Brennan helps organisations migrate, manage and optimise Windows, Linux and SQL workloads on Azure. We hold Azure Expert MSP status, Microsoft's highest accreditation for Azure managed services partners, and have earned Microsoft specialisations across Azure, Modern Work, Security and Business Applications.
Every Azure migration we run follows Microsoft's Cloud Adoption Framework, not a method of our own invention. The framework helps organisations migrate, modernise and improve the maturity of your Azure environments while supporting your wider business goals. Because it's published by Microsoft, you can read it yourself, and you can hold us to it.
We use Azure Migrate to assess workloads and right-size the virtual machines they will land on, so the environment you pay for in Azure matches the environment you need rather than the one you selected and invested in years ago. We run a solution assessment that surfaces the dependencies, risks and licensing implications before they get expensive.
Not everything should move the same way, and some things should not move at all. Each workload gets an approach: retire it, rehost it as it stands, or rebuild and modernise it in Azure. What comes out is a business case and a sequence: what moves first, what moves later, and what is deliberately left where it is.
Azure Foundations is our landing zone approach, built on the Cloud Adoption Framework and defined as code so it can be deployed repeatably rather than assembled by hand. It has been refined across dozens of Azure transitions. Identity, networking, security and governance are designed in from the start, across all eight of the framework's landing zone design areas, so the guardrails exist before the first workload lands rather than being retrofitted once something goes wrong.
Workloads move in waves, each with user acceptance testing and post-migration validating before the next one starts. Migrations can surface things nobody documented: a service still running that nobody owns, a dependency nobody mapped. We remediate those inside the wave that found them.
Old environments are decommissioned once their replacements are proven, not before. After that the work changes rather than stops: cost and configuration are reviewed as the estate grows, and workloads that were rehosted to move quickly can be modernised later — refactoring SQL Server into Azure SQL platform services, for instance, once the environment is stable.
Elanor is a successful wealth management firm which, until recently, was being held back by dated technology infrastructure and an unreliable support partner. When the business decided to migrate to Azure – seeking greater security, ease of management and disaster recovery – they turned to Brennan for support.
Cura, Australia’s leading day hospital provider, deliver high quality, patient-centred care in 29 high-tech facilities. But behind the scenes, Cura were growing concerned about the health of aging infrastructure.
Most of the problems organisations hit after moving to Azure don't start in Azure. Cost that climbs with no clear owner, security applied unevenly across teams, environments nobody can account for: these trace back to decisions made before anything moved. Microsoft's Cloud Adoption Framework exists to make those decisions deliberately, and in a sensible order.
We build to Microsoft's framework rather than a method of our own invention. And because it's proven and published openly, you can read exactly what we're working to, which means your environment ends up built the way Azure is designed to be built. The framework sets out seven methodologies. They aren't strictly sequential: most organisations work across several at once, and return to the earlier ones as the estate grows.
Microsoft sets out eight design areas that every Azure landing zone has to address:
Rather than recreating these controls for every team, or retrofitting them once problems appear, a landing zone gives you a consistent, reusable starting point. Our Azure Foundations approach covers all eight, deployed as code, so the same standard applies to every environment we build.
Cloud maturity is an ongoing journey. As technology evolves and business needs change, Brennan can helps you continuously improve and optimise your Azure environments using Microsoft's Well-Architected Framework. This keeps Azure secure, cost-effective, resilient and aligned to your business goals over time. Managing Azure well is what keeps an environment matching its design long after the migration team has moved on.
Centralised logging, reporting and alerting across every managed asset, with change tracking, patch compliance and inventory visibility. Backup and recovery plans are in place for managed workloads and tested rather than assumed, with recovery objectives agreed against business priorities instead of applied uniformly.
Cost management, a security baseline, an identity baseline and resource consistency through management groups, subscriptions and Azure Policy: — the governance disciplines the Cloud Adoption Framework defines, applied as guardrails that hold as the estate grows rather than as a one-off configuration.
Layered controls across identity, access, configuration, monitoring and recovery, delivered with Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Defender for Endpoint and Defender for Identity, Microsoft Purview data loss prevention and Conditional Access. Identity and endpoint management covers Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft Intune and Windows Autopilot. Brennan holds ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification.
Software asset management reviews, Microsoft 365 optimisation, CSP licence management, and positioning of Azure Hybrid Benefit, so existing Windows Server and SQL Server licences reduce what you pay to run those workloads in Azure.
Support runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week. That means engineers on- shift and working your issue, around the clock.
