There’s an uncomfortable truth in enterprise IT right now: in far too many organisations, the people designing the cloud strategy are also the ones with the most to gain from keeping it exactly as it is. We call it the tail wagging the dog. On paper, cloud...

While generative AI offers tremendous benefits, its environmental impact, particularly through carbon emissions due to high energy consumption, is a significant challenge. Addressing this issue requires a combination of technological innovation, better practices in...

If you don’t know who you’re up against, are you really competing? Too often, service providers assume they’re competing with hyper-scale public cloud vendors, but when asked about the exact services their customers are consuming or how much they’re paying, they don’t...

When we first decided to move away from AWS, we knew it wouldn’t be easy. What we didn’t expect was the biggest challenge: confronting just how much we'd come to rely on AWS’s “off-the-shelf” services. Over the years, we’d built our architecture around whatever AWS...

Are you suffering from bill blindness when it comes to cloud usage?  It's a common problem that many people face when using cloud services. You sign up for a cloud service, use it without paying much attention to how much you're actually using, and then you're hit...

The First Step to Smart Decision-Making: Visibility OpExx: Your Free Cloud Cost Visibility Solution Unlike traditional cloud cost management tools that come with hefty price tags, OpExx offers detailed cloud billing visibility for free! Here’s what sets it apart:  ✅...

The First Step to Smart Decision-Making: Visibility Introduction: You Can’t Manage What You Can’t See In today's cloud-driven world, enterprises face a common challenge: understanding and controlling their cloud costs. As organizations scale their cloud usage, costs...