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Migrating from ownCloud to OpenCloud: A Practical Guide for Enterprise IT
If your organization runs ownCloud, you have probably spent the last year watching the situation deteriorate and wondering what comes next. Kiteworks acquired ownCloud in late 2023 and closed the deal in March 2025. The core Infinite Scale engineering team left in January 2025 to build OpenCloud. The PHP 7.4 runtime your ownCloud Server 10.x…
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CISA Warned About Iranian Cyber Retaliation — Is Your Infrastructure Ready?
On February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel launched joint military strikes against Iran. Within hours, Iran retaliated with missile strikes on US military installations across the Persian Gulf and ordered full closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Concurrently, Israel executed what analysts are calling the largest state-sponsored cyberattack in history — reducing Iran’s…
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Vendor Lock-In Is a Technical Debt You Can Measure: A Practical Guide to Cloud Portability
Every cloud architecture decision you make is either increasing or decreasing the cost of leaving. That cost — the engineering hours, rewritten code, broken integrations, and lost productivity required to migrate away from your current provider — is vendor lock-in. And unlike most technical debt, almost nobody is tracking it. Lock-in is not inherently bad.…
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What US Data Sovereignty Actually Means for Your Cloud Workloads
If you manage regulated workloads for a US enterprise, you have probably heard the term “data sovereignty” thrown around in sales pitches and marketing copy. Most of the time, it is being used incorrectly. Region selection on a hyperscaler is not sovereignty. A US data center operated by a multinational corporation is not sovereignty. Understanding…
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The Hidden Costs of AWS: What Mid-Market Companies Actually Pay
If you’re an IT director or CTO at a mid-market company, you’ve probably heard the pitch: AWS is the world’s largest cloud provider, offering unmatched scale and flexibility. And it’s true—AWS is a powerhouse. But there’s a side of the AWS pricing story that doesn’t make it into the sales deck: the hidden costs that…