AMD Instinct vs Nvidia 2026: A Real Alternative Yet?
AMD's Instinct MI355X posted 100,282 tokens per second on the Llama2-70b-99.9 Server test in MLPerf Inference v6.0 — a 3.1x jump over the MI325X result AMD had previously submitted, published in AMD's…
Mac Studio LLM Performance vs GPU Server: 2026 Reality
Apple's March 2025 launch material said the Mac Studio could be configured with 512GB of unified memory and run LLMs over 600 billion parameters entirely in memory. Apple's current specs page, updated…
RAG Infrastructure Requirements: A UK Buyer's BOM for 2026
Most RAG explainers stop at a three-box diagram: documents in, vectors stored, answer out. What they skip is the bill of materials. Supabase's own benchmarking found that a Postgres instance running p…
GPU Utilisation Monitoring: Fix It Before Buying More GPUs
UK IT leaders are about to sign off another six-figure GPU order to fix a problem monitoring could solve for free. A June 2026 survey of 573 technical leaders found 86% of enterprises running their ow…
Small Language Models: The Smarter UK Business AI Buy in 2026
Mid-2026 frontier API pricing tells its own story: GPT-5.6 Pro costs up to $60 per million output tokens, while a Phi-4-mini model needing roughly 3GB of VRAM can run on a single consumer GPU, with co…
Right-Sizing Your Network for On-Prem AI in 2026
GPU budgets get the headlines, but repatriated AI projects stall or starve for a quieter reason: the east-west network wasn't sized for the traffic pattern. Synchronous training collectives need a 1:1…
Protecting IT Budgets Through 2026 Hardware Inflation
By mid-2026, the component shock behind UK server, laptop and storage budgets has stopped looking like a blip. TrendForce data reported by Yahoo Finance in August 2026 shows conventional DRAM contract…
Machine Identity Security 2026: Taming the AI Agent Surge
Machine identities — service accounts, API keys, certificates and now AI agents — outnumber human identities by 109 to 1 on average, according to Palo Alto Networks' 2026 Identity Security Landscape. …
TPM Beyond Servers: Storage & Network Maintenance UK 2026
Third-party maintenance has spent years being framed as a server-cost hack. That undersells it. Independent guidance now defines TPM explicitly as covering servers, storage devices and networking equi…
End of Support Server Security 2026: UK Buyer's Playbook
On 13 October 2026, three separate Microsoft support clocks hit zero on the same day: Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 lose their final Extended Security Updates, and Windows Server 2022 drops out of m…
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