Why your IT system is a ticking time bomb: the hidden costs of increasing complexity
Find out why the growing complexity of IT systems is costing your business money and how to reduce technical debt. 📉 In my latest blog, I explain how inefficiencies, high costs and security risks are associated with increasing complexity, and what you can do to regain control of your IT environment...
The silent threat of cloud degradation: what's your return on subscription (ROS)?
Just like your real attic, your cloud attic tends to get cluttered with things you don't use anymore. For cloud this clutter is costly, it consists of resources you pay for, that don't deliver value anymore. Your cloud presence degrades over time if it's not maintained. Read this blog and find out...
Is your VPN really saving money? 7 reasons why it's costing you more
While a VPN may initially seem to be a cheaper solution for connecting a cloud environment, hidden cost demonstrate that this solution will prove more expensive in time. So it's essential to consider alternatives, like a dedicated cloud connection, that are better at providing the needs of a modern...
How much privacy do you have left? - Discover how much data you are really leaking
Your devices and browsers are leaking more data than you think. Including data you'd rather keep private. So ends your privacy. What's being leaked? And to whom? Read this blog and you'll know.
More and more disruptions are also threatening your business continuity
An increasing number of disruptions that last longer and are more disruptive threaten the continuity of applications and infrastructures. Failures of critical applications and systems are causing businesses, payments, hospitals and even worldwide air traffic to grind to a halt. Please don’t think...
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...
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...
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...
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.