Third-Party Maintenance, Honestly: Cover, Gaps & When to Refresh
Third-party maintenance can cut what you pay to keep post-warranty hardware alive by a large margin — but only if you're honest about what it does and doesn't do. This is the caveats-and-fit piece, no…
Is business laptop leasing worth it? The 2026 numbers for UK firms
A business laptop is not a five-year asset - it is a three-year one that you will replace whether you planned to or not. That single fact is what makes leasing a laptop fleet add up where leasing a lo…
How much VRAM does a large language model need? (2026)
How much VRAM does an LLM need? It is the first question when self-hosting a large language model, and it is deceptively simple to ask: will it fit? The answer is a sum of three parts - the model weig…
Self-hosting LLMs vs cloud GPUs: the break-even (UK, 2026)
Renting GPUs by the hour is the obvious way to start with AI, and often the right one. But once a workload runs steadily, the meter never stops - and owning the same hardware, financed and powered, ca…
Server Prices 2026: Buy Now or Wait Out the Memory Spike?
If you run UK infrastructure, the instinct you half-remember - "hold off, memory always gets cheaper" - is exactly wrong for this cycle. Compounded DRAM contract prices have risen more than fivefold s…
Is IT equipment finance tax-deductible? Capital allowances, AIA and lease rentals
Yes, financing IT hardware is tax-efficient - but how you claim the relief depends entirely on which finance product you use, and the two main routes work in completely opposite ways. On hire purchase…
Finance IT or pay cash? The 2026 cash-flow case for UK businesses
Paying cash for IT feels prudent and is often the more expensive choice - because the money you hand over on day one is money that is no longer working in the business. Financing costs a spread over t…
IT equipment finance: hire purchase vs leasing vs subscription (2026 UK guide)
Spreading the cost of IT is easy to agree on and surprisingly easy to get wrong, because the four common routes - hire purchase, finance lease, operating lease and technology subscription - behave ver…
The 2026 memory & SSD price surge: a UK buyer's survival guide
If a server quote you signed off six months ago now looks 40% higher, you are not imagining it: the 2026 server memory and SSD price increase is real. The AI build-out has turned memory and flash into…
What size UPS do I need? A UK sizing guide (2026)
Sizing a UPS comes down to four numbers: the watts your kit draws, the VA that implies, the headroom and growth you add, and the runtime you need. Get any one wrong and you either overload the UPS or …
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