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Why many SAAS and PAAS providers leave you at the mercy of the gods

When a SAAS application is so slow that your employees experience more annoyance and lost work time than that the application supports them, you have very few possibilities to turn it into a properly working application. And SAAS applications that are under performing – often seriously under...

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Mask

The data you put in the cloud is mostly … not yours anymore!

When you put data in the cloud, on Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive or iCloud then that data is no longer yours. And the cloud provider can cut you off immediately, with the only explanation ‘you’ve violated our terms of service’. Have a nice day! How is this possible, it's your data? Read this blog...

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Twins

Why you’re much less redundant in the cloud than you think

Cloud suppliers love to tell you how dependable their services are. Redundancy is the keyword here and it’s important for reliability, you don’t want data loss or data corruption . But … In the cloud only a little bit of hardware redundancy is delivered by default, the rest is up to you. What's...

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Scale

Proven: the cloud is NOT scalable

Superior scalability in the cloud is a myth. The cloud can only scale on a hardware level. Scaling your applications requires much more than just hardware scaling, just as it does on premise. Get the facts, read this blog.

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Sold Out

The data center crisis: Why a shortage of capacity will slow down your business growth. And soon.

Datacenters are multiplying like jackrabbits, but soon their growth will stagnate. This will slow down the growth of your company considerably. What's going on and how steer clear of the shortage?

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Meters

From hassles to 100% in control: How every IT Manager fixes problems faster and prevents new ones, starting now

Most APM tool measure much less accurate than you would expect. Making problems harder to identify and prevent. Read about how that works and what to do about it in this blog.

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Blue Screen

Patching stupidity: Why being in a hurry can break your system!

Last week we all witnessed how much damage can be caused by rolling out a patch too quickly. I hope you've only seen it from a distance, but a lot of you must have been victims of the calamity. CrowdStrike rolled out a buggy patch and many of CrowdStrike's customers must have installed it without...

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Money

Do you know the ROAO of your application landscape?

Application optimization may sound like a technical term, but in essence it's something really simple: improving the digital tools we use every day. The goal? A supple, fast and less frustrating work experience for everyone in the organization. And ... saving cost. Because that last point ... gets...

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WaitingEmployee

Why your IT is a silent murderer of work pleasure

The work pleasure of your employees can degrade without you being aware of it. Caused by slow and unresponsive IT systems. Read about a real world case in this blog and find out how you can be in control again.

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