February’s Round Table sessions have kicked off to a great start, with two industry debates having already taken place this month; things can only get bigger and better. UKFast was privileged enough to be joined by six social media experts from around the country, who provided us with a lively debate, unearthing useful advice for [...]

Are you a Top Gun? Yesterday I reused a term for the standard I want all our support engineers to consistently hit. Top Gun as most people know is a cult film and introduced us to the best of the best fighter pilots. At Manchester University I lived with a group of RAF pilots and [...]

According to research by recruitment firm Monster.co.uk, most IT professionals are unhappy in their current roles and are thinking of changing jobs. The study found that only 30 per cent of the 228 UK IT staff surveyed are satisfied with their current employment, with 92 per cent of these people considering a change. At UKFast [...]

This month Microsoft has released twelve new security bulletins, addressing twenty-two vulnerabilities. The following table shows affected software by bulletin and the likelihood of an Operating System restart being required and hence impacting on services provided. In summary, we are likely to see updates requiring reboots of servers this month. MC. (as usual, as a [...]

ISO is a network of the national standards institutes of 163 countries, one member per country, with a Central Secretariat in Geneva, Switzerland. ISO standards are regulated in the UK by a governmental body called UKAS – United Kingdom Accreditation Service. If you don’t see the UKAS tick box and crown, don’t trust that the [...]

Perhaps the decision to allow journalists to “tweet” from court was inevitable – social networking sites are becoming more and more prevalent in the way people consume news – but the implications of the historic decision, taken in December by district judge Howard Riddle, to adopt Twitter as a courtroom tool shouldn’t be taken lightly. [...]

The Digital Entrepreneur Awards last week were an eye opener. As part of the team at UKFast – the headline sponsor of this year’s awards – I knew that they aimed to reward the best online businesses for their entrepreneurial achievements. What I didn’t know is just how crucial a role “The Everyman” would play in the feats of those fast-growing businesses on the web.

As main sponsors of the Digital Entrepreneur Awards 2010, everyone at UKFast was thrilled to see the event come together in such a spectacular and sparkling fashion on Wednesday night at the Palace Hotel in Manchester. London restaurant group Pied a Terre and Masabi – the software developer that closed a deal with trainline.com in [...]

So, it is official… last night UKFast was named the IT Employer of the Year at the IT Industry Awards 2010! Our communications director Jonathan Bowers attended the award ceremony last night in London which attracted hundreds of business leaders and celebrated industry excellence across the UK. MD Lawrence Jones is on a business trip [...]

As I’m sure most of you are aware, Movember is a yearly event whereby men around the world grow moustaches to raise money for charities such as The Prostate Cancer Charity. The event which reportedly started in Australia in 2001, has now become a worldwide phenomenon endorsed by multi-national brands, celebrities and is attracting a [...]