Manufacturing OT/IT convergence: a UK practitioner's view
UK manufacturing IT/OT convergence has been talked about for a decade. In 2026, NIS2 + IEC 62443 + targeted ransomware attacks have made it operationa…
Financial services IT stack 2026: UK FCA-regulated firm reference architecture
UK FCA-regulated firms (asset managers, brokers, fund administrators, family offices, wealth managers, private banks, fintechs) face shared IT archite…
NHS Trust IT procurement through DSP Toolkit
NHS Trust IT procurement runs through specific frameworks (Health Tech Connect, NHS SBS, CCS) and assurance processes (DSP Toolkit, DCB0129/0160 clini…
UK data centre power and energy in 2026: where your infrastructure should live
For most of the cloud era, the question of where to put your infrastructure was answered by software and convenience. In the UK in 2026 it is increasi…
IT buying playbook for UK law firms 2026
UK law firm IT in 2026 has three priorities most firms underweight at procurement: SRA + Lexcel cyber posture, document management (DMS) modernisation…
DDR6 and MRDIMM: the server memory roadmap UK buyers should plan around
Memory bandwidth, not core count, is the quiet limiter on a growing share of server workloads - and the roadmap to fix it is now visible. DDR5 is matu…
UK MAT IT procurement through DfE frameworks
UK Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs) procure IT through specific frameworks — CCS, NEUPC, NWUPC, ESPO, KCS — plus direct purchase routes. Each has trade-off…
PCIe 6.0 and CXL memory pooling: what UK infrastructure teams should plan for
For thirty years a server's memory has been welded to its CPU sockets: every host carries its own DRAM, most of it sits idle most of the time, and you…
EOL and EOSL planning: when to refresh, extend or re-support your servers (UK 2026)
Every server reaches a point where the vendor stops selling it, then a later point where the vendor stops supporting it, and the gap between those two…
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 …
Intel Xeon 6 for UK server buyers: P-cores, E-cores and refresh timing
Intel Xeon 6 is the first server generation in years where the headline question is not how many cores you can buy, but which kind of core you want. T…