Lenovo ThinkSystem SD and SE series: dense multi-node and edge servers (UK 2026)
Mainstream buyer guides focus on the 1U and 2U rack servers most organisations buy, but Lenovo's ThinkSystem range has two specialist families that solve very different problems: the SD series, which …
Dell PowerEdge R670 buyer's guide: a single-socket 1U for edge and core roles (UK 2026)
The default server purchase is a dual-socket box, and for a great many workloads that default now costs more than it should. The Dell PowerEdge R670 is a single-socket 1U built on Xeon 6, and modern s…
How many CPU cores does your server actually need? (UK 2026)
More cores is the default instinct when speccing a server, and it is frequently wrong. Core count is one variable - and on its own it tells you very little about whether a server will be fast for your…
What is RAID? A plain-English guide (2026)
RAID combines several disks into one array so they go faster, survive a drive failure, or both. Here is what it means in plain English — then size any level in the RAID calculator.…
Storage servers for media and entertainment: spec'ing for 4K and 8K video editing (UK 2026)
Post-production storage is a bandwidth problem wearing a capacity problem's clothing. A 4K or 8K edit suite does not just need somewhere to keep enormous files, it needs to stream many of them, at onc…
DORA Article 30: what UK financial services firms need in their ICT third-party contracts
The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) came into force across the EU in January 2025. UK-headquartered firms with EU subsidiaries, EU-licensed entities or EU client-facing services are in scope…
HPE ProLiant DL560 Gen11 buyer's guide: four-socket 2U for in-memory and consolidation (UK 2026)
There is a specific moment when scaling out stops making sense: when one workload, or one dense consolidation target, would rather live on a single large host than be spread across a cluster. The ProL…
Lenovo ThinkSystem ST650 tower buyer's guide: datacentre-grade power for the office (UK 2026)
Not every organisation has a rack, but plenty still need serious server capability. The ThinkSystem ST650 is Lenovo's senior tower: a dual-socket, expandable server that delivers rack-class compute, m…
BIOS/UEFI power & performance profiles: tuning servers for throughput or efficiency (UK 2026)
Most servers ship on a balanced firmware profile that is nobody's optimum - it leaves latency on the table for performance workloads and burns watts you do not need on idle ones. With UK electricity a…
Lenovo ThinkSystem SR860 buyer's guide: 4U mission-critical, GPU-capable scale-up (UK 2026)
Some workloads need both a large coherent system and room for accelerators or extensive I/O, and that combination is hard to deliver in a dense 2U. The ThinkSystem SR860 is Lenovo's four-socket 4U ser…
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