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Microsoft Azure Services

Build, migrate and optimise Azure with confidence

Microsoft Azure gives organisations the flexibility to modernise infrastructure, improve resilience, unlock innovation and create a foundation for AI. The challenge is making sure every investment delivers measurable business value.
 
Trustmarque Ultima helps organisations design, migrate, optimise and manage Azure environments that are secure by design, resilient by default and ready for the future. Whether you're planning a datacentre exit, modernising legacy applications, improving disaster recovery or building an AI-ready platform, our specialists help you move forward with confidence.
 
Our approach is simple: place every workload in the right place, at the right cost, with the best business value. By combining Azure expertise, proven delivery methodologies and ongoing optimisation services, we help customers maximise the value of their cloud investments.
 
£22m
Azure CSP revenue
managed across the Trustmarque Ultima business
40%
Year-on-year Azure growth
driven by migration, optimisation and modernisation services
20+
Azure Regions
Architectural options available across Europe to support resilience, sovereignty and AI workloads
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Why Microsoft Azure? 

Organisations choose Microsoft Azure to:
 
  • Reduce reliance on ageing infrastructure
  • Improve resilience and business continuity
  • Accelerate cloud migration and application modernisation
  • Scale services as business requirements evolve
  • Strengthen security, governance and compliance
  • Support hybrid cloud strategies
  • Enable data, analytics and AI initiatives
  • Reduce capital expenditure and increase operational flexibility

Azure provides access to a global platform with integrated security, advanced analytics, AI capabilities and modern infrastructure services. With the right architecture and governance, Azure can help organisations increase agility while maintaining control over cost and risk.

Azure Services from Trustmarque Ultima

Azure Strategy and Assessment

Successful cloud adoption starts with understanding your current estate.

Our consultants assess infrastructure, applications, resilience requirements and business objectives to create practical roadmaps for cloud adoption, migration and optimisation. Services include:

  • Azure readiness assessments
  • Cloud strategy workshops
  • Migration planning
  • Hybrid cloud assessments
  • Disaster recovery reviews
  • AI readiness assessments

Azure Migration Services

Whether you're moving from on-premises infrastructure, another cloud platform or an ageing datacentre environment, Trustmarque Ultima provides end-to-end Azure migration services.

Our team helps organisations migrate workloads securely while minimising disruption and creating opportunities for modernisation. Migration services include:

  • Datacentre exit programmes
  • Azure landing zone design
  • Infrastructure migration
  • Application modernisation
  • Azure Virtual Desktop deployments
  • Azure file migrations
  • Data platform migration
  • Workload transformation

Azure Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity

Business resilience has never been more important.

We help organisations design Azure environments that reduce operational risk, improve availability and support business continuity objectives. Trustmarque Ultima works with customers to identify single points of failure, improve recovery capabilities and ensure critical services remain available when they matter most. Our resilience services include:

  • Azure Site Recovery deployment
  • Backup and recovery strategy
  • Disaster recovery planning
  • Multi-region architecture design
  • Workload resilience reviews
  • Hybrid disaster recovery solutions

Azure Optimisation and Cost Management

Moving to Azure is only the beginning.

As environments evolve, costs, security risks and operational complexity can increase. Our optimisation services help customers maintain control and continuously improve their Azure estates. By combining expert consultancy with automated analysis and reporting, we help customers achieve ongoing value from Azure. We help organisations:

  • Reduce cloud waste
  • Improve performance
  • Strengthen security posture
  • Apply Azure best practice
  • Improve governance
  • Manage platform change
  • Maximise Azure investment

Hybrid Cloud and Azure Arc

Not every workload belongs in the cloud.

