Most organisations know they need disaster recovery. Far fewer know what a well-designed DR architecture actually looks like. The gap between “we have backups” and “we can recover our business in under an hour” is architectural. It’s the difference between storing copies of your data somewhere offsite and building a recovery environment that’s been pre-configured,…
Most application migration projects fail the same way: someone picks a single strategy for the entire portfolio, then tries to force every workload into it. Lift-and-shift everything to meet a data centre exit deadline. Refactor everything because someone read a cloud-native manifesto. Retire nothing because no one wants to make the decision. AWS’s 7 Rs…
Technical debt costs US enterprises an estimated $2.41 trillion per year, according to Accenture research cited by AWS. For most organisations, roughly 30% of engineering time gets absorbed by maintaining legacy systems – work that’s necessary, but produces no new business value. That’s the problem AWS has been trying to solve with AWS Transform, its…
Opti9 is one of a select group of AWS Solution Provider Partners to complete Anthropic’s separate reseller qualification process, giving customers direct access to Claude models through Amazon Bedrock without additional approvals or procurement complexity. Opti9 recently announced it has been approved as an authorized reseller for Anthropic models through Amazon Bedrock, further strengthening its…
The debate over lift and shift versus refactoring is one of the most persistent in cloud migration planning. It’s also frequently framed as a binary choice when it shouldn’t be. Most organizations will do both — the question is which approach applies to which workload, and in what order. Getting this decision wrong is expensive.…
Cloud migrations have a reputation for running over budget and behind schedule. That reputation isn’t entirely undeserved — migrations done without structure often do. But AWS has invested heavily in programs that give businesses a faster, cheaper path to the cloud, and most organizations don’t know they exist or how to access them. The AWS…
The Dangerous Assumption “We have backups” might be the most dangerous phrase in law firm IT. According to the ABA’s 2023 Legal Technology Survey, only 34% of law firms have an incident response plan – and far fewer regularly test their ability to actually recover from a disaster. Having backups and being able to recover…
The Microsoft 365 Backup Misconception Most law firms have moved email, documents, and collaboration to Microsoft 365. And most assume Microsoft is backing up that data. They’re wrong. According to Microsoft’s own Services Agreement, “We recommend that you regularly backup Your Content and Data that you store on the Services or store using Third-Party Apps…
When Systems Go Down, Billable Hours Stop Law firm economics are unforgiving. According to the Clio Legal Trends Report, the average attorney bills only 2.5 hours per 8-hour workday. When IT systems fail, that already-thin margin disappears entirely. Consider a 20-attorney firm with average billing rates of $350 per hour. If a system outage prevents…
