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Roke Manor Research Ltd , acquired by the US Chemring Group in 2010 has been appointed by the UK Government's National Technical Authority for Information Assurance (CESG), as UK's only Conformance Test Facility of Protocol Requirements for IP Modular Encryption (PRIME) the UK's framework to ensure interoperability between large UK government networks such as the Public Services Network (PSN)

iomart Hosting has been voted one of the best web hosting companies and cloud service providers of 2011in the US HostReview Annual Web Hosting Awards winning third place, just behind Liquid Web and SoftLayer and was the highest placed of any European company. It also came 4th in the Best Cloud Service category for “those companies that offer outstanding performance and value for cloud computing servers,” ahead of US giant, Amazon.

Last November, Google announced its support for a new Data Journalism competition, organised by the Global Editors Network. The competition is now open to submissions and a London event detailed on how to compete and win a total of six prizes worth €45,000. Hopefully even if the UK makes a poor fist at it this time, it will encourage higher teaching associations specialising in journalism to push at data analysis and social network analysis tools and skills.

The rising use of online storage and infrastructure systems to support services like Apple Inc.’s iCloud, cloud servers will enjoy robust prospects in 2012 and then move on to become the fastest-growing segment of the server industry within three years. Shipments of cloud servers are projected to reach 875,000 units in 2012, up a notable 35% from 647,000 in 2011 and nearly double the 460,000 in 2010 in IHS iSuppli Compute Platforms report

Commercial broadband speeds are dwindling behind those piped into residential premises, leaving people at work struggling to get the sort of speeds they enjoy when using the internet at home. Business telecoms Abica says this is a costly problem that the smaller business community cannot afford to put up with and offers to rectify the problem.

Having moved offices and with work on EU projects 4CAAST, Cumulo Nimbo, and Optimis,cloud automation software company, Flexiant has now secured £1m investment and appointed John Pocock and George Knox as chairman and CEO, shedding Laurence Blackall, with co-founders Alex Bligh and Tony Lucas moving to COO and CTO respectively.

Liverpool broadband specialist AIMES Grid Services has secured £1.2m of investment to build the first phase of a next