Many organisations assume that once systems are restored after an incident, business operations will automatically resume. In modern digital environments this assumption no longer holds. Distributed architectures, identity dependencies, data integrity issues and external integrations create complex dependency chains that must all function simultaneously for...
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From cloud-first to narrowed thinking Cloud-first has become a dominant organising principle in enterprise IT. For many organisations, it has enabled faster delivery, greater scalability, and access to capabilities that were previously difficult to realise. In that sense, cloud-first has largely delivered on its promise. Problems arise...
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The Dutch government has published a new cyber regulation, but it does not address the most critical issue: data and operational sovereignty. Combined with the recent Solvinity acquisition by Kyndryl, the gaps become urgent. This article explains why compliance is not sovereignty, how Dutch public...
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When AWS stumbled, the internet shivered. The October 2025 outage exposed how even global cloud platforms can fail and why resilience must be engineered, not assumed. This article explores how to build for failure, design for recovery, and plan for disruption across public, hybrid, and...
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Introduction For nearly two decades, the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) was Europe’s default integration backbone. it acted as a central, policy-rich hub to transform, route, and orchestrate traffic among ERP, CRM, and line-of-business systems. In a world of quarterly releases and data center boundaries, that central chokepoint enabled...
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Introduction Europe is no longer waiting for the AI wildfire to burn out on its own. With the formal adoption of the AI Act and enforcement of NIS2, the EU has drawn a line in the sand. These two landmark frameworks are not just regulatory milestones—they’re a signal that the...
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Afgelopen donderdag (11.09.2025) publiceerde SURF een hernieuwde DPIA rond het gebruik van Microsoft CoPilot binnen het hoger onderwijs.
Two weeks ago, Oracle released a study on the impact of cloud migration and integration. The findings point to the many challenges faced by businesses adopting or integrating cloud solutions.
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