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Patching OpenStack Barbican to Generate P-521 EC Keys (and Filing the Upstream Bug)
How we hit a Barbican validator bug rejecting P-521 elliptic curve key orders, fixed it locally, and submitted the patch upstream alongside three other recently merged Barbican contributions.
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GDPR-Compliant File Sharing for US Companies
If your US company works with EU customers, partners, or employees, you are processing EU personal data. GDPR applies to you – not because you are in the EU, but because the people whose data you handle are. This creates a specific problem for file sharing. Documents, contracts, employee records, and customer files routinely contain…
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Total Cost of Ownership: Self-Hosted vs Managed OpenCloud
OpenCloud is free to download and run. The software costs nothing. The infrastructure underneath it is a different story. If you are evaluating OpenCloud for enterprise file sharing, you have two paths: host it yourself or pay someone to manage it. Both are valid. But the real cost of each option looks very different from…
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OpenStack Gazpacho (2026.1): What’s New and What It Means for Managed Cloud
OpenStack 2026.1 Gazpacho ships April 1, 2026 with parallel live migrations, async volume attach, OVN BGP, and native threading. Here is what matters for enterprise managed cloud.
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DNS Security in Depth: What Your Cloud Provider Should Be Doing
DNS is involved in over 90% of malware communications. Here is what enterprise DNS security actually requires – DNSSEC, zone transfer auth, audit logging, and FIPS-validated crypto.
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OpenTofu + OpenStack: A Practical Infrastructure-as-Code Guide
A hands-on guide to provisioning OpenStack infrastructure with OpenTofu. Networks, instances, security groups, load balancers, and DNS – with working code you can run today.
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The M365 Price Increase Playbook: What to Decouple First
Microsoft 365 prices increase July 1, 2026. E3 goes to 9, E5 to 0, F1 up 33%. Here is a practical playbook for decoupling workloads to reduce your M365 spend.
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SharePoint vs Managed OpenCloud: A Data Sovereignty Comparison
SharePoint dominates enterprise file sharing, but its global infrastructure, per-user pricing, and Microsoft ecosystem lock-in create real problems for organizations with data sovereignty requirements. Here is how Managed OpenCloud compares – honestly.
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Managed OpenCloud vs Nextcloud: An Honest Comparison
OpenCloud and Nextcloud both descend from ownCloud, but they solve different problems. This post compares them honestly on architecture, performance, features, and operational complexity – and explains where a managed deployment changes the calculus.
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How the Iran War Is Repricing Cloud Infrastructure
The Iran war has triggered the largest oil supply disruption in history. Brent crude is above $115 per barrel. Gulf energy infrastructure is burning. If your cloud provider passes operating costs through to customers – and most do – this is not a foreign policy story. It is a procurement story.