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Aug 11

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Sovereign Cloud: It’s About More Than Where Your Data Lives

For much of the cloud era, geography was becoming less important. The promise of cloud computing was that businesses could access computing power, storage and applications wherever they needed them, without having to worry too much about the physical location of the underlying infrastructure. Workloads could move between data centres,... read more →

11 August 2026
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Aug 05

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The New Data Centre Decision Isn’t About Space. It’s About Confidence.

For years, the conversation around enterprise infrastructure was framed as a choice between cloud and the data centre. The assumption was simple: as cloud adoption accelerated, traditional infrastructure would gradually disappear. Reality has proved rather different. Today’s organisations are not operating in a purely cloud world. They are running increasingly... read more →

5 August 2026
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Jul 29

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Phishing: This Time It’s Personal

"This time it's personal” was the tagline for Jaws: The Revenge – a film that, despite failing to make much of a splash with critics or audiences, introduced a different kind of threat. This wasn't a shark randomly attacking unsuspecting swimmers. It was portrayed as hunting a specific family. Nearly... read more →

29 July 2026
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Jul 23

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From I, Robot to Reality: When AI Agents Start Writing Their Own Rules

"The Three Laws are perfect... but they are not enough." When I, Robot hit cinemas in 2004, audiences were introduced to VIKI – the Virtual Interactive Kinetic Intelligence. Designed to oversee a new generation of intelligent robots, VIKI reached a conclusion that her creators never intended. If the purpose of... read more →

23 July 2026
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Jul 16

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VMware One Year On: From Licensing Change to Strategic Challenge

Last July, we published an article examining Broadcom's acquisition of VMware and the sweeping changes it brought to the company's licensing model. At the time, much of the discussion centred on what those changes might mean for customers. Would subscription only licensing become the new normal? How would organisations react... read more →

16 July 2026
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Jul 07

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AI Data Centres Need More Than Algorithms

As Scotland debates the future of hyperscale AI data centres, a much bigger question is emerging. Can we build the infrastructure needed for the AI era in ways that are technically credible, environmentally responsible and trusted by the communities they serve? When we published Are We Sleepwalking into a Grid... read more →