Cloud consulting specialists

Secure cloud consultingfor Microsoft-first estates.

HCS helps organisations design, harden, migrate, and operate Microsoft 365 and Azure environments with practical engineering, clear evidence, and calm delivery leadership.

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Engagement focus Strategy, delivery, assurance

01 Understand the estate

Tenants, identity, devices, workloads, licensing, risk, and operational ownership.

02 Stabilise the platform

Secure baselines, access controls, endpoint posture, monitoring, and recovery readiness.

03 Leave useful evidence

Architecture notes, decisions, acceptance criteria, and handover packs that survive the project.

What HCS delivers

Focused cloud help, without the heavy machinery.

HCS helps organisations make Microsoft cloud estates safer, cleaner, and easier to run. Strategy, delivery, evidence, and support stay connected so work moves from advice into implementation.

Microsoft Cloud & Security

Azure, Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Defender, Intune, Conditional Access, secure baselines, recovery controls, and governance that teams can actually operate.

Migration & Modernisation

Move users, data, workloads, and operational processes into cleaner cloud patterns with measured adoption, clear ownership, and practical handover.

Automation & Integration

PowerShell, Microsoft Graph, APIs, scheduled reporting, deployment tooling, and repeatable workflows that remove avoidable manual effort.

Software & Internal Tools

Dashboards, portals, reporting layers, workflow tools, and API-backed applications designed around the way teams really work.

Work

Representative cloud projects, without customer-specific detail.

Anonymised scenarios showing how HCS thinks through Azure migration, Microsoft 365 tenant transition, identity, user experience, software, handover and operational governance.

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Project Waypoint On-premises to Azure Project Clearline Microsoft 365 tenant migration Software build 5tratumOS operator platform

Small by design

Flexible delivery without the consultancy theatre.

HCS stays intentionally lean so clients get senior attention, direct decisions and practical momentum. The work is driven by clear outcomes, not wrapped in process for the sake of process.

Outcome-driven Senior-led Flexible by default Low bureaucracy

Leadership & technical direction

Business run with focus. Cloud decisions led by critical thinking.

HCS is run by CEO Sian Murray, with technical direction led by Johnny Murray as Chief Cloud Geek: a hands-on architect, critical thinker and problem solver across Azure, Microsoft 365, security, migration and modern workplace delivery.

The approach is to look for the design issue underneath the symptom: identity model, access pattern, operational ownership, automation gap or platform choice. Johnny can work through implementation-level technical detail, then translate the options into C-suite and vCTO conversations.

Sian Murray CEO

Business leadership, client focus and commercial direction for HCS.

Johnny Murray Chief Cloud Geek

Azure architecture, security, modern workplace, migration strategy, deep technical problem-solving, and vCTO advisory.

28+ Years in architecture and transformation

50k+ User migration programme scope

20 Active Microsoft certifications

Azure Solutions Architect Expert MCSE Cloud Platform & Infrastructure Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Specialist Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Specialist

Software & application development

Internal tools, dashboards, and specialist platforms.

HCS also builds practical software where off-the-shelf platforms do not fit: reporting layers, automation consoles, operator portals, API integrations, and private control surfaces.

Product example

5tratumOS

A self-hosted operating layer for Bitcoin and blockchain mining infrastructure, now detailed on its own page instead of crowding the homepage.

Software overview 5tratumOS showcase

Insights

Short notes, useful signals.

Practical thinking on Microsoft cloud, security, software delivery, and operating models.

New insight

Mandatory MFA for Azure management is now an operating model issue

Microsoft's MFA enforcement now reaches the tools administrators and automation workflows rely on. The response needs to be more than a policy toggle.

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Coming soon

More field notes are being written

Short, practical posts on cloud governance, software supportability, and smaller-business delivery without unnecessary ceremony.

Ready when you are

Talk to Johnny about your next cloud project.

Whether you need a discovery review, a secure Microsoft 365 baseline, Azure migration support, or help bringing order to an existing tenant, HCS can shape the next step.

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