Every incident and request is logged, tracked and reported against defined priority and severity levels, each with its own response commitment set out in your agreement. Major incidents follow a separate, documented escalation path, up through Brennan's management structure and on to Microsoft where that's warranted.
Behind that service sits the Brennan Cloud Beacon, the Azure management platform we built ourselves. We built it around the pillars of the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework, so the way we manage your estate maps to the same standard Microsoft uses to define a well-run one.
You're never dependent on us to see what's happening. Brennan’s Cloud Beacon dashboard sits inside our customer self-service portal, with real-time visibility of ticket status, service levels, security scores, tagging compliance and cost summaries, alongside a knowledge base your team can use directly. Monthly reporting covers performance against agreed service levels. And where a target is missed, you get the improvement action reported alongside it.
Microsoft Sentinel is deployed and managed as part of the service for security operations, with continuous vulnerability management built in.
Your Microsoft environment should be moving your business forward, not absorbing your team's time. Managed Digital Services gives you specialist support across cloud, data, applications, Dynamics and the modern workplace, so you get more from your Microsoft investment without growing headcount. Certified engineers watch over your environment around the clock, spotting early warning signs and calling you before small issues become business-stopping ones.
The service scales up and down as your needs change, so you only ever carry the cover you need, and you choose how far it extends: from strengthening your existing team to taking full ownership of your Microsoft environment. It doesn't stop at break-fix either. Included enhancement hours keep your platforms improving, clearing development backlogs so that you realise value sooner. Regular reporting turns activity into insight, showing where performance, cost and risk can be improved before they become problems. Delivered by a Microsoft Azure Expert Managed Service Provider, it's a service built to protect your investment, lighten the load on your team and keep your Microsoft platform governed and optimised.
Azure Expert MSP is Microsoft's highest tier of recognition for partners who manage Azure environments on behalf of customers. It isn't awarded on application or on how much Azure a partner sells. Partners are assessed by an independent auditor selected by Microsoft against a published checklist, covering business health, Azure services, the Cloud Adoption Framework, cloud operations, service levels, and continual improvement. The assessment is repeated every year, with a full audit every third year. Partners who can't demonstrate continued maturity lose the status.
Brennan holds Azure Expert MSP status, alongside:
For a customer, the value is simple. An Azure Expert MSP has had to prove to an independent auditor, selected by Microsoft, that it can manage Azure properly, at scale, and prove it again every year.
Brennan has been developing and deploying cloud strategies for over 20 years. Founded in 1997 and Australian headquartered, we support more than 1,700 customers across a broad range of industries, with a national team of consultants and engineers working from strategic advice through to hands-on delivery.
That matters on an Azure migration. The people who assess your estate, design your landing zone and manage it afterwards work for the same organisation, to the same standards: and we’ve done this often enough to know what tends to surface midway through.
Brennan works with customers to design the right hybrid cloud strategy for their business, balancing performance, security, compliance, legacy applications and latency requirements. Using Azure Arc, Hyper-V, Azure Local and Brennan Private Cloud, we help customers build an approach that fits, managing the environment as a single estate rather than as separate silos, so decisions about where a workload belongs today can change as that workload’s needs evolve.
One of Australia's most popular fast-food restaurants operates with mostly on-premises servers, though Brennan has been introducing them to public cloud through various Azure applications. Web app services has been hosting their main marketing campaign, giving customers an interactive and personalised experience.
A leading manufacturer and distributor of ice in Australia relied on an offshore operations platform for stock management: – a complex and highly seasonal task. We implemented an Azure-based AI tool to predict and forecast their stock replenishment, along with an automated accounting system, which allowed the customer to implement their zero-waste policy.
An ASX listed financial trading firm needed absolute reliability from its infrastructure, yet its private cloud infrastructure – maintained by a third party – wasn't meeting availability targets. By implementing Azure with disaster recovery, Brennan created an automated and robust business continuity process, which has significantly decreased the risk of data loss.
A large consulting firm with offices around the country rushed to add cloud-based workloads and apps to its infrastructure during Covid lockdowns. Many of the workloads weren't configured for efficiency and, as a result, the business was over-paying for under-utilised storage, applications and workloads. Brennan's complete audit and review helped the business determine exactly where and when they were overpaying.
A large medical practice with high security requirements had traditionally relied on on-premises infrastructure for their customer records. A security breach prompted a review, leading to Brennan providing a more robust security solution through 24/7 monitoring and continual review of their infrastructure, safeguarding patient information and employee data.
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