Sword designs, delivers and operates secure hybrid and multicloud environments for regulated organisations. We help clients migrate workloads, establish secure foundations, maintain compliance and optimise cloud spend across Azure, AWS and Nutanix environments.
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Hybrid & Multicloud Capabilities
Hybrid and Multicloud at Sword provides architectural design, secure migration, landing zone governance, and 24/7 managed run across Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Nutanix NC2, backed by active FinOps cost control.
Building automated, compliant landing zones (Azure Enterprise Scale / AWS Control Tower) with built-in RBAC,
security guardrails and network routing.
- Azure/AWS landing zone setup
- Identity integration (Entra ID)
- Security policy enforcement
- Automated backup rules
Sword migrates legacy applications and virtual machines to modern cloud platforms, while enabling on-premises Nutanix environments to extend into Azure or AWS, delivering greater workload mobility, flexibility and operational consistency across the hybrid estate.
- Cloud migration planning and execution
- Nutanix NC2 deployment
- Azure Arc hybrid configuration
- Controlled workload cutover designed to minimise service disruption.
24/7 Cloud Operations & FinOps Optimisation: Round-the-clock monitoring and support combined with proactive FinOps management to optimise cloud consumption, maximise committed-use savings and reduce unnecessary spend.
- 24/7 cloud SOC/NOC support
- Acuity cloud management solution
- Monthly FinOps cost reports
- Automated scaling playbooks
- Continuous security patching
Case Study
Enterprise Data Centre Modernisation
Context
Modernising core data centre infrastructure for a regulated client requiring high compute performance and predictable costs.
Solution
Sword staged, configured, and deployed a high-density Dell PowerEdge server environment layered with Nutanix HCI software.
Outcome
Delivered a 30% performance increase, lower power consumption, total operational reliability, and freedom from legacy hypervisor lock-in.
Leadership Spotlight
Stephen McLaughlin
Hybrid Cloud Sales Lead
Stephen’s strengths lie in building strong relationships with key customer, channel and strategic partners across all sectors of business but particularly within the Public Sector, Health, Education and Enterprise marketplaces. Many of these relationships have been established and developed over a 20 year period working in IT.
More Information
A Cloud Landing Zone is the pre-designed, governed foundation into which cloud workloads are deployed. Rather than allowing individual teams to build cloud environments from scratch, it establishes the rules for identity, networking, security, governance, monitoring and cost management before applications are migrated or created. The Sword Specialist Team can help and support our customers with the design and implementation across multiple clouds to ensure your data is located in the correct location at all times
FinOps Optimisation: Continuous monitoring, resource rightsizing, automated scaling and strategic commitment management help eliminate cloud waste, optimise consumption and reduce costs without compromising performance.
Azure Arc extends Azure management, governance and security capabilities across on-premises infrastructure, Nutanix environments and edge locations, providing centralised visibility and control from a consistent management plane.
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