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Bromford and Sabio Group to launch innovative cloud customer service platform
29 October 2025
UK housing association Bromford has selected AI-focused customer experience specialists Sabio Group to develop and implement a new cloud-based communications platform designed to transform how it serves its 110,000 residents across 46,000 homes.
The project aims to replace fragmented legacy systems with a unified, omnichannel customer service solution that leverages cutting-edge AI capabilities integrated with Bromford’s existing Microsoft Dynamics 365 infrastructure.
Find out more TP secures continued and expanded role on UK Crown Commercial Service Framework
29 October 2025
Leading citizen experience and digital business services provider, TP, has announced its successful reappointment onto the Crown Commercial Service’s (CCS) RM6295 framework, securing places in both Lot 1 (Citizen Experience) and Lot 2 (Business Services).
This milestone underscores TP’s ongoing commitment to delivering high-quality citizen-facing and back-office services across the UK public sector. Notably, TP was one of the original suppliers to Lot 1 when the framework launched in 2015 and remains its largest contractor by contract value. Its appointment to Lot 2 marks a significant expansion, leveraging its extensive expertise in core business support functions.
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Trading in milliseconds: the role flash storage plays in finance
28 October 2025
Giorgio Ippoliti, Technologist at Sandisk
In today’s global financial markets, speed is paramount. When transactions are measured in milliseconds, and decisions are made in real-time, the ability to gain access to, and process data as quickly as possible is critical. In fact, data is now key to almost every aspect of financial trading; from performing high-frequency transactions to conducting risk assessments, all the way through to ensuring compliance to strict regulatory reporting requirements.
The size of the task cannot be underestimated – the Bank of England recently revealed that it receives over 35 million rows of data on derivatives and securities financing operations every single day. This figure is just the tip of the iceberg when considering the size and scope of financial trading globally and the data ecosystem financial firms are grappling with. From market data to customer information and historic transactional data, the volume continues to increase.
Find out more Keeping the DC cool in the age of AI
09 October 2025
Mark Yeeles, Vice President, Secure Power division, Schneider Electric UK & Ireland
The accelerated computing trend, and artificial intelligence (AI) in particular, has driven equipment and energy density in data centres like never before.
Power per rack has reached averages of 12kW in 2024, with 30kw not uncommon. AI systems have been observed drawing 130kW/rack, with certain development roadmaps expected to see 600kW per rack in 2027.
Practically speaking, even with close management such as hot aisle/cold aisle set ups, air cooling begins to lose efficiency and effectiveness from the 30kW per rack stage. That is why liquid cooling is being adopted so widely as it offers greater opportunities for efficient, targeted, and tightly controlled cooling.
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