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Real ERP, None of the IT
Quotes in one tool, invoices in another, the real numbers in a spreadsheet. There is a third option between an expensive SaaS suite and running a server yourself.
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Architectural vs Contractual: Reading the OpenInfra Sovereignty Whitepapers From a US Operator’s Seat
The OpenInfra Foundation published two whitepapers on digital sovereignty this month: Best Practices with OpenInfra for Digital Sovereignty and OpenStack vs Proprietary Clouds: A Digital Sovereignty Comparison Guide. Both are free and ungated, and both are worth your time. But they are written from a vantage point where “sovereignty” mostly means GDPR, DORA, and European…
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Now Available: Managed OpenCloud 7.2 on STIG-Hardened, FIPS-Enabled Instances
Managed OpenCloud 7.2 is now available on Open Edge Cloud: dedicated, isolated instances on a STIG-hardened, FIPS-enabled foundation with FIPS 140-3 validated cryptography, your choice of identity, dedicated S3 storage, and the whole lifecycle managed for you.
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Where Your Clients’ Financial Data Lives: A Data Sovereignty Checklist for Accounting Firms
Accounting firms hold their clients’ most sensitive financial data. An 8-point checklist for evaluating where that data actually lives: residency, access, audit trail, key custody, WORM retention, and breach cooperation.
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Client Confidentiality in the Cloud: A Data Sovereignty Checklist for Law Firms
A law firm’s duty of confidentiality follows the data onto infrastructure it does not own. An 8-point checklist for evaluating where client files actually live: residency, personnel, matter-scoped access, audit trail, key custody, legal hold, portability, and breach cooperation.
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The 72-Hour Clock: DFARS 252.204-7012 and What Your Cloud Provider Owes You
DFARS 7012 is not just the 110 controls CMMC assesses. It is a 72-hour reporting clock, a 90-day preservation duty, and a cloud paragraph with two halves most vendor conversations skip. Here is the obligation-ownership split.
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The VMware Renewal Letter: What Mid-Market IT Should Do Before Signing
A 90-day checklist for the mid-market IT team staring at a VCF or VVF renewal quote that is two to ten times last cycle. Get your real core count, price your actual requirement, and use the renewal as leverage.
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OpenCloud 7.0.0: What’s New, and What It Means If Someone Else Runs It For You
OpenCloud 7.0.0 brings a rebuilt sharing backend with a one-time migration blackout window, plus security hardening. Here is what changed, and why managed customers read about it in a release note instead of performing it at 2 a.m.
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Mapping Open Edge Cloud to CMMC Level 2 (Via FedRAMP Moderate Equivalent)
We walked all 14 CMMC Level 2 domains and mapped Open Edge Cloud actual posture, practice by practice. About 75 of 110 practices land on the platform side. The engineering target is FedRAMP Moderate; CMMC L2 falls out as marginal additional surface via DoD FedRAMP Mod Equivalent recognition for CUI.
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How Open Edge Cloud Approaches Compliance: A Control-by-Control Operating Picture
The operating picture of compliance at Open Edge Cloud: FIPS 140-3 validated cryptography, federated SSO, encrypted multi-year audit retention, Wazuh FIM and SCA, tailored CIS L2 hardening, and an OSCAL artifact program targeting FedRAMP Moderate.