Storage Array Prices 2026: Why Your SAN/NAS Quote Just Jumped
UK IT leaders opening a fresh SAN or NAS quote in mid-2026 are discovering an uncomfortable truth: the array itself hasn't changed, but the bill has. The worldwide external OEM enterprise storage syst…
How Much Server RAM Can You Justify in 2026?
Server DRAM contract prices have risen sharply through 2026 — up 93–98% quarter-on-quarter in Q1, 58–63% in Q2, and a forecast 13–18% in Q3 — turning a routine memory upgrade into a board-level budget…
Blackwell vs Rubin: The UK 2026 AI Server Buy Decision
NVIDIA's Rubin R100 entered full production at CES 2026 and is rated at 50 PFLOPS of FP4 inference per GPU against the Blackwell B200's 18 PFLOPS — a wide enough gap that "wait for Rubin" is a genuine…
AI Workload Repatriation 2026: A UK Buyer's Cost Case
Everyone claims to be 'repatriating AI from the cloud' in 2026, but the honest answer is: it depends on utilisation and data sensitivity, not ideology. Cast AI finds average enterprise GPU utilisation…
AI Server Prices 2026: The HBM Crunch Hitting UK Buyers
Every AI server quote landing on a UK desk in mid-2026 seems to have grown since the last one. The reason sits inside the GPU itself: HBM memory now makes up 45% of an NVIDIA B200's manufacturing cost…
Windows Server 2016 EOL 2027: Refresh, ESU or Migrate?
Windows Server 2016 extended support ends on 12 January 2027 — and UK IT leaders planning the transition now face an unusual complication: server memory contract prices have risen roughly 5.3-fold sin…
Enterprise SSD Prices 2026: Buy Flash Now or Delay?
A 30TB TLC enterprise SSD that cost around $3,000 in Q2 2025 was priced at roughly $17,500 by Q1 2026 — a 472% jump, according to Vdura. That single data point sums up the position UK IT leaders are n…
Post-Quantum Cryptography: Harvest-Now Readiness
The encryption protecting your most sensitive data has an expiry date, and adversaries have already started the countdown. "Harvest now, decrypt later" means data you send today can be quietly collect…
OEM Hardware Support Programmes Compared: HPE, Dell, Cisco & More (2026)
Every major server, storage and network vendor sells a hardware-support contract, and on the surface they look interchangeable: a tier ladder, a response-time promise, an annual renewal. Underneath, t…
Immutable Backup vs Air Gap: Ransomware Defence 2026
Modern ransomware no longer just encrypts your live data — it hunts down and destroys the backups first. In 94% of attacks, criminals now try to compromise the backup, and more than half succeed. This…
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