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SERVICES

Five practices.
One accountable team.

Cloud, security, data and AI, DevOps, and the people to run it.

These are the five disciplines we staff and lead. Most engagements draw on more than one of them, and when they do you still deal with a single team that owns the outcome rather than a set of vendors pointing at each other.

The iShift team working together around a conference table

Practices

What we actually do

Each practice is led by people who have run it in production, not by a sales team with a deck.

Intelligent Cloud

Cloud architecture designed to be secure, scalable and affordable to run, and to keep working when the requirements change underneath it.

Modern data centre and hybrid strategy
Well-architected reviews and cost control
VMware exit planning and execution
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Cybersecurity

Security built into the infrastructure rather than bolted on afterwards, with the governance evidence to prove it to an auditor.

Virtual CISO and security leadership
Identity, access and penetration testing
iCompli for risk and compliance
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Data & AI

Turn the data you already hold into decisions, then automate the work that follows the decision.

Analytics and data platform build
Agents that monitor, learn and act
Governance settled before models ship
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DevOps

Pipelines as systems, not scripts. One orchestration framework in place of a patchwork of tools and manual handoffs.

Infrastructure as code
Identity and access automation
Observable, policy-aware, agent-ready
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Tech Talent

The same technical bench that delivers our consulting work, placed directly into your team instead of onto a project.

Contract, contract-to-hire or direct
Cloud, security, data and infrastructure
Vetted by the engineers who deliver
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The lifecycle

What we cover, stage by stage

Eight stages from first assessment through to autonomous operations. Most clients start in one and grow into the others as the environment settles.

1

Assess & Plan

Don't Guess, Optimize
AI-powered insights + FinOps for performance and cost intelligence.

2

Migrate & Modernize

Migrate, Modernize, Innovate
Intelligent automation for cloud transformation + IT modernization.

3

Optimize & Secure

Govern Your Cloud
Advanced FinOps, performance tuning + automated security frameworks.

4

Protect & Comply

Intelligent Threat Defense
Policy-as-code, real-time threat intelligence, and audit automation.

5

Detect & Mitigate

Virtual CISO (vCISO)
Enterprise-grade security leadership without enterprise-grade cost.

6

Analyze & Predict

Autonomous Operations for Your Cloud
Pioneering Agentic AI for autonomous cloud operations and productivity gains.

7

Manage & Operate

Your Proactive Cloud Operations Center
From reactive support to self-healing, intelligently managed environments.

8

Enable & Scale

Talent & Workforce Solutions
Elite, on-demand talent to execute advanced automation strategies.