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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="../assets/xml/rss.xsl" media="all"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Graeme Pietersz - integrated IT, finance &amp; strategy consultancy (Posts about cloud)</title><link>http://pietersz.net/</link><description></description><atom:link href="http://pietersz.net/tags/cloud.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><language>en</language><copyright>Contents © 2026 &lt;a href="mailto:graeme@pietersz.net"&gt;Graeme Pietersz&lt;/a&gt; </copyright><lastBuildDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:27:34 GMT</lastBuildDate><generator>Nikola (getnikola.com)</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>What's your disaster recover plan?</title><link>http://pietersz.net/posts/whats-your-disaster-recover-plan/</link><dc:creator>Graeme Pietersz</dc:creator><description>&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;A business can be destroyed by losing its data. I have known even losing the data on a single person's hard drive to be very expensive, and losing your servers can be much worse. You need to think about backups, continuity, hardware. I have taken a server out of a bomb blasted building and it worked - but it might not have.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://pietersz.net/posts/whats-your-disaster-recover-plan/"&gt;Read more…&lt;/a&gt; (1 min remaining to read)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><category>backups</category><category>cloud</category><category>disaster</category><category>planning</category><guid>http://pietersz.net/posts/whats-your-disaster-recover-plan/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2019 04:01:43 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The problem with SaaS</title><link>http://pietersz.net/posts/problem-saas/</link><dc:creator>Graeme Pietersz</dc:creator><description>&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;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 &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; easy a win.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So, what are the problems? Our experience is that there are three, two
of which are closely linked:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://pietersz.net/posts/problem-saas/"&gt;Read more…&lt;/a&gt; (4 min remaining to read)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><category>cloud</category><category>cost</category><category>custom software</category><category>finance</category><category>open source</category><category>saas</category><guid>http://pietersz.net/posts/problem-saas/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2019 19:25:46 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>