https://pietersz.net/categories/cloud/ Recent content in Cloud on Graeme Pietersz Hugo en-gb Sat, 14 Nov 2026 08:29:13 +0000 https://pietersz.net/posts/cynicism-justified/ Sat, 14 Nov 2026 08:29:13 +0000 https://pietersz.net/posts/cynicism-justified/ <p>Most people&rsquo;s reaction to my recent post suggesting <a href="https://pietersz.net/posts/does-quality-matter/">no one cares about software quality</a> was that I was wrong, and it did matter.</p> <p>I wrote that just before the Microsoft outage. Everyone is talking about it. Its affecting a huge range of services, not just relatively unimportant email delivery, but also hospitals, emergency services and transport.</p> <p>People are clearly willing to live with it.</p> <p>Cloud services are generally more expensive than old fashioned on-premises services, and they are less reliable. Reliance on a few big American suppliers is the opposite of much talked about sovereign technology.</p> https://pietersz.net/posts/problem-saas/ Thu, 14 Mar 2019 19:25:46 +0000 https://pietersz.net/posts/problem-saas/ <p>SaaS (software as a service) is extremely popular right now, and it can solve a lot of problems. It means someone else takes responsibility for maintenance and security. Of course nothing is ever <em>that</em> easy a win.</p> <p>So, what are the problems? Our experience is that there are three, two of which are closely linked:</p>