11 November 2025

A recent study commissioned by Lenovo and conducted with Opinium reveals that traditional data centre designs are increasingly inadequate to meet the evolving demands of businesses across EMEA. Key challenges include supporting AI workloads efficiently, achieving sustainability goals, and complying with data sovereignty regulations — all while managing rising energy consumption and costs.

Although 92% of IT decision-makers prioritise partners who reduce energy use and emissions, only 46% believe their current infrastructure supports these sustainability targets. Conventional cooling methods like air cooling are struggling to balance efficiency, cost, and environmental impact amid exponential data growth.

06 November 2025

With commercial mobile networks playing an increasingly important role in the mission-critical communications market, there are essential capabilities that must be implemented to ensure the networks deliver mission-critical services for end users. For first responders in particular, a delayed connection or dropped call can mean the difference between life and death.

One essential network capability is Quality of Service, Priority and Pre-emption – more commonly referred to QPP. Mission-critical mobile broadband networks need to implement QPP mechanisms to enable mission-critical services, securing mission-critical users’ operations and communications by giving them priority over non-mission-critical users/traffic in time of need, when both are sharing the same network.

06 November 2025

Imagine the scenario from our last article: It’s 2am, a core router just went down, and customers in three regions have your phone ringing off the hook. You try SSH. No response. You ping through the management VLAN. Again, nothing.

What about the console port? This is your last lifeline to see what’s happening under the hood. But when you can’t reach it remotely, recovery slows to a crawl. What should have been a quick fix is now turning into hours of downtime, unhappy customers, and potential SLA penalties.