Cat6a vs Fibre Office Cabling: The 25-Year Decision
The Bottom Line: Install Cat6a copper to desks and ceiling access points for 10GbE and PoE++, and run optical fibre through vertical risers and building backbones. (Pricing reflects current UK rates, …
SD-WAN vs MPLS 2026: Should UK Firms Drop MPLS?
For IT leaders reviewing UK wide area network contracts, the question is no longer whether high-speed fibre reaches a branch office, but whether private circuits still justify a substantial price prem…
HPE Firmware Access & Warranty: 2026 Entitlement Guide
Losing access to critical firmware when server warranties expire exposes UK enterprise infrastructure to unpatched vulnerabilities, compliance audit failures, and sudden renewal expenses. Navigating h…
Server Out of Warranty Repair: Fix, Replace or Retire in 2026
When a production server drops offline outside its manufacturer coverage, the immediate problem is rarely that the hardware is unfixable—it is that your contractual service level has vanished. In mid-…
ITAD Provider UK 2026: Certificates That Actually Prove Security
In October 2020, the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency fined Morgan Stanley $60 million over failures to oversee the 2016 decommissioning of two US wealth-management data centres, including…
Server Preventive Maintenance: What Fails and When to Swap
Defaulting to a run-to-fail hardware strategy is one of the most expensive operational decisions an infrastructure team can make in 2026. While enterprise chassis are routinely retained on a 5–7 year …
GPU Failure Rates in 2026: What UK Buyers Must Plan For
When Meta trained Llama 3 405B on 16,384 NVIDIA H100 GPUs over 54 days, the cluster logged 419 unexpected interruptions - roughly one every three hours - with GPU faults behind 30.1% of them and HBM3 …
Supply Chain Cyber Risk Assessment: A UK Buyer's Playbook
NCSC’s supply-chain guidance collection was updated in 2026 and is currently organised into Foundations, Application and Consolidation, with the collection refreshed on 21 August 2026. Combining NCSC’…
Penetration Testing Cost UK: 2026 Rates & Scoping Guide
UK IT leaders navigating commercial assurance, cyber insurance renewals, and compliance audits frequently struggle with opaque security pricing. Across a large set of published UK price points tracked…
Defender for Office 365 vs Mimecast: Keep or Replace in 2026?
Microsoft's mid-2026 packaging update quietly rewired this decision: Microsoft 365 E3 now includes Defender for Office 365 Plan 1, a control UK IT teams have often addressed via separate SEG-style gat…
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