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DIVERSITY. We make IT happen

Off the hyperscaler, with engineers who do the work.

Architecture reviews, migration plans and the migration itself, new applications, and engineers who join your team, remotely or at your premises in Madrid, Munich, Helsinki or Amsterdam. Our focus is moving workloads off the US hyperscalers and onto our infrastructure.

Free, 90 minutes

Written diagnosis in a week

An engineer on the call

Leaving a hyperscaler

Every workload gets its own decision.

This is the shape of the plan we write: for each workload, a decision, a destination and a wave. Including the workloads that should not move at all.

An example plan
Your workloadTodayDecisionWhere it goesWave
File archiveA hyperscaler's object storageMove: nothing ties it thereOur Object StorageWave 1
Web front endVirtual machines on a hyperscalerMove as it is: nothing to rebuildOur CloudWave 2
Its databaseA hyperscaler's managed PostgreSQLMove with the front endOur managed PostgreSQLWave 2
ERPVMware, in your server roomMove off VMware before renewalOur Bare MetalWave 3
Serverless functionsThat hyperscaler's function serviceKeep: not worth rewritingWhere it isNot moved
Old reportsVirtual machines on a hyperscalerRetire: nothing depends on itSwitched offNot moved

An example plan

  1. File archive

    Today
    A hyperscaler's object storage
    Decision
    Move: nothing ties it there
    Where it goes
    Our Object Storage
    Wave
    Wave 1
  2. Web front end

    Today
    Virtual machines on a hyperscaler
    Decision
    Move as it is: nothing to rebuild
    Where it goes
    Our Cloud
    Wave
    Wave 2
  3. Its database

    Today
    A hyperscaler's managed PostgreSQL
    Decision
    Move with the front end
    Where it goes
    Our managed PostgreSQL
    Wave
    Wave 2
  4. ERP

    Today
    VMware, in your server room
    Decision
    Move off VMware before renewal
    Where it goes
    Our Bare Metal
    Wave
    Wave 3
  5. Serverless functions

    Today
    That hyperscaler's function service
    Decision
    Keep: not worth rewriting
    Where it goes
    Where it is
    Wave
    Not moved
  6. Old reports

    Today
    Virtual machines on a hyperscaler
    Decision
    Retire: nothing depends on it
    Where it goes
    Switched off
    Wave
    Not moved

Every wave has its cutover plan and its rollback. What has moved and what stays talk to each other over our direct peering with the hyperscaler, not the public internet.

Writing your plan is part of the engagement. Before it comes the discovery call: free, with a written diagnosis inside a week. Request it

What we do

Advice, and the work that follows it.

Four stages, in the order they usually come.

  1. 01

    Review

    What you run today, on a hyperscaler, on our infrastructure or on your own servers.

    • Architecture reviews
    • On-site assessments at your facilities
    • A review of your hyperscaler bill
    • Readiness for NIS2, DORA, ISO 27001, ENS and GDPR

    The result: written findings, ranked by risk, with what to fix first. Our engineers can make the fixes too.

  2. 02

    Plan

    The plan above, and the design around it.

    • Migration plans
    • Target architecture
    • Hybrid designs with Colocation and Private Link
    • Network design
    • Disaster recovery design
    • Input to your DORA exit plan

    The result: the target architecture, and the plan to reach it.

  3. 03

    Move and build

    Our engineers do the work, with your team or on its behalf.

    • Off a hyperscaler, or between hyperscalers
    • Out of VMware
    • New applications, and rebuilding old ones
    • Kubernetes, infrastructure as code and CI/CD

    The result: workloads moved and tested, wave by wave.

  4. 04

    Run

    After the move, or with no move at all.

    • Engineers inside your team
    • Maintaining your own servers
    • Handover into our managed services
    • Training and workshops for your team

    The result: runbooks, handover sessions, and a team that knows how it runs.

    Embedded engineers, in detail

Data platforms and AI have pages of their own: Data-Driven and Artificial Intelligence.

A review, a plan, the move itself or running it after: each starts with the discovery call. Request it

Embedded engineers

Engineers who work inside your team.

For the infrastructure you'd rather not maintain yourself. With your team, not instead of it.

  • On a hyperscaler

    Your estate on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud, looked after from inside your team.

  • On our infrastructure

    What you run on our Cloud, Bare Metal or Colocation.

  • On your own servers

    Your own infrastructure, maintained by our engineers.

What they learn about your estate is handed over to your team as they go. You can have them in any of the four ways to buy below.

Not the same as our managed services: an embedded engineer works inside your team, on your infrastructure as well as ours.

On-site

At your premises, in four cities.

The cities where we run datacenters. Everywhere else, our engineers work remotely.

  • Madrid
  • Munich
  • Helsinki
  • Amsterdam
How to buy

Four ways to work with us.

Four shapes, and the work decides which. We do not publish prices.

  • A defined project

    A scope agreed up front: a review, a plan or a migration.

  • A block of hours

    A set number of hours, drawn down as the work comes in.

  • A retainer

    A recurring arrangement with our engineers, for work that keeps coming back.

  • A dedicated team

    A team of our engineers, for a programme too large for the other three.

Not sure which fits?

Tell us what you run and what you want from it. Existing customers use the same form.

Free, 90 minutes

Written diagnosis in a week

An engineer on the call

A stake isn't the problem. A plan you can't check is.

