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Digital Shoreditch: Britain's South by Southwest?


East London’s Digital Shoreditch festival will kick off in the capital next week, with a two-week programme of events celebrating the creative, technical and entrepreneurial talent of Tech City and the East End.Touted as Britain's answer to South by Southwest...


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Always consider the eventualities


A while back I did a fairly major upgrade. Because systems had to be down it had to be done overnight; not a big deal, it's a perfectly normal thing to do as a techie. My colleagues and I spent...


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ROI in a Flash: deploying storage memory in the data centre


Flash is a hot topic, but what is the value of flash in the data centre? Is the price such that adoption in the enterprise will continue at a rapid pace? Or is it still a niche offering, only to...


Tags: data centre, flash memory, fusion-io, hardware, storage

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Tech City: hiding behind the numbers?


The thing about government ambassadors is they are so relentlessly optimistic. In an effusive speech at Queen Mary University's Mile End Group earlier this week, the Prime Minister’s ambassador to Tech City, Ben Hammersley, said that the East London...


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Whose PaaS is it anyway?


Cloudy days are here, but in the most positive sense. After the hype we are gradually witnessing a healthy adoption of cloud computing. However, as cloud can refer to IaaS, PaaS or SaaS platforms, the degree of adoption among these...


Tags: cloud computing, cloudcomputing, iaas, infrastructure, paas, platform as a service

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Tech City needs better communications infrastructure


If London's Tech City is to fulfil its promise of becoming Britain's answer to Silicon Valley, it needs a world-class telecoms infrastructure to support the entrepreneurs living and working there, and encourage new businesses to set up shop in the...


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Data's two masters - Performance and persistence


Guest post by Fusion-io senior director Mat YoungToday, data storage has two masters, performance and persistence, and serving both leads to compromise, with performance often finding itself on the short end of the stick. Compromising storage performance causes CPUs to...


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How to prepare for HTML 5 using cloud services


The development of an enterprise solution that allows mobile devices to be integrated into corporate IT, delivers mobile device management and provide users with desktop capabilities, such as file access, printing, faxing or generating database reports, has been in the...


Tags: blackberry, html, internet explorer, javafx, javascript, microsoft, rich internet application, world wide web consortium

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A cluster is greater than the sum of its parts


There is a huge amount of scepticism around the concept of London's Tech City. In conversations with fellow journalists over the past few weeks, it has emerged that many people regard London's “Silicon Roundabout” as a phony attempt by the...


Tags: cambridge, city road, east london, george osborne, london, tech city, technology strategy board, tweetdeck

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Why Apple and Amazon should pay more tax


Image via CrunchBase Last week Amazon was publically named as talented avoider of UK Corporation tax and this week it’s Apple’s turn. According to The Daily Mail, the US giant that generated sales approaching $10 billion in the UK last...


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David is a man of many parts. He's been a consultant editor for Techworld since its launch. David currently earns a crust as a technology consultant, specialising in networking, telecomms, security and Internet application development. He has variously worked as a systems and network manager in academia and the defence industry, a full-time writer, technical director of an international test lab, head of IT for a multi-national publisher and CTO of both an Internet startup and later a venture capital organisation. When not writing copy for Techworld or developing websites for friends and family, David's main weekend vice is spending vast amounts of money renting light aircraft to fly over the mountains of Norfolk.
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John is one of the co-founders of Techworld. He started in IT journalism as technical editor of Personal Computer Magazine, and went on to edit several other titles including LAN Magazine, its successor Network World, and later the leading trade weekly of its time, Network Week. After editing startup technology title Tornado-Insider, he went on to Techword in 2003. He has also freelanced for a number of technical publications in the technology, science and business fields.
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Louise Simmons has been working in the telecommunications and networking industry for 20 years. Her network support and project commissioning work for several large finance houses and petrochemical companies has given her the dubious pleasure of installing equipment in Africa, Russia, and on offshore platforms in the North Sea, as well as various less scary places around the UK and Europe. She holds CCIE and CCDE certifications and is a Certified Cisco Systems Instructor. Louise now works as an independent network consultant.
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Sophie Curtis

Showcasing the startup scene in London’s Tech City and beyond, looking at cutting-edge applications, who is on the money and examining key policies – including whether the government should be getting more involved or leaving well alone.

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Sophie Curtis is Deputy Editor of Techworld.com. Most of the time she covers hardcore enterprise IT, but just occasionally she likes to delve into East London's 'Tech City', to find out about the latest technology startups that are driving innovation in the UK and beyond.
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Tate Cantrell

Tate Cantrell is Chief Technology Officer at Verne Global and a driving force behind the building of the Keflavik dual sourced, 100 percent renewable energy datacentre. His primary responsibilities include product design and development and datacentre operations.
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Gary Orenstein is vice president of products at Fusion-io. He is host of The Cloud Computing Show, a contributor to GigaOM, and the author of IP Storage Networking: Straight to the Core.
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