Configure to Order Servers vs Stock: 2026 Buyer's Guide
UK IT leaders configuring servers in 2026 face a market that is short on exact specifications, not necessarily short on boxes. CDW UK expects the current memory-driven shortage to run for at least 18 …
AI Infrastructure Financing 2026: GPUaaS vs Capex vs Lease
UK IT leaders sizing a six-figure GPU cluster in 2026 are facing a financing question as much as a technical one. In June 2025, AWS cut its H100 and H200 on-demand pricing by 44%, from $7/hour to $3.9…
NIS2 Backup Requirements 2026: Is Immutable Storage Mandated?
NIS2 never uses the word "immutable". Article 21(2)(c) simply requires policies on business continuity, backup management, and disaster recovery, backed by a transposition deadline that passed on 17 O…
Used H100 GPU 2026: Bargain or Trap? UK Buyer's Verdict
The clearest signal in the 2026 GPU market isn't the Blackwell launch — it's what's happening to the Hopper cards it's displacing. H100 cards that sold for around $40,000 in late 2023 are now trading …
Rack Density Planning 2026: Is Your Server Room Ready?
Most UK comms rooms were built around 3–8 kW racks. In 2026, average rack density in AFCOM's 10th anniversary State of the Data Center report has hit 27 kW per rack — up from 16 kW the year before and…
AI Server Power Requirements 2026: Amps Beat GPUs
Everyone still talks about GPU allocation. But a single NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 rack draws 120-132 kW — eight to twenty-five times a standard enterprise rack's 5-15 kW ceiling — and UK power equipment lead…
Ransomware Recovery Time 2026: Prove Your RTO Before Attack
Every disaster recovery plan has a Recovery Time Objective written down somewhere. Almost none of them have been proven. N-able's own guidance notes that many organisations test quarterly and still st…
Server Refresh Cycle 2026: The 3-Year Rule Is Dead
The three-year refresh cycle was built for laptops, not racks of production servers — yet it still shapes procurement policy across UK IT estates. Data-centre practice has already moved on: the most c…
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…
Monthly IT briefing
New product launches, security alerts, vendor pricing changes — straight to your inbox once a month. No spam, no sales calls — you can unsubscribe with one click.
You can unsubscribe at any time. We never share email addresses with third parties.
Talk to a UK specialist
Get expert advice or a no-obligation quote — servers, storage, networking, maintenance, finance and cloud. We reply the same working day.