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
MPs call on Ofcom for better mobile broadband
By Jennifer Scott published
News The upcoming spectrum auction should ensure mobile broadband coverage for 98 per cent of the UK.
O2 further upsets customers with service
By Jennifer Scott published
News Now it is the customer service department coming under fire at the mobile provider for reportedly making a user jump hoops to block her lost handset.
Windows 7 migration causes concerns for IT pros
By Jennifer Scott published
News Moving to Microsoft’s newest operating system is proving troublesome for some businesses.
Video conferencing revenue rockets
By Jennifer Scott published
News The European market for video conferencing breaks $518 million, rising more than 20 per cent in a year.
National Audit Office claims NPfIT ‘falling far below
By Jennifer Scott published
News A report from the NAO slams the NHS’ IT programme, claiming it will never come to fruition.
No compensation for O2 network ‘vandal’ outage
By Jennifer Scott published
News The mobile provider claims it is back up and running after vandals caused its network to fall over, but don’t expect any compensation.
European Commission launches cloud review
By Jennifer Scott published
News As part of the digital agenda, the European Commission is asking for views on how cloud computing can be best utilised across the continent.
BlackBerry PlayBook coming to UK on 16 June
By Jennifer Scott published
News Research in Motion confirms four vendors will sell the tablet device on our shores.
UPDATED: O2 network hit with outage
By Jennifer Scott published
News An unexpected outage has taken down O2’s network, with vandals and thieves in the frame.
VMware boosts SaaS presence with Shavlik
By Jennifer Scott published
News The virtualisation specialist has snapped up the IT management firm to add to its cloud capabilities.
Can Silicon Roundabout ever top Silicon Valley?
By Jennifer Scott published
In-depth With a Government push to create our own tech hub in the centre of London, Jennifer Scott looks at why Silicon Valley is such a success and what lessons the UK can learn from the hotbed of innovation in the heart of California.
EMC World 2011: Q&A, Adrian McDonald, president of EMEA
By Jennifer Scott published
In-depth In his first interview with the UK press since his promotion, Adrian McDonald, who head up EMC's interests in EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) North, hints at plans for the Silicon Roundabout as well as new directions for the company.
EMC World 2011: How far will EMC move into the datacentre?
By Jennifer Scott published
News The massive acquisition budget and move into server flash has got tongues wagging about EMC’s direction.
EMC World 2011: EMC teams with Google for data search
By Jennifer Scott published
News The ‘deluge of data’ is hard to sift through, so EMC looks to the world’s search leader for help.
EMC World 2011: VMware to virtualise mobile phones
By Jennifer Scott published
News Work is in progress to provide enterprise users with two phones on one handset by using virtualisation technology.
EMC World 2011: Tucci looks to an open source future
By Jennifer Scott published
News Hadoop and Greenplum won’t be the last investment into open source, claims EMC’s chief executive.
EMC World 2011: EMC unveils flash storage for servers
By Jennifer Scott published
News The storage giant makes a play in the server market but denies intentions to make its own boxes.
EMC World 2011: News round-up
By Jennifer Scott published
News We bring you all the news from EMC's annual conference, this year held in Las Vegas.
EMC World 2011: EMC puts trust in Hadoop for ‘big data’
By Jennifer Scott published
News At its annual conference, EMC builds on its Greenplum acquisition with Hadoop-enabled software and an appliance.
EMC World 2011: IT staff to increase 47 per cent
By Jennifer Scott published
News By 2020 IT staff numbers will have increased significantly, but no way near as much as data grownth.
Networking comes under the spotlight
By Jennifer Scott published
News The growth of cloud computing and the consumerisation of IT has brought networking to the forefront of enterprise minds.
Pictures: Computer History Museum, Mountain View
By Jennifer Scott published
News Based in the heart of Silicon Valley, we take a tour of the museum displaying 2,000 years of computer history.
Q&A: Mike Klayko, CEO at Brocade
By Jennifer Scott published
In-depth We spent some one-on-one time with the top executive of the networking giant.
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