For Microsoft-centric organizations, Microsoft Azure is the most natural path to the cloud, but getting it right takes more than activating a subscription. IS&T Consulting Group provides Azure consulting and managed services that cover the full journey: cloud strategy, landing-zone design, migration, security and governance, DevOps, and ongoing 24/7 operations. We've supported businesses since 1997 and are an established Microsoft partner, so our clients can trust our experience with Azure.
Whether you're extending an on-premises Windows and SQL Server estate into Azure, standing up a secure landing zone before you scale, or handing off day-to-day operations, our certified consultants can build an Azure environment around your goals, ensuring everything is secure, well-governed, and cost-controlled from day one.
Engage us for a specific project or let us run your Azure environment end-to-end:
IS&T pairs deep Microsoft experience with more than 28 years of solving real business IT problems for 2,400+ clients across 1,800+ projects. We already manage Microsoft environments, including Windows Server, SQL Server, Microsoft 365, and Entra ID, for clients every day. This means Azure is a natural extension of our business rather than a new offering.
Most Azure journeys start with migration. We inventory your applications and dependencies, then choose the right approach for each workload (rehost, replatform, or refactor) with special attention to Windows Server, SQL Server, and line-of-business apps. Your organization gets a clear plan, a fixed scope, and a rollback strategy before anything moves. See our cloud migration services for the full methodology.
A landing zone is the secure, well-governed foundation that your Azure workloads live in, including networking, identity, policy, management groups, and guardrails. Building it correctly up front prevents the sprawl, security gaps, and runaway costs that plague environments that grew organically. We design landing zones on Microsoft's Cloud Adoption and Well-Architected Frameworks so you can scale with confidence.
After going live, our managed services can keep your Azure environment healthy with proactive monitoring and alerting, patching, backup and disaster recovery, security operations through Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and continuous cost and performance tuning. All of which is backed by clear Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and monthly reporting. Your business gets enterprise-grade operations without building an enterprise-sized team in-house.
Azure gives you powerful security tools, but they only work if they're configured and maintained. IS&T hardens identity with Entra ID and conditional access, enforces least-privilege RBAC, applies Azure Policy guardrails, enables Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and builds the logging and compliance controls your industry requires (HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOC 2, etc.)
Azure costs creep up through oversized VMs, idle resources, and unmanaged growth. Our FinOps approach combines technical wins (right-sizing, reservations, savings plans, autoscaling, and storage tiering) with governance such as tagging, budgets, and alerts, so your bill stays predictable. Explore our cloud cost optimization / FinOps services.
IS&T’s Azure consultants work across healthcare, financial services, retail and e-commerce, energy and oil & gas, professional services, and technology and SaaS, including environments with HIPAA, PCI DSS, and SOC 2 requirements.
Every engagement follows a proven, low-risk path:
1. Assess - Review goals, current Microsoft/on-prem estate, and workloads to define scope and success criteria.
2. Design - Architect the target Azure environment and landing zone for security, reliability, and cost.
3. Migrate / Build - Execute in controlled phases with testing and rollback at each step.
4. Optimize - Tune security, performance, and cost against Microsoft best-practice frameworks.
5. Manage - Optionally, operate and continuously improve your organization’s Azure environment 24/7.
What do Azure consulting services include?
Azure consulting covers strategy and roadmap, landing-zone and architecture design, migration of servers and applications to Azure, security and governance, DevOps automation, and cost optimization. IS&T delivers these as project work, ongoing managed services, or a combination of both.
Is Azure the right cloud for our business?
Azure is often the best fit for organizations already invested in Microsoft, such as Windows Server, SQL Server, Microsoft 365, and Entra ID, because of the tight integration and identity story. Since IS&T is vendor-neutral, we'll give you an honest assessment of what works best for your organization. Where it makes sense, we will suggest a multi-cloud approach rather than forcing everything onto one platform.
Can you migrate our on-premises servers and SQL databases to Azure?
Yes. Migrating Windows Server, SQL Server, and line-of-business applications to Azure is one of our most common engagements. We assess dependencies, choose the right migration path for each workload, and execute with testing and rollback so there are no surprises in production.
Do you provide ongoing Azure management, or just setup?
Both. Many clients start with a migration or landing-zone project and then move to our Azure managed services, where we monitor, patch, secure, and optimize the environment 24/7 under clear SLAs.
Is IS&T a Microsoft partner?
Yes. IS&T works with Microsoft technologies every day and manages Microsoft environments for clients across Houston and nationwide.
Do you work with businesses outside of Houston?
Yes. While IS&T Consulting Group is headquartered in Houston, Texas, and has served clients since 1997, we are experienced in delivering Azure consulting and managed services to organizations locally in Houston and across the United States remotely.
Ready to build or optimize your Microsoft Azure environment? Call IS&T Consulting Group at 713-622-3443 or request a proposal, and we'll recommend the right next step, whether it is a landing zone, a migration, a security review, or fully managed Azure operations.
