Cloud & IT
CloudOps, FinOps, SRE, AMS and NIS2 compliance for CIOs and IT Directors in non-tech organisations with 100–2,000+ employees.
The Pipeline as a Line of Defence: What the OVHcloud and LiteLLM Cases Teach
In October 2026, two tools used in thousands of companies' pipelines were swapped for malicious versions in under three days. In one case, it was a customer's pipeline that caught it. The pipeline is not only the way code goes out: it is the first place to check what comes in.
A Database in a Single Zone: What the 20 October Outage in London Teaches About High Availability
A Google Cloud zone in London lost power for six hours, and zones that kept their power were affected too. A database's high availability is not proven by the architecture diagram: it is proven by a timed zone failover.
Windows Server 2012 End of Support: What It Costs to Stay and What the Way Out Looks Like
On 13 October 2026 paid security updates for Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 ended, in Azure too. Postponing the migration no longer costs anything on the invoice; it costs in risk. The four ways out, and the trap of migrating to a version that ends in January.
When the Outage Is Your Cloud Provider's: What the Azure Incident of 30 September Teaches About Disaster Recovery
More than one in four incidents starts at a vendor and takes more than twice as long to resolve. The Azure outage of 30 September shows why: when the problem sits on the other side of the contract, the in-house team can only wait. What can be controlled is the preparation.
CI/CD Pipeline Setup in Two Hours: Why Only 21% Manage It
Only 21% of teams can get a working build and deploy pipeline into a new environment in under two hours. The missing time is not technical: it is waiting between teams. A golden path with self-service removes most of it.
When Slow Counts as Down: Setting a Service Level Objective for Latency
A slow service fails the people using it and still passes every availability alert. Two thirds of reliability practitioners already treat degradation as an outage. What most operations still lack is an objective of its own for latency.
Estimate Cost Before You Deploy: Pre-Deployment Architecture Costing in FinOps
The cost of an architecture gets decided at design time, not on the first invoice. Pre-deployment architecture costing is the top tooling request in FinOps practice in 2026, and there is a way to start practising it without new tooling.
Cyber Resilience Act Article 14: the 24-Hour Clock Has Started and It Covers Software Already Sold
Since 11 September 2026, anyone placing software on the EU market has 24 hours to issue an early warning on an actively exploited vulnerability, including in products already sold. What Article 14 of the Cyber Resilience Act requires, and what engineering needs in place to meet it.
Platform Engineering Outsourcing: Buying Capacity Does Not Buy Proof It Works
29.6% of platform teams do not measure whether the platform works at all, down from 45% a year ago. What that means for anyone deciding to outsource platform engineering capacity, and the questions missing from most contracts.
DORA Metrics in 2026: Artificial Intelligence Speeds Up Delivery, and Stability Pays for It
Adopting artificial intelligence in software delivery correlates with more throughput and more instability. Production telemetry shows why: most failures come from capacity limits, not from the model. What that changes in DORA metrics and for whoever owns the platform.
FinOps Checklist 2026: It's No Longer Just the Cloud Bill
FinOps was built for the public cloud bill. In 2026 it already covers artificial intelligence, licensing, and data centers. A checklist of what counts as technology spend today, and who should own each line.
NIS2 in Portugal: What Changes for Suppliers of an Essential Entity
NIS2 does not only bind the organisations inside its scope. It reaches their suppliers through contract clauses, and that is where most Portuguese companies meet it for the first time.
DevOps as a Service: When It Makes Sense, and When It Is Just Outsourcing the Problem
DevOps as a Service solves a shortage of platform capacity, not a shortage of internal decisions. Where the model works, where it fails predictably, and the four questions that separate the two.
SRE-as-a-Service vs In-House Team: When Each One Makes Sense
Most organisations cannot say what an hour of downtime costs them. When it pays to build an in-house reliability team, when it pays to buy SRE-as-a-Service, and where the tipping point between the two sits.
AI Cloud Costs: Why 80% Miss Their Forecasts (and How to Budget for It)
80% of companies miss their artificial intelligence cost forecasts by more than 25%. Why an AI bill does not behave like infrastructure, what inference is, and how to budget, allocate and govern these costs.
SAP AMS: Why an In-House Team Cannot Run 24/7
SAP application management services: what they are, why an in-house team cannot cover 24/7, when outsourcing pays off, and what to demand in a contract before ECC support ends in 2027.
Cloud-Native Modernisation Without Killing Productivity
Cloud-native modernisation promised speed. It often delivers complexity. Why most organisations get no gains, and what separates a platform that accelerates from one that holds delivery back.
Backup Is Not Disaster Recovery: The Difference Costs Hours or Days
Having backups is not the same as being able to recover. The difference between backup and disaster recovery, explained through RTO, RPO and the real cost of downtime.
Cloud Cost Runaway: The 5 FinOps Patterns Draining the IT Budget
Five cloud waste patterns that silently compound in non-tech organisations, and the FinOps discipline needed to eliminate them before they destroy the IT budget.