South Africa is debating where its data should live. September's breaches reached institutions whose systems were never touched – through copies held by suppliers. Residency answers where. Sovereignty answers who. 🔗 ascent.tech/data-sovereignty… #AscentTech #DataProtection

SQL Server 2016 is out of support. Windows Server 2016 follows in January, SQL Server 2017 next October. The queue only ends on a platform with no version to queue for. 🔗 ascent.tech/solutions/azure-… #AscentTech #SQLServer

Four Microsoft dates between July and February decide what your estate will cost next year. None of them will say so on the invoice. 🔗 ascent.tech/microsoft-licens… #AscentTech #MicrosoftCSP

You cannot govern an estate you have not counted. A database health check is not a diagnostic – it is the count. 🔗 ascent.tech/solutions/databa… #AscentTech #DatabaseHealth

King V made the board accountable for the data estate. A policy is not an answer – an inventory is. 🔗 ascent.tech/king-v-data-gove… #AscentTech #DataCompliance

Any CSP can match a licence price. What a price list cannot tell you is who answers for the bill, the ticket and the architecture as one. One partner, one accountable line. 🔗 ascent.tech/products/cloud-p… #AscentTech #MicrosoftCSP

Every SQL Server deadline funds a project that ships nothing new – real budget, months of testing, and if all goes perfectly, nothing changes. There is a version of that project you only ever run once. 🔗 ascent.tech/migrate-sql-serv… #AscentTech #SQLMigration

Microsoft subsidised SQL Server deferral for a decade. That ended in July. Waiting is now metered, back-billed to day one – and it buys Critical fixes only, on no schedule. 🔗 ascent.tech/sql-server-exten… #AscentTech #SQLServer

SQL Server 2016 is out of support, and for the first time in three cycles Azure is not a free exit. The deadline was published years ago. The repricing is the news. 🔗 ascent.tech/sql-server-2016-… #AscentTech #SQLServer2016

A CSP that only moves licences is a reseller with a Microsoft badge. The better question is whether your CSP can read the architecture your licences run on. 🔗 ascent.tech/selecting-the-ri… #AscentTech #MicrosoftCSP

You cannot buy your way out of a data problem with more Copilot licences. Readiness is a programme: govern what each use case touches, in the right order, before you switch it on. 🔗 ascent.tech/copilot-readines… #AscentTech #DataPlatformModernisation

Every silo in your data estate is a tax on every decision that depends on it. Microsoft Fabric collapses that sprawl into one governed platform – and how you sequence the move matters more than the licence. 🔗 ascent.tech/from-complexity-… #AscentTech #MicrosoftFabric

Copilot arrives knowing nothing about your business. It reads what your permissions let it reach, and answers with a confidence your data may not have earned. AI readiness is data readiness. 🔗 ascent.tech/ai-readiness-dat… #AscentTech #DataPlatform

We ask clients to prove governance at their data layer. ISO/IEC 27001 is how we prove our own – independently audited, every year, since 2021. 🔗 ascent.tech/about/iso-27001-… #AscentTech #DataCompliance

A firewall can tell you what crossed the network. It cannot tell you which tables an authenticated user read at 02:00, or why. Database security is a discipline at the data layer – not a perimeter tool stretched to cover it. 🔗 ascent.tech/managed-database… #AscentTech #DBShield

A South African organisation is breached every three hours. The route in varies – the destination is always the database, the one layer most security budgets never reach. Guarding the route while the destination goes unwatched is not a strategy. 🔗 ascent.tech/database-breach-… #AscentTech #DatabaseSecurity

EA and MPSA Levels B, C, and D are gone. Level A unchanged. For everyone else, the cost argument that used to make EA automatic is weaker than it was. 🔗 ascent.tech/tiered-ea-mpsa-p… #AscentTech #AzureLicensing