Blog
Short, honest takes on cloud and service management for SMBs — practical fixes over vendor fluff.
Top 10 SMB Tech Issues (Complete)
The common failure points I see most — with fixes you can actually use.
SMB Tech Myths That Keep Holding You Back (Ongoing)
Hard truths about the assumptions that stall delivery — and what to do instead.
Freecloud insights
The hidden cost of “we’ll just work around it”
Do you really need a sovereign cloud?
What "control" actually looks like in a 20–200 person business
Wait -- what? Two cloud outages in a week?
When the cloud stumbles, SMBs need a plan B
The AI hype hangover: what it really means for SMBs
Archive
- Top 10 SMB Tech Issues: Cloud Strategy
- Top 10 SMB Tech Issues: Observability
- Top 10 SMB Tech Issues: CX + Infrastructure
- Top 10 SMB Tech Issues: Shadow IT & Rogue SaaS
- Top 10 SMB Tech Issues: Legacy Infrastructure Still Running Core Operation
- Top 10 SMB Tech Issues: Vendor Overload
- Top 10 SMB Tech Issues: Service Ownership
- Top 10 SMB Tech Issues: Skills & Confidence
- Top 10 SMB Tech Issues: Security by Assumption
- Top 10 SMB Tech Issues: No Plan for Growth (or Recovery)
- IT Myths: Stop Treating IT Like a Cost Centre
- IT Myths: Cloud always saves money
- IT Myths: Automation replaces people
- IT Myths: IT owns digital transformation
- IT Myths: Automation fixes bad processes
- IT Myths: AI will replace managers
- IT Myths: The cloud fixes everything (until it doesn’t)
- IT Myths: Outsourcing means losing control
- IT Myths: Security is too expensive for small businesses
- IT Myths: We don't need an external review