Cloud & Microsoft 365
Tenant management, planned migrations, and GCC or GCC High when a defense contract requires it.
Our cloud and Microsoft 365 services help regulated organizations manage tenants, plan migrations, and, where defense contracts require it, move to Microsoft 365 GCC or GCC High. Cloud migration services are scoped, tested, and carried out with a rollback plan, whether you are moving from on-premises systems, consolidating tenants, or leaving commercial Microsoft 365 because it is not authorized for CUI. Backup, identity, and CMMC requirements are part of that planning, not an afterthought.
The work covers day-to-day tenant management and the migrations that have to be planned carefully in a regulated environment.
Ongoing administration of Microsoft 365 tenants, including the identity, access, and configuration work that regulated organizations have to keep current.
Scoped, tested migrations of systems, data, and workloads, including on-premises to cloud moves and Microsoft 365 tenant migrations, with rollback plans and a clear objective to avoid data loss.
Help evaluating whether commercial Microsoft 365 is sufficient or whether a move to GCC or GCC High is required for CUI, then managing the migration and ongoing administration. Commercial Microsoft 365 is not authorized for CUI.
Migrations are planned with identity, tenant backups, and, for defense contractors, CMMC and NIST SP 800-171 requirements in view, so the new environment is supportable after cutover.
A migration that ignores backup or contract requirements only moves the problem.
Our backup and disaster recovery services include Microsoft 365 tenant backups for email, SharePoint, Teams, and OneDrive, which should be in place around a migration, not added later under pressure.
GCC and GCC High decisions belong with our DoD and CMMC work. We evaluate your contract requirements before recommending an approach, because over-building this is as costly as under-building it.
These cloud and Microsoft 365 services are built for regulated organizations, with a clear path for defense contractors that need a government cloud. If that sounds like your industry, start here:
Our DoD and CMMC page describes GCC and GCC High assessment and migration. The case studies below show how NorthStar handles high-stakes work in regulated environments.
About the author
Ken Satkunam, CISM
President & Founder, NorthStar Technology Group
Ken has spent over 25 years in IT leadership, serving in roles from technical support to CIO for organizations as large as 23,000 employees. He founded NorthStar Technology Group in 2000 to help regulated organizations build secure, compliant, and operationally resilient technology environments. Ken holds the Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) credential from ISACA and is the co-author of the Amazon best-seller "Cyber Attack Prevention." He has been quoted in industry publications including eWeek and DM News, and NorthStar has been recognized on the Inc. 5000 list in both 2024 and 2025.
Tell us about your current tenant, a planned migration, or a contract that may require GCC or GCC High. We can talk through a plan that fits those requirements.
