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AI - the solution to AI data centre expansion

Jackson Vo, President of Gridmatic Retail, discusses the pressures on Texas as a rapidly developing data centre hub, with operators asking the same urgent question: how can we secure reliable power while staying competitive on cost and advancing carbon-free goals? Jackson explains how Gridmatic, an AI-powered retail energy provider, is working with data centre customers like EdgeConneX to answer that question – by unlocking the hidden flexibility in large electrical loads.

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Metadata emerges as the cornerstone of cyber defence

Mark Jow, Gigamon Technical Evangelist, discusses the company’s recent report, “CISO Insights: Recalibrating Risk in the Age of AI”, which reveals how global CISOs are reshaping 2026 cybersecurity strategies as they seek to effectively secure and manage hybrid cloud infrastructure in the AI era. Mark explains that, as AI accelerates digital transformation and intensifies cyberattacks, data visibility and quality have become mission critical to defending hybrid cloud infrastructure. To keep pace, CISOs now need to gain a deeper level of insight, as increasing traffic volumes add complexity.

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Fibre overlooked in infrastructure planning

Lee Myall, CEO of Neos Networks, outlines how, over the past decade, there’s been a huge amount of investment in last-mile fibre builds, but core fibre networks across the country have received much less attention. Without them, workloads cannot move between data centres, data cannot be trained, and investments stall. The UK has the ambition, the demand and the regional readiness to lead in AI, but, as Lee explains, if we don’t address fibre gaps, we risk losing out on one of the greatest economic opportunities of our generation.

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Fibre overlooked in UK infrastructure planning

Lee Myall, CEO of Neos Networks, outlines how, over the past decade, there’s been a huge amount of investment in last-mile fibre builds, but core fibre networks across the country have received much less attention. Without them, workloads cannot move between data centres, data cannot be trained, and investments stall. The UK has the ambition, the demand and the regional readiness to lead in AI, but, as Lee explains, if we don’t address fibre gaps, we risk losing out on one of the greatest economic opportunities of our generation.

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Meshing matters

Keith Sullivan, Director of Strategic Innovation at AFL, explains what meshing means in the context of data centres and why it is particularly important when it comes to GPU-intensive, AI compute workloads. Keith also outlines the common strategies used to implement meshing in a data centre and shares his thoughts as to how meshing will evolve over the next few years, with silicon photonics and co-packaged optics on the horizon.

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Delivering digital transformation without the elephant sandwich

Matthew Irish, General Manager, Digital Services at Apogee Corporation, explains how and why many companies still find the idea of digital transformation overwhelming with multi-year projects that cost a fortune and never seem to end. Too often, businesses try to swallow the entire ‘elephant’ at once, leading to a massive, expensive, company-wide overhaul that creates more chaos than it solves. Matt outlines an alternative, smarter, less stomach-churning way to approach digital transformation. Instead of a huge, high-stakes project, he recommends a step-by-step approach that tackles one process at a time, making it easier to manage, less disruptive, and way more effective.

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AI - why inferencing matters as much as LLMs

David Hurtado, Managing Director of Quetta Data Centers, discusses the impact of AI on the data centre market, explaining that today’s focus on LLMs and training will soon be joined by AI inferencing, where low latency at the edge will be crucial in delivering an optimised application experience. David also discusses the need for liquid cooling in high density data centre environments and outlines how Quetta is developing an AI data centre portfolio for the Iberian peninsula.

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General disillusionment with GenAI - but (other) AI can help

Maxime Vermeir, Senior Director of AI Strategy at ABBYY, discusses the results from ABBYY’s State of Intelligent Automation: GenAI Confessions 2025 survey, which reveals challenges in implementing Generative AI (GenAI) – prompting the use of other AI to improve outputs. He explains that businesses are spending money on GenAI tools that promise more than they can provide and advises that before moving forward with leveraging GenAI tools for agentic AI, companies need to first evaluate their current processes and create a visibility map of their workflow with data analytics tools such as process intelligence.

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Helping to prevent outages and fibre failures

Mike Slevin, Senior Director Field Sales EMEA/GM, Fluke Corporation, discusses the launch of the company’s Versiv Data Center Kits that are designed to keep data centres up and running by identifying copper and fibre network connectivity issues before they arise and troubleshooting them quickly. With infrastructure teams under unprecedented pressure thanks to the explosive growth of AI, cloud and hyperscale technologies, the kits are designed to help technicians and engineers meet that challenge head-on - equipping them with future-ready tools to prevent failures, speed up troubleshooting, and ensure high-density fibre connections are clean, tested, and reliable.

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Tool overload driving agent fatigue and missed threats

Adam Pitton, Heimdal Security cybersecurity advisor and former UK cyber detective, discusses the findings of the company’s recent survey 80 North American MSPs, showing that fragmented security stacks drive fatigue, missed threats, and business inefficiency. Security tools meant to protect managed service providers are instead overwhelming them. Adam explains what’s going wrong and what needs to happen in order to ensure that MSPs can make agent fatigue a thing of the past.

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Make the most out of microgrids

David Rimmer, Microgrid Business Leader UK&I at Schneider Electric, outlines the ways in which data centre microgrid deployments can contribute to energy cost savings, energy resilience and independence, and help facilities to become more sustainable.

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AI adoption prompts major cybersecurity adjustments

Mike Arrowsmith, CTO at NinjaOne, shares valuable insights into a number of cybersecurity issues, explaining how AI adoption itself isn’t problematic when done thoughtfully – but lack of cyber awareness in this context is a cause for concern; how traditional IT and security silos are collapsing as AI demands more collaboration across the enterprise; and how AI brings with it likely challenges around shadow IT. Mike also highlights some non-AI related cybersecurity topics, before sharing a few highlights of the NinjaOne roadmap.

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News

Deloitte Netherlands partners with Illumio to strengthen digital resilience in Europe through enhanced cybersecurity measures.
MSPs are encountering governance challenges as they expand AI services, with a growing focus on standardised approaches to data protection frameworks.
Canals has launched AI tools designed to support processes across wholesale distribution, including sales, customer service, and accounting.
N-able introduces AI-driven detection features for its security operations centre (SOC) aimed at improving the identification of advanced cyber threats.

Expert Opinions

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