Cloud Migration Services
Move what should move.
“Most failed migrations were planned as a destination, not a decision.”
We plan, design and deliver cloud migrations workload by workload, with Zero Trust access and simplified application delivery built in from the design rather than retrofitted after the move.
The approach
Cloud-first was a strategy. It was rarely a plan.
Plenty of organizations are in the cloud. Many of them are still struggling with the transition, and the reason is almost always the same — there was no migration plan, only a destination.
Cloud-first
Everything goes, and the plan is the deadline
What it is
The approach that was fashionable for most of a decade: pick the cloud, set the date, move the estate, work the rest out afterwards.
It does produce a migration. It also produces the engagements we spend the most time cleaning up — workloads that cost more than they did on-premises, applications that were never suited to the platform, and an access model nobody designed.
What you get
- One decision, made once
- A date everyone can plan around
- Fast to start
The cost
The bill and the architecture both arrive after the point of no return. Reversing either is a second project, usually larger than the first.
Right-fit
Each workload earns its destination
What it is
Assess first, decide per workload, and let some things stay where they are. A migration plan is a set of decisions, not a single destination.
Some workloads belong in cloud today, some after they are modernized, and some are cheaper and safer exactly where they sit. Knowing which is which before you move is the entire difference.
What you get
- Costs modelled before the move, not after
- Applications assessed for fit
- Access and identity designed in
- Hybrid treated as a valid answer
The cost
It takes longer to start, because the assessment has to come first. That is the cost of the approach, and it is smaller than the alternative.
The migration process
Assess, then decide, then build.
Three steps, in this order. The order is what separates a migration from a move.
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Cloud readiness assessment
The step that decides whether the rest of it works. We assess the applications and data you are considering moving, and how they line up with the technology you already run.
02
Cloud strategy
What moves, what waits, what stays, and in what order — built around your immediate needs and your longer-term vision, because those two often point at different platforms.
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Delivery architecture
We design and build the application delivery architecture, from design through to documentation. Highly available, and able to take expansion later without a redesign.
Not every migration is a migration
Three ways to use cloud without moving everything.
Some of the best uses of cloud leave production exactly where it is. These three come up most often once the assessment is done.
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Cloud for disaster recovery
One of the better reasons to use cloud without moving production to it. Your services keep running on-premises and the cloud carries the recovery plan — we design and implement it on whichever cloud you are on.
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Geo-redundant environments
Two patterns, depending on where you are: one for cloud-native environments, and one for multi-cloud native environments where no single provider holds all of it.
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Desktop as a Service
Delivered in your own tenant, or as an outsourced general-purpose tenant if you would rather not operate one. Same desktops either way, different responsibility line.
Access, designed in
The access model is part of the migration.
Moving a workload changes who can reach it and from where. Deciding that during the design is far cheaper than discovering it afterwards.
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Zero Trust from the design
Identity and entitlement verified per request, decided while the architecture is being drawn rather than bolted on once everything has already moved.
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One service, not a stack
Our secure service edge platform brings network and security together as a single cloud service, which is where the cost and the complexity actually come out.
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Endpoint access over any network
Secure, scalable access to applications from wherever people are working, across our global cloud infrastructure.
What we deliver
The parts that decide whether it lands.
A migration rarely fails on the platform. It fails on a workload nobody assessed, a cost nobody modelled, or an access model nobody designed.
Why organizations choose LKMethod
Trusted where performance and compliance are not optional.
Based in Arizona, LKMethod is an infrastructure architecture and managed services firm. We work in regulated verticals, where a migration that goes wrong is not just an IT problem.
We have cleaned up the alternative
A good part of our work has been repairing cloud-first migrations. That is where the method came from — it is not a theory about how these go wrong.
Consultative, not prescriptive
The process starts with your estate and your requirements, not with a platform chosen before the first call.
Built for regulated environments
Security is the floor, not the feature. Every design is architected to hold up under an audit.
Where we work
Organizations that count on us
Mesa Airlines · Haydon Construction · BECU · Bozeman Health
The right fit, not the easiest sale
Which of your workloads should actually move?
Thirty minutes with a solution architect, a look at what you run today, and an honest answer on what belongs in cloud — including the parts that are better off staying where they are.