Many organisations need a hybrid approach that balances performance, compliance, resilience and cost. Trustmarque Ultima helps customers create workload-first strategies that integrate Azure with existing datacentre investments. We help organisations build flexible environments where workloads can be deployed where they deliver the greatest value. Our hybrid cloud services include:

  • Azure Arc enablement
  • Azure Local integration
  • Hybrid infrastructure design
  • Cloud bursting strategies
  • Workload placement reviews
  • Hybrid management solutions

Azure Foundations for AI

AI adoption starts with the right foundations. Before organisations can successfully adopt Microsoft Fabric, Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI or Microsoft Copilot solutions, they need secure, scalable and well-governed cloud infrastructure. Trustmarque Ultima helps customers:
 
  • Modernise data platforms
  • Improve governance and security
  • Design scalable Azure architectures
  • Prepare data for AI workloads
  • Build AI-ready cloud environments
  • Enable analytics and data services

 

By creating strong Azure foundations today, organisations are better positioned to create business value from AI tomorrow.

Customer Success Stories

Insurance Company

Disaster Recovery Workload and Migration to Azure

An international insurance organisation needed to modernise an outdated disaster recovery solution that was costly, inflexible and increasingly difficult to maintain. Trustmarque Ultima redesigned its Azure landing zone, implemented Azure Site Recovery and migrated disaster recovery capabilities into Azure.

Outcomes

  • Dedicated disaster recovery datacentre decommissioned
  • Improved resilience and business continuity
  • Azure established as a future growth platform
  • Simplified disaster recovery testing
  • Professional services delivered through Microsoft funding support

 *This case study relates to work delivered by Ultima prior to the formation of Trustmarque Ultima 

Support for every stage of your Azure journey

Assess and Plan

Azure Pathways

Discover migration opportunities, build cloud roadmaps and identify the best approach for modernisation.

Migrate and Transform

Azure Professional Services

Deliver Azure migrations, workload modernisation, disaster recovery projects and hybrid cloud transformation.

Optimise and Govern

CloudXpert

Continuous Azure optimisation focused on cost, security, governance, performance and proactive change management. CloudXpert combines expert consultancy with automated analysis to help customers continuously improve their Azure environments.

Customer Success Stories

LLP Law Firm 

Datacentre Exit and Migration to Azure 

A large law firm operating across the UK and Europe needed to exit an ageing datacentre environment while modernising services and supporting future growth. Trustmarque Ultima delivered a Cloud Adoption Framework-aligned migration to Azure, modernising workloads and creating a platform ready for future innovation.

 

Outcomes

  • Complete datacentre exit
  • Azure infrastructure modernisation
  • Azure Virtual Desktop implementation
  • Improved scalability and flexibility
  • Enhanced operational efficiency
  • Foundation established for future AI adoption

 *This case study relates to work delivered by Ultima prior to the formation of Trustmarque Ultima 

Microsoft Funding for Azure Projects 

Many Azure migration, modernisation and optimisation engagements may qualify for Microsoft funding programmes.
 
Trustmarque Ultima works closely with Microsoft to help eligible customers access funding that can accelerate cloud adoption while reducing project costs.
 
Funding may be available across a range of migration, transformation and workload modernisation scenarios.
$618k
Microsoft Azure funding
secured through Accelerate Services programmes since January 2025
£1.7m Growth Generated
Driven through Azure professional services and Microsoft-funded transformation engagements
Expected compound annual growth rate (CAGR) over the next three years.

Why choose Trustmarque Ultima?

Moving to Azure is only part of the journey.
 
The real challenge is ensuring your environment remains secure, resilient, cost-effective and ready for future innovation.
 
Trustmarque Ultima brings together Azure architecture, migration expertise, operational optimisation and Microsoft funding programmes to help customers maximise their cloud investment.
 
Our Azure services help organisations:
 
  • Migrate workloads from on-premises infrastructure to Azure
  • Exit ageing datacentres and reduce infrastructure costs
  • Modernise applications and data platforms
  • Strengthen disaster recovery and business continuity
  • Improve Azure security and governance
  • Optimise cloud costs and performance
  • Build AI-ready cloud foundations
  • Enable hybrid cloud strategies using Azure Arc and Azure Local

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