BIOS/UEFI power & performance profiles: tuning servers for throughput or efficiency (UK 2026)
Most servers ship on a balanced firmware profile that is nobody's optimum - it leaves latency on the table for performance workloads and burns watts you do not need on idle ones. With UK electricity among the most expens…
Lenovo ThinkSystem SR860 buyer's guide: 4U mission-critical, GPU-capable scale-up (UK 2026)
Some workloads need both a large coherent system and room for accelerators or extensive I/O, and that combination is hard to deliver in a dense 2U. The ThinkSystem SR860 is Lenovo's four-socket 4U server built for exactl…
Dell PowerEdge R770 buyer's guide: next-gen Xeon 6 density and liquid-ready design (UK 2026)
The Dell PowerEdge R770 is the generation step, the 2U built around Intel Xeon 6 with the memory bandwidth, PCIe Gen5 lanes, EDSFF storage and liquid-cooling provisions that the previous generation did not have. For UK b…
Lenovo ThinkSystem SR850 V3 buyer's guide: four-socket 2U for scale-up workloads (UK 2026)
Most servers scale out: you add nodes. Some workloads scale up instead, demanding more cores and far more memory inside a single coherent system than two sockets can provide. The ThinkSystem SR850 V3 is Lenovo's answer f…
How much storage, and what tiers, does your server need? (UK 2026)
Internal server storage is where two opposite mistakes meet: buying a wall of capacity with no thought for how fast it needs to be, or buying expensive flash for data that is read once a quarter. Sizing the storage insid…
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. The line splits into Performance-cores for latency and per-core through…
Dell PowerEdge R760 buyer's guide: the 2U all-rounder for mixed workloads (UK 2026)
If the R660 is the dense default, the Dell PowerEdge R760 is the flexible one. Two sockets like its 1U sibling, but in 2U it gains what density costs: room for up to two dozen NVMe drives, riser space for GPUs and add-in…
Lenovo ThinkSystem SR650 V3 vs V4: choosing the right 2U virtualisation host (UK 2026)
The ThinkSystem SR650 is Lenovo's 2U all-rounder, and for most UK buyers it is the default virtualisation host: enough drive bays, enough PCIe, enough memory to consolidate a serious number of virtual machines. With the …
Specifying a server for ERP workloads - SAP, Dynamics and Sage (UK 2026)
An ERP system is the server that runs the business, and it has a distinctive profile: it is memory-bound, intolerant of downtime, and almost never a single tier. SAP, Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Sage all share these trait…
Rack vs tower vs blade vs composable vs HCI: choosing a server architecture (UK 2026)
Before you choose a model, you choose an architecture, and that decision shapes cost, operations and how the estate grows for years. Rack, tower, blade, composable and hyperconverged are not just packaging; each makes a …
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