The cloud, built to fit your operation.
We design, migrate, and operate cloud platforms that keep pace with your business. We deliver a consultant-managed capability, with architecture, security, and continuity included.
Enterprise cloud is a platform that is designed, migrated and operated with cost under control.
Who delivers it
SUMāTO, a technology consulting and integration firm founded in 2016, headquartered in Mexico with an office in Bogotá and coverage across Latin America. In Spanish and in the client’s own time zone.
Where it applies
Application migration and modernisation, multicloud and hybrid architecture, DevOps and infrastructure as code, continuity, and secure virtual desktops.
How it starts
With a 60-minute assessment of one real, measurable process. The organisation keeps the assessment deliverables even if it decides not to proceed.
Against which criteria
The vendors’ Well-Architected frameworks, ISO/IEC 27017 for cloud security, ISO 22301 for continuity, and FinOps discipline from the design stage.
Put simply: instead of buying and maintaining your own servers, your organization uses computing, storage, and platform capacity hosted by specialized providers, available on demand.
There are three models. The public cloud (AWS, Microsoft Azure) delivers maximum elasticity and scale. The private cloud reserves dedicated infrastructure for sensitive or regulated workloads. The hybrid cloud combines both, letting you decide what runs where based on cost, risk, and compliance.
For an executive, the question isn't "which cloud?" but "which architecture sustains my operation, controls my spend, and protects my continuity?" That's the conversation we open at SUMāTO.
Business reasons.
The cloud stops being an IT project when it's measured in commercial agility, cost control, and resilience. These are the levers that generate the most value in practice.
Agility
Launch products and environments in hours, not weeks. Speed of provisioning translates into speed for the business.
Scalability
Scale capacity up or down with real demand, without over-provisioning or falling short during seasonal peaks or campaigns.
Cost under control
Pay for what you consume and convert capital investment into operating expense. With FinOps discipline, every dollar of cloud spend is traceable.
Resilience
Distribute workloads across zones and regions to withstand failures. Continuity no longer depends on a single data center.
Managed security
Leverage enterprise-grade controls, encryption, and identity, configured to your organization's risk framework.
Continuous innovation
Access data, analytics, and artificial intelligence services without building them from scratch, ready to integrate into your operation.
What we bring to the table.
A team that covers the full cycle: from adoption strategy to day-to-day managed operation, with security and continuity as the connecting thread.
Cloud strategy and adoption
We define the cloud model, roadmap, and business case that justify and guide your adoption.
Application migration and modernization
We move your workloads to the cloud and modernize applications so they fully leverage the platform.
Multicloud and hybrid architecture
We design topologies that combine AWS, Azure, and your own environments based on cost, risk, and compliance.
DevOps and Infrastructure as Code
We automate deployments with CI/CD pipelines and IaC, for repeatable, auditable, and fast releases.
FinOps and cost optimization
We establish visibility and governance over cloud spend, eliminating waste and aligning consumption with value.
Cloud security
We apply identity, encryption, segmentation, and monitoring under a least-privilege model.
Continuity and backup (DRP)
We design backup and disaster recovery in the cloud to protect your critical services. More at DRP.
Virtual desktops (Secure Virtual Desktops)
We deliver secure workspaces from the cloud with Secure Virtual Desktops, accessible from any device.
Where the cloud solves real problems.
Every scenario starts from a concrete business need. These are the fronts where we most often partner with our clients.
Cloud migration
We move workloads and data from the data center to the cloud with controlled risk and without disrupting the operation.
Application modernization
We redesign legacy applications toward managed services and containers to reduce maintenance and cost.
Hybrid/multicloud architecture
We connect on-premises environments and multiple clouds into a coherent, governed, and secure topology.
Cost optimization
We identify waste, right-size capacity, and establish spend governance to regain financial control.
CI/CD pipelines
We implement continuous integration and deployment to accelerate releases with quality and traceability.
Secure virtual desktops
We enable remote work and contractors with controlled virtual desktops, with no data on the device.
Disaster recovery in the cloud
We replicate critical services in the cloud to restore the operation after major incidents.
Backup and continuity
We integrate backups and continuity plans so the business keeps operating through disruptions.
Secure landing zone
We build the foundation of accounts, networks, and identity on which your entire cloud grows with order and control.
What changes in your organization.
Beyond the technology, a well-governed cloud transforms how your company operates, decides, and responds.
Time to market
What once required buying and configuring hardware is now provisioned in minutes, freeing your teams to focus on product and customer.
Traceable, predictable spend
With FinOps, every service is attributed to a team or initiative, and cost stops being a black box and becomes a deliberate decision.
Continuity through incidents
Redundancy and recovery plans reduce the impact of failures, cyberattacks, or disasters on your critical services.
Security by design
Identity, encryption, and monitoring are configured from the architecture itself, not as an afterthought, strengthening your risk posture.
Scale without reinvestment
Growing in users, geographies, or workloads doesn't require new infrastructure projects: the platform keeps pace with demand.
Access to innovation
Data, analytics, and artificial intelligence are one step away, ready to integrate whenever the business needs them.
A capability delivered by consultants.
We treat the cloud as a business capability that we design, build, and operate with method and hands-on partnership. We operate from Bogotá and Mexico City, and we assess the cloud regions available for Colombia and Mexico when the data cannot leave the country.
