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Posted September 21, 2026
In DevOps, open source, policy, software licensing, supply chain

Your Infrastructure Choice Is a Governance Decision Now

Terraform, Redis, LibreOffice and a 3D printer company: four license disputes between 2023 and 2026, one mechanism. Picking a dependency now means betting on who owns it - and what to check before it is expensive to remove.

A pendulum swinging between one large shared mainframe and many scattered individual workstations, with faint traces of earlier swings behind it

Posted September 14, 2026
In AWS, capacity planning, cloud infrastructure, cloud repatriation, IT history, managed services

The Sixty-Year Oscillation: Why IT Keeps Outsourcing and Insourcing the Same Work

Timesharing did not die because computers got cheaper — it died because of the phone bill. Sixty years of IT centralizing and decentralizing the same work, and the variable that actually decides each swing.

A funnel filtering many small routine tickets into a few large complex cases handled by one engineer

Posted September 10, 2026
In AI, AIOps, automation, DevOps, GDPR, QA

How AI and Automation Are Changing IT Service Delivery

Explore how AI and automation are transforming IT service delivery, boosting efficiency, reducing downtime, and helping businesses stay competitive.

A single in-house IT desk beside a network of many connected desks, illustrating the coverage limits of one full-time hire

Posted September 7, 2026
In compliance, cost management, IT outsourcing, managed services, SLA

Managed IT Services vs. In-House IT: What Should You Choose?

Compare managed IT services vs. in-house IT teams to find out which model saves more, scales better, and fits your business goals.

Technical schematic of a medical instrument in which one internal component is an opaque black sphere the callout lines never reach

Posted September 3, 2026
In compliance, EU AI Act, FDA, LLM, medical devices, supply chain

When the Model Is the Vendor: What Happens to Compliance When You Don’t Own the Weights

The FDA cleared its first LLM-based device in December 2025 and the public record does not say which model it runs. Every regulated-software regime assumes you can describe, pin and reproduce what you shipped — a manufacturer building on someone else's foundation model can do none of the three reliably.

A sealed rack-mounted network appliance behind a glass wall, the only opaque object in an otherwise transparent office

Posted August 31, 2026
In edge devices, incident response, patch management, ransomware, vpn, vulnerability management

The Edge Device Is the Perimeter: Why the Box You Bought to Keep Them Out Is How They Get In

Edge devices and VPNs jumped from 3% to 22% of exploitation-driven breaches in a single year. The reasons are structural: an appliance cannot host an agent, cannot easily be imaged, and is patched on a change-control calendar while the exploit runs on a script.

An annotated technical document beside a receding row of progressively blanker cards, showing caveats lost with each copy

Posted August 27, 2026
In authentication, compliance, cybersecurity, NIST, passwords, policy

The Password Memo Was Honest. The Checklist Wasn’t.

The 2004 NIST memo blamed for password composition rules hedged its own numbers and predicted how users would defeat them. It also never contained the 90-day rotation rule everyone attributes to it.

An open cardboard box with an enormous strip of legal fine print unspooling from it, illustrating software warranty disclaimers

Posted August 24, 2026
In compliance, cybersecurity, FDA, regulation, software licensing, vulnerability management

As Is: How Software Became the Only Product You Could Legally Sell Broken

For forty years software shipped with every default warranty disclaimed. Two EU instruments arriving in 2026 and 2027 remove that baseline - and the disclaimer stops working.

A precisely drawn square boundary with a soft glow spilling well beyond its edges, illustrating an AI agent whose real reach extended past the sandbox drawn on the design document

Posted August 20, 2026
In AI, AI agents, cybersecurity, DevOps, incident response, observability

The Production Incident Class Your Postmortem Template Doesn’t Have

An agent that follows its instructions perfectly can still take down a third party. Why blameless postmortems assume three things autonomous agents do not provide.