OpsWerks plans and executes high-stakes migrations and decommissions, from discovery and dependency mapping through cutover, validation, rollback preparation, and final retirement.
In OpsWerks' 2026 practitioner survey, 16% of respondents identified a high-stakes migration or decommission as their single biggest current operational challenge. These programs run on immovable deadlines: end-of-life dates, license renewals, data center exits, and platform transitions.
Many teams don't have spare capacity for this work; 38% of respondents run production with fewer than 10 engineers. That makes technical depth, dependency awareness, and disciplined execution more important than adding temporary hands.
Industry research also shows that many organizations don't formally model the business cost of downtime: only 22% do so to inform decisions. That makes dependency mapping, rollback planning, change validation, and executive alignment even more important before a high-risk cutover.
Your teams retain architecture, business priorities, application ownership, and approval authority; OpsWerks owns the agreed planning, coordination, execution, validation, and decommissioning work. Our role is to remove execution burden and migration risk, not to create dependence on an open-ended engagement; we want you to need us less over time.
Every migration is different; the discipline is consistent. Establish the current state, expose dependencies, validate the target, execute in controlled waves, and retire the legacy environment only after stability is proven.
Following a licensing and vendor-strategy shift that spiked renewal costs and exposed single-vendor lock-in, a Fortune 100 company needed roughly 9,300 VIPs across 1,600+ appliances migrated in the United States and China. OpsWerks audited the estate, built equivalent configurations on an open-source-based load balancer, planned migration waves, and used logical decommissioning to preserve rapid rollback.
Under a fixed nine-month timeline, OpsWerks delivered two transformation programs at once: migrating 10,000+ applications off a legacy CI/CD platform, and coordinating switch upgrades across 12,000 racks in 17 data centers with strict production-safety controls throughout.
“Indispensable to my sanity and to me, personally. Because I would not have been able to do this without you guys.”
“Oh my God, this team is amazing. I read these updates with eager anticipation and I love love love how close we are.”
“Thanks, you guys for all the hard work with the migration... It's been really refreshing having it just all working and working very well. Thank you to everyone.”
Our managed services model: predictable pricing, aligned incentives, and a strict focus on operational outcomes, not headcount.
Full accountability for results, not just tasks. No pile-up of tech debt or stale tickets; issues get resolved, not recycled.
Self-managing teams that don't drain your engineering bandwidth. Eliminate the management overhead and micro-coordination that comes with contractors.
No contract churn. No retraining every 6 months. A stable, embedded team with consistent output and pricing.
Bring us the migration or decommissioning program your team can't absorb. We'll map the dependencies, phases, decision points, cutover plan, rollback path, and ownership boundary.