End of Support Server Security 2026: UK Buyer's Playbook
On 13 October 2026, three separate Microsoft support clocks hit zero on the same day: Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 lose their final Extended Security Updates, and Windows Server 2022 drops out of m…
Cyber Recovery Vault 2026: Do UK Firms Need One?
On 18 March 2026, Rubrik and Rackspace switched on a UK Sovereign Cyber Recovery Cloud — an isolated clean-room environment that stays offline from the outside world until a specific ransomware recove…
Storage Tiering Strategy 2026: Redraw Tiers as Flash Spikes
UK IT leaders redrawing their storage tiering strategy in 2026 face a stark number: VDURA-tracked pricing shows the SSD-to-HDD capacity cost multiple jumped from 6.2x in Q2 2025 to 16.4x in Q1 2026, w…
800G AI Fabrics 2026: InfiniBand vs Ethernet for UK
UK IT leaders building on-prem GPU clusters in 2026 face a genuinely close call: NVIDIA's XDR InfiniBand now ships at 800G, and so does Spectrum-X Ethernet — yet one 2026 estimate puts full InfiniBand…
Zero Trust Microsegmentation for UK On-Prem Estates 2026
Most zero-trust projects start and stop at identity — verifying users and devices before letting them through the front door. But once someone is inside your on-prem estate, identity checks at the per…
QLC SSD in the Enterprise 2026: When It's the Right Call
Enterprise QLC NAND cycles at roughly 1,000 program/erase cycles per cell — a fifth of the ~5,000 cycles typical TLC NAND tolerates. That sounds like a dealbreaker until you model the workload: under …
DRaaS vs Self-Managed DR: The 2026 UK Buyer's Call
IBM puts it bluntly: owning and running your own disaster recovery site can cost roughly three times as much as buying it as a service. For UK IT leaders weighing DRaaS against a self-managed replicat…
On-Prem vs Cloud vs Colocation: UK Cost Reset 2026
UK IT leaders re-costing infrastructure in 2026 are discovering that cloud's convenience carries a measurable price tag: one UK-modelled scenario puts a three-year public cloud bill at £435,045 agains…
SaaS Backup Beyond Microsoft 365: The 2026 Gap
UK IT leaders have largely absorbed the message that Microsoft 365 needs independent backup. What most have not absorbed is that the same gap is wider elsewhere: a 2026 industry snapshot puts SaaS dat…
Best All-Flash Array 2026: Pure vs NetApp vs Dell for UK Buyers
Mid-2026's all-flash shootout isn't about who posts the biggest IOPS number — it's about who delivers the lowest genuine price-per-effective-terabyte once support, lifecycle and data-reduction guarant…
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