Content+Cloud Limited

Microsoft financing covered 50% of Impellam Group's datacentre migration costs — a standout commercial outcome from a project in which Content+Cloud (now Advania UK) migrated the global workforce solutions provider's virtual machines to Azure, deployed an Azure Landing Zone in weeks using Infrastructure-as-Code via Azure DevOps, and delivered an Azure Virtual Desktop environment supporting 2,500 users via Citrix Virtual Application and Desktop Service. The migration eliminated costly legacy contract renewals, replaced ageing on-premises infrastructure with a pay-as-you-consume model, and refactored SQL workloads onto Azure SQL Managed Instance for improved scalability. For organisations in professional services seeking cloud modernisation with measurable cost offsets, this project demonstrates a replicable, Microsoft FastTrack-backed approach to hybrid cloud transformation at scale.

Content+Cloud (now Advania UK) migrated an entire Windows and Linux server estate from AWS to Azure over a single weekend, delivering a fully operational environment in under three months for a public sector e-learning provider serving more than one million users across 24,000+ sessions. By leveraging the customer's existing Microsoft Enterprise Agreement and deploying an Azure Landing Zone to automate secure environment setup, the new platform runs at a fraction of the previous AWS cost while supporting millions of training sessions. The project also unlocked Role Based Access Control for the DevOps team and established a roadmap toward PaaS services including Azure DevOps, Azure Web Apps, and Azure SQL.

Content+Cloud (now Advania) migrated all 600 Ei Group employees — staff at the UK's largest pub company with over 3,000 properties — to Microsoft 365 on budget and on schedule, and the organisation navigated the entire COVID-19 pandemic without a single alteration to its IT systems. Starting from zero cloud presence in 2018, the engagement delivered Windows 10 upgrades via System Centre Configuration Manager co-managed with Microsoft Intune, a Windows Autopilot onboarding service, Exchange on-premises to cloud migration, and a full Microsoft Teams rollout. The project directly unlocked Microsoft's enterprise security suite for a geographically dispersed workforce and retired a sprawling estate of legacy device configurations, positioning Ei Group for its subsequent acquisition.