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Notes from the work
Short pieces on what we actually find: cloud bills, networks and the compliance dates that are closer than they read. No vendor announcements.
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7 pieces
Each one is something we would say on a first call anyway.
You went live on Friday. Who owns it on Tuesday?
The implementation had a plan, a budget, an owner and an end date. The month after it goes live usually has none of those.
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Four questions before you fund an AI pilot
Most of the ideas we are asked about fail on the third or the fourth. Asking all four takes an afternoon. Finding out after the build takes a quarter.
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Right-size before you migrate, not after
An on-premise server was bought for its worst hour in three years. Copy it one-for-one into an instance and you have bought that worst hour every hour, on a meter.
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Your SLA probably promises a reply, not a fix
Response time is when somebody acknowledges you. Resolution time is when you can work again. Most support contracts guarantee the first and are silent on the second.
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Cloud savings have an order, and getting it wrong costs three years
Waste first, commitments second, architecture third. Buy the discount before you clean up and you have locked the waste in for the length of the term.
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India opened 6 GHz in January. What it changes for your next Wi-Fi refresh
500 MHz of licence-exempt spectrum, indoors, low power. If you are buying access points this year and the proposal does not mention it, ask why.
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DPDP lands on 13 May 2027. Three things that usually are not started
Eighteen months sounds comfortable until you try to answer the first question: where is personal data actually held?
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Rather have it done than read about it?
A two-week review works through any of this against your actual estate, costs every change and ranks it by effort and risk.