We run infrastructure, so we have a stake in where your workloads land. The answer is a plan you can check row by row, like the example above. Three ways to get the work done, compared.

Criterion

A large consultancy

Doing it in-house

DIVERSITY

Plans and moves

Yes

Around the day job

Yes

In your team

For the project, usually

Your own team

Remote, or in four cities

Who hosts it

A provider does

You do, if you host it

We host what moves here

Has a stake in it

Depends on the firm

No

Yes: our infrastructure

After the move

Depends on the contract

Your team runs it

Managed, or handed over

Where data lands

Wherever the plan says

Wherever you host it

In the EU, if we host it

Foreign legal orders

Depends on where it lands

Depends on your host

Here, no entity above us

Procurement or compliance questions of your own? Bring them to the discovery call. Request it

Testimonials

What they say about our work

“Our risk team had to show how we would leave our main cloud provider. They worked out, service by service, what leaving would actually take, and we built our exit plan on that.”

Head of IT risk

Payments company, Portugal

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  • Santander
  • BASF
  • Commerzbank
  • AXA
  • Stellantis
  • Finnair
  • Siemens Healthineers
  • Marimekko
  • E.ON
  • Meliá Hotels International
  • Nippon Sanso
  • Siemens Gamesa
  • Ilunion
  • Douglas
  • IFEMA
  • Kemira
  • ISS A/S
  • Iberia
  • Comunidad de Madrid
  • Allianz

Things people ask before signing

What we get asked, with honest answers.

You sell infrastructure. Won’t your plan always say “move it all to you”?

Our focus is moving workloads off the US hyperscalers and onto our infrastructure. What keeps the plan honest is its shape: a decision for every workload, with the reason written next to it. We tell you what is straightforward, what is complex, and what is probably not worth moving, and some of what you run is better left where it is. We take no commission from AWS, Azure, Google Cloud or Oracle, and you can buy the review or the plan on its own and have someone else carry it out.

Do you only work on your own infrastructure?

No. We review, move and look after workloads on a hyperscaler, on our infrastructure and on your own servers, and we move workloads between hyperscalers as well as off them.

What does an architecture review give us?

Written findings, ranked by risk, with what to fix first. If you want the fixes made, our engineers can make them, or your team can.

Do you build applications, or only infrastructure?

Both. Modernising usually means both: new applications, rebuilding old ones, and the platform they run on, from Kubernetes to infrastructure as code and CI/CD.

Can you get us off VMware?

Yes. It is one of the migrations we do: an inventory of what runs on VMware, a destination for each workload, and the move itself.

Can you help with NIS2, DORA or ISO 27001?

With readiness for NIS2, DORA, ISO 27001, ENS (Spain's national security framework) and GDPR: where you stand, what is missing and what to fix first. Readiness is an assessment we make, not a promise that your system conforms, and not a certificate. For DORA we also give technical input to your exit plan. Penetration testing, security monitoring and a fractional CISO belong to our SecOps service, not this one.

Where do embedded engineers work?

Remotely, wherever you are. On-site at your premises only in Madrid, Munich, Helsinki and Amsterdam, the cities where we run datacenters. They work on a hyperscaler, on our infrastructure or on your own servers. Visits for an assessment are different: for those, we travel to you.

How is that different from your managed services?

A managed service is a product we run on our infrastructure, such as a managed database. An embedded engineer works inside your team, on your infrastructure as well as ours.

What happens after the migration?

Your choice: our managed services for what can be managed, our engineers inside your team, or a handover to your own team, with runbooks and training. Once you run on our infrastructure, support on it is free, with a 4-hour target response time on support requests. New design or architecture work is consulting, like everything on this page.

How do we buy it?

Four ways: a defined project, a block of hours, a retainer, or a dedicated team, and embedded engineers come in all four. We do not publish prices.

How long does an engagement take?

It depends on what you run and what you want from it, so we do not publish a typical length. We scope it with you after the discovery call.

How do we start?

The discovery call, and it is free: 90 minutes, an engineer rather than a salesperson, and a written diagnosis inside a week. It is a conversation, not a review: the review, the plan and the work come after, if you want them. Already a customer? Same call, same form.

Does DORA require us to leave a US hyperscaler?

No, and anyone telling you otherwise is selling something. DORA does not require you to host in the EU. What it does require is that you can show you manage the risk of piling critical dependencies onto the same few providers, and that you have an exit plan you have actually tested. European supervisors now publish a list of the critical ICT providers the sector leans on hardest, and the large hyperscalers are on it. We are not. We can give technical input to your exit plan, and carry out the migration if you ever run it.

Where does our data sit after the move?

What moves to us sits in our datacenters in Madrid, Munich, Helsinki or Amsterdam. What stays on a hyperscaler stays under its terms, and talks to ours over direct peering.

Who can compel you to hand our data over?

For what runs with us: DIVERSITY is a European company with no parent company, US or otherwise, so there is no entity above us for an order from outside the EU to be served on. That is a structural answer rather than a policy one.

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Where a migration lands: Cloud for virtual machines, storage and managed databases, Bare Metal for whole servers, Colocation for your own.

Shall we talk?

A free 90-minute call, and you leave with a written diagnosis inside a week.

Write or call and you'll get an engineer, not a ticket bot.