Azure Cloud Management

No surprises on your Azure bill, and a clean, managed exit from VMware and Broadcom pricing.

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Your Azure invoice should not be a surprise.

The cloud was supposed to be predictable. Instead a consumption spike no one flagged has produced an Azure invoice your CFO cannot explain. The estate grew organically with no Landing Zone management or governance, you are wasting roughly a third of your spend on idle resources, and a VMware or Broadcom renewal has arrived at multiples of last year. You need the cost under control, the estate managed and governed, and an owner for the hypervisor migration.

We take operational ownership of your Azure estate and run it to a defined standard:

  • Infrastructure operations — Azure VM lifecycle, Azure SQL, networking (VNet, NSG, firewall, WAF) and storage governance, with health monitoring and alerting.
  • Security and compliance — Defender for Cloud posture management, Azure Policy enforcement, Key Vault lifecycle and regulatory compliance scoring.
  • Identity and access — Entra ID and RBAC governance, service principal and managed identity governance, and PIM for privileged Azure roles.
  • Backup and DR — Azure Backup configuration, monitoring and restore testing, and Azure Site Recovery with RTO and RPO reporting.
  • Cost management (FinOps) — Cost monitoring and anomaly alerting, budget and Advisor management, and Reserved Instance and Savings Plan optimisation.
  • Monitoring — Azure Monitor and Alert Manager, overlaid with Northdoor’s LogicMonitor platform for unified alerting and automated incident creation.
  • Platform governance — Landing Zone design and ongoing governance, Cloud Adoption Framework alignment, and tagging strategy enforcement.

Service tiers

Three tiers, so you can start where your need and budget sit and grow with us:

Core

A managed support baseline in business hours, with Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) via Defender for Cloud, anomaly alerting, and a transparent monthly Azure usage and cost report.

Enhanced

Extended cover with proactive environment and FinOps optimisation, tighter governance and improved SLAs.

Premium

24/7 cover with advanced security, full DR testing and a dedicated Service Delivery Manager.

Why Northdoor?

  • The whole estate — Combined IBM and Azure capability that is genuinely uncommon in the peer group: we manage the move off IBM Power or VMware and run the Azure estate that follows, as one relationship.
  • A real FinOps discipline — Savings are actioned, not just reported. We open with what we found you in wasted spend.
  • Proven, not promised — We quantify the waste and the gaps in a fixed-fee Azure Environment Assessment before you commit a penny.
  • Regulated-sector depth — DORA operational-resilience and documented evidence for regulated Azure workloads, delivered to a financial-services standard.

The assessment

Every engagement starts with a free Azure Environment Assessment. Give us your Azure environment and we will show you, in pounds, what is misconfigured, what you are wasting and what we can recover, plus we identify security, governance and resilience gaps. You see the value before you commit. Then a Statement of Work to remediate, followed by an ongoing fixed price managed service.

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Proven in the cloud

Organisations trust Northdoor to run business-critical Azure estates and take the cost and the risk off their plate. Here is what that looks like in practice.

63%

of SMB workloads now run in the cloud.

29%

of cloud spend is typically wasted on idle or over-provisioned resources.

34%

Azure share of the European cloud market.

Kevin Trill
"If you don't have a specialist partner, like Northdoor, who understands your business, the cloud, and all the possible options, it can quickly represent a risk to your organisation."
Kevin Trill
Director of Technology and Transformation

Azure: your questions answered

Everything you need to know about cost, migration and governance.

The average environment wastes close to a third of its cloud spend on over-provisioned or idle resources. The assessment puts a real number on yours.

Renewal costs have risen sharply, often by multiples. We model the impact and give you a safe, managed migration path, whether that is into Azure or onto a Hyper-V based platform that suits you better.

Yes. Our combined IBM and Azure capability means we manage the legacy estate, the migration, and the destination to the Azure cloud as one continuous relationship.

We manage Defender for Cloud posture, Azure Policy, identity governance and backup and DR with documented evidence, aligned to DORA operational-resilience requirements.

FinOps is the discipline of keeping cloud cost aligned to value. Ours actions the savings (rightsizing, reservations, removing waste), rather than simply sending you a report.

Organisations with existing or planned Azure workloads, often migrating from IBM Power or VMware, with no in-house Azure expertise, and a management team worried about security, compliance and spiralling costs.

Take control of your Azure bill and de-risk your migration

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