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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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SNIA announces Storage.AI

Dr. J Metz, SNIA Chair, explains how AI workloads are extraordinarily complex and constrained by issues related to latency, space, power and cooling, memory, and cost and how addressing these problems through an open industry initiative is the fastest path to optimisation and adoption, before going on to introduce Storage.AI, an open standards project for efficient data services related to AI workloads. Storage.AI will focus on industry-standard, non-proprietary, and neutral approaches to solving AI-related data problems to optimise the performance, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness of AI workloads.

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Not just another vulnerability scanner!

Ian Schenkel, Chief Revenue Officer, Cyber Intelligence House (CIH), explains how the company’s intelligence-driven Cyber Exposure Platform is designed for MSSPs to deliver high margin, high value services without the overhead. Analysts scour the deep and dark web, tracking over 2,500 threat actors, nation states, and malware families to uncover customers' real cyber exposure - from rapid exposure assessments to continuous breach and malware monitoring, the white label solution provides MSSPs with the insights clients actually care about.

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Agentic AI that benefits all

Caroline Monfrais, Global VP Strategy & Transformation, Wipro Consulting, looks at, for all the talk around cohesive AI implementation strategy and the evolution of AI Agents, what needs to be done now so that this technology helps rather than hinders human workers? Caroline shares multiple examples of how organisations, from banking to telecoms, are already using agentic AI as the catalyst to reimagine their businesses.

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News

Submer announces a new partnership with Hammer Distribution aimed at strengthening AI infrastructure in the UK, supporting sovereign and sustainable growth.
Huntress extends its partner programme to resellers, aiming to strengthen cybersecurity for organisations globally.
Lyten acquires Northvolt’s Swedish operations to expand battery manufacturing and energy storage in Europe.
Capita is expanding its partnership with Multiverse to train 250 additional employees in AI skills, following an initial programme for over 500 staff.

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