RCW IT Consulting advises on and delivers cloud migration, platform engineering and operational resilience programmes. Every engagement is governed against a defined scope, documented to audit standard, and formally transitioned to your teams on completion.
Each service line is scoped to a defined outcome with contractually named deliverables, providing a clear basis for budgeting, governance and acceptance.
Structured migration of production workloads to public or hybrid cloud, sequenced into waves with defined validation gates and a rehearsed rollback position at every stage.
Target-state architecture, account topology and policy guardrails established in advance of scale, ensuring the platform remains governable, auditable and cost-controlled as adoption grows.
Standardised, hardened and automated enterprise Linux estates, delivering repeatable builds, predictable patch cycles and a documented configuration baseline.
Virtual desktop and endpoint estates sized against measured demand, with enrolment, compliance and application delivery models designed to sustain user adoption.
Data protection and recovery architecture substantiated by evidence, with recovery objectives agreed with the business and demonstrated through scheduled restore testing.
Structured root cause investigation of production incidents, followed by the monitoring, runbooks and escalation model required to prevent recurrence.
The migration event itself is seldom the risk. Programme failure is more often traced to undocumented conditions within the incumbent estate — precisely what a structured discovery phase exists to surface.
We are engaged most often where the infrastructure has outgrown the team available to maintain it, and where a wrong decision is expensive to reverse.
Most clients commence with a fixed-scope assessment and expand once the roadmap, sequencing and indicative costs have been agreed.
Each model is contracted against a defined scope with named deliverables and written acceptance criteria — no open-ended time and materials, and no unscheduled change notes.
An evidence-based review of the current estate, concluding in a prioritised and costed remediation roadmap.
End-to-end delivery of a defined outcome — a migration, a platform build or a modernisation programme.
A standing allocation of senior engineering time for architecture governance, escalation support and roadmap guidance.
Commercial clarity is only half the assurance. The following controls apply to every engagement regardless of size, and are agreed in writing before work commences.
Every engagement is contracted against a written scope, with deliverables and acceptance criteria agreed before work begins.
An agreed reporting rhythm with a nominated sponsor, covering progress, risk, dependency status and budget position.
Variations are raised, costed and approved in writing before they are actioned. Scope does not drift silently.
A maintained register with named owners, agreed mitigations and escalation thresholds, visible to the client throughout.
Milestones close only against evidence — validation output, test results and documented sign-off from the accountable party.
Enablement is planned into the delivery schedule rather than deferred to closure, so capability builds during the engagement.
Reference frameworks. Our methodology works to established industry standards — CIS Benchmarks for system hardening, the AWS and Azure Well-Architected Frameworks for design review, and ITIL-aligned practice for service transition and handover.
Every engagement follows the same five phases, establishing at each stage what is changing, when it will change, and the agreed position for reversal should validation fail.
Inventory the estate, map dependencies and surface the constraints that typically emerge late in poorly scoped programmes.
A target architecture sized to measured workload and agreed budget, with trade-offs and rejected options formally documented.
Validate the design against a representative workload and measure the result before any business-critical system is moved.
Phased cutover governed by validation gates, agreed acceptance criteria and a rehearsed rollback position at each milestone.
As-built documentation, operational runbooks and structured enablement, transferring full operational ownership to your teams.
RCW IT Consulting is the consulting practice behind RCW IT Training, an independent platform with 225+ free hands-on labs across Linux, cloud, networking and endpoint management. The engineers who author that material also lead client delivery.
Engagements are led by the engineer accountable for delivery. Technical decisions are discussed directly with the people making them, without an intermediary layer.
We hold no resale margins, referral arrangements or partner quotas. Nothing steers the recommendation commercially — including, where appropriate, a recommendation to retain your existing platform.
As-built documentation, runbooks and enablement are contracted deliverables, not chargeable extras. The objective of every engagement is to remove your dependency on us.
Recommendations derive from systems we have deliberately failed and rebuilt under laboratory conditions before they are proposed for a production estate.
Demonstrated depth from hypervisor and storage through to cloud control planes, identity and the managed endpoint.
With a short, no-obligation consultation to establish the requirement. Where there is a fit, we issue a fixed-scope assessment proposal with defined deliverables and a fixed price. You retain complete freedom to implement the resulting roadmap internally or through any partner you choose.
Routinely. We are frequently engaged to address a specific capability gap — a migration, a hardening programme, or a recurring incident that has remained unresolved — operating as an extension of the existing team rather than a replacement for it.
No. We take no resale margin, referral fee or vendor commission of any kind. Our sole revenue is the engineering time contracted, which is what preserves the independence of the architectural advice.
Assessments are fixed price against a written scope. Projects are milestone-based, with acceptance criteria agreed per milestone. Retainers are contracted as a monthly allocation of hours. We do not bill open-ended time and materials without an agreed cap.
Delivery is remote-first, operating principally in IST with overlap available for EMEA and APAC business hours. Cutover windows and maintenance activity are scheduled around your change calendar, including out-of-hours and weekend execution where required.
As-built documentation, operational runbooks and configuration artefacts, together with a structured handover to the personnel who will operate the platform. No ongoing dependency on us is created, and no proprietary tooling is left in place.
Outline the requirement and we will respond with a candid assessment of fit, an indicative scope and effort estimate, and a recommended first step. Where we are not the appropriate partner, we will say so.
Initial consultation is provided without charge or obligation.
