Building your first UK on-prem AI cluster: step-by-step
Cloud AI training is convenient but at sustained scale (multi-week training runs, hundreds of GPUs), on-prem becomes meaningfully cheaper. UK enterprises building first on-prem AI clusters face specif…
Best RAID for a small business server (2026)
A small business server runs a mix of jobs on a modest budget, so the best RAID balances resilience, performance and capacity without over-spending. Here's a practical layout — size it in the RAID cal…
AI server cooling 2026: air vs liquid vs immersion
NVIDIA H100 SXM was the last GPU generation comfortably air-cooled at rack density. H200, B100, B200, and GB200 NVL72 push thermal density beyond what air can manage in standard UK colocation faciliti…
HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen12 buyer's guide: next-gen Xeon 1U compute for 2026 (UK)
The HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen12 is the latest turn of HPE's most popular 1U server, built around the newest Intel Xeon generation and a refreshed platform. For buyers the real question is what the genera…
HPE Edgeline and edge compute: specifying rugged servers for retail, industrial and remote sites (UK 2026)
Edge compute is where the assumptions of the data centre break down. There is no cold aisle, often no IT staff, sometimes no proper rack, and the box may sit in a shop back-room, a factory floor or an…
Cisco ASA to Firepower or FortiGate: a UK migration playbook
Cisco ASA is end-of-engineering for new features — the product line continues to receive security patches but Cisco directs all new investment to Firepower (Secure Firewall) and Catalyst SD-WAN. UK cu…
Best EDR platform UK 2026: CrowdStrike vs SentinelOne vs Sophos vs Microsoft Defender XDR
CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne Singularity, Sophos Intercept X, and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint / Defender XDR are the four endpoint detection + response platforms most UK organisations shortlist…
HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen11 buyer's guide: is the 1U workhorse still worth it in 2026? (UK)
The HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen11 has been the default 1U dual-socket server for a huge number of UK estates: dense, well-supported, and ideal for virtualisation and general compute. With Gen12 now arrivin…
Best RAID for a backup target (2026)
A backup repository is capacity-led, sequential and resilience-first — so the best RAID maximises usable space and survives failures during long retention. Size it in the RAID calculator, and remember…
TPM vs OEM hardware support: 5-year TCO analysis for UK enterprises
Third-Party Maintenance (TPM) is usually priced below continuing OEM hardware support — Gartner’s 2019 Market Guide for Data Center and Network Third-Party Hardware Maintenance put TPM savings at 50–7…
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