Why 3-Site Replication in OpenStack Cinder Is a DORA Game-Changer for EU Organizations

The EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is forcing a fundamental rethink of infrastructure design in financial services. It is no longer sufficient to have backup plans or theoretical disaster recovery procedures. Regulators now expect provable, testable, and continuously enforced resilience — particularly around data. Traditional approaches to infrastructure resilience have always involved a tradeoff. Synchronous replication […]

Ceph and Digital Sovereignty: Why Open Source Isn’t Enough

There’s a seductive shortcut in the digital sovereignty conversation: if software is open source, it must be sovereign. No vendor lock-in. No proprietary black boxes. Community governed. That reasoning gets you to Ceph — the dominant open source distributed storage platform — pretty quickly. It’s also mostly wrong. Sovereignty isn’t a licensing question. It’s a […]