Ageing servers
Hardware nears end of life as cost and downtime risk climb.
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure for regulated firms
Secure, resilient cloud for law, accounting and financial services firms ready to move past ageing servers and on-premise risk.
Ageing servers are a risk you don’t need to carry
On-premise hardware ages, fails and ties up cash. Azure removes that risk when it is designed, secured and governed properly.
Lift-and-shift sprawl
Workloads move with no design, and spend surges.
Runaway bills
Cloud costs grow month on month with no owner.
Security left behind
Cloud is assumed secure by default. It isn’t.
What Microsoft Azure delivers
Azure done well is more than cheaper hardware. We design, secure and govern your cloud so it is resilient, controlled and ready to scale.
Less hardware risk
Retire ageing servers and the downtime they bring.
Predictable cost
Cloud spend designed and governed to stay in control.
Built-in resilience
Backup, redundancy and recovery from day one.
Cloud-grade security
Identity, access and protection set to standard.
Room to grow
Add capacity as you grow, with no new servers.
Clear confidence
A cloud built for a regulated firm.
PRO DRIVE 360 METHODOLOGY
Pro Drive 360 – a structured, repeatable approach to IT
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Audit
Identifying the gaps
We audit your entire IT environment and critical business infrastructure, covering everything from cyber security and compliance to core systems and tools like AI. By benchmarking your systems against our evolving standards, we provide a clear risk assessment of your current technical infrastructure.
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Roadmap
Prioritising actions
We translate your risk assessment into a strategic IT roadmap built around your business goals and modern industry developments. This strategy provides clear, costed plans that prioritise the exact actions required to maintain compliance, unlock productivity gains, and support ongoing growth.
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Align
Meeting the standard
We technically align your IT to our best practice standards to rapidly reduce risk and immediately unlock productivity gains. In parallel, we maximise your IT investment by progressing towards key milestones on your strategic roadmap. These concurrent workstreams mean you’re covered today and set up for success tomorrow.
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Enforce
Maintaining the standard
We keep enforcing the highest standard of IT for your firm by continuously monitoring, auditing and updating your environment as our set of best practice standards evolve - with the latest regulations, new cyber threats and application updates.
What our Microsoft Azure service covers
Migration planning
A designed move from on-premise to Azure.
Secure architecture
Identity, network and access designed to standard.
Cost management
Right-sizing and governance that keeps spend predictable.
Backup and recovery
Resilience and recovery designed into the cloud.
Virtual infrastructure
Servers, desktops and workloads hosted in Azure.
Ongoing governance
Constant care of security, cost and performance.
Designed for law, accounting and financial services firms
Our Azure work reflects the systems and data your sector runs on, hosting and governing them to meet your resilience and compliance needs.
How Microsoft Azure helped firms like yours
25+
years supporting professional services firms
200+
factors assessed through the governance model
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Stewart & Co Accountants LLP are a long established accountancy firm based in Camberley, Surrey and are well known for their professional, friendly approach and accurate, honest advice to clients across a variety of sectors.
- Problem
Stewart & Co were running a traditional on premise server based IT infrastructure and recognised the need to modernise to provide a flexible and scalable platform.
- Solution
Pro Drive IT delivered a comprehensive Microsoft Azure cloud migration project, replacing all legacy servers with modern cloud hosted infrastructure.
- Outcome
Improved security posture with modern endpoint protection and advanced cloud backup and disaster recovery and streamlined user experience with single sign-on across devices and services.
Explore other ways Pro Drive can strengthen your IT
Cyber Security
Protect your firm from evolving threats and reduce security uncertainty.
Strategic IT Planning
Create a roadmap for better technology decisions and predictable investment.
Microsoft 365 & Cloud
Make Microsoft 365, cloud platforms and collaboration tools work properly.
Ready to move to the cloud with confidence?
Start with an assessment of your servers, workloads, costs and readiness.
FAQS
Common questions about our Microsoft Azure service
For most regulated firms, yes, especially if you’re carrying ageing on-premises hardware. Old servers fail without warning, cost more to run than firms realise, and tie up cash in kit that keeps ticking down toward end of life. We start with an assessment of your servers, workloads and readiness before recommending anything, so it’s based on your actual risk, not a blanket sales pitch.