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Opinion and analysis from the UK enterprise technology community.
Commentary from technology leaders, CIOs, founders, and analysts writing on cloud, security, data, AI, and the business decisions that shape British enterprise IT.
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How can financial institutions modernise without compromising resilience?
Mainframes still power 90 percent of global card transactions. Modernising them means balancing security, DORA and NIS2 compliance, and innovation against decades-old systems.
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Organisations that slow down can get ahead in the AI race amid greater regulation
As the EU AI Act's key provisions take effect, the organisations that gain most from AI may not be the fastest movers but those that fix their knowledge, data and governance first.
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Why AI is the Ace in the hand of the MAG7
The US controls around 75% of the world's AI compute and the Magnificent 7 are reshaping the data centre market. Why the humble AI token could redraw cloud economics.
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The hidden application bottleneck in digital transformation
Digital transformation stalls not on infrastructure but on applications, the most complex and time-consuming part. Why application packaging must move to industrial scale, and where agentic AI fits.
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When AI is cleared for take-off, but it’s not reaching cruising altitude
Enterprises are deploying AI on GPU-rich cloud infrastructure, yet models underperform because data cannot move fast enough to where the models actually run. Why data movement, not compute, is the real constraint on AI performance.
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Why the Services Value Cycle is the New Margin Engine
Services now account for 51% of global IT spend — but margin pressure, capacity limits, and skills gaps make it nearly impossible to capture that opportunity alone. Stephen Ennis, VP Services Europe at TD SYNNEX, explains how the Services Value Cycle turns service delivery into a repeatable margin engine for channel partners.
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The AI question is the cloud question wearing a new coat
AI in 2026 is the cloud bet of 2010 wearing a new coat. The firms that win will be the ones who spend on their people, not just the kit.
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AI search has already noticed the London Bubble Fallacy
I ran fifteen prompts through Google AI Mode about UK B2B technology media. The most diagnostic answer came back with no citations at all, and quietly named the bias the industry has been too polite to call out.
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I tried to predict 2025 from 2015, and 2026 has marked my paper
I wrote about 2025 back in 2015. A year past the line, here is what I got right, what I got wrong, and what it means for an AI strategy in 2026.
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IBM Quantum Roadmap 2026 — Does It Finally Beat Classical?
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Why Your Keyboard Isn't Going Anywhere
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Your Staff's AI Notetaker Is Probably Listening to Things It Shouldn't
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£210 Million for Government Cyber Security. Good. But Let's Talk About What Actually Matters.
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Designing a Greener Cloud Together
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