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Top Considerations When Evaluating DCIM Vendors

Choosing a Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) platform is one of the more consequential decisions a data center team will make. Get it right, and you gain an accurate digital twin of your physical infrastructure, a single source of truth across teams, improved operational visibility, and a platform for planning, reporting, and automation. Get it wrong, and you risk a failed deployment, a platform that doesn't fit your needs, or a shelfware investment that's hard to justify renewing.

UK GDPR compliance for cloud & hosting: requirements, risks and responsibilities

UK organisations using cloud services carry a clear legal obligation: they must demonstrate compliance with UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018, not simply assert it. The shift to cloud and hosted infrastructure does not transfer that responsibility to a provider. It distributes it across a chain of controllers and processors that regulators expect you to understand and manage. Post-Brexit, that obligation is set within a distinct legal framework.

IaaS cost control: how private cloud reduces enterprise cloud spend

Over the past five years, one of the most consistently tracked figures in the UK business technology sector has been the flight from public cloud. Barclays' 2021 CIO survey revealed that 43% of enterprises plan to shift workloads away from public cloud. By 2024, that had grown to 83%. Research for Pulsant in 2025 found that 87% of UK businesses planned to repatriate data away from the public cloud within the next two years.

The Hybrid Shift: Where Workloads Are Headed and How to Move Them

Businesses migrating from a single, public cloud provider has been the direction of travel of UK digital infrastructure for years. As far back as 2020, Barclays found that 43% of enterprise CIOs were already planning to bring workloads back from the public cloud to on-premises or private cloud infrastructure. Since then, IDC, Gartner and a host of vendor surveys have tracked an increase in this intention.

Data sovereignty is an opportunity for regional growth

Data sovereignty wasn’t a major topic just a few years ago and now it’s becoming a major economic opportunity for regions across the UK. In this clip from Perspectives from the Edge, Katie Gallagher OBE from Manchester Digital discusses why the conversation around data sovereignty has shifted, and how the rise of AI is accelerating demand for trusted regional digital infrastructure. As organisations rethink where data is stored, processed and governed, regions like Manchester are increasingly well placed to benefit through investment, innovation and digital skills growth.

The sovereignty shift: how to grow regional tech ecosystems

Manchester is one of the UK’s leading tech ecosystems – but how did it get there? In this episode, Pulsant’s Wendy Shearer speaks with Katie Gallagher from Manchester Digital about Manchester’s rise as a powerhouse for UK tech, data sovereignty, innovation, talent and inclusive growth. Discover how the region has evolved from its strong industrial heritage into a thriving digital economy now home to major FTSE 100 companies and six unicorn businesses.

Coming soon to Perspectives from the Edge - Wendy is joined by Kate Gallagher of Manchester Digital

In this teaser for an upcoming episode of Perspectives from the Edge, Wendy Shearer, Director of Partners & Ecosystems at Pulsant, speaks with Kate Gallagher, Managing Director at Manchester Digital, about how Manchester has become one of the UK’s leading technology ecosystems and a model for regional innovation and growth.

The RAM Crunch: How UK Businesses Can Weather the Global Memory Shortage

Tech headlines are being dominated by the perfect storm that has led to a global shortage of Random Access Memory (RAM). As the short-term, temporary memory that handles data for processing and applications, RAM - and specifically Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) - is a foundational business technology.

Solving the Complexity of Data Center Operations with Cloud-Based DCIM Software

Managing a growing data center requires accurate, real-time infrastructure data. Outdated tools often miss critical changes, delay decisions, and make it harder to control energy usage, capacity, and risk. Hyperview is a cloud-based Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) platform that helps teams monitor, manage, and optimize their data center infrastructure from one centralized system.

New dcTrack Connector for Dell OpenManage Enterprise

Dell OpenManage Enterprise (OME) is a management and monitoring application that provides information about Dell servers, chassis, storage, and network switches across the enterprise network. Sunbird’s new Dell OME connector programmatically pulls data from Dell OME into dcTrack, driving automation and giving you a single pane of glass with complete information across all your Dell assets.