Choosing a UK disaster recovery provider: the 9 questions that matter
UK Disaster Recovery providers — 11:11 Systems (ex-Sungard), Daisy, IPL, IOmart, Pulsant DRaaS, plus Azure Site Recovery + AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery + Veeam Cloud Connect partners — all promise th…
UK data centre power and energy in 2026: where your infrastructure should live
For most of the cloud era, the question of where to put your infrastructure was answered by software and convenience. In the UK in 2026 it is increasingly answered by electricity. Power has become the…
RAID 10 vs 50 vs 60: choosing nested RAID
The three nested RAID levels trade write performance, capacity and resilience differently. Here's how to choose between RAID 10, 50 and 60 — and size each in the RAID calculator.…
Dell PowerEdge vs HPE ProLiant vs Lenovo ThinkSystem 2026: UK server buyer's guide
Dell PowerEdge, HPE ProLiant, and Lenovo ThinkSystem are the three platforms 90% of UK enterprise server refresh decisions land on. All three offer comparable Intel Xeon + AMD EPYC platforms with simi…
Cyber insurance discounts: how Cyber Essentials Plus cuts UK SII premiums
UK cyber insurance premiums rose 50-200% across 2022-2024 as ransomware claims escalated. Cyber Essentials Plus increasingly attracts material discount — typically 10-25% off premium — and in some cas…
UK server lead times in 2026: what to expect and how to de-risk delivery
Lead time is the variable that quietly wrecks more infrastructure projects than budget does. A server that is perfect on paper is useless if it lands six weeks after the migration window. In 2026 lead…
Designing a one-petabyte storage server in 2026: a UK reference architecture
A petabyte used to be a data-centre's worth of storage; in 2026 it is a design exercise that fits in a few rack units if you get the architecture right. But assembling a petabyte is not simply a matte…
Should you wait for the next server generation? A 2026 buy-now-vs-hold framework (UK)
There is always a faster server coming, so the temptation to wait one more cycle never goes away. Sometimes holding for the next generation is the right call; far more often it quietly costs more than…
Buying Microsoft licences in the UK: EA vs CSP vs MCA
UK organisations buying Microsoft licences in 2026 navigate four programmes: Enterprise Agreement (EA), Cloud Solution Provider (CSP), Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA-E direct), and the legacy MPSA …
HPE Apollo as a backup repository target: capacity tier vs StoreOnce
When a backup estate outgrows its repository, UK teams face a fork: buy more of a purpose-built deduplication appliance, or build a high-capacity landing zone on a dense server and let the backup soft…
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