime, with no upfront capital cost and the freedom to scale up or down without buying more hardware.
High Availability, No Upfront Cost
Cloud and hybrid IT gives you high availability, effectively zero server downtime and no upfront capital spend on hardware. LANIX designs and delivers the move — public cloud, private cloud or a mix of both — so you can add or remove people whenever you like without buying another server. A standard LANIX hybrid or cloud migration runs to a four‑week timeline, planned around your business so your team keeps working throughout.
LANIX gives you high availability, predictable monthly costs and the freedom to scale.
High availability, zero downtime
We migrate in stages, overnight or at weekends, with tested rollback points ready. Our last 50 cloud migrations ran at less than 0.01% downtime — your team simply keeps working.
Security is baked in
We don’t bolt security on afterwards. Identity, access controls and backup are built into the design from day one, so your new setup is more secure than what you left behind.
No upfront hardware costs
There is no capital outlay on servers — you pay a predictable monthly cost instead. Take on ten new starters or scale back down, and you upsize or downsize without buying any more hardware.
Three big yesses
Across our last 50 cloud migrations, 100% of clients reduced their IT costs while running at less than 0.01% downtime. These are the three things they tell us afterwards.
Yes — our people are just as productive working from home as they are in the office.
Yes — our cash flow improved, because we pay monthly instead of buying hardware up front.
Yes — our servers simply don’t go down any more.
What we actually do
We assess your setup and give you a costed four‑week migration plan before any work starts.
We design a public cloud, private cloud or hybrid environment around how your business actually works.
We move your servers, apps and data in controlled stages, so nothing goes missing and nothing breaks.
We make sure your logins, permissions and access controls are properly set up for the cloud from day one.
Once you’re live, we manage and monitor everything on an ongoing basis so you don’t have to think about it.
What clients say about their LANIX cloud migration
Businesses across the UK use our cloud and hybrid migrations to cut costs, stay online and give their people the same access wherever they work.
“We moved off our ageing servers without spending a penny on new hardware. It is a predictable monthly cost now, which our finance team much prefers.”
“Four weeks from first conversation to fully migrated, and not one person lost a working hour. We genuinely did not notice the cutover.”
“Our team works from home, from site and from the office with exactly the same access. The servers simply do not go down any more.”
FAQs
Cloud migration is the process of moving your data, applications and IT infrastructure from on‑premises servers or legacy hosting into a cloud platform such as Microsoft Azure, AWS or Google Cloud. A well‑run project starts with discovery and assessment, then designs the target architecture, pilots low‑risk workloads and migrates core systems in phases with testing at each stage.
No — nothing has to move in one go. Most UK SMEs start with lower‑risk workloads such as email, file storage, CRM or reporting tools before tackling business‑critical systems. An initial assessment identifies which applications are “cloud‑ready”, which need some modernisation, and which are better left on‑premises or in a hybrid model for now.
A standard LANIX hybrid or cloud migration runs to a four‑week timeline: week one for assessment and design, weeks two and three for phased migration and testing, and week four for cutover and optimisation. Larger or more complex estates can extend beyond that, and we tell you up front if yours will — with clear milestones and regular progress updates throughout.
Costs are usually split into one‑off project costs (assessment, planning, data moves, testing and any refactoring) and ongoing monthly cloud infrastructure spend. One‑off project work for UK SMEs commonly ranges from a few thousand to tens of thousands of pounds, while ongoing cloud infrastructure often lands in the £500–£3,000 per month range depending on size and workload complexity.
With good planning, many workloads can be migrated with minimal or no noticeable downtime using staged syncs, maintenance windows and clear rollback plans. Business‑critical systems are typically moved during agreed out‑of‑hours periods. Before we cut over any workload we confirm a tested rollback is in place, so if something unexpected appears we can reverse the change quickly and your business keeps running.
Major cloud providers such as Azure, AWS and Google Cloud all offer UK and EU data centres and can keep your data within those regions to support UK GDPR and sector requirements. You should also have the right data processing agreements in place with your cloud provider, and data residency and retention settings that align with your regulatory obligations — we set both up as part of the migration.
For most SMEs, well‑configured cloud platforms offer stronger baseline security than ageing on‑premises servers, thanks to built‑in encryption, monitoring, patching and physical data‑centre controls. However, security is a shared responsibility: you still need good identity management, access control, configuration and backup strategies on top of what the cloud provider delivers.
Public cloud is usually the most cost‑effective and flexible option for SMEs, while private or dedicated environments can support stricter compliance or performance needs. Many UK businesses take a hybrid approach, keeping certain legacy or sensitive systems on‑premises while moving email, collaboration, line‑of‑business apps and disaster recovery to the cloud. We will be honest about which approach fits your situation — and why.
Yes. Many UK organisations run hybrid environments, keeping specific legacy, latency‑sensitive or compliance‑heavy systems on‑premises while moving email, collaboration tools, file storage and many applications into the cloud. Hybrid setups reduce risk, spread cost over time and avoid forcing unsuitable systems into the cloud.
We primarily design around Microsoft 365 and Azure, but can integrate with other major cloud providers as needed.
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