Kate Craig-Wood is co-founder and MD of Memset, Britain's leading dedicated server, virtual server and green hosting technology company. In addition to her interest in using her positions to represent the needs of local businesses and SME's, Kate has three principal special interest areas: Green Technology, Girls into technology, and improved care for the transgendered.
January 30, 2012
As we enter 2012, and the world economy continues to stutter, teetering on the brink of another global recession fuelled this time by not the...
January 12, 2012
In the 1980s, computer viruses passed around on floppy disks were the main security risks. How things have changed! Now, we have bot nets, adaptive...
November 11, 2011
There has recently been a lot of news about cyber security, and it is a hot item in Whitehall and at the top levels in...
September 29, 2011
A couple of months ago HP started rumors that the G-Cloud had been canned, but that is most certainly not the case. I have spoken...
September 14, 2011
Blogging, microblogging and social networking services are rapidly growing in use by business. Can they be beneficial to businesses or are they a pointless waste...
August 15, 2011
Apple’s new iCloud service will undeniably bring more mainstream attention and acceptance to the concept of cloud storage and syncing. But to attract business users,...
July 07, 2011
As the increasing use of cloud computing and other technologies is changing the world of data management, keeping your data private and secure is an...
June 06, 2011
For several years now, we’ve been running all our business systems over the ‘net (including instant messaging, email, document management, project management & collaboration)...
February 25, 2011
The vast majority of our customers are SMEs and I have helped many of them migrate to the cloud. Here I shall explain what cloud...
October 26, 2010
The music and movies industry are keen to tell us how enormously energy intensive downloading media can be. But just how much energy does get...
October 20, 2010
The best way you can protect yourself from IT suppliers going bust is by disintegrating the IT services supply chain. The rationale goes like this:...
June 24, 2010
Yesterday we heard the emergency budget from the new coalition government. Here are the points most pertinent to me as an IT entrepreneur running a...
May 18, 2010
One of the areas on which we reached clear agreement in the G-Cloud and App Store phase 2 was the definition the layers of the...
March 31, 2010
Now that I have had a chance to digest last week’s budget, it does seem that there is goodness in it for companies like mine: 1....
February 26, 2010
I have spent the last few months working with the cabinet office on phase 2a of the UK’s G-Cloud and App Store programme. My position...
