Cloud Strategy That Doesn't Hold Your Business Hostage
Whether you're moving to the cloud for the first time, navigating multi-cloud complexity, or rethinking what should have stayed on-premise, we help mid-sized companies design cloud strategies with portability, cost control, and exit options built in.
For mid-sized companies that need cloud decisions tied to growth, resilience, and business performance.
Migration Strategy
Cost Visibility
Operational Resilience
Scalable Infrastructure
Mid-sized companies often inherit cloud decisions made years ago, by previous teams, under different conditions. The bills grow, the architecture calcifies, and nobody wants to be the one to question whether it’s still the right setup.
We’re built for those conversations. That means we’ll tell you when:
When a vendor’s introductory pricing is likely to cost you more over time, not less
These are the questions mid-market leadership rarely gets a straight answer to. We exist to give them.
Reduce disruption, improve continuity, and strengthen recovery readiness during major infrastructure change.
Build an environment that supports growth without constant redesign or reactive spending.
Give leadership a clearer view of infrastructure economics, spend controls, and future planning.
Strengthen governance, access controls, backup, and recovery planning as part of the migration strategy.
Cloud migration is rarely just a technology project. It becomes urgent when infrastructure is harder to scale, costs become less predictable, internal teams are buried in maintenance, and leadership lacks a clear roadmap for modernization.
Narrative helps leadership evaluate cloud migration as a business decision, balancing resilience, scalability, cost structure, and execution risk so the move supports growth without unnecessary disruption.
Leadership teams making cloud decisions that affect cost structure, resilience, and future scale.
Cloud migration should improve business performance, not just infrastructure. Leadership should leave with clearer cost visibility, stronger resilience, a practical sequencing plan, and governance that reduces operational and financial risk.
Cloud storage costs and egress fees are one of the most common, and most ignored, sources of waste in mid-market cloud bills. We’ve seen clients spending 3x what they need to, often without realizing egress fees alone are quietly eating their cost savings from migration.
Where it makes sense, we offer StorageHero, Narrative Group’s managed enterprise storage solution. Up to 40% lower cost than hyperscaler storage, no egress or API fees, performance equivalent to top-tier hyperscaler offerings, and SOC-2 and ISO 27001 certified.
It’s not for everyone. It’s for clients where the math obviously works. We’ll tell you when it does and when it doesn’t.
A 30-minute strategy call with our team will give you more clarity on your cloud direction than most six-month engagements. We'll walk through your current architecture, identify the lock-in and cost risks you're carrying, and tell you honestly whether we're the right fit to help.
Evaluate workloads, dependencies, cost structure, resilience requirements, and operational constraints.
Define what should move, what should stay, sequencing, governance, and the decision logic behind each phase.
Manage migration in phases with stronger backup, access control, recovery planning, and operational oversight.
Complete digital transformation projects delivered
Mid-sized companies, including pharma and life sciences.
Average experience of our senior technology experts.
Satisfaction rate focused on performance and ROI.
President & CEO | Xtiva Finanical Systems
"We never realized that our architecture was killing our GM. We lacked clarity and control over how our technology dollars were being spent, and in determining the appropriate budget for key projects. We've now re-architected our solution, which allowed us to gain visibility, predictability, and optimization across the business, each of which supported the relaunch of our flagship product."
Chief Information Officer | HomeEquity Bank
"They identified inconsistencies in governance, how our technology was being deployed, and excesses in our technology spending. We now have robust governance in place and are well on our way to delivering highly scalable, consistent, and reliable financial services platforms that will enable us to go to market with new and enhanced service offerings."
CEO Engineering Services Firm
"IT is an essential part of our structural engineering firm. But recently, they've been holding us back—we couldn't finish anything! TNG quickly developed a roadmap that prioritized what was most important for us. It enabled productivity while improving security so that we could be confident that we were productive yet protected. They standardized our infrastructure to have fewer points of failure if disaster struck. And finally, they showed us how much IT costs in a way that made sense."
Managing Director, Online Retailer
"We needed a partner who could build budgets, optimize IT spending, and lead us through a multi-year digital transformation. 70% of our IT budget was labour! With TNG, we have it back to 50/50 labour to non-labour. We are on our way to 30/70!
We can now focus on running our business!
We now have service levels and penalties for noncompliance. We have improved security and compliance with industry standards, safeguarding our customers."
CFO, Retail Store Chain
"We had a lot of challenges to overcome. IT was costing 3.5% of revenue, and the company's core applications were aging complex, and difficult to use. There were high volumes of issues in retail locations, and the business was looking for a way to improve things while setting us up for future success
The Narrative Group leveraged their proprietary methodology to identify a roadmap to evergreen their infrastructure, stabilize core applications, reduce store incidents, and charted a path toward IT spending being 1.5% of revenue within 18."
Managing Partner, Law Firm
As a small but growing employment law firm, we were drowning in disconnected systems — case files, billing, and communications were all over the place. We didn’t realize how much time we were losing to inefficient tech until TNG stepped in.
They started by reviewing our cost structure and workflows, then rebuilt our stack with the right cloud and document automation tools, and cut 40% of our software spend in the process.
Now we’re faster, more accurate, and have a clearer picture of our profitability. I no longer feel like IT is a liability — it’s become a strength.
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We design migrations with portability in mind from day one, using containerization, open standards, and architectures that don't tie your workloads to proprietary services unless there's a clear business reason. We also conduct an "exit cost" analysis as part of every engagement. If you needed to move off this platform in 3 years, what would it cost you? Knowing that number before you commit is the single most important step in avoiding lock-in.
Our cloud consulting services evaluate Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and other cloud providers based on your business objectives. We recommend the optimal cloud platform through comprehensive assessment of your workloads, existing infrastructure, and cloud strategy to ensure the best fit for your organization.
Lift and shift moves existing applications to cloud without changes, while cloud transformation optimizes apps for new cloud environment. Our cloud migration consultants develop customized migration strategy combining both approaches based on your migration process requirements and business goals.
Yes, we design and manage multi cloud environments combining private cloud and public cloud solutions. Our cloud architecture experts develop hybrid cloud strategies that optimize cloud infrastructure across multiple providers, ensuring flexibility, redundancy, and cost-effectiveness.
A typical cloud migration journey ranges from 2-4 months depending on complexity. As a trusted cloud migration company, we create detailed migration roadmap with phased approach. Our migration consulting services break the entire migration process into manageable stages to minimize disruption.
We maintain business continuity through phased cloud migration strategy with parallel systems running during transition. Our disaster recovery planning ensures business operations continue uninterrupted, with rollback capabilities and 24/7 monitoring for smooth transition.
Cost savings vary significantly depending on current state, but the larger savings rarely come from the migration itself. They come from architectural decisions made during the migration: right-sizing storage, eliminating egress patterns, choosing portable workload formats, and avoiding committed spend agreements that don't match your actual usage.
