The Hybrid Cloud Paradox: Unmasking the True Cost of Ownership
Hybrid Cloud’s TCO is often triple-budgeted due to overlooked integration, data transfer fees, and lack of FinOps governance.
Joseph Sweeney
6 November, 2025
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VENDORiQ: Will Conversational IT Support Redefine Your Internal Help Desk? Salesforce Thinks So
Salesforce’s Agentforce signals conversational AI is the ‘final mile’ in IT support automation, freeing up human staff for complex work.
Joseph Sweeney
15 October, 2025
Digital Workplace Persona Template
Effective, tailored user personas drive successful digital workspace strategies by discovering diverse staff needs, fostering innovation, and supporting flexibility.
Joseph Sweeney
14 October, 2025
What is Model Context Protocol, Where is it Heading, and Why Should You Care?
Model context protocol (MCP) is a vital standard enabling AI agents to automate tasks in core enterprise systems, but requires immediate, strong governance for safe adoption.
Joseph Sweeney
9 October, 2025
VENDORiQ: AWS’s New Zealand Region – Business as Usual or a Sign of Shifting Priorities?
AWS’s New Zealand region is essential expansion, yet broader investment shifts toward high-risk, high-reward AI infrastructure will affect core cloud services.
Joseph Sweeney
1 October, 2025
Navigating the 2025 Microsoft Enterprise Agreement Reset
Microsoft is ending volume discounts on Enterprise Agreements to fund AI investment, forcing executives to shift from price negotiation to value management and governance.
Joseph Sweeney
15 September, 2025
VENDORiQ: Neo4j’s Infinigraph – A Step Towards a Unified Graph Architecture?
Neo4j’s Infinigraph architecture unifies transactional and analytical workloads at scale, simplifying data ecosystems and enabling real-time insights for AI.
Joseph Sweeney
11 September, 2025
VENDORiQ: Copilot Consolidation – Getting Value from a Classic Microsoft Bundling Strategy
Microsoft is bundling its specific Copilots into the main M365 license, signaling a shift to specialised AI tools embedded in daily workflows.
Joseph Sweeney
11 September, 2025
VENDORiQ: Is Your ‘Open Source’ AI Truly Open? A Critical Look at Vendor Claims
ICT leaders must scrutinise ‘open source’ AI claims; the provided code is often a wrapper for a proprietary, vendor-controlled backend, creating vendor lock-in.
Joseph Sweeney
11 September, 2025