Navigate Cloud Transformation with Confidence
Strategic cloud and infrastructure advisory for businesses, nonprofits, and family offices—providing independent guidance on cloud migration, architecture design, multi-cloud strategies, and cost optimization for scalable, resilient operations.
Schedule Cloud AssessmentComplex Cloud Decisions Without Clear Guidance
Cloud computing promises scalability, flexibility, and cost optimization—yet organizations struggle with where to start, which workloads to migrate, how to architect for cloud, and whether multi-cloud or hybrid strategies make sense. Without independent expertise, organizations risk costly migrations that fail to deliver promised benefits or lock them into suboptimal vendor relationships.
Migration Complexity & Risk
Moving from on-premises infrastructure to cloud involves technical complexity, application dependencies, data migration challenges, and operational disruption risk. Organizations need migration strategies that minimize risk while maximizing the benefits cloud platforms offer.
Vendor Lock-In Concerns
Each cloud platform (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) offers proprietary services that create vendor dependencies. Organizations need strategic guidance on which services to leverage versus which create unacceptable lock-in—balancing innovation with portability.
Unpredictable Cloud Costs
Cloud pricing complexity makes cost forecasting difficult. Organizations frequently experience "bill shock" when usage-based pricing exceeds expectations. Without cost optimization strategies and governance, cloud can become more expensive than on-premises infrastructure.
Architecture Design Gaps
Optimal cloud architecture differs fundamentally from traditional infrastructure. "Lift and shift" migrations often fail to capture cloud benefits while introducing new operational complexity. Organizations need architecture expertise to design cloud-native solutions.
Strategic Cloud Guidance That Delivers Value
Cavalier Consulting provides vendor-independent cloud and infrastructure advisory—helping organizations evaluate cloud readiness, design optimal architectures, plan risk-mitigated migrations, implement cost governance, and determine whether single-cloud, multi-cloud, or hybrid strategies best serve their needs.
Cloud Readiness Assessment
We evaluate your applications, infrastructure, data, and organization to determine cloud readiness—identifying which workloads benefit from migration, technical prerequisites, skill gaps, and potential challenges before investment.
Platform-Agnostic Architecture
As independent advisors with zero cloud vendor relationships, we design architectures that serve your needs—not vendor sales quotas. We recommend AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or hybrid approaches based solely on technical fit and business value.
Risk-Mitigated Migration Planning
Our migration strategies minimize business disruption through careful workload prioritization, phased execution, comprehensive testing, and rollback planning—ensuring cloud transitions deliver benefits without operational chaos.
Cost Optimization & Governance
We establish cloud cost governance frameworks, implement monitoring and alerting, design resource tagging strategies, and identify optimization opportunities—helping organizations avoid "bill shock" and maximize cloud ROI.
From Assessment to Optimized Cloud Operations
Our cloud advisory methodology assesses readiness, designs optimal architecture, plans risk-mitigated migration, and establishes ongoing optimization.
Cloud Readiness & ROI Analysis
Assess current infrastructure, application portfolio, data landscape, and organizational capabilities. Identify cloud migration candidates, quantify expected ROI, and establish business case for cloud investment.
Platform Selection & Architecture Design
Evaluate cloud platforms based on your requirements. Design target cloud architecture optimized for performance, scalability, resilience, security, and cost-efficiency—balancing cloud-native services with portability.
Migration Strategy Development
Prioritize workload migrations using decision frameworks. Define migration approaches (rehost, refactor, rearchitect) for each workload. Create phased migration plan with dependencies, timelines, and risk mitigation.
Cost Governance Framework
Establish cloud cost management practices—resource tagging, budget alerts, optimization processes, and showback/chargeback mechanisms. Implement monitoring to prevent cost surprises and identify optimization opportunities.
Security & Compliance Architecture
Design cloud security architecture meeting your compliance requirements. Implement identity management, network segmentation, encryption, logging, and monitoring—ensuring cloud security matches or exceeds on-premises standards.
Ongoing Optimization Advisory
Provide continuous cloud advisory—reviewing cost reports, identifying optimization opportunities, evaluating new services, adjusting architecture as needs evolve, and ensuring cloud infrastructure delivers sustained value.
The Value of Strategic Cloud Advisory
Organizations with strategic cloud guidance achieve better migration outcomes, lower costs, higher reliability, and greater business value from cloud investments.
Average Cloud Cost Optimization
Strategic cloud advisory typically identifies 25-35% cost savings through right-sizing, reserved instances, spot instances, storage optimization, and elimination of unused resources—funding innovation from waste reduction.
Infrastructure Reliability
Well-architected cloud infrastructure achieves 99.99% uptime (4.38 minutes downtime/month) through multi-zone redundancy, automated failover, and resilient architecture design—dramatically exceeding typical on-premises reliability.
Faster Application Deployment
Cloud-native architecture and automation enable 50-70% faster application deployment compared to traditional infrastructure—accelerating time-to-market for new capabilities and competitive response.
Migration Success Rate
Strategically planned cloud migrations with proper readiness assessment, phased execution, and risk mitigation achieve 80-90% success rates versus 40-50% for unplanned "lift and shift" approaches.
Infrastructure Efficiency Gains
Cloud elasticity and automation deliver 35-45% infrastructure efficiency improvements—automatically scaling resources to demand, eliminating over-provisioning, and optimizing utilization dynamically.
Vendor Bias in Recommendations
Platform-agnostic advisory ensures cloud recommendations serve your needs without vendor conflicts—selecting platforms and services based on technical fit and business value, not partner relationships.
Cloud Advisory Built on Real-World Experience
Enterprise Cloud Experience
20+ years architecting and migrating enterprise workloads to cloud platforms—bringing Fortune 500 cloud expertise to organizations of all sizes with pragmatic, proven approaches.
Platform-Agnostic Guidance
Zero cloud vendor relationships means completely unbiased recommendations—we design for AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or hybrid based solely on your requirements, not vendor partnerships.
Risk-First Migration Philosophy
Our migration strategies prioritize business continuity and operational stability—carefully sequencing workloads, testing thoroughly, and building rollback plans before executing changes.
"Brandon's cloud migration strategy saved us from a disaster. His phased approach and cost governance framework prevented the 'bill shock' we'd heard about from other organizations. We're now running 30% more efficiently at 25% lower cost than our old infrastructure."
Plan Your Cloud Transformation
Navigate cloud migration with confidence through strategic advisory that assesses readiness, designs optimal architecture, and ensures successful transformation.
Serving businesses, nonprofits, and family offices in Tampa, Boca Raton, Orlando, Jacksonville, Hampton Roads, Washington DC, and New York