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(Even When Repatriation Looks Tempting) After publishing my piece on cloud repatriation, my inbox filled up fast. Not with disagreement—but with a different question: “Okay, fine. Some workloads should come home. But which ones absolutely should not?” That’s the right question. Repatriation is not a crusade. It’s a correction. And like all corrections, it can…
For the last decade, “Cloud First” wasn’t just a strategy; it was a religion. If you suggested buying a server, you were treated like a heretic clinging to a mainframe. But the zero-interest rate era is over. The “growth at all costs” mindset has been replaced by “profitability or death.” And suddenly, that $40,000/month AWS…
I still remember the first “cloud” Disaster Recovery (DR) plan I reviewed back in 2012. The team assumed that because their app was running on AWS, it was magically invincible. “It’s in the cloud,” they said. “Amazon handles that.” Six months later, us-east-1 had a wobble, and that team spent 14 hours manually rebuilding databases…
Introduction: The SE’s Dilemma In the on-premises and hybrid cloud infrastructure market, there are two undisputed gravitational forces: VMware vSphere and Nutanix AOS. For a Solution Engineer (SE), being asked to compare them is inevitable. The challenge isn’t just knowing the technical specs; it’s presenting them without sounding like you have a favorite. A biased…