Assessment
We run a cloud assessment that evaluates maturity, workloads, costs, and risks to define the starting point.
Cloud architecture
We design the landing zone and governance model that give structure, security, and order to your cloud. See enterprise architecture.
Methodology
We lead with PMI frameworks and agile practices, balancing control, pace, and frequent value delivery.
Migration and modernization
We execute the move and evolution of applications in waves, minimizing risk and disruption.
Managed operation
We operate your cloud with FinOps discipline and continuous support, keeping cost, performance, and availability under control.
The criteria the implementation follows.
Implementation follows the same frameworks that order an assessment, so what gets built is auditable from day one and the evidence is ready when the audit arrives.
Well-Architected
Design. Each workload is designed against the five pillars, not just against the instance price.
The 6 Rs of migration
Path per workload. They determine what gets rehosted, what gets replatformed and what gets refactored before moving.
CSA Cloud Controls Matrix
Security. Controls are implemented knowing what the provider covers and what stays on your side.
ISO/IEC 27017
Cloud standard. The security controls specific to cloud services, documented for audit.
FinOps
Cost in operation. Spend has an owner and gets reviewed periodically, which is what prevents the third month's invoice.
ISO 22301
Continuity. Backup and recovery are redesigned when the workload moves, not assumed to carry over.
What you receive, documented and actionable.
Every initiative leaves concrete artifacts that your organization keeps, audits, and reuses well beyond the project.
- Cloud assessment with an adoption roadmap and business case.
- Cloud architecture and landing zone design with a governance model.
- Wave-based migration plan with dependency and risk analysis.
- Documented CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code.
- FinOps model with cost dashboards, budgets, and alerts.
- Cloud security framework: identity, encryption, and monitoring.
- Continuity and disaster recovery plan (DRP/BCP).
- Secure Virtual Desktops virtual desktop scheme and operations guide.
Common questions before getting started.
Which cloud providers do you work with?+
Do we have to migrate everything at once?+
How do you keep cloud spend from spiraling out of control?+
What happens to continuity if a major incident occurs?+
Can you operate the cloud after implementing it?+
What is Secure Virtual Desktops?+
How does a cloud project with SUMāTO get started?+
How this capability gets delivered.
Migrating is the project; operating in the cloud is what follows. These are the services that sustain the operation after the last wave.
Disaster Recovery Plan
The cloud doesn't guarantee continuity on its own: it has to be designed, tested and committed.
Business Continuity Plan
Which processes keep operating during a provider or region outage.
Managed Services
Day-to-day operation of the environment: patching, backups, cost and capacity.
NOC · Network Operations Center
Availability and performance monitoring across your cloud, data center and sites.
IT Strategic Plan
The plan that defines what moves, in what order and with what investment per year.
What should migrate, and what shouldn't move yet?
The Cloud Readiness Assessment classifies your application portfolio, maps dependencies on the core and evaluates continuity, compliance and operational capability. It delivers a migration plan by waves, with entry and exit criteria for each.
The reason to migrate changes by sector.
- Manufacturing — elastic capacity for plant systems, industrial IoT and production analytics.
- Retail — seasonal demand peaks without idle infrastructure the rest of the year.
- Education — learning platforms with concurrency that varies by academic calendar.
- Telecommunications — distributed services and proximity to the end user.
Enterprise transformation with SUMāTO.
This capability is part of an end-to-end enterprise transformation program —strategy, AI, data, automation, cybersecurity and cloud—, guided by strategic consulting. It is defined alongside Cybersecurity —the destination is decided with security requirements on the table, not after— and it enables Data & Analytics at a scale an owned data center cannot reach.
Cloud, in depth.
- Cloud computing: what it is and why it's no longer optional — the starting point, without the jargon.
- Cloud architecture: principles for executives — resilience, cost and security before you scale.
- The real business impact of cloud — beyond cost reduction.
Let's talk about your cloud.
In 60 minutes we understand your operation, your priorities, and your risks, and we give you a first read on the path toward a cloud built to fit your business.
The terms, defined plainly.
Six definitions that stand on their own away from this page: each explains the whole term without needing the paragraph before it.
FinOps
FinOps is the practice that makes cloud cost a shared responsibility across finance, engineering and the business: every resource has an owner, every charge is attributed to a service, and architecture decisions are taken knowing their cost.
Landing zone
A landing zone is the foundation built in the cloud before anything migrates: accounts, networks, identities, activity logging and security and cost controls, so that every workload arriving later inherits rules already defined.
Multicloud
Multicloud is the deliberate use of more than one cloud provider, choosing each service on its fit for the case. It brings negotiating power and exit options, and it charges for them in operational, identity and network complexity.
Infrastructure as code
Infrastructure as code defines servers, networks and permissions in versioned files rather than configuring them by hand. The environment becomes reproducible and auditable, and a difference between environments stops being a mystery.
Hybrid cloud
Hybrid cloud combines owned infrastructure with public cloud services under a single operation. It answers for workloads not worth moving — for latency, regulation or cost — without giving up elasticity for everything else.
VDI
A virtual desktop (VDI) delivers the workplace from the data centre or the cloud rather than from the user’s machine. Data does not live on the device, which changes control over contractors, remote sites and non-corporate equipment.