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Governing The Shadow Architecture: A 2025 Guide to Enterprise LCNC
ByRack2Cloud Editorial Team 12/23/202512/23/2025
Around 2018, I watched a Fortune 500 financial firm lose six months of engineering velocity because a marketing sub-team built a “simple” customer intake portal using a No-Code tool that didn’t support their VPC security requirements. By the time the Security Architects found it, 50,000 PII records were sitting in an unencrypted third-party database. This…
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Slicing the Veeam “API Tax”: A 2025 Architect’s Guide to Immutable Object Storage
ByRack2Cloud Editorial Team 12/21/202512/21/2025
When you’re designing a Veeam-to-Cloud architecture, the per-GB storage price is the “marketing number.” But for those of us building for Day 2 operations, the number that actually matters is the IOPS-to-Object ratio. I’ve seen too many architects treat S3 like a tape drive, only to be blindsided by a monthly bill where 40% of…
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