Est. 2003 · Mississauga, ONRetrieve quote
Softbase Solutions
Ch. 05 / Practice IV · Cloud architecture & operationsMississauga · ON · Since 2003

Azure that scales with your business — not your bill.

We architect, migrate, and operate workloads on Microsoft Azure with security, observability, and cost controls built in from day one.

Engagements

What we deliver

The azure solutions engagements we run most often.

  • 01

    Azure Onboarding

    Landing zones, identity, networking, and policy baselines — production-ready in weeks, not quarters.

  • 02

    Web App Modernization

    Containerize, refactor, and ship to App Service or AKS with CI/CD and zero-downtime deploys.

  • 03

    Data & Analytics

    Azure SQL, Synapse, Fabric, and Databricks pipelines that move data — and meet your SLAs.

  • 04

    Server & Database Migration

    Move Windows Server, SQL Server, and on-prem workloads to Azure with a tested cutover plan.

  • 05

    Cost & FinOps

    Tagging, budgets, rightsizing, and reserved-instance planning. Save 20–40% in the first quarter.

  • 06

    Managed Operations

    24/7 monitoring, alerting, and patching for your Azure workloads with monthly service reviews.

Figure · 01

A landing zone you can read.

The shape of a production-ready Azure foundation: identity and policy at the top, a hub virtual network with shared security, and workload spokes peered underneath. We document every line.

Softbase reference Azure landing zoneTwo top tiles — Identity (Entra ID) and Policy & Naming — feed into a Hub virtual network containing firewall, bastion, and DNS. Three workload spokes — Production, Staging, and Development — peer off the hub.TIER I · IDENTITYMicrosoft Entra IDSSO · Conditional Access · Privileged rolesTIER II · GOVERNANCEPolicy & NamingTags · Budgets · Management groupsHUB · SHARED NETWORKHub Virtual NetworkAZ FIREWALLBASTION · JUMPDNS · PRIVATE LINKSPOKE · PRODProductionPeered · CMK · Private onlySPOKE · STGStagingPeered · Shared data copySPOKE · DEVDevelopmentPeered · Relaxed policy
Reference Azure landing zone · simplified

Method

How we engage.

A predictable cadence — from a written plan to running operations. You steer, we row.

  1. Step 1/4

    Discover

    A short workshop to align on success metrics. You walk away with a written plan in two weeks.

  2. Step 2/4

    Design

    Architecture, data model, and a thin slice in production — not a slide deck.

  3. Step 3/4

    Deliver

    Senior engineers ship in one-week increments you can review, test, and steer.

  4. Step 4/4

    Operate

    Runbooks, monitoring, and a clean handover — or we keep operating it for you.

Proof · in production

Outcomes from recent engagements.

Indicative results from delivery work in this practice. Numbers are anonymized; references available on request.

  1. −32%

    Azure spend in the first quarter

    Tagging, rightsizing, and a reserved-instance plan tuned to actual usage.

  2. Zero-downtime

    cutover for a 3-region SQL Server migration

    Tested cutover playbook, validated read-replicas, and a rollback rehearsal.

  3. <5 min

    mean time to alert on production incidents

    Wired through Azure Monitor + on-call rotations with a runbook per alert.

Questions we hear

Frequently asked questions

Next

Dispatch

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