From Cloud Promise to Cloud Reality: Where Costs, Control, and Scalability Go Off the Rails
The cloud promised lower costs, greater flexibility, and scalability. In practice, it often proves more stubborn. Invoices grow, environments become more complex, and shutting things down is harder than turning them on. In this blog, you’ll read why the cloud promise often gets stuck—and what...
How AI eats away at your sustainability goals
AI is marketed as progress. Rightly so, often. But it isn’t sustainable by default. The growth of AI is putting pressure on data centers, power grids, and sustainability goals. Especially when large language models are used for tasks that could be handled more simply, cheaply, and efficiently. In...
How to scale your IT without using more power
The Dutch power grid is at capacity. Yet many organizations can do much more with their existing IT than they realize. In this blog, you’ll learn how to identify where your IT consumes the most power and how smart optimization can help you continue growing without needing extra capacity.
Why Your Hybrid Cloud Poses a Major Risk (and How to Address It)
The cloud makes building easy. But every extra layer increases the distance between cause and effect. What works at the foundation can turn into delays, complexity, and loss of control in production. In this blog, you’ll discover why technical architecture in the cloud is crucial—and how small...
AI makes you faster. Until no one knows how it works anymore
AI promises speed, scale, and efficiency. But those who outsource too much thinking unwittingly lose sight of how software, processes, and decision-making really work. And that is exactly where cognitive debt arises.
"Secure by design" seems to stop at Windows all too often
Windows is still often regarded as the safe default. But if you look at its design, you’ll see something different: security features that were mostly added only after they proved necessary. In this blog, you’ll learn why Linux, macOS, and mobile platforms are fundamentally more robust.
Hub-and-spoke looks good, until you see the costs and the unmanageability
Greater security does not automatically require greater network complexity. This blog shows how hub-and-spoke can drive up costs and management overhead, and why measures such as local firewalls, separate management, and a smaller attack surface are often a more sensible solution. For organizations...
“Market leader” is synonymous with mediocrity, and that costs you a lot of money, possibly millions.
The roadmap of a monopolist is no longer about your speed, but about their predictable revenue. It starts subtly and ends in slow software, more expensive licenses, and more incidents. This blog shows you where the leaks are and which buttons you already have at your disposal today.
This is the end of your agility, IT professional
More and more companies are bending their processes to fit standard SaaS. Nice and fast, less customization—but you're buying agility and autonomy from your supplier. What are you really solving, and what are better alternatives?