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IT Strategy
Your Microsoft 365 Audit Logs Are Harder to Use Than You Think
Microsoft 365 audit logs retain 180 days of activity — but the compliance portal wasn’t built for serious investigations. Rudie de Vries explains the retention ceiling, bulk extraction via PowerShell, and what happens when the clock runs out mid-investigation.
The MSP That Decided to Build Its Own Operating System
Most MSPs buy their operations stack. Si Futures built its own. Meridian is the proprietary framework governing inSight, NOC Brain, SiDekick, SiSmic, SiNapse, and SiNoria Studio — tools built from real engineering frustrations to solve problems commercial platforms address inadequately.
What 300 Milliseconds Costs Your Remote Workforce
Remote workforce latency is rarely the first explanation when productivity feels sluggish. This piece examines what 300 milliseconds per click costs a distributed team in a terminal services environment — and how moving the infrastructure closer to the people using it changes everything.
When the Data Centre Has a Bad Night: What Happens in the Hours Nobody Sees
Most of the work that keeps a business running is invisible — and that is never more apparent than when something goes wrong at 2am. Si Futures shares what really happened over one weekend when a data centre power event took down a financial services client’s authentication infrastructure, and what it reveals about the difference between embedded managed IT expertise and transactional IT support.
What the Handover Document Doesn’t Tell You
When a business changes IT provider, the handover document is rarely the whole picture. Rudie de Vries explains what a thorough estate assessment actually uncovers — and why the gap is almost always larger than anyone expected.
Before the Contract: How Trust in IT Is Actually Built
A Johannesburg financial services business experienced a security incident. Si Futures offered a security assessment rather than a sales pitch — and spent ten months earning the contract. Here is why the consultative approach is the only one we know.
The Hidden Layer of IT Resilience: What a Monitoring Platform Migration Really Teaches You
Si Futures shares what a decade-long PRTG-to-Zabbix monitoring platform migration really revealed — why alert calibration matters more than alert volume, and what every IT leader should know before committing.
Why We Fix the Problem, Not the Alert: Root Cause Resolution
Why We Fix the Problem, Not the Alert: Root Cause Resolution Infrastructure Telemetry • Alert...