Posted on November 25, 2010 by Jordan Gross
With the onset of the recession ‘The City’ as the UK’s great bastion of banking was suddenly the misbehaving child in class. People began to comprehend that having this reliance on one industry was unwise to say the least. It is possibly with this in mind that David Cameron and his advisers have decided to set their sites on East London as the birthplace of London’s newest industrial savior, the technology sector.
But the new shiny kid on the block is older than one would think. Prior to Cameron, East London was self-regenerating in a very exciting and organic way….
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Posted on November 17, 2010 by Ali Cochran
On Thursday November 18th Ultraspeed will be attending the 5th annual Civil Society IT Conference. With over 10 years in the hosting industry and a wealth of experience in cloud computing and virtualisation technologies, Ultraspeed are pleased to be able to offer expertise and guidance to charities wishing to review their IT infrastructure and online strategy.
In the rapidly changing third sector environment charities of all sizes are seeking to stay ahead of the curve, and the Civil Society IT Conference brings IT experts from all fields to the charities that need them. As an innovative and forward-thinking company with premium-level customer service as standard, Ultraspeed are uniquely suited to assist charities in creating robust IT environments which are flexible enough to suit both an IT strategy and whatever challenges the future brings.
Find out more on Civil Society’s website and let us know what you think is the biggest online challenge facing charities today!
Posted on November 15, 2010 by Namuli Katumba
‘I can’t even get on’
‘Everything has crashed again’
‘Well that was an entire day wasted…’
Is it just me or has this year been the year of the ‘Great Ticketing Debacle’ with multiple ticketing sales causing ample amounts of grief to the loyal fans trying to see their favourite artists or bands – if you take a look at any form of media: Newspapers, Twitter, Facebook, BBC News, or simply via ‘gossip’, you will see or hear sob stories of hours spent trying to get on to the ticketing home page or that mythical story of the person that managed to get 26 tickets all in one go (this is true actually and how I got my ticket for a festival next year).
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Posted on November 8, 2010 by Michael Shanks
To many, redundancy is a scary word meaning you’re going to have to start thinking about a different career path. But for those of us in the IT industry its also something you should be building into your IT infrastructures. What we are talking about here are self healing or repairing technologies using additional hardware or software so we don’t have to enact on our full blown disaster recovery policies.
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