Cloud Repatriation: What Actually Remains When Bringing Workloads Back In-House
Eight out of ten companies plan to bring at least one workload back from the cloud.
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AWS and Azure under EU Scrutiny: The Lock-in is Wobbling
The EU has provisionally classified AWS and Azure as DMA gatekeepers. What the new obligations mean for architecture and contracts.
FinOps: Realistically Reducing Cloud Costs by 30 Percent
Lowering multi-cloud costs starts with visibility: tagging, showback, and the levers that make 30 percent savings realistic.
Ingress-NGINX is discontinued: The path to Gateway API
Kubernetes archived ingress-nginx in March 2026: no more security patches. Here's how to smoothly migrate to the Gateway API without …
AWS removes the agent underlay, the hook remains
AWS consolidates agent development into Toolkit and AgentCore, saving developers weeks of infrastructure work.
What the Cilium Upgrade Can Sever in the Cluster
Cilium 1.19 introduces an optional strict mode for node encryption and changes network defaults. Here's what cloud teams need to …
Windows 10: The Most Expensive Path Is Doing Nothing
For private users, the matter is settled. In Germany, Windows 11 now runs on roughly three out of four devices …
Cloud Backup with IaC: Resiliency over Restore Risk
Cloud backups built with a single click fail in emergency situations due to the missing restore path.
Cloud-Broker Instead of Cloud Chaos: 30 Percent Lower Multi-Cloud Costs
As a German mid-sized company, we were able to cut around 30% of our multi-cloud costs using a cloud broker …
Separating NIS2 and DORA Compliance: A Compliance Cluster in Kubernetes
NIS2 and DORA require various obligations. Here's how cloud architects can implement both as separate compliance clusters in Kubernetes and …
The Deadline Many Navision Users Overslept
Business Central is replacing Navision, with support for NAV 2016 ending in April.
Cloud Repatriation: When It Makes Sense to Bring Back Data
86 percent of CIOs are moving workloads back from the public cloud. When repatriation makes sense and which loads are …
OpenTelemetry: Instrument Once, Choose the Backend Freely
Observability eats up budget and ties you to a provider. OpenTelemetry decouples instrumentation from the backend: measure once, choose tool …
If the AI Bill Blows Up the Cloud Budget
FinOps for AI workloads: Gemini's batch mode halves token prices, AWS Inferentia reduces GPU load. Multi-cloud strategies are cutting AI …
OpenTofu vs. Terraform: Which IaC Tool Really Delivers
License change and IBM acquisition have turned OpenTofu into a serious Terraform fork.
FP8, FP4 and vLLM: Reducing GPU Costs for AI Inference
FP8 and FP4 on NVIDIA Blackwell slash AI inference costs without requiring a model swap.
Plug & Heal: How Platforms and Ecosystems Are Integrating Healthcare Solutions into Patient Care
Digital Health often fails due to lack of integration. HIP demonstrates the path from pilot to care with FHIR, openEHR, …
Cloud Sovereignty: C5, Data Residency, Key Sovereignty
Sovereignty means data residency, operational sovereignty, and key sovereignty.
CRITIS under pressure: Why the circular economy is becoming the touchstone for IT security
Waste management and supply industries are moving to the forefront of the KRITIS (critical infrastructure) debate amid NIS2, the convergence …
Microsoft says: sovereign. The question is: sovereign from what?
Microsoft ensures data residency for M365 Copilot in Germany. Andreas Knols from enthus cloud explains what this step resolves and …
Trade Finance Without a Paper Jam: Why Global Trade is Stuck on Paper
Trade finance still relies on paper documents: why the bill of lading slows down the payment flow and how electronic …
Platform Engineering for Compliance: IDPs Enforce NIS2 and DORA
A mature platform automatically enforces NIS2, DORA, and AI Act requirements through Policy-as-Code and generates audit-ready configuration evidence.
Google Gemini in the Enterprise: What the AI Act Mandates
Google Gemini in the enterprise cloud meets the AI Act. Vertex AI only covers a part, the rest remains with …
EKS 1.36 Costs Rise Sharply When FinOps Discipline Is Missing
EKS 1.36 shifts the cost question to the platform. Allocation per pod, NodePool contract, multi-cloud mapping are now cluster tasks.
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