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Greenwashing

From CSRD compliance to genuine green IT (without greenwashing)

Many organizations measure themselves to death for CSRD, but still don't focus on what matters: kWh per transaction, kg CO₂ per user, and costs per workload. Even though it's so easy to do! This blog shows where greening often gets stuck and how you can use measurement and optimization to remove...

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Burn Money

I see your IT leaks. And I can't look away.

IT isn't “expensive” because of bad luck. It's expensive because of complexity that doesn't suit your scale. In this blog, I'll show you where that waste occurs — and why you often pay for IT that you don't need at all.

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Soevereniteit

The uncomfortable answer to “What does digital autonomy really cost?”

What does digital autonomy really cost? A LinkedIn discussion got me thinking: the comparison between hyperscalers and Schleswig-Holstein sounds clear, until you scrutinize the assumptions. In this blog, I show where “integration” is mainly framing, which hyperscaler risks you are missing in your...

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Inefficiency

Get more out of your data center by buying less

Is your data center “full”? Usually, it's just inefficient. In this blog, you can read how to measure capacity in terms of business value (not in racks or MW) and how targeted optimization can significantly reduce costs and energy consumption. Without a mega project.

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Implosion

Compliance on paper, misery in production

Many organizations treat non-functionals as an afterthought: “We'll do that later.” Until you run out of support and “upgrade now” becomes more important than performance, authorization, logging, and recoverability. The result: incidents that were predictable—if you had made them measurable. This...

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Complexity

2026: I want less complexity, more results

We didn't make IT complicated because we had to, but because we came to see it as normal. This blog shows how complexity can quietly eat away at your pace, budget, and control—and how you can get back to “strictly necessary” without being naive.

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Technical Debt

Technical debt is management debt

Technical debt is rarely a technical problem. New hardware, cloud, or AI can move and upgrade your code—but it doesn't solve your choices. In this blog, you'll read how software really wears out, why you often migrate problems, and what it takes to structurally reduce debt. Read the blog → Why you...

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Reflexes

Stop these 7 IT reflexes (before they eat up your budget)

Add another server, put everything blindly in the cloud, leave control to your supplier, dismiss open source... It seems logical, but it eats into your margin and your agility. In this blog, I dissect 7 stubborn IT reflexes that are holding your organization back. These are the habits you must drop...

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Flying Blind

Why pilots fly blind – and you should too in IT

A modern commercial aircraft never takes off without a clear route, agreed altitudes, and Air Traffic Control monitoring. Yet many organizations still run their IT without real air traffic control. Everyone feels safe with dashboards, reports, and log files after the fact. But in aviation, we call...

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