Data lake and lakehouse storage nodes: on-prem hardware for analytics at scale (UK 2026)
The modern data lake is built on object storage, and a lakehouse layers table formats and query engines on top so analytics can run directly against that object layer. On-prem, that means real servers…
RAID 5 vs RAID 10: capacity vs performance
RAID 5 maximises usable capacity with single parity; RAID 10 maximises write performance and rebuild speed with mirrors. Compare them on your drives in the RAID calculator (5 vs 10).…
Migrating off EOL servers: moving older estates onto modern hardware for Windows Server 2025 (UK)
Two clocks are running at once for a lot of UK estates. Older server generations are passing end of life and end of service-life, while Windows Server 2025 raises the hardware bar with stricter securi…
Dell PowerStore vs Pure FlashArray vs NetApp AFF 2026: UK all-flash storage buyer's guide
Dell PowerStore, Pure Storage FlashArray, and NetApp AFF dominate UK enterprise all-flash storage RFPs. All three deliver end-to-end NVMe, mature data services, and 6-nines availability. The different…
PCI-DSS 4.0 UK survival guide 2026
PCI-DSS 4.0 fully replaced 3.2.1 in March 2024, with the most-onerous new controls becoming mandatory in March 2025. UK retailers, hospitality groups, and payment-handling businesses have spent 2025 c…
Ultra Ethernet vs UALink vs InfiniBand: the AI interconnect standards to watch
When you build an AI cluster, the network between the GPUs matters almost as much as the GPUs themselves - a fast accelerator starved of interconnect bandwidth sits idle waiting for its peers. For yea…
Immutable backup architectures: WORM, S3 Object Lock, hardened Linux
Ransomware-resistant backup architecture is no longer optional — it's expected by every UK regulator + insurer. The three production-grade approaches are WORM, S3 Object Lock, and hardened Linux. This…
Cyber Essentials Plus 2026 UK buyer's guide
Cyber Essentials Plus (CE+) is the UK government-backed cyber certification scheme that has become a de-facto baseline for supplier-onboarding, insurance discounts, and panel-firm appointments. The 20…
RAID 5 vs RAID 6: which should you use in 2026?
RAID 5 and RAID 6 both use distributed parity, but RAID 6 adds a second parity block — and on modern high-capacity drives that difference is decisive. Here is how they compare, and you can run both on…
HPE Apollo as an HPC cluster building block: cores, interconnect and density
Before the Apollo name became associated with AI and GPUs, its purpose was high-performance computing: packing as many CPU cores as possible into a rack and wiring them together with a fast interconne…
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