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14 posts from the Cloud Digit team. Filter by topic or sort by recency, readership, or reactions.
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ComplianceThree Letters to Three Regulators
How public cloud actually fits inside the Bangladeshi regulatory frame, written as three pieces of correspondence — to BTRC, to Bangladesh Bank, and to the Data Protection Authority.
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BFSIThe Audit That Goes Wrong: A Cautionary Walk Backwards
A composite incident, traced backward through the controls that should have prevented it. What was missing at each step, and what would have caught it.
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FinanceThe Anomaly: A FinOps Detective Story
A real cost spike, the investigation that found it, and the maturity model that emerged from the lesson. Cloud economics taught the way it actually gets learned.
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ComplianceA Conversation About the Data Privacy Act
A reconstructed dialogue with a CIO who is reading the Act for the first time — what they ask, what I answer, and where the reading turns operational.
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AI/MLPrivate AI Cloud — A Field Report
A research-style walkthrough of what it actually costs and takes to run modern AI workloads on sovereign infrastructure, written from the operator side of the rack.
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ComplianceA Lexicon of Three Words That Look Alike
Locality, residency, and sovereignty are not synonyms. A short dictionary, with usage notes, for the procurement office that has been writing the wrong clause for years.
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Cloud StrategyA Letter on the Bangladesh Cloud Economy
Annual letter to the Cloud Digit board on the shape, drivers, and trajectory of the Bangladeshi cloud market. Written in the long-form-thesis style that serious investors actually read.
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Cloud StrategyThe Cloud Operating Model, on a 2×2
Where you sit on the platform-control × cost-ownership grid is the single best predictor of whether your cloud programme reduces redundancy or multiplies it.
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TelecomA Walk Through the Telco Network — From Tower to Public Cloud
Stand at a BTS shelter and walk inward. Each tier you pass is a different cloud decision, with its own physics, economics, and regulator.
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InfrastructureHCI or Three-Tier? A Decision Tree
Five questions, four leaves, one decision. Walk the tree once and the architecture argument resolves before the procurement starts.
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BFSINotes from a BFSI Hybrid Migration: An Audit Diary
Eighteen months inside a Tier-1 bank moving from a single-vendor private cloud to a regulated hybrid. The notes I kept, and what they say in retrospect.
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InfrastructureAnatomy of a Hypervisor
Open the cover and look at what the hypervisor actually does — instruction trapping, shadow page tables, paravirt drivers, and the small modern miracles that make a VM feel like a host.
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Cloud StrategyFive Truths About Building a Sovereign Cloud in Bangladesh
Hard-won lessons from the field — what every newcomer underestimates about the licensing, the customer, the currency, and the country.
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IndustryBroadcom × VMware — Postmortem of a $61 Billion Reset
The acquisition closed; the SKUs collapsed; the pricing reset. A chronological postmortem of what happened, what changed, and what the customers I work with actually did about it.