Somewhere in your estate there is a warm standby environment that has never taken production traffic. It replicates data continuously, consumes budget every month, appears in the disaster recovery section of every architecture review, and has never once been asked…
“We’re deployed across two regions” has become the enterprise answer to the resilience question. Architects include it in design documents, leadership repeats it to auditors, and engineering teams treat it as sufficient. In most cases, it is not. Having infrastructure…
Most organisations that suffered a serious cloud outage in the past two years had a disaster recovery plan. The CrowdStrike incident of July 2024 took down roughly 25% of the Fortune 500 simultaneously, causing an estimated $5.4 billion in direct…
Unplanned cloud downtime costs UK enterprises an average of £4,700 per minute, yet the majority of organisations running in the cloud today have never successfully tested their recovery procedures under realistic conditions. The number is striking not because outages are…
Multi-cloud adoption reached 89% among enterprises in 2024, yet Gartner predicts 50% of these implementations will fail to deliver expected results by 2029. The disconnect between adoption and success reveals an uncomfortable truth: multi-cloud is frequently a solution searching for…
The days of treating backup as an afterthought are long gone. In 2025, backup strategy sits firmly in the realm of business continuity, security architecture, and cost optimisation. The question facing architects and cloud teams today isn’t whether to implement…
Moving to the cloud promises significant cost savings, operational efficiency, and enhanced scalability. Yet many businesses discover that their cloud bills tell rather a different story than their initial projections suggested. Whilst the headline figures for compute and storage often…
Your weekly dose of actionable cloud wisdom to start the week right The Problem Your entire business runs on AWS, and then eu-west-1 goes down for 6 hours. Or Azure has a global authentication outage. Or Google Cloud has a…
Welcome to the final instalment of our Azure Storage Master Class. In Parts 1 and 2, we covered the fundamentals of Azure Storage and explored each service in detail. Today, we’ll elevate our discussion to advanced implementation strategies, integration patterns,…
In today’s hybrid work environments, organizations face a critical challenge: how to provide fast, local access to files while leveraging the scalability and resilience of cloud storage. Azure File Sync offers a compelling solution to this dilemma, but many IT…
