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Cloud and infrastructure 14 August 2026
A backup nobody has restored is a hypothesis
Backup software reports success for a great many configurations that cannot actually bring a business back. The only test that settles it is performing the restore.
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- 22 July 2026 Technology strategy
Before you buy the platform, write the requirement
Vendors demonstrate against their own strengths. Without a written statement of what the system has to do, procurement becomes a contest of presentations rather than of fit.
2 min read - 30 June 2026 Data and AI
Five questions to settle before you point a model at your documents
Most of the risk in an internal AI deployment is decided by configuration settled before anything is indexed, not by which model gets chosen.
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