Despite the economic and social trauma of the past two years it appears that one area that has thrived as a result of the pandemic is cloud computing. Recent financial results from Industry behemoths Google, AWS and Microsoft all show, that despite downturns in some area of their businesses, cloud... read more →
Apr
23
Feb
03
World prepares for cyber-attacks as Ukraine conflict intensifies Whilst it is to be hoped that the heightened tensions between Russia and the Ukraine can be resolved diplomatically and quickly, it is believed that the first warning shots have already been fired. On the 14 January 2022, 70 Ukrainian government websites... read more →
Dec
09
Major AWS outage hits major sites from Adele tickets to Disney+ From Black Friday to Black Tuesday, from the excitement of thousands of transactions a second to well…nothing. Tuesday (7th) witnessed one of the largest outages of recent times as AWS (Amazon Web Services) suffered major problems with its US-East-1... read more →
Nov
17
So that’s the end of another COP, COP26 to be precise. The event where the world’s leaders descended on Glasgow to attempt to reach agreement on actions that will limit global warming - the rising of the earth’s temperature – by a maximum of a further 1.5C by 2030. Depending... read more →
Oct
12
The Need to Green the Data Centre Play a game of word association and if the words ‘Cloud’ and ‘Amazon’ were used, it’s quite probable that ‘Computing’ and ‘Retail/Ecommerce’ would be the first things we’d think of. And yet, if we were honest, how many of us would connect the... read more →
Sep
28
Excellent Sales Skills? Passionate about Support? Love the Cloud? If so we'd be vXtreamley pleased to meet you. Based within the heart of London’s tech district, vXtream has been meeting the hosting needs of companies of all sizes across all sectors for over 20 years. We've grown big enough to... read more →
Aug
25
Pandemic drives expansion of European Data Centre Market Whether we home-schooled, worked from home, kept ourselves connected, fit or active, internet access has been vital for us as we’ve navigated the devasting impact of the pandemic. With some providers reporting data traffic increases of 60% on their networks since early... read more →
Aug
08
Fast forward to December 2021, and online and print editors everywhere are preparing their ‘People of the Year’ lists. Who’s going to appear in them? Jason and Laura Kenny, Sifan Hassan, Billie Eilish, Marcus Rashford, Simone Biles, Elon Musk, Naomi Osaka, Sky Brown are all probable shoe-ins, but a surprise... read more →
Jul
12
The 4th July is traditionally the day that we reach out to family and friends across ‘the pond’ and wish them a Happy Independence Day. The national holiday, marked by patriotic displays, commemorates the Declaration of Independence of the United States, on July 4, 1776, when the Continental Congress declared... read more →