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From cloud-first to control-first

Find out how organisations strike a balance between flexibility and control in their IT infrastructure.

Cloud costs are rising. Compliance requirements are becoming more onerous. Oversight is becoming scarcer.

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Statistics

17–30%

Organisations that use the cloud consistently exceed their cloud budget by between 17 and 30 per cent.

28 per cent

McKinsey concludes that organisations consider an average of 28 per cent of their cloud expenditure to be waste.

100%

Since 2018, Greenhouse Datacenters has achieved a 100% uptime record, made possible by redundant infrastructure and 24/7 on-site engineers.

A well-reasoned answer to the question every IT manager asks.

The public cloud makes IT flexible, but the costs are unpredictable. Compliance requirements are becoming stricter. Data sovereignty is on the agenda. And the question is no longer whether to use the cloud, but how to combine flexibility with control.

This white paper provides CIOs, CISOs and IT architects with a practical framework for making that assessment. It is not a theoretical guide, but rather a decision-making model, a strategic checklist and two detailed case studies based on years of practical experience.

Once you’ve read it, you’ll know:

When colocation offers greater strategic benefits than the public cloud. How to ensure compliance, data sovereignty and digital resilience without compromising on flexibility. And how similar organisations, from teaching hospitals to MSPs, have put this choice into practice.

What’s in it?

Decision model

Public cloud, private cloud, colocation or hybrid IT. A clear overview of criteria, considerations and outcomes for each infrastructure model.

Strategic checklist

More than 50 specific questions to assess infrastructure choices in terms of continuity, compliance, location, management and sustainability.

Case studies

How a teaching hospital and a Dutch MSP decided to opt for co-location, and what the practical benefits were.

Sustainability

How to distinguish greenwashing from demonstrable energy efficiency, using concrete metrics such as PUE and WUE.

This white paper has been written for people who really do have to make this decision.

Relevant for CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, IT architects and infrastructure managers. And for procurement, finance and compliance managers involved in strategic IT decisions.

Particularly suitable for SMEs and large enterprises, MSPs and system integrators, government and semi-public organisations, healthcare organisations and the financial sector.

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