06 November 2025

Ivaan Captieux, Information Security Consultant at Galix

As businesses move beyond traditional network boundaries, the old “castle and moat” model of security is no longer effective. In a world of hybrid work, cloud platforms and mobile devices, implicit trust within a network is a major vulnerability. Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) have become vital partners in helping organisations adapt, offering the expertise and frameworks needed to implement a zero-trust approach.

This modern security model removes assumptions by treating every access request as untrusted until proven otherwise. By replacing implicit trust with ongoing verification, zero trust significantly reduces the risk of unauthorised access and lateral movement within the network. MSSPs play a central role in making this model achievable. By combining continuous monitoring, automation, and advanced analytics, MSSPs help organisations put these principles into practice, turning security from a reactive defence into a proactive, adaptive strategy that evolves with emerging threats.

06 November 2025

Paul Holden, VP of EMEA sales at CallTower

Manufacturing has embarked on a rapid journey into a digital future. As intelligence erupts throughout factories and their supply chains, data – and the insight gained from it – is revolutionising how businesses source, create, and distribute their products. The arrival of smart factories and tightly integrated supply chains presents manufacturers with great opportunities, yet it also throws up challenges that need to be embraced and overcome.

06 November 2025

Umair Ejaz, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Tuxera

Smart meters are meant to serve as long-lasting components of critical energy infrastructure. They are designed to collect, store, and transmit usage data for up to two decades. However, a growing number of devices are experiencing breakdowns after just a few years.

In the UK alone, nearly four million smart meters were identified as underperforming in 2024. For utilities and manufacturers, early smart meter failure is a key business challenge. Failing meters disrupt billing processes, create compliance issues, increase environmental footprint, and result in unexpected operational costs, such as field engineer callouts and premature replacements.

05 November 2025

Matt Evans, CEO at Lennox Data Centre Solutions

As data centres scale to handle AI workloads and ultra-high-density computing, cooling systems are being pushed harder than ever. Cooling alone can eat up nearly 40% of a facility’s total energy use.

But here’s the thing: the difference between a project that flies and one that fails isn’t just the tech. It’s the way we engineer and deliver it.

05 November 2025

Amir Khan, President, CEO & Founder of Alkira

The transformative power of AI is undeniable. Despite sustained investment in compute and data platforms, AI initiatives stall at scale when network infrastructure lacks the agility, simplicity, and performance required for the AI era and beyond. If enterprises want AI that is safe, fast, and repeatable in production, the network needs to be treated as a first-class execution layer, not an afterthought.

The real gap in AI projects

AI-driven environments generate unprecedented traffic across clouds, data centres, branches, and edges for distributed users, applications, and services — requiring network infrastructure that keeps pace with rapidly shifting performance, security, and observability demands. Conventional network architectures, characterized by rigid, appliance-heavy, and siloed designs, are ill-equipped to handle this scale and dynamism. Even brief disruptions can cascade into operational setbacks or financial loss — with analysts estimating network disruptions costing enterprises $500,000 an hour.