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Hybrid is not a strategy, it is a description
Almost every enterprise is hybrid. Saying so commits you to nothing. The strategy is the placement rule, and most organisations do not have one.
Cloud
Where it pays off and where it quietly does not.
007
Committing to cloud capacity without regretting it
Discounts for commitment are real money and a real trap. The question is not how much to commit but how confident you are in a forecast you have never tested.
006
Cloud exit costs, computed properly
You are probably not leaving. Compute it anyway, because a number you cannot calculate is a negotiating position you do not have.
005
Colocation is the third option nobody prices
The debate is framed as our data centre versus public cloud. There is a middle that solves the facilities problem without the consumption bill, and it is increasingly the answer for accelerated infrastructure.
004
FinOps for infrastructure teams who did not ask for it
The bill became your problem the day consumption pricing arrived. Four practices cover most of the value, and none of them require adopting a framework.
003
Disaster recovery in the cloud: the bill is in the test
Standby infrastructure looks cheap until you calculate what it costs to actually fail over, and untested failover is not a capability.
002
SD-WAN: what it actually solves, and what it quietly moves
The pitch is cheaper circuits. The real value is that the WAN becomes centrally managed and application-aware. The cost is a new dependency you should look at closely.
001
The three questions that end most 'we will just move to the cloud' plans
Not arguments against public cloud. Just the three numbers that tend to be missing when the business case looks obviously good.