A personal blog covering the decisions, frameworks, and thinking that shape how enterprise IT organisations operate — written by a senior IT leader with nearly 20 years of hands-on experience.
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Beyond Your Cloud is a practitioner's blog for senior IT professionals. Each post explores a specific topic in enterprise architecture, cloud strategy, workplace technology, or IT commercial governance — with the analytical depth and directness you would expect from a working IT leader, not a vendor or analyst firm.
Practitioner-authored thinking on enterprise IT leadership, architecture, and strategy.
IP addressing is one of those foundational decisions that most organisations make once, badly, and then spend years working around. A well-designed internal addressing strategy underpins identity, segmentation, automation, compliance, and growth. Here is how to approach it properly.
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Whether you are renewing a major vendor contract, renegotiating a managed service agreement, or pushing back on a software licensing uplift, the outcome rarely comes down to price alone. It comes down to who is sitting across the table — and whether you know how to read them.
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