OCI Network Firewall Powered by Palo Alto Networks
Enterprises running workloads in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) often look for deeper inspection, granular control, and consistent policy enforcement. Capabilities that extend beyond the functionalities of basic security groups and route tables. Historically, many teams implemented these...
From Castles to Credentials – Why Identities Are the New Perimeter
The security world has outgrown its castle. For decades, enterprise networks operated on the principle of implicit trust: if a device or user could connect from inside the perimeter, they were granted access. Firewalls and VPNs acted as moats and drawbridges, controlling what entered the fortress....
The Cloud Isn’t Eating Everything. And That’s a Good Thing
A growing number of experts warn that governments and enterprises are "digitally colonized" by U.S. cloud giants. A provocative claim and a partial truth. It's an emotionally charged view, and while it raises valid concerns around sovereignty and strategic autonomy, it misses the full picture....
Can a Unified Multi-Cloud Inventory Transform Cloud Management?
When we spread our workloads across clouds like Oracle Cloud, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, maybe even IBM, or smaller niche players, we knowingly accept complexity. Each cloud speaks its own language, offers its own services, and maintains its own console. What if there were a central place where we...
Sovereign Clouds and the VMware Earthquake: Dependency Isn’t Just a Hyperscaler Problem
The concept of "sovereign cloud" has been making waves across Europe and beyond. Politicians talk about it. Regulators push for it. Enterprises (re-)evaluate it. On the surface, it sounds like a logical evolution: regain control, keep data within national borders, reduce exposure to foreign...
Secure Cloud Networking in OCI – Zero Trust Packet Routing
Zero Trust Packet Routing (ZPR) is Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's (OCI) move to bring the principles of zero trust to the packet level. In simple terms, it allows you to control exactly which workloads can communicate with each other, based not on IP addresses, ports, or subnets, but on high-level,...
Oracle’s EU Sovereign Cloud Is Real. AWS’s Is Still a Roadmap
The digital sovereignty debate in Europe is evolving fast. As data privacy regulations tighten and public sector requirements become more explicit, the race among hyperscalers to deliver truly sovereign infrastructure has entered a new chapter. AWS's recent unveiling of its European Sovereign...
Open Source in the Cloud Era – Still Free, but Never Cheap?
This article continues the conversation started in "Open source can help with portability and lock-in – but it is not a silver bullet", where we explored how open source technologies can reduce cloud lock-in, but aren't a universal fix. Now we go one step further. Open source software (OSS) is the...
I focus on sovereign cloud, hybrid multi-cloud architectures, and data privacy in regulated industries.
The views and opinions expressed here are entirely my own, reflecting my journey and insights.
