Most UK tech leaders say network outages are becoming a critical business problem
THE SO WHAT
If UK leaders are calling network outages a critical brake on change, your AI and cloud roadmaps are only as real as your connectivity resilience. This is a prompt to treat network redundancy, observability, and failover as first-class features in any AI-heavy workflow, not a back-office IT concern.
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