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Most Azure partners hand you a subscription and a dashboard, then move on. Braintree is an Azure Expert MSP. We design the landing zone, run the migration, then operate the estate every month after: monitoring, security posture, cost control and governance. One team accountable, under the same agreement as your Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365.
Before a business can use AI seriously, it needs a governed cloud foundation. Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry and Machine Learning run inside your landing zone, next to the data they learn from, under the same identity, security baseline and cost controls as the rest of your estate.
That is why the cloud review is the first step of every AI conversation we have. Get the foundation right, and AI stops being a pilot and becomes a workload.
AI workloads · your landing zoneIdentity, network, governance and a security baseline. The foundation, built once and version-controlled.
Compute, storage and networking, built to your workloads and scaled in the South African regions.
24/7 monitoring, patching and incident response on one Braintree SLA.
Reservations, Azure Hybrid Benefit and right-sizing. Reviewed every month.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud and a Secure Score baseline, reported monthly.
Migration is the project. Managed cloud is the relationship. After go-live, these five disciplines run on your estate every month. The Microsoft tooling named below ships in Azure today. Braintree operates it as an Azure Expert MSP.
Metrics, logs and alerts from every workload, in one place. The estate is watched 24/7, not checked when something breaks.
One query surface across the whole estate. Incidents get triaged against real telemetry, not guesswork.
Continuous security posture assessment across every subscription. Misconfigurations surface before they become incidents.
One number for cloud security posture. Baselined at onboarding, tracked monthly, the trend reported to you.
Spend visibility per subscription and per workload. Budget alerts before a threshold is reached, not after.
Right-sizing, Reserved Instances and Azure Hybrid Benefit applied to live spend. FinOps as a monthly habit.
Guardrails in code. Non-compliant resources are flagged or blocked before they reach production.
Identity and access governed consistently across every Azure subscription. One control plane, not many.
The estate reviewed each quarter against the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework. The roadmap stays current.
Virtual machines moved to Azure platform services where the case proves out. Capacity planned ahead of demand.
Four stages to a managed Azure estate. The cost model is signed off before the build starts. Then the managed-cloud relationship begins.
We review your infrastructure, security posture and workloads. The output: a cloud readiness report, a migration scope and a cost model.
The Azure landing zone built in the SA regions. Identity, network, governance and the security baseline.
Cost model sign-off gatePhased workload migration. Each workload tested and validated before cutover. No big-bang risk.
FinOps from day one. Reservations, Azure Hybrid Benefit and right-sizing. Then the managed run-state, every month.
Braintree doesn't migrate your cloud and walk away. We run it as an Azure Expert MSP, every month after.
Some buyers are moving off on-premises servers or a co-location datacentre. Others are already on Azure but self-managing it, watching costs drift. Both paths land on the same place: an Azure estate run by an Azure Expert MSP under one agreement.
Best when you are on on-premises servers or a co-location datacentre.
Best when you are already on Azure but self-managing, with costs drifting.
Self-managed Azure carries a hidden operating cost: alert noise, patch gaps, cost drift and no single accountability when something breaks. Braintree replaces that with one managed agreement. Azure run under the same SLA as your Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365. One contract. One team. One Secure Score to answer for.
Efficient Group, a South African financial services firm. On-premises infrastructure migrated to Microsoft Azure and secured to international best practice, under one Braintree agreement.
Azure South Africa North runs in Johannesburg with three Availability Zones. Azure South Africa West stands by in Cape Town. Your workloads and your data stay inside South African borders, POPIA-aligned since 2021, with the latency of a datacentre up the road.
Microsoft Azure with BraintreeWe match you to the right specialist when you book the cloud review. Names land in your calendar invite, not on a page you scrolled past.
8 questions, mapped against benchmarks from 220+ SA clients. You get a tier and the actions to close the gap.
On-premises footprint, current Azure estate, workloads, licences, what is and is not working. Ten minutes on your side.
Braintree returns a cloud readiness assessment, a migration or takeover scope, a cost model and a risk summary. Inside five business days.
Review the scope with an Azure architect. Confirm the landing-zone design, the migration phasing and the managed run-state. No sales pitch.
It is the top managed-services accreditation Microsoft awards for Azure. A partner earns it by demonstrating technical depth in Azure managed services, maintaining a portfolio of production Azure environments, and passing an independent third-party audit. It is re-audited, not awarded once. For you, it means the partner running your estate has been checked by someone other than themselves.
It depends on the size and complexity of your environment. A straightforward server migration for a 200-person organisation typically runs 6 to 12 weeks. Larger environments with complex integrations or legacy applications take longer. The Assess stage, in the first five business days, gives you a realistic scope and cost model before you commit to anything.
Azure Hybrid Benefit lets you apply your existing on-premises Windows Server and SQL Server licences to reduce the cost of running those workloads in Azure. If you have active Software Assurance, or you bought those licences through Braintree, you very likely qualify. We check eligibility during the Assess stage and apply it from day one, before any new spend.
We configure your estate on the South African regions, Azure South Africa North in Johannesburg or Azure South Africa West in Cape Town, so customer data is processed and stored inside South African borders. We apply Microsoft's POPIA-aligned security controls, set data retention policies, and document the technical controls for your compliance records. Data residency is a documented control, not a checkbox.
Yes. Taking over an existing Azure estate is one of the two paths on this page. We start with a Secure Score baseline and a full cost review, tidy up the landing zone, then move the estate onto the Braintree managed agreement. Most handovers reach a managed run-state inside the first month.
Yes. One Braintree agreement covers your full Microsoft estate: Azure, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, security and devices. One invoice. One SLA. One contact. That is the One Intelligent Agreement model, and it is the commercial spine of this page.
Microsoft Defender, Sentinel, Entra and Purview. The Azure security baseline runs alongside a posture across every other surface. One Secure Score, one team accountable.
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Microsoft 365 and Copilot, run under the same agreement as your Azure estate. The desktop and the datacentre, one contract, one SLA.
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Microsoft Fabric and Power BI run on Azure. When the data platform and the infrastructure share one partner, the path from raw data to decision is shorter.
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