Jennifer Scott
Jennifer Scott is a former freelance journalist and currently political reporter for Sky News. She has a varied writing history, having started her career at Dennis Publishing, working in various roles across its business technology titles, including ITPro. Jennifer has specialised in a number of areas over the years and has produced a wealth of content for ITPro, focusing largely on data storage, networking, cloud computing, and telecommunications.
Most recently Jennifer has turned her skills to the political sphere and broadcast journalism, where she has worked for the BBC as a political reporter, before moving to Sky News.
Latest articles by Jennifer Scott
Nicira launches Network Virtualisation Platform
By Jennifer Scott published
News The Californian company virtualises the network to cut costs in the cloud.
Cloudy Government store to offer 1,700 services
By Jennifer Scott published
News Despite early predictions of just 50, the director of the G-cloud reveals the number of services has rocketed since the tender.
Symantec touts 100 times faster backup
By Jennifer Scott published
News The firm claims its solution will cut backup costs by 80 per cent for both virtual and physical environments.
G-Cloud posts ‘intent to award’ notices
By Jennifer Scott published
News After several deadline extensions, the G-Cloud project has got to the stage of awarding contracts to bidders.
Android users to benefit from Google Docs offline
By Jennifer Scott published
News The cloud company tries to improve the mobile experience by adding offline support for Docs access from Android handsets.
Norton set to secure passwords through the cloud
By Jennifer Scott published
News The division of Symantec enables logins to multiple sites and devices with one secure master password.
Government unveils beta website for range of services
By Jennifer Scott published
News The Government has introduced a cloud-based beta for all public sector services.
EMC Isilon unveils Hadoop scale-out NAS
By Jennifer Scott published
News The storage giant integrates the open source analytics platform into its NAS product.
Big Data boosts Acunu
By Jennifer Scott published
News Acunu’s Big Data platform means big business as the Silicon Roundabout firm wings its way to Silicon Valley.
Oracle ships over one exabyte of tape storage
By Jennifer Scott published
News The Silicon Valley giants reports mammoth sales proving tape storage still has its part to play in the industry.
GoGrid entices users to new European datacentre
By Jennifer Scott published
News As the cloud firm announces its new base in Amsterdam, it tries to attract users with the offer of free access until the end of February.
Oracle: ‘Public clouds built on us’
By Jennifer Scott published
News The Silicon Valley giant claims nine out of 10 of the major cloud providers use its kit to run their public clouds.
Kensington BungeeAir Power Wireless Security Tether for
By Jennifer Scott published
Reviews A wireless case and keyfob combination that sounds an alert if an iPhone 4 strays out of reach. But is it just another gimmick or a viable business accessory? Jennifer Scott aims to find out in this review.
Google Apps adopted by BBVA
By Jennifer Scott published
News The Spanish bank signs up to the largest ever implementation of Google Apps for Business.
Google: 2012 to be ‘huge year’ for SMB cloud
By Jennifer Scott published
News The Silicon Valley sweetheart claims the next 12 months will see SMBs getting deeper into cloud computing.
Sage launches cloud payroll for small business
By Jennifer Scott published
News The new Sage One Payroll product aims to help the smaller firm get their payments in order.
Microsoft signs up to EU cloud standards
By Jennifer Scott published
News Model clauses designed to protect EU customer data have been agreed by Microsoft for Office 365.
Microsoft brings SkyDrive to the iPhone
By Jennifer Scott published
News Cloud storage from the Redmond giant is now available as an app for Apple's iconic device.
SAP splashes £2.18bn on SuccessFactors
By Jennifer Scott published
News The firm boosts their business software with the inclusion of Human Capital Management.
PEER 1 Hosting pushes public cloud with Zunicore
By Jennifer Scott published
News The new division will offer public cloud infrastructure and platform services to the business professional.
IDC warns of ‘cloud wars’ in 2012
By Jennifer Scott published
News The analyst firm claims now cloud is established, the fight is on for who will be the dominating vendors.
Vodafone to offer public cloud services
By Jennifer Scott published
News The head of IT for Vodafone Ireland said the company had ‘one eye’ on offering its internal cloud services to the public.
Fujitsu unveils Cloud Connect Communication suite
By Jennifer Scott published
News In its latest foray into cloud computing, Fujitsu looks to the network for hosted communications.
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