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…
Dell PowerEdge R770 buyer's guide: next-gen Xeon 6 density and liquid-ready design (UK 2026)
The Dell PowerEdge R770 is the generation step, the 2U built around Intel Xeon 6 with the memory bandwidth, PCIe Gen5 lanes, EDSFF storage and liquid-cooling provisions that the previous generation di…
Lenovo ThinkSystem SR850 V3 buyer's guide: four-socket 2U for scale-up workloads (UK 2026)
Most servers scale out: you add nodes. Some workloads scale up instead, demanding more cores and far more memory inside a single coherent system than two sockets can provide. The ThinkSystem SR850 V3 …
How much storage, and what tiers, does your server need? (UK 2026)
Internal server storage is where two opposite mistakes meet: buying a wall of capacity with no thought for how fast it needs to be, or buying expensive flash for data that is read once a quarter. Sizi…
Intel Xeon 6 for UK server buyers: P-cores, E-cores and refresh timing
Intel Xeon 6 is the first server generation in years where the headline question is not how many cores you can buy, but which kind of core you want. The line splits into Performance-cores for latency …
Dell PowerEdge R760 buyer's guide: the 2U all-rounder for mixed workloads (UK 2026)
If the R660 is the dense default, the Dell PowerEdge R760 is the flexible one. Two sockets like its 1U sibling, but in 2U it gains what density costs: room for up to two dozen NVMe drives, riser space…
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