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Taking the long view on technology: what is genuinely changing and how to decide with a clear head.
Cloud access on Google Cloud, Azure, AWS and Infomaniak
The same four decisions on four platforms, and an honest account of the gap: Infomaniak gives you Swiss residency and OpenStack portability, and gives you no inherited permissions, no device-aware sign-in rules and no expiring administrator role.
Five threats to a Swiss organisation, and the control that blocks each one
Documented Swiss incidents point back to the same controls: exposed services, identity, payments, suppliers and recovery. The order still needs to fit the organisation's risk.
Reducing the IT bill: the levers that work, AI included
Caching, batch processing, model tiering, virtualisation, per-seat licences: what actually lowers an IT bill, the July 2026 figures, and the cases where free costs more.
Local AI: three machine profiles for several kinds of work
Mac mini, DGX Spark or a Blackwell workstation: three starting points for on-site AI, with the memory, context and operational assumptions that still need testing.
Backups: the restore test nobody runs
Rolle, 2021: the data of 5,393 residents on the darknet. A backup strategy becomes credible when recovery is tested against RTO, RPO and business impact.