UK GDPR for IT teams: DPIA, DSAR, data residency
UK GDPR (the post-Brexit version of EU GDPR) has been law since January 2021. The ICO's enforcement appetite increased significantly in 2024-25 — multiple seven-figure fines and increased focus on technical + organisatio…
VMware after Broadcom: UK migration paths to AHV, Hyper-V and Proxmox
Broadcom's acquisition of VMware (November 2023) drove a sharp wave of UK enterprise re-evaluations. New subscription pricing, perpetual licence withdrawal, mandatory VMware Cloud Foundation bundling — many UK customers …
Raritan vs Vertiv KVM-over-IP UK 2026: data centre console buyer's guide
Raritan and Vertiv (Avocent) are the two dominant KVM-over-IP brands in UK enterprise data centres. Both ship 1080p + 4K platforms, both have FIPS 140-2 secure variants, both have mature centralised management. This guid…
Liquid vs immersion cooling and RoCE explained: an AI data-centre glossary
AI infrastructure has imported a vocabulary that did not exist in mainstream server rooms a few years ago. Vendors now talk about direct liquid cooling, immersion, PUE, RoCE, RDMA and lossless Ethernet as if everyone alr…
SOC 2 Type II readiness for UK SaaS vendors
SOC 2 Type II is an American certification (AICPA, designed for US-headquartered service organisations) — but UK SaaS vendors selling to US customers, particularly enterprise, increasingly need it. This is the practical …
Enabling Secure Boot and TPM on enterprise servers: a practical setup (UK 2026)
Secure Boot and a TPM are the cheapest hardening you will ever do - the silicon is already in the server, the licence is free, and the protection covers the one attack surface most defences ignore: the boot path before t…
Veeam vs Rubrik vs Commvault in 2025 — 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 most of the regret w…
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. The right choice depends on connectivity needs, power density, geographic resilience, and …
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 existing platform, the…
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 workload, or whethe…
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