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Technology decisions, made on evidence.
For businesses facing a renewal, ageing systems, a move to the cloud or a project that has stalled: a senior infrastructure architect reviews what you have, sets out the options with their trade-offs, and recommends a plan you can act on.
Free initial assessment · paid work quoted to scope before it starts
Who should call
When a decision is bigger than a support ticket.
Most calls start with one of these.
- A renewal is coming. VMware, Microsoft, backup or hosting contracts up for renewal, and costing more than they did.
- Systems are ageing. Servers, storage or network equipment near the end of support, with no plan to replace them.
- You’re weighing the cloud. What to move, what to keep on site, and what each option really costs.
- Recovery is untested. Backups run, but nobody knows how long a full restore would take.
- The business is changing. New sites, more staff, an acquisition, or security requirements from insurers or customers.
- A project has stalled. A migration or upgrade that started and stopped, and needs a second opinion.
Decisions we help make
Infrastructure, platforms and recovery.
Advice comes from the same work we design, build and run.
- Virtualization platform. Stay on VMware, renegotiate, or move to another platform such as Proxmox VE.
- Where systems run. On site, in the cloud or a mix, sized to your workloads and budget.
- Backup and recovery. What to protect, how often, and how quickly each system needs to come back.
- Network and security. Segmentation, remote access, firewalls and multi-factor sign-in.
- Hardware refresh. What to replace, when, and what can be reused.
- Email and identity. Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, licensing and access control.
What you receive
Written work you keep, whatever you decide.
You bring what you know about your systems; most of it exists already, and finding the rest is part of the work. The exact scope is confirmed in your quote.
What we ask for
Your environment, as it is.
- A conversation. With whoever runs IT today, in house or an outside provider.
- Read-only access or exports. From your virtualization, backup and management consoles.
- Licences and contracts. What you pay for, and when each one renews.
- Existing documentation. Network diagrams, asset lists or runbooks, if they exist.
- What can’t go wrong. Downtime tolerance, critical data and business deadlines.
- Budget and timing. A range is enough to rule options in or out.
What you receive
A decision you can act on.
- Current-state inventory. Systems, dependencies, licences, risks and renewal dates, written down.
- Options with trade-offs. Realistic options compared on cost, risk and effort.
- A written recommendation. What we would do in your position, and why.
- A phased plan. Steps, order, downtime windows and rollback, ready for your team or ours.
- A walkthrough. The findings, presented to you and your team in plain language.
One example
Leaving VMware: the decision, in writing.
The VMware exit assessment is this process applied to one decision: what you have, what can be reused, what each option costs over three years, and how a move would run.
- Inventory. Hosts, VMs, storage, network, backups, licences and renewal dates.
- Options. Renew, renegotiate, move to Proxmox VE, or a mix, costed side by side.
- Recommendation. The option we would choose in your position, and why.
- Plan. Migration waves, downtime windows per system, and a tested rollback.
See it in full
What the assessment covers, the migration path and 24/7 support after the move.
Pricing
Free to start. Quoted before any paid work.
Architecture and technology consulting
Initial assessment Free
A call about what you’re deciding and a first look at what you have, ending in a written scope and quote for the work.
What sets the price
- Size of the environment
- How many decisions the work covers
- How much documentation already exists
- On-site visits, if needed
Paid work is quoted before it starts, as a fixed price or an agreed hourly rate.
Who does the work
Enterprise infrastructure experience, sized for your business.
techtrust is run by Ali Nazar Azizi, who designs enterprise infrastructure for a living. The same discipline goes into every migration: documented, tested and handed over in a state you can run.
Client work
Technology work.
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FAQ
Questions buyers ask.
What does the free assessment include?
A conversation about the decision in front of you, a first look at what you have, and a written scope and quote for the work. There’s no obligation to go ahead.
Do you always recommend Proxmox?
No. The recommendation follows your requirements. Sometimes staying where you are, or renegotiating, is the better answer, and the report says so.
Can you carry out the plan as well?
Yes. Hand the plan to your team or provider, or ask us to quote for the work.
Do you work with our existing IT provider?
Yes. The assessment often works best with them involved.
Where do you work?
Remotely across Canada and the United States, and on site in Durham Region and the GTA.
Contact
Start a conversation.
Tell us what you’re deciding and by when. You’ll get a reply from Ali with a few questions and next steps for the free assessment.
Prefer to talk? Call (416) 457-3639 or email admin@techtrust.ca.