The Deloitte Technology Fast 50 looks at the growth of companies over the last 5-years and breaks down the results nationally and regionally. This year’s results have been announced today and unsurprisingly the largest area for fast growth is London, then following on, each of the regions takes its share of the spoils. It’s great [...]

If anyone was still in doubt about web users’ appetite for watching streamed content online then YouTube’s latest figures should be all the convincing they need. The website’s founder, Chad Hurley, stated last week that YouTube is now getting over a billion hits a day from a global audience hungry for video content on the [...]

Every day I deal with tens of critically important servers. Database servers, web servers, mail servers – pretty much any machine used in a live setup is important, which makes checking the health of the server critical too. Every decent application produces logs, but turning these logs into something that you actually want to check [...]

Is there a more dominant business in its market than Google is today? The word ‘giant’ is over used to describe the size of companies but in Google’s case is seems inadequately small. So let’s say the galaxy-sized company this week reported record quarterly profits of a £1 billion, up 27% on the same period [...]

It’s amazing what a little confidence can do. Within a business, this can be encouraged and grown by the culture that the company promotes. So too, in the business world is confidence developed. But here, the culture is influenced more by the media at large. With much more news about the economy looking up, house [...]

Last week, Microsoft Exchange 2010 reached the RTM milestone. That being the release to manufacture of the new Exchange server product – in other words, they have finished writing the code for the product and have sent it out to be printed to CD’s and have packaging done. Current expectations are that the product will [...]

It’s been planned for months, the changes are all documented and even the next in line is already being worked on. None the less the excitement around the upcoming Ubuntu release is mounting! The new version of Ubuntu brings the usual bug fixes and package updates, but also lots of new software. This release includes [...]

Google recently added forum results to its search listings. The aim is to include more social media in its results mix. But is it a good idea? Well they say variety is the spice of life and it terms of delivering a wide scope of options, including social media would be a good thing. This [...]

Accelerating business growth is a big focus for us at UKFast. So, it helps that we have firsthand experience of what it is like to be a growing company. Having synergies with our clients allows us to understand their needs. UKFast was originally set up because Lawrence Jones experienced sub-standard hosting in his previous business. [...]

This week, Microsoft launched their Web Platform Installer 2.0 tool. This simple to use, extremely lightweight piece of software allows end users to quickly and easily install a plethora of free Web Platform software. See here for information and download: http://www.iis.net/webpi What’s great about this is that it really does make it a lot easier [...]