RAID 6 vs RAID 10: capacity vs write performance
RAID 6 maximises capacity and survives any two failures; RAID 10 maximises write performance and rebuilds fastest. The right choice depends on your workload — compare them on your drives in the RAID c…
How to choose your UK IT partner (without vendor bias)
Choosing a UK IT partner has more impact on long-term IT operations than most procurement teams credit. Good resellers compress procurement cycles, get better commercial outcomes, and stop you making …
IT buying playbook for UK law firms 2026
UK law firm IT in 2026 has three priorities most firms underweight at procurement: SRA + Lexcel cyber posture, document management (DMS) modernisation, and hybrid-working infrastructure that protects …
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…
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