Before you migrate a single workload to Azure — get a defensible blueprint. CloudGauge™ is a structured 4-6 week assessment that produces concrete answers: what moves, in what order, to what target architecture, at what cost.
CloudGauge Workshop
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When enterprises skip assessment and jump to migration, three things go wrong every time:
Azure bills come in 2-3× higher than estimated because workloads weren’t right-sized. The reserved instance plan was guesswork.
Migration waves stall because no one mapped application dependencies. One late discovery blocks ten workloads.
Apps move but break — no one identified the licensing, integration, or HA/DR gap until it was too late.
CloudGauge™ exists to eliminate all three. Before they happen.
Not a slide deck. Not a “vision document.” Eleven specific, defensible artifacts your team can act on Monday morning.
Board-ready overview of the migration strategy, key decisions, and recommended path forward.
60-column master sheet covering every VM, app, database, dependency, and sizing parameter.
Specific Azure VM SKUs mapped per workload — based on actual utilization, not capacity.
Visualized subscription, networking, identity, and governance design — aligned to Microsoft CAF.
Wave-by-wave plan with sequencing logic — what moves first, what moves last, and why.
Technical diagrams for the migration process itself — tooling, cutover patterns, rollback paths.
Each workload categorized using the 7-R framework:
Production resilience design with explicit RTO/RPO targets per workload tier.
Phase-by-phase Gantt with dependencies, milestones, and critical path identified.
Roles, responsibilities, and RACI — for both Khoj and customer teams.
Infrastructure, software licensing, and professional services — broken down by phase.
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Across 4-6 weeks, your stakeholders join six focused workshops. We do the rest of the work.
Team introductions, assessment scope, deliverables walkthrough, and confirmation of stakeholder commitments. We align on what success looks like before we start.
Application server utilization analysis, target server sizing, and program execution review. We capture the truth of how your infrastructure actually runs — not what the org chart says it does.
Systems, databases, and integration topology review. We map every dependency — including the ones nobody documented because “everyone just knows.”
Enterprise architecture and target solution design. Where the Azure landing zone, networking, identity, and security architecture come together — with your architects in the room.
Migration approach, target architecture, timeline, licensing, and cost summary. By the end, your CFO and CIO are on the same page — with one document, not a slide deck war.
Inventory analysis, dependency mapping, sizing calculations — the heavy lifting done by our team between your workshops. No additional time required from your stakeholders.
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Concrete Artifacts
Industry-standard discovery tools plus our proprietary automation. The same toolkit we’ve used on Fortune 500 SAP-on-Azure migrations.
Our proprietary tool auto-consolidates RVTools and Azure Migrate exports into wave plans and target architectures. Email-triggered automation handles VM lifecycle, snapshot cleanup, and orphaned disk detection — eliminating weeks of manual spreadsheet stitching.
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Industry-standard VMware inventory tool. Captures full VM configuration data — CPU, memory, storage, network, snapshots, and host metadata — in a single export.
Microsoft’s official migration assessment service. We’re a Microsoft Solutions Partner with Advanced Specializations across SAP, Windows/SQL, and AVD — with direct Microsoft funding pathways.
Structured deep-dive questionnaires for each application owner. Captures dependencies, integrations, licensing constraints, HA/DR requirements, and migration risks — in a format that maps directly into our Master Migration Inventory.
We’re upfront about who this fits and who it doesn’t. Save us both time.
Not sure which engagement fits? Book a 30-minute discovery call — we’ll point you to the right one, even if it isn’t CloudGauge™.
Assessment-led migrations Khoj has executed at Fortune 500 scale.
Pre-migration assessment led to a full SAP on Azure transformation. Khoj continues as Microsoft partner across enterprise integrations.
Read case studyAssessment-led migration of a single global SAP HANA environment to Azure. Multi-region rollout with HA/DR architecture validated upfront.
Read case studyCloudGauge-style assessment preceded the full SAP on Azure migration. Defensible scoping kept the engagement on time and on budget.
Read case studyThe questions most enterprises ask before booking a CloudGauge™ discovery call.
30-minute call to scope your assessment. We’ll discuss your environment, timeline, and stakeholders — then send you a tailored proposal within 48 hours.
Free 30-min consultation · NDA available · Microsoft-funded engagements available for qualified customers