Insights library
Understand the decision behind the technology.
Explore the context, compare approaches and work through the practical questions facing your IT team.
Cybersecurity · Decision guide
Security tool consolidation: prove what can be switched off
Make security-tool retirement depend on detection, investigation and retention evidence, with migration and parallel-running costs in the business case.
Data & AI · Decision guide
Enterprise AI platforms: make the shortlist prove the workflow
For enterprise AI leads, the decisive comparison is what each platform delivers inside a real workflow, with real permissions, review effort and support costs.
Cloud & Infrastructure · Decision guide
Cloud workload placement: follow the dependency before the discount
An infrastructure director's placement decision depends on where the application talks, how it fails and who can run it. Compute prices come after those tests.
Data & AI · Decision guide
Buying a data catalogue? Ask it which revenue number to use
For a data platform lead, catalogue value depends on whether people can find, understand and use the right data. Connector counts leave much of that job untested.
Cybersecurity · Decision guide
Software supplier security: follow the evidence to the product you are buying
An application security lead needs assurance about the purchased product and its release process. A supplier's corporate policy is only the beginning of that conversation.
Cloud & Infrastructure · Decision guide
Cloud commitments: price the unused hours before buying the discount
Compare cloud commitments against low demand and planned migrations. A worked break-even example shows why a headline discount can still increase total cost.
Cybersecurity · Decision guide
IAM platform evaluation: make the difficult application part of the demonstration
Evaluate IAM platforms using lifecycle, application integration, recovery and migration scenarios, with mandatory gates kept separate from weighted preferences.
Cybersecurity · Decision guide
Privileged access management: choose the first deployment by the work it must protect
Scope PAM around human administration, service credentials and emergency work. Test role activation, rotation and recovery before expanding coverage.
Cybersecurity · Decision guide
Immutable backups: why protected data can still be hard to recover
Immutability protects data against particular changes. Recovery also depends on identity, keys, applications and a usable route back to service.
