The latest in our cloud infographics series is the cloud checklist, examining the key points to look for when choosing a hosting provider. To include the infographic in your site use the embed code below: <a style=”border:none;” title=”UKFast Hosting – Cloud Services Checklist” href=”http://blog.ukfast.co.uk/2012/01/27/9581// “><img src=”http://images.ukfast.co.uk/diagrams/infographic/get_ahead_of_the_cloud/Cloud_The_Cloud_Checklist_700x990.jpg” alt=”UKFast Hosting – Cloud Services Checklist” /></a>Infographic by <a [...]

Here is the next in our series of infographics showing how cloud can help your business. The latest one below looks at six of the key IT operational environments where cloud can offer significant benefits. To embed the inforgraphic into your own site, please use the code below: <a style=”border:none;” title=”UKFast Hosting – Cloud Services [...]

M-Commerce is growing faster than fraud-prevention measures, leaving businesses at risk of spiralling fraud costs. A mere 25 per cent of UK online merchants are actively tracking fraud through their mobile sites, and even fewer are tracking electronic crime via their apps, just 16 per cent. The UK Online Fraud Report 2012 claims that despite [...]

Critics have hit out at Google’s decision to merge personal data from Google accounts including YouTube, Gmail, search, Google+ and dozens of their other services. Forthcoming changes to privacy settings, set to take effect from 1 March, will see data shared across all these platforms. Users cannot opt out of the changes. Google claims that [...]

Following on from our ‘Why do SMEs Choose Cloud’ infographic, here is the next in the series: ‘Business and Cloud Computing’.   Embed the infographic into your own site using the link below: <a style=”border:none;” title=”UKFast Hosting – Business and Cloud Computing” href=”http://blog.ukfast.co.uk/2012/01/30/business-and-cloud-infographic/”><img src=”http://images.ukfast.co.uk/diagrams/infographic/get_ahead_of_the_cloud/Cloud_business_and_cloud_computing.jpg” alt=”UKFast Hosting – Business and Cloud Computing” /></a> Infographic by <a [...]

Recently we held a round table debate to discuss the applications of cloud technology. We brought together some of the leading cloud experts to discuss how the technology can benefit businesses in the UK. All of the experts agreed that many SMEs struggle to get around the hype of cloud to find out how it [...]

I am delighted to share the news that UKFast has been named a finalist in the UK Customer Satisfaction Awards, for our employee engagement strategy. As a company with customer service at its heart, receiving recognition for the passion, focus and effort of our team is a fantastic honour for us. The final result will [...]

Video sharing site YouTube now receives more than 4 billion views every day and more than 60 hours of footage are uploaded every minute! The video giant revealed the astonishing figures in a blog post –the same place that they revealed, in mid-2007, that YouTube had hit 6 hours of footage uploaded every minute. That’s [...]

As the FBI took down the file sharing site MegaUpload, arresting its operators for criminal copyright infringement, hacktivists Anonymous fought back with their largest, most sophisticated attack yet. Within minutes of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announcing MegaUpload’s takedown, the hacker-group took down the websites of the DOJ, the Recording Industry Association of America [...]

Almost a third of the global population now visits the 555 million websites on the internet according to Pingdom. The traffic site Pingdom found in their annual research that the number of internet users has jumped from a mere 360 million at the end of 2000 and now accounts for 30 per cent of the [...]