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Hiring ahead of the curve
06 March 2026
With critical technology skills in ever shorter supply, reactive hiring is no longer enough to sustain digital ambition. This feature examines how forward-thinking organisations are rebuilding talent pipelines — blending strategy, flexibility and automation to secure the expertise they will need long before demand hits.
In the middle of a chronic IT skills shortage, most organisations are still hiring like it’s 2015.
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To co-locate or not to co-locate?
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03 March 2026
As UK enterprises rethink where their infrastructure should live, the old build-versus-buy debate is giving way to a far more complex set of choices around power, regulation, sustainability and flexibility.
For years, the question facing UK IT leaders seemed deceptively simple: build your own data centre or rent space in someone else’s. In 2026, that binary choice has quietly collapsed.
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12 December 2025
Matthew Thompson, Managing Director – Europe, Airsys
Which law would you most like to change?
I would ban the sale of chewing gum. A persistent source of annoyance and irritation of mine is chewing gum and people’s inability to discard it into a rubbish bin, and instead spit it onto the pavement. The discarded chewing gum then lies in wait ready for an unsuspecting pedestrian to step on it and in my experience usually when you are wearing your favourite shoes or trainers. Additionally, discarded chewing gum creates unsightly pavements and footpaths, and I have no doubt is difficult and expensive for local councils and businesses to remove. For the preservation of good footwear and pristine pavements, I advocate the ban of selling chewing gum.
