Azure, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365 and other Cloud Musings.
Are the data security challenges of today different to those of the past? Introduction One of the areas impacting the adoption of Generative AI (substitute Generative for Agentic if you prefer) is that organisations are concerned about the status of data security across their estate, especially in the unstructured areas where AI can arguably provide... Continue Reading →
As regular readers will know, I have posted on several elements of this topic previously, but I decided to wrap this up with a more holistic (I do dislike that word) view, based on my experience of working in this area for the past 15 years or so. What is Failure, or to put it... Continue Reading →
Following a request from the UK Government to enable access to encrypted data stored in Apple’s iCloud (1), Apple has announced that its Advanced Data Protection feature, which offers end-to-end encryption for iCloud users, will no longer be available to new users in the UK (2). This feature will eventually be removed for existing users,... Continue Reading →
I had the good fortune to have lunch at the TWA Hotel at JFK Airport earlier in the week, which got me thinking about what happened to TWA and why there was still a branded hotel. I didn't get an answer to the latter, and several reasons were provided for TWA's eventual demise. Still, one... Continue Reading →
I was reading an article on The Stack a few weeks ago (https://www.thestack.technology/warren-buffetts-geico-repatriates-work-from-the-cloud-continues-ambitious-infrastructure-overhaul/), which was talking about their cloud journey, and more importantly about a recent decision to move some workloads back from the cloud to on-premises, the main reason provided in this article for the move was cost and complexity related to storage, and... Continue Reading →
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