AI-Powered Cyber Attacks 2026: A UK Defence Playbook
Generative AI has quietly flipped the economics of phishing. Microsoft's Digital Defense Report 2025, cited by the Cloud Security Alliance, measured a 54% click-through rate for AI-generated phishing …
40TB HAMR Arrives: What Seagate Mozaic Means for UK Buyers
While most coverage is still calling 40TB a "coming soon" milestone, Seagate has already moved past it: by July 2026 the company was shipping 44TB Mozaic 4+ HAMR drives to two hyperscale cloud provide…
Sovereign AI UK 2026: Build or Rent British AI Capacity?
Sovereign AI has stopped being a slogan and become a live UK procurement category, with government now running a dedicated Sovereign AI proof-of-concept funding competition. But for most private-secto…
Inference Server Hardware 2026: Buy For Agents, Not Training
UK IT leaders are still buying training-grade GPU clusters for a workload that has already moved on. The UK government's own compute annex puts total UK AI compute demand at 1.8 GW in 2024, rising to …
EPYC Turin vs Xeon 6 2026: A UK Workload Verdict
AMD says a single EPYC 9005-based server can now do the work of more than eight 2019-era Intel Xeon Platinum servers — a claim that reframes the entire EPYC vs Xeon 2026 conversation away from core-co…
3-2-1 Backup Rule 2026: Why UK Firms Need 3-2-1-1-0
The 3-2-1 backup rule — three copies, two media, one offsite — was once the ceiling for good practice. In 2026 it's the floor. Ransomware operators now target connected backup infrastructure directly,…
Ransomware 2026: How Attacks Changed & UK Defence
The ransomware playbook has quietly rewritten itself. By mid-2026, encryption is almost an afterthought: 96% of incidents in Q1 2026 involved data exfiltration, and attackers now spend weeks inside a …
All-Flash vs Nearline HDD TCO 2026: The UK Buyer's Verdict
By Q1 2026, enterprise QLC SSDs cost 22.6 times more per terabyte than equivalent 30TB nearline HDDs — a Vdura-tracked acquisition-cost ratio, not a full TCO figure, that has fuelled a lot of loose ta…
When to Switch to Liquid Cooling: The 2026 UK Threshold
Air and liquid don't compete on efficiency — they compete on physics. Liquids move heat between 50 and 1,000 times more efficiently than air, and CIBSE Journal's 2025 CPD module is blunt that air cool…
Do You Really Need a 130kW AI Rack? (2026 Guide)
A single NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 rack draws 120-140 kilowatts and costs roughly $2-3 million in hardware alone — built to deliver 1.4 exaflops for trillion-parameter model training. For most UK enterprises…
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