27 February 2026

Kevin Cochrane, CMO at Vultr

UK enterprises are at a critical turning point in how they design, deploy, and evolve cloud compute environments. After a decade dominated by a few hyperscale platforms, organisations face new pressures: accelerating compute demand, escalating and unpredictable costs, tighter data sovereignty expectations, and the need to support distributed, edge-enabled workloads. The CMA reports AWS and Microsoft dominate 40% of UK cloud spend, creating significant switching barriers. Cloud economics are changing rapidly, and performance-per-pound is emerging as a defining metric.

20 February 2026

Kashif Nazir, Technical Manager, Cloudhouse

On 28 October 2023, staff arriving at the British Library discovered a catastrophe unfolding. Key systems were encrypted, servers were offline, and digital catalogues had vanished. By mid-morning, the crisis management plan was invoked and the National Cyber Security Centre was engaged. One of the world's most prestigious cultural institutions – custodian of over 170 million items spanning three millennia – had fallen victim to a sophisticated ransomware attack.

More than two years after the attack, full restoration continues with some services still scheduled for recovery. This isn't just another cybersecurity cautionary tale. It's a story about what happens when decades of technical debt collide with modern threats and when structural vulnerabilities endemic across the sector finally come home to roost. Most importantly, it's a roadmap that every library, archive, museum, and university needs to study before facing their own reckoning.