Azure Consulting in New Orleans and surrounding areas.

What this service covers

Azure makes sense for some workloads and wastes money on others. Mike's IT Consulting helps local businesses decide what belongs in the cloud, migrates it correctly, and keeps the monthly bill tied to actual business value instead of forgotten resources.

What's included

• Workload assessment: which servers and applications belong in Azure, and which do not.
• Migration planning and execution for file servers, applications, and aging hardware.
• Cost review and optimization: right-sizing, reservations, and cleanup of orphaned resources.
• Networking: site-to-site VPN, virtual networks, and secure remote access.
• Identity integration between Azure, Entra ID, and on-premises Active Directory.
• Governance basics: naming, tagging, budgets, and alerts before sprawl sets in.

Common problems this fixes

• An Azure bill that climbs every month and nobody can explain.
• A lift-and-shift from years ago that was never optimized.
• An aging server and the decision: replace hardware or move to the cloud.
• Remote access held together by consumer tools instead of proper networking.

Best fit

Businesses weighing a server replacement against the cloud, already in Azure with runaway costs, or needing secure remote access done properly.

Work is remote-first with onsite availability across New Orleans, Metairie, Kenner, Gretna, and Harvey & Marrero. Everything delivered is documented so your environment gets easier to manage over time, not harder.