Critical technology. Without blind dependency.
Cybersecurity, AI, cloud, hardware and open source: sourced analysis to decide before you sign.
Critical technology decisions
Choosing an Inference Stack: A Dependency Checklist
Runtime, model format, hardware support, observability and upgrade path: the dependencies to check before committing to an LLM inference stack.
Leaving a Hyperscaler: The Exit Costs Procurement Misses
Egress fees are only one line. Proprietary APIs, skills and contract terms drive the real cost of leaving, and EU switching rules change the picture.
MDR or an Internal SOC: How to Frame the Break-Even Question
Break-even between managed detection and an in-house SOC is about coverage hours, staffing, escalation and SLA scope, not licence price. A framing.
Open-Source AI Still Has Lock-In: Where to Look in the Stack
Open weights are not the same as open source. Where dependencies hide in AI stacks: model licences, inference, drivers, cloud and tooling.
Decision guides
Grids to compare with, not rankings. Every criterion is explained, every source is cited.
Assessing Cloud Portability Before You Sign: A Buyer Guide
A decision grid to test cloud portability before a contract: criteria, vendor questions, warning signs and costs to price, with EU Data Act context.
Read →02Evaluating an EDR for a Mid-Market Team: A Buyer Guide
A decision grid for choosing endpoint detection and response: criteria, questions for the vendor, warning signs and what to get priced. No rankings.
Read →What we cover
Cybersecurity
EDR, MDR, SOC, pentesting, backup, identity and cyber insurance.
Explore →02Enterprise AI
Agents, copilots, private LLMs, RAG, governance and economics.
Explore →03Cloud and independence
Open cloud, portability, European options, hosting and lock-in.
Explore →04Hardware and infrastructure
Servers, GPUs, storage, networking and edge.
Explore →05Open source
Licences, project governance, dependencies and maintenance.
Explore →06Development
Languages, tooling, architecture and engineering practice.
Explore →07Tech business
Markets, procurement, contracts and the economics of technology.
Explore →Latest analysis
Private LLMs: Six Questions to Settle Before Buying GPUs
Before you order accelerators for an in-house language model, settle data, latency, workload, power, operations and security. A decision framing.
Read →Three AI Server Architectures: From One Workstation to a Rack
What changes in power, cooling, networking and operations as AI hardware grows from a workstation to a server to a rack. No prices, no benchmarks.
Read →Evaluating cyber, cloud or AI vendors?
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LOGIN: Independence Score
A framework to measure vendor dependency. No score is published until a documented evaluation exists.
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