AWS vs Azure Pricing: Avoiding Cost & Lock‑In
AWS and Azure are both competitive on price. Real cost depends on workload shape, discount models, licensing and egress. This post shows how to compare like-for-like, where the hidden costs sit, and h...
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SQL Server: Why use Always on Availability Groups?
A database is the backbone of an application, storing, organising, and managing the data your application needs. There comes a point in the development of your application where the critical nature ne...
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Pipe Ten Achieves ISO 27001:2022 Certification – Trust & Security
At Pipe Ten Hosting Ltd, we have always prioritised the security and integrity of our customers’ data, having first achieved certification to ISO27001:2013 in 2018. It is with great pride that w...
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CMA Report on Public Cloud Competition in UK
The public cloud landscape is dominated by AWS and Azure, but other providers like DigitalOcean also play significant roles. This article explores a comparative analysis of AWS, Azure, and other cloud...
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UK Multi‑Cloud Strategy: AWS, Azure & Beyond
UK organisations are adopting multi-cloud strategies to improve resilience, agility and cost control. This post outlines a practical plan for combining AWS, Azure and other platforms without getting l...
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SQL Server Cloud Options: Azure SQL DB vs Managed Instance vs VM
With the introduction of cloud-based, managed SQL server solutions, there are now more options than ever for running SQL Server. In this insight, we will dig into those options and see how their diffe...
Behind the Vault: Policies, Permissions and Precedence
Secret management software offers tools to help avoid plain text secrets and unencrypted storage of secrets. The increased adoption of DevOps principles and CI/CD plays a vital role in safeguarding co...
Behind the Vault: Secret Management Choices
Protecting sensitive information has become a top priority in today’s digital landscape. Secret management software offers tools to help avoid plain text secrets and unencrypted storage of secre...
Azure AD vs Microsoft Entra ID: What Changed & What It Means
Microsoft has decided to rename Azure Active Directory (AAD) to Microsoft Entra ID (As of this post’s writing, no acronym has been offered by Microsoft). This change reinforces Microsoft’s...
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Case Study: Faster Payments Direct Participant Infrastructure – UK FPS Access
What is faster payments? Faster Payments (herein FP) is a banking platform which helps reduce payment times between the customers of different banks. FP was designed so transacting payments takes seco...
Case Study: Supporting growth with cloud repatriation to on-premise infrastructure
This study explores areas where the utilisation of on-premise compute power is preferable to public cloud computing, looking at a scenario where our client brsk in partnership with Pipe Ten Hosting ch...
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Cloud Adoption Trends 2025: Hybrid, Multi-Cloud & AI Strategies
The current state of public cloud adoption Public Cloud refers to an IT model of offering Cloud computing services available on demand over the public internet. This differs from Private Cloud offerin...