Magma Cloud was founded in 2015 with one simple idea — that cyber and cloud security advice should be independent, outcome-led, and built on a real partnership with the customer. Ten years on, that idea still drives everything we do.
Magma Cloud was founded in June 2015 to do something the market wasn't doing well — help organisations adopt the cloud securely, without the consumption-driven incentives that quietly bias most consultancies and resellers. Independent advice, senior architects, fixed fees, and outcomes you can measure.
More than ten years later, that founding principle drives everything we do. We don't earn commissions, we don't resell, and we don't have a managed service model that creates financial pressure to land you on an ongoing contract. Our only revenue is the fee you pay us to deliver the outcome we agreed.
Trusted by organisations across Local Government, the NHS, Higher Education, Automotive, Retail and Financial Services.
We don't earn vendor commissions and we don't resell. Our only revenue is the fee you pay us for outcomes we deliver.
Microsoft Cloud, cyber security, and AI — three deep specialisms, with the full lifecycle covered from strategy to ongoing optimisation.
We've delivered cyber and cloud security programmes across public and private sectors, from regulated public bodies through to global commercial enterprises — building deep, transferable patterns that benefit every engagement.
A small selection of engagement types, by industry and outcome only. We treat customer names with the same care we treat their data — so the people stay anonymous, but the impact speaks for itself.
Architected an enterprise Microsoft Fabric data & AI platform, established a CAF-aligned Azure environment and a Cloud Centre of Excellence, and re-tendered managed cyber services — all underpinned by authored Core Technology and Cyber Security strategies.
Read case studyLed a multi-million-pound cyber transformation programme covering EDR, PAM, SWG and IDAM. Chaired the university-wide Design Authority, optimised £2m+ of annual Azure/M365 spend, and authored a 7 PB+ data lifecycle and compliance strategy.
Read case studyDesigned a greenfield enterprise data platform on Azure (Data Lake Gen2, Delta Lake, Synapse, Power BI Premium) supporting petabyte-scale datasets across 100+ markets, and led a 750+ server migration to modern PaaS, DevOps and containers.
Read case studyLead Architect for a national award-winning, data-driven AI/ML cloud research platform, alongside an enterprise integration architecture unifying 30+ data sources and reviving a stalled migration to 80% cloud-shift in six months.
Read case studyDelivered a five- and ten-year comprehensive cyber roadmap to support a major international sporting event and the controlled exit from a long-term managed services contract, including the selection and recruitment of a new in-house cyber security function.
Read case studyOwned ISMS delivery for a major telco / local authority partnership, achieving ISO 27001 readiness and PSN accreditation, and providing architectural leadership for a Strategic Investment Area data centre migration.
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Gary founded Magma Cloud in 2015 after two decades of hands-on architecture, engineering and security leadership across local government, telecommunications, higher education and global services. Equally comfortable in the trenches of a complex Azure build and presenting business cases to executive boards, Gary brings a rare blend of technical depth, enterprise breadth, and commercial perspective.
He has personally architected multi-million-pound cloud, cyber and data transformation programmes; secured £5m+ investment business cases; established Cloud Centres of Excellence; and chaired enterprise Design Authorities. His specialisms span Microsoft Azure and M365, Microsoft Security (Defender, Sentinel), Zero Trust networking, enterprise data architecture, and the secure adoption of AI.
NeuraSec is our AI delivery consultancy for organisations of 200–5,000 staff — covering AI strategy, EU AI Act readiness, Microsoft Copilot programme architecture, and Microsoft Fabric data foundations. Where Magma Cloud secures AI, NeuraSec deploys it. Clients benefit from both.
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