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A Backup Is Not a Recovery Plan

Ask a team if they have backups and everyone says yes. Ask when they last restored one into a working system and the room goes quiet.

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22 Jun 20262 min read
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What Actually Breaks in a Proxmox Migration

Nobody loses a migration to an exotic kernel bug. They lose it to a forgotten route, a renamed NIC, or a backup job that quietly stopped weeks ago.

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3 Jun 20262 min read
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VMware Renewals Got Expensive. Here Is How Teams Are Responding

Broadcom moved VMware to subscription bundles with core minimums. For a lot of estates the renewal is no longer a formality, it is a decision.

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12 May 20262 min read