Frequently asked questions
The timeline for cloud adoption can vary greatly depending on your specific environment and requirements. However, with Mesoform’s streamlined approach, a typical lift-and-shift migration of two to three similar Linux servers can usually be completed within 1 to 2 months.
Keep in mind, factors such as the need for zero downtime or the volume of data involved can influence this timeframe. When you partner with Mesoform, we go beyond basic migration; we incorporate automation tools and introduce core cloud enhancements to ensure you get long-term value from your move.
A lift-and-shift migration involves moving applications from one environment to another, typically from on-premise infrastructure or a different cloud provider, without making major changes to the applications themselves. Aside from minor configuration adjustments, it's essentially about "lifting" the app from its current server and "shifting" it onto a new, pre-configured cloud environment.
At Mesoform, though, it’s rarely just a lift-and-shift. Our approach often includes enhancements like automation upgrades, improved software firewalls, better update and deployment processes, and stronger service availability and security—so you get more than a simple migration.
DevOps solutions can be instrumental in overcoming the limitations of old infrastructure and outdated technology, thereby enabling your company to achieve growth milestones and foster innovation.
Mesoform’s DevOps team incorporate modern DevOps practices and solutions to provide the agility and efficiency needed to overcome the challenges posed by managing old infrastructure and technologies.
While our typical engagements are project-based and built around a formal Statement of Work (SOW), we also offer a flexible request-based service designed to support teams on demand.
This model gives your technology team access to Mesoform’s expertise as needed, helping reduce the burden of context switching that often slows down developers. After a brief initial setup—where we assess your current DevOps, platform, and site reliability engineering (SRE) environment—your team can simply request our help for tasks that would otherwise distract your developers from building critical product features.
It’s a smarter way to get expert support, without the overhead of a full project.
Mesoform have been advising and engineering best security practices for some of the largest companies around, at highly regulated enterprises and on a massive scale for many years. It is at the heart of everything we do.
It is important to ensure your services are released as quickly as possible, but it is critical to ensure that they are deployed as securely as possible.
Realistically, no one can guarantee absolute 24/7/365 uptime—and you should be cautious of anyone who claims they can. In the IT industry, we refer to service availability in terms of Service Level Objectives (SLOs), often measured by the number of "nines" (e.g., 99.9%, 99.99% uptime). The higher the number, the more reliable the service—but also the more complex and costly it becomes.
At Mesoform, we always aim to deliver the highest availability possible using proven, modern technologies. However, the right level of uptime depends on your specific business needs.
We'll work with you to find the best balance of cost, performance, security, and user experience, because for some apps, near-perfect uptime is essential, while for others, it may not be worth the trade-offs.
Operations are essential to any business—but they’re often seen as costly, time-consuming, and sometimes overlooked or misunderstood.
Operations-as-a-Service (OaaS) offers a smarter approach: instead of building everything in-house, you leverage the expertise of seasoned specialists to handle critical operational tasks as a flexible, on-demand service.
At Mesoform, our focus is on technical operations, including areas like site reliability, infrastructure management, and cloud security. We deliver these services in a way that fits your team’s workflow and business needs—so you get high-quality operations support without the traditional overhead.
Full-stack developers are versatile, but managing deployment, security, monitoring, and analysis alongside feature development can stretch them thin. These complex, evolving areas need dedicated focus.
Research from Google, IDC, and Gartner shows companies perform better with experts handling these critical tasks. That’s why tech leaders invest in platform engineering, security, and SRE teams.
Mesoform’s Operations-as-a-Service gives you access to this expertise, without the cost or complexity of building in-house, so your developers can stay focused on building great products.
Shifting down is a term which has recently come out of Google, and is the concept of gaining the most productivity from your development team by engaging with specialist platform engineering, site reliability and security teams to abstract complexities of their specialist areas into easy-to-consume tools and processes which your technology team can adopt into their development lifecycle.
