Veeam vs Rubrik vs Commvault — which backup platform should UK IT teams pick?
Veeam, Rubrik and Commvault are the three platforms UK IT leaders most often shortlist when modernising backup. They overlap heavily on paper. In practice they make sharply different trade-offs — and …
How to pick a UK colocation data centre: the procurement framework
UK colocation is a mature market — Equinix, Digital Realty, Telehouse, Pulsant, ARK, IONOS, Custodian and 20+ regional operators — so the hard part is not finding a data centre but knowing which one t…
AMD EPYC Turin (9005 series) for UK buyers: wait or refresh from Genoa?
AMD's EPYC 9005 series, codenamed Turin, lands on the same SP5 socket as the Genoa 9004 parts before it - and that one fact reframes the whole buying decision. When a new generation drops into your ex…
Multi-node twin servers explained: shared-infrastructure density done right (UK 2026)
When you need many servers in as few rack units as possible, discrete boxes start to waste space, power and money on duplicated infrastructure. Multi-node twin servers answer that by packing several i…
How RAID parity works (RAID 5 & 6 explained)
Parity is the clever maths that lets RAID 5 and RAID 6 rebuild a failed drive without keeping a whole second copy. Here's how it works — then see the capacity and rebuild trade-offs in the RAID calcul…
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: 1U two-socket Xeon 6 (UK 2026)
The PowerEdge R670 is Dell's 1U two-socket server for Intel Xeon 6, and it will put up to 288 E-cores, 32 DDR5 slots and twenty EDSFF NVMe bays into a single rack unit. That density is the appeal, and…
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…
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