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Rebalancing IT budgets: why infrastructure strategy needs a reset

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Every pound of unplanned technology spend has to be earned back. For each unbudgeted, EBIT-hitting pound an organisation commits, how much revenue does the business need to generate to cover it? Most infrastructure decisions are still made without that number in view. That is starting to change.

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Nobody budgeted for this. The AI cost collision is coming.

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Here is a problem that is sitting quietly inside a lot of finance and IT conversations right now, and I think it is going to get significantly louder over the next twelve months. And I want to be clear upfront, this is not just a large enterprise problem. If your organisation has cloud spend…

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Why your next security conversation might start in a marketplace

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Something has shifted in how enterprise security gets bought, and I do not think the channel has fully caught up with it yet.

Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike, Snowflake, these are not simple or lightweight vendors. They have sophisticated direct sales motions, large enterprise field…

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The tail spend problem nobody talks about at channel events

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Every channel event I have been to this year has the same conversation on the main stage. Net new logos. Landmark transactions. The race to move the biggest percentage of revenue through marketplace. The numbers are real and the momentum is genuine. But there is a different conversation…

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Device Lifecycle Managed Service: Simplifying the Complex

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Managing workplace devices has become increasingly difficult for many organisations. Device estates are growing, users are more distributed, and IT teams are under constant pressure to deliver faster onboarding, stronger security, lower costs and better sustainability outcomes.

A Device…

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You are going to buy AI agents through a marketplace. Sooner than you think.

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In my last post I mentioned almost in passing that AWS launched a conversational AI interface at re:Invent that lets customers discover and evaluate solutions using natural language. I want to come back to that, because I think it is one of the most significant signals of where enterprise…

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The marketplace race is not about the transaction

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Following my recent interview with Doug Woodburn at IT Channel Oxygen, I had a number of people reach out, some to agree, some to offer a different view and a few to add angles I had not fully considered. That kind of response is always the most useful and it got me thinking harder about the…

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From Backup to Resilience: Rethinking Data Protection with the 3‑2‑1‑1‑0 Rule

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In today’s commercial operational environment, data loss is no longer an IT inconvenience – it is a material business risk. Cyberattacks, regulatory scrutiny, and growing digital dependency have fundamentally changed what organisations require from data protection. The question is no longer…

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Enabling Smart Spaces Starts with a Smart Network

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Turning connected buildings into intelligent, high-performing assets

Modern organisations are rethinking the role of physical spaces. Buildings are no longer just places where work happens, they are becoming business assets that drive efficiency, sustainability, and user experience.

At…

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Teams Managed Services

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Reap the benefits of fully converged communications and collaboration Have you now moved all the simple services to Teams but, need to bring in the more complex communication and collaboration scenarios such as, contact centre, frontline workers, legacy ISDN technology, or common area phones ?…

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Microsoft Places

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The future of work, with integrated remote, hybrid and physical options, promises great potential.

However, evolving workplace policies, spaces, tools, and culture is essential for success. Microsoft research highlights the tension between flexibility and connection, with 48% of…

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How AI-Driven Threat Detection is Revolutionising Cyber Resilience

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As cyber threats grow in sophistication and frequency, the risk of inaction rises by the day.

Infrastructure leaders feel this pressure acutely. In the age of artificial intelligence, the need to manage rising costs, downtime risks and slow recovery times must be balanced with…

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Key Takeaways from the Gartner Digital Workplace Summit – April 2026

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At the Gartner Digital Workplace Summit in London it was clear; the Digital Workplace is moving into a new phase. One defined less by tools and more by intelligence, autonomy, and employee experience. Three recurring themes stood out:

1.Workplace AI is becoming the baseline but there are…

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From Linear Burden to Circular Advantage: Why Circular IT Is the Next Strategic Frontier

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The traditional IT lifecycle — buy, deploy, refresh, dispose — is no longer fit for purpose. Tight budgets, rising sustainability expectations and greater scrutiny over long-term value are forcing organisations to rethink how technology is managed across its full lifecycle.

That is…

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A strategic briefing for organisations navigating the next wave of change

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Across the UK, enterprises are facing an infrastructure landscape that is more fragmented, more operationally demanding, and more strategically consequential than at any point in the last decade.

90% of organisations say their IT environment has become more complex in the past two years,…

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Connecting the country: using data and digital infrastructure to unlock productivity

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The Department for Transport’s priority outcomes are clear. As set out in the National Audit Office’s overview of the Department for Transport (November 2025), DfT aims to work with its agencies and partners to support a transport network that boosts economic growth, delivers greener, safer…

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