12 February 2026

Cornerstone and StonesThro have announced a strategic partnership designed to redefine and enhance the UK's digital landscape.

The collaboration focuses on deploying micro-edge compute capabilities across Cornerstone's national estate to address the urgent need for increased data processing speed and capacity, data sovereignty, and national infrastructure resilience. As the global geopolitical climate becomes increasingly unpredictable and regulatory frameworks around data privacy tighten, the question of where data is processed and who governs and protects the underlying hardware has moved from a technical concern to a matter of national security. This partnership arrives at a critical moment, providing a UK-centric solution to the growing dependency on centralised, often foreign-owned, cloud architectures.

11 February 2026

ADLINK has expanded its edge computing line-up with a new server board and three Intel Xeon 6-based GPU servers, as demand grows for more compute at industrial and on-premise sites.

The launch includes the ISB-W890 server board and the AXE-7440GW, AXE-7420GWA and AXE-7220GW systems. ADLINK is targeting organisations running advanced vision processing, analytics and generative AI inference outside central data centres. Edge deployments are moving from pilots to production, particularly in environments where connectivity limits, response-time needs and local data processing requirements shape system design. That shift is increasing demand for server-class systems suited to factory racks, labs and remote sites.