03 March 2026

While the UK’s data centres provide the “brain” of the digital economy, the nervous system—composed of WAN, LAN, and the emerging 5G Standalone (5G SA) underlay—is undergoing a simultaneous and radical transformation. The convergence of software-defined architectures and advanced wireless is moving the UK from a “connectivity first” model to one of “intelligent orchestration.”

The UK’s wide area networking (WAN) landscape hit a critical inflection point this month with the £2 billion acquisition of Netomnia by nexfibre. This merger has created a unified metropolitan fibre giant, offering a direct challenge to BT Openreach’s wholesale dominance. For enterprise networking teams, this consolidation simplifies the “underlay” puzzle, providing a single, high-capacity fibre footprint across the UK’s major cities to support SD-WAN deployments.
Technical audits from February 2026 show that 100% of the UK’s leading SD-WAN vendors have now verified local Point of Presence (PoP) ownership in London and Manchester. This ensures sub-10ms latency for UK traffic—a technical prerequisite for the “Agentic AI” applications currently being trialled in the finance and legal sectors.

03 March 2026

Chad Richts, Director of Product Strategy, JupiterOne

Consider Klarna's reality: a fintech organisation with 30+ engineering teams, each managing its own cloud infrastructure. Every team deploys multiple times daily: new services, updated configurations, additional regions. The cloud inventory team attempted to maintain a master view of security controls across all these deployments using the traditional approach. The math simply broke. By the time they finished validating one quarter's infrastructure, hundreds of changes had already happened in the next. The compliance snapshot was outdated the moment it was complete.

03 March 2026

Irvin Shillingford, Regional Manager Northern Europe, Hornetsecurity

2025 saw a surge in cyberattacks across nearly every industry ranging from car manufacturing to luxury fashion, few sectors have escaped unscathed. Last year marked a critical turning point, with our annual Ransomware Impact Report identifying the first rise in ransomware attacks in three years. This signals the end of a period of decline and the beginning of a renewed, intensified wave of cybercrime.

27 February 2026

Andy Syrewicze, Security Evangelist, Hornetsecurity

Over the past few years, business leaders and Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) have rapidly moved beyond cautiously experimenting with AI tools to managing extensive enterprise deployments across multiple sectors. The swift adoption and continuous AI upgrades are consistently generating a new threat landscape full of complexity.

The speed of innovation and the wide adoption of AI across entire organisations of all sizes present a complex new threat landscape. As we begin 2026, organisations must remain even more vigilant of AI usage. For senior executives and cybersecurity experts, the core issue is no longer debating whether businesses should continue their use of AI. Instead of dwelling solely on the technological shift, the primary focus must pivot to the effective management of the high risks and persistent cybersecurity gaps created by this ongoing technology revolution across the entire business landscape.

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.