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How Slide is rethinking backup and disaster recovery for MSPs

Carlson Choi, COO of Slide, outlines how Slide is rebuilding backup and disaster recovery for modern MSPs, moving away from legacy systems toward a platform built for security, speed, and scale. He discusses continuous product releases, a strict partner-only model, and how automation and AI are being used to speed up recovery and simplify complex operations.

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Fleet of 1,000 urban neocloud sites deploying across US by end of 2026

Kiersten Hileman, Available Infrastructure VP of Partner Relations, discusses Project Qestrel, a nationwide fleet of cybersecure, private neocloud edge data centres – the initial phase, to be live by the end of 2026, will span 1,000 individual sites across 100 US cities and more than 30 US states from coast to coast, representing nearly $5 billion in project CapEx at full buildout. Each site will feature full-stack edge deployments of Available's trio of SanQtum solutions: zero trust network, high-performance compute (HPC) infrastructure, and AI inference capability.

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Industry under-prepared for surge in AI data centre demand

Tim Collier, director and UK data centre lead at Turner & Townsend, explains what’s needed to build confidence in the industry and to deliver data centres on schedule, how to navigate heightened competition for power and skills, and what the company’s latest Data Centre Construction Cost Index – which analyses costs and trends in 52 data centre markets worldwide – reveals for emerging solutions for improving productivity and the complexities of building especially AI data centres.

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AI accelerates adversaries and reshapes the attack surface

Zeki Turedi, CrowdStrike Field CTO Europe, discusses the findings of the company’s 2026 Global Threat Report, which reveals that AI is accelerating the adversary and expanding the enterprise attack surface. The Global Threat Report makes clear that as innovation accelerates, adversary exploitation follows. Zeki explains that cybersecurity is entering an AI arms race. Breakout time is the clearest signal of how intrusion has changed. Adversaries are moving from initial access to lateral movement in minutes. AI is compressing the time between intent and execution while turning enterprise AI systems into targets. Security teams must operate faster than the adversary to win.

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Financial visibility, profitability, and exit readiness in the MSP market

In this conversation, Daniel Welling, Co-Founder of MSP Finance Team, shares his perspective on the financial realities facing managed service providers today. He explores why profitability can be difficult to track, how gaps in reporting develop, and what stronger financial visibility can unlock. The discussion also looks ahead, touching on exit readiness and how increasing private equity activity is shaping expectations for MSP performance and long-term value.

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News

Legrand has announced that its award-winning Keor FLEX modular Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) has been named “Data Centre Sustainability Innovation of the Year” at the prestigious DCS Awards 2026, held...
AVK, Eversheds Sutherland, JLL and Mace Construct join founding strategic partner CBRE, to support Kao Data's women in digital infrastructure initiative ahead of the next podcast season launch.
8th Annual Report analyzes data on IT and data center outages including causes, frequency, costs, and consequences.
Modernising existing infrastructure enables scalable growth, resilience, and long-term value - without disruption.

Expert Opinions

Connectivity, Not Compute, Will Decide the AI Race. By Mahesh Krishnaswamy, Founder and CEO of Taara.
In a Q&A with Zendesk’s VP Marketing EMEA, Emma Acton reflects on how enterprise marketing is evolving. She discusses the shift towards brand-led demand, the continued evolution of account-based marketing,...
Implemented a phased replacement and migration of Hill Dickinson’s Wide Area Network (WAN) and security infrastructure.
By Jamie Lyon, Chief Product and Strategy Officer at Lucid Software.