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The big cloud lie: it’s time to end dependency Boundless scalability, the highest level of efficiency and security, the guarantee of always being up to date: the cloud promised a rosy digital future. But behind the marketing façade, many businesses are now seeing a very different [...]

Licence costs hit a record high as Microsoft and SAP weigh on the public purse in Germany Since its acquisition by Broadcom, many VMware customers have seen their licence fees skyrocket. However, there are alternatives, as demonstrated by the case of cloud provider Anexia. By migrating [...]

Licence costs hit a record high as Microsoft and SAP weigh on the public purse in Germany The German government’s licence costs for Microsoft products recently hit a record high, raising major question marks around IT strategy in the public sector. The high level of dependence [...]

Digital sovereignty in Switzerland: the controversy around M365 Across the world, the discussions around M365 and its use by public bodies are becoming particularly heated, all the more so in view of recent developments in transatlantic relations. The case of Switzerland is a particularly telling one with [...]

Cloud outage: Microsoft points finger at EU Multi-billion losses, a complete and utter standstill and human lives in danger: that is what came out of last year’s CrowdStrike incident, when millions of Windows systems across the world crashed due to a faulty update of security [...]

Microsoft’s head of AI declares all online content up for grabs A recent interview with Microsoft’s head of AI Mustafa Suleyman offered a surprisingly candid insight into the global legal framework. What he said, in a nutshell, is that all content freely available on the [...]

Is Microsoft on the verge of an EU antitrust charge? Microsoft is increasingly feeling the heat. Having been criticised repeatedly for security incidents, poor communication, a lack of data protection and selling some services only in bundles, the software behemoth is now facing a new [...]

Bolstering the Data Security of Public Authorities Thanks to On-Premise Solutions As recently as this past April, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) ordered the European Commission to put a stop to its use of Microsoft 365. The Swiss Federal Audit Office is now following suit [...]

Criticism of new licensing model – lessons companies can learn from VMware’s software strategy Since VMware was taken over by Broadcom, its new licensing model has been causing confusion among VMware users and partners alike. The takeover has brought about some changes that raise many [...]