https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/tags/cloud/ Recent content in Cloud on Damien Dye's Blog Hugo en-GB Fri, 28 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/random/is-your-msp-lying-to-you-part1/ Fri, 28 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/random/is-your-msp-lying-to-you-part1/ Part 1 of 3. Some MSPs lie; most never have to, because the vendors whose products they recommend pay them and nobody must tell you. The tells that you are being sold to rather than engineered for: the free fix refused, requirements never written down, one option on the shortlist, no open source line, and the addresses you rent forever. https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/random/is-your-msp-lying-to-you-part2/ Fri, 28 Aug 2026 17:00:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/random/is-your-msp-lying-to-you-part2/ Part 2 of 3. Cloud for a business all in one building. The firewall brand with the most exploited vulnerabilities on CISA's list. Backups nobody has restored, reports that never reach you, an agent on every machine answering to a console you have never seen. What the ICO found at Advanced and Capita, and the keys that open all of it. https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/random/technology-you-rent/ Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/random/technology-you-rent/ Part 1 of 8. Twenty years back you bought software and the copy was yours. Now you rent it, and the supplier sets the terms. This post walks through how that happened, one step at a time, and why every step made it harder to pack up and go elsewhere. Plain language, short lines. https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/random/what-renting-costs/ Tue, 25 Aug 2026 11:00:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/random/what-renting-costs/ Part 2 of 8. Once moving supplier is hard, the costs change shape. The price follows how hard it is to leave. Profit gets declared somewhere other than where it was earned. The law that applies follows who owns the company, not where the building stands. And a service can stop for reasons that have nowt to do with you. Plain language, with sources.