Fully on-premise, fully cloud, or somewhere between: REDD designs for your workloads and your costs, backed by four Australian data centres and watched by the same 24x7 Security Operations Centre that guards everything else we run.
Private · Public · Hybrid
Bespoke workloads that are not suited to, or not cost-effective in, public cloud. Includes cost-effective backup and disaster recovery, hosted on Australian soil.
Scope private cloud →Full-stack Azure from your local experts: DevOps, hosting, automation, migrations and the cost optimisation that stops the bill creeping.
Talk to an Azure engineer →The best of both, optimised between REDD's private cloud and Azure, with data centre co-location for corporate and government workloads along the east coast.
Design a hybrid →Placement on merit
There is no universally right answer. There is a right answer per workload, and this is how we decide it.
| REDD Private Cloud | Microsoft Azure | Hybrid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best for | Steady, predictable workloads | Variable and bursty demand | Most real businesses |
| Cost model | Reserved capacity, predictable monthly | Consumption, scales both ways | Reserved base plus elastic burst |
| Data residency | Named Australian facility | Australian regions | Sovereign data stays private |
| Legacy apps | Runs them without a rewrite | Often needs re-architecting | Move what is ready, keep the rest |
| Scaling | Planned capacity increases | Instant, near unlimited | Elastic where it matters |
| DR and backup | Included and tested | Configured and charged separately | Unified across both |
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Why REDD cloud
Cloud fails at the seams between providers. REDD removes the seams: design, migration, security, backup and recovery under one roof, with service levels that are contractual and measured monthly.
Workload placement
Describe a workload and get an honest recommendation. Sometimes the answer is leave it where it is.
How a migration runs
The copying is the easy part. The sequencing is what separates a clean migration from a bad weekend.
Stage 1
Every workload profiled for dependency, cost and risk, with a written recommendation per system.
Stage 2
A low-risk workload moved first to prove the pattern and the rollback path.
Stage 3
Systems moved in dependency order, in windows your business chooses.
Stage 4
Right-sizing, reservations and cost review once real usage data exists.
Common questions
For steady, predictable workloads it usually is, because you are buying reserved capacity rather than paying on-demand rates every hour. For workloads that spike and idle, Azure wins comfortably. The honest answer is that most businesses should run both, which is why hybrid is the most common outcome of an assessment.
A single application is typically weeks. A full environment is months, and should be. The variable is not the copying, it is the sequencing: what depends on what, what can tolerate downtime, and what has to move together on a weekend.
In REDD private cloud, in Australian data centres on the east coast, and we can name the facility. In Azure, in the Australian regions unless you specifically choose otherwise. For government-adjacent and regulated clients this is usually the first question, so we document it before anything moves.
If it has years of life left, co-location is often the sensible answer rather than writing it off. If it is out of support, we plan the retirement into the migration. We will not push a migration that requires binning equipment you bought last year.
Yes, and it is included rather than sold separately in private cloud. More importantly it is tested. An untested backup is a hope rather than a control, and most failed restores are discovered on the worst day of the year.
Get in touch
Send the basics and a REDD engineer will come back to you within one business day. Prefer to talk? Call 1300 697 333.