Executive intelligence for infrastructure leaders.

Private cloud connectivity: beyond the cloud on-ramp

A private connection is only one segment of the end-to-end path. The enterprise access, data-centre handoff, cloud construct, routing, security and operations must work together.

Questions to take into the decision

• Where does the private path start and end?
• Which components remain on the public internet?
• How are redundancy and routing tested?
• Who owns incidents across provider boundaries?

Route diversity: proving independence

Two circuits are not resilient when they share the same building entry, duct, carrier, subsea system, facility or upstream path.

Questions to take into the decision

• What is physically diverse?
• Which dependencies are common?
• How is physical route diversity demonstrated?
• How will failover be tested and governed?

NaaS readiness: when self-service is not enough

On-demand interconnection can accelerate change, but physical ports, access circuits, cloud configuration, routing, security and support still require control.

Questions to take into the decision

• Is the required location enabled?
• Who operates the routing and security layers?
• How are costs and bandwidth governed?
• What happens during an incident?

AI data movement: the missing infrastructure workstream

AI strategy often focuses on compute and models while underestimating the cost, capacity and jurisdiction of moving data.

Questions to take into the decision

• Where are data, compute and users located?
• What are transfer windows and throughput targets?
• How do egress and cross-region costs behave?
• Which sovereignty and security controls apply?