HPE ProLiant Gen11 to Gen12: what actually changed and whether to upgrade (UK 2026)
A new server generation always promises more, but the question that matters to a buyer is narrower: what actually changed, and is it worth moving for your workload? The jump from HPE ProLiant Gen11 to…
HPE Apollo 4200 storage server: a UK engineering view of a dense SDS host
The HPE Apollo 4200 is one of those servers that does exactly one job extremely well: hold an enormous number of disks in a single, conventional-depth chassis and present them to a software-defined st…
UK GDPR for IT teams: DPIA, DSAR, data residency
UK GDPR (the post-Brexit version of EU GDPR) has been law since January 2021. The ICO's enforcement appetite increased significantly in 2024-25 — multiple seven-figure fines and increased focus on tec…
VMware after Broadcom: UK migration paths to AHV, Hyper-V and Proxmox
Broadcom's acquisition of VMware (November 2023) drove a sharp wave of UK enterprise re-evaluations. New subscription pricing, perpetual licence withdrawal, mandatory VMware Cloud Foundation bundling …
Raritan vs Vertiv KVM-over-IP UK 2026: data centre console buyer's guide
Raritan and Vertiv (Avocent) are the two dominant KVM-over-IP brands in UK enterprise data centres. Both ship 1080p + 4K platforms, both have FIPS 140-2 secure variants, both have mature centralised m…
Liquid vs immersion cooling and RoCE explained: an AI data-centre glossary
AI infrastructure has imported a vocabulary that did not exist in mainstream server rooms a few years ago. Vendors now talk about direct liquid cooling, immersion, PUE, RoCE, RDMA and lossless Etherne…
Nested RAID explained: RAID 10, 50 and 60
Nested RAID stripes data across several smaller arrays to combine their strengths — RAID 10, 50 and 60 are the common ones. Size each in the RAID calculator.…
HPE ProLiant DL580 buyer's guide: mission-critical four-socket scale-up (UK 2026)
Some workloads cannot be allowed to fail, and cannot be spread across a cluster either. For those, the answer is one very large, very resilient server. The ProLiant DL580 is the top of HPE's four-sock…
SOC 2 Type II readiness for UK SaaS vendors
SOC 2 Type II is an American certification (AICPA, designed for US-headquartered service organisations) — but UK SaaS vendors selling to US customers, particularly enterprise, increasingly need it. Th…
Enabling Secure Boot and TPM on enterprise servers: a practical setup (UK 2026)
Secure Boot and a TPM are the cheapest hardening you will ever do - the silicon is already in the server, the licence is free, and the protection covers the one attack surface most defences ignore: th…
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