Rack Density Planning 2026: Is Your Server Room Ready?
Most UK comms rooms were built around 3–8 kW racks. In 2026, average rack density in AFCOM's 10th anniversary State of the Data Center report has hit 27 kW per rack — up from 16 kW the year before and…
AI Server Power Requirements 2026: Amps Beat GPUs
Everyone still talks about GPU allocation. But a single NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 rack draws 120-132 kW — eight to twenty-five times a standard enterprise rack's 5-15 kW ceiling — and UK power equipment lead…
Ransomware Recovery Time 2026: Prove Your RTO Before Attack
Every disaster recovery plan has a Recovery Time Objective written down somewhere. Almost none of them have been proven. N-able's own guidance notes that many organisations test quarterly and still st…
Server Refresh Cycle 2026: The 3-Year Rule Is Dead
The three-year refresh cycle was built for laptops, not racks of production servers — yet it still shapes procurement policy across UK IT estates. Data-centre practice has already moved on: the most c…
AI-Powered Cyber Attacks 2026: A UK Defence Playbook
Generative AI has quietly flipped the economics of phishing. Microsoft's Digital Defense Report 2025, cited by the Cloud Security Alliance, measured a 54% click-through rate for AI-generated phishing …
40TB HAMR Arrives: What Seagate Mozaic Means for UK Buyers
While most coverage is still calling 40TB a "coming soon" milestone, Seagate has already moved past it: by July 2026 the company was shipping 44TB Mozaic 4+ HAMR drives to two hyperscale cloud provide…
Sovereign AI UK 2026: Build or Rent British AI Capacity?
Sovereign AI has stopped being a slogan and become a live UK procurement category, with government now running a dedicated Sovereign AI proof-of-concept funding competition. But for most private-secto…
Inference Server Hardware 2026: Buy For Agents, Not Training
UK IT leaders are still buying training-grade GPU clusters for a workload that has already moved on. The UK government's own compute annex puts total UK AI compute demand at 1.8 GW in 2024, rising to …
EPYC Turin vs Xeon 6 2026: A UK Workload Verdict
AMD says a single EPYC 9005-based server can now do the work of more than eight 2019-era Intel Xeon Platinum servers — a claim that reframes the entire EPYC vs Xeon 2026 conversation away from core-co…
3-2-1 Backup Rule 2026: Why UK Firms Need 3-2-1-1-0
The 3-2-1 backup rule — three copies, two media, one offsite — was once the ceiling for good practice. In 2026 it's the floor. Ransomware operators now target connected backup infrastructure directly,…
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