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Europe is in the middle of one of its most severe heat events on record, and the effects go well beyond public health. As temperatures across France, Spain, the UK, and Germany push into record territory, the strain on power grids, cooling systems, and physical infrastructure is becoming impossible to ignore. For data center operators, maintaining uptime in this environment demands the real-time visibility that modern Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software can provide.

Traditional DCIM systems often become a tangle of complexity just when your team needs clear, actionable insight. You’re stuck managing bulky software that slows onboarding and drives up costs without delivering the real-time infrastructure visibility you need. Hyperview offers a different path: a cloud-based DCIM platform powered by AI that cuts through the noise to give you faster decisions, lower operational drag, and smarter control.

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 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.

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.