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Beyond Cloud First: The Rise of Sovereign and Hybrid Data Centres
For years public cloud has been hailed as the future, with almost infinite resources at your command, able to be turned on and off like a tap. In a major twist, organisations are now re-evaluating cloud strategies and exploring sovereign cloud and hybrid DC architectures. This appears to be in response to the reality of a new landscape where cost, control and resilience is overtaking the “cloud first” agenda.
How low can you go? A retrospective
Over four years ago now, in mid-2021, I wrote a series of Refractis “Angles” about the increasing adoption of Low Code tools.
I thought it would be interesting to revisit the articles, review my original list, see which of the tools had thrived, and how they had adapted to the changes that AI has brought to the space.
Multi-cloud: A complex strategy with new challenges
Many cloud service providers and strategy-boutiques give the impression that a multi-cloud approach is a simple way for an enterprise to spread risk. As is often the case, we find that in reality, it’s more complicated.