One of the key buzz terms you can’t possibly miss at the current time is ‘Cloud Computing’.
But – what really is ‘cloud’? It’s been defined by many in the press as a ‘new era’ of computing – but this is almost ironic as it’s seems the perceived solution that most are talking of is much [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Big online news stories at the moment all seem to be about getting hold of the gold at the end of the rainbow from new media web portals.
In terms of pure visitor numbers the likes of YouTube, Facebook and Twitter are undoubted giants of the internet but all are yet to successfully convert their popularity [...]
7 Apr 2009
tables turned on Microsoft as its product is made obsolete
by Dick Branston posted in progressMicrosoft became a titan of global business in the 80s because it found a way to corner a market. As personal computing was taking off it was Microsoft that grabbed a dominant share by offering innovative products that were ahead of the competition.
The golden ticket continued into the 90s with the Windows series of operating [...]
I have been a little busy recently down here at UKFast, working on some ‘top secret’ projects soon to be unleashed upon the world. Whilst I obviously can’t divulge what these projects entail a lot of focus has gone into the way we design and write code. This got me thinking about what must be [...]
Here at UKFast we pride ourselves on being able to offer the best solutions in the UK and Something we are being asked about more and more is Disaster Recovery, a subset of Business Continuity.
With the increasing prevalence of business critical information technology systems, combined with the transition to a 24×7 economy, the continuity of [...]
The inevitable tie up between property selling and Google Street View is now with us. I have come across my first press release from an estate agency claiming to have implemented Street View on its website.
whitehotproperty.co.uk, “the UK’s only dedicated repossession and part exchanged property website”, has announced that it has “added” Google Street View. [...]