Where they were stuck
Legacy on-prem identity and file infrastructure was blocking real collaboration across five offices. Every cross-site workflow involved a workaround.
Disaster recovery was a binder, not a tested process.
The migration plan
We sequenced identity first, then storage and productivity, then the business workloads. Each phase had parallel-running validation and a written rollback criterion.
Cutovers happened on weekends with full observability and a green/red checklist visible to leadership.
What the business got
Unified Google Cloud identity across every office. Lower TCO from rightsized workloads and committed-use discounts. A disaster recovery plan that was actually tested, not theoretical.