An example of this would be providing a simple way to test app deployments against security and compliance policies before changes are even committed to be released.
The timeline for cloud adoption can vary greatly depending on your specific environment and requirements. However, with Mesoform’s streamlined approach, a typical lift-and-shift migration of two to three similar Linux servers can usually be completed within 1 to 2 months.
Keep in mind, factors such as the need for zero downtime or the volume of data involved can influence this timeframe.
When you partner with Mesoform, we go beyond basic migration; we incorporate automation tools and introduce core cloud enhancements to ensure you get long-term value from your move.
Mesoform's dedicated Platform Engineering team leverage open source and cloud solutions to prevent proprietary technologies from making system updates or acquisitions expensive, incompatible, and complex. Our team incorporate cloud-agnostic architecture and foster a culture of flexibility and adaptability to support your unique requirements by supporting issues as they arise, on-demand; or by working closely with your development team on larger platform architecture solutions.
DevOps solutions can be instrumental in overcoming the limitations of old infrastructure and outdated technology, thereby enabling your company to achieve growth milestones and foster innovation.
Mesoform’s DevOps team incorporate modern DevOps practices and solutions to provide the agility and efficiency needed to overcome the challenges posed by managing old infrastructure and technologies.
While our typical engagements are project-based and built around a formal Statement of Work (SOW), we also offer a flexible request-based service designed to support teams on demand.
This model gives your technology team access to Mesoform’s expertise as needed, helping reduce the burden of context switching that often slows down developers. After a brief initial setup—where we assess your current DevOps, platform, and site reliability engineering (SRE) environment—your team can simply request our help for tasks that would otherwise distract your developers from building critical product features.
It’s a smarter way to get expert support, without the overhead of a full project.
Mesoform have been advising and engineering best security practices for some of the largest companies around, at highly regulated enterprises and on a massive scale for many years. It is at the heart of everything we do.
It is important to ensure your services are released as quickly as possible, but it is critical to ensure that they are deployed as securely as possible.
Realistically, no one can guarantee absolute 24/7/365 uptime—and you should be cautious of anyone who claims they can. In the IT industry, we refer to service availability in terms of Service Level Objectives (SLOs), often measured by the number of "nines" (e.g., 99.9%, 99.99% uptime). The higher the number, the more reliable the service—but also the more complex and costly it becomes.
At Mesoform, we always aim to deliver the highest availability possible using proven, modern technologies. However, the right level of uptime depends on your specific business needs.
We'll work with you to find the best balance of cost, performance, security, and user experience, because for some apps, near-perfect uptime is essential, while for others, it may not be worth the trade-offs.
Operations are essential to any business—but they’re often seen as costly, time-consuming, and sometimes overlooked or misunderstood.
Operations-as-a-Service (OaaS) offers a smarter approach: instead of building everything in-house, you leverage the expertise of seasoned specialists to handle critical operational tasks as a flexible, on-demand service.
At Mesoform, our focus is on technical operations, including areas like site reliability, infrastructure management, and cloud security. We deliver these services in a way that fits your team’s workflow and business needs—so you get high-quality operations support without the traditional overhead.
Full-stack developers are versatile, but managing deployment, security, monitoring, and analysis alongside feature development can stretch them thin. These complex, evolving areas need dedicated focus.
Research from Google, IDC, and Gartner shows companies perform better with experts handling these critical tasks. That’s why tech leaders invest in platform engineering, security, and SRE teams.
Mesoform’s Operations-as-a-Service gives you access to this expertise, without the cost or complexity of building in-house, so your developers can stay focused on building great products.
Shifting down is a term which has recently come out of Google, and is the concept of gaining the most productivity from your development team by engaging with specialist platform engineering, site reliability and security teams to abstract complexities of their specialist areas into easy-to-consume tools and processes which your technology team can adopt into their development lifecycle.
An example of this would be providing a simple way to test app deployments against security and compliance policies before changes are even committed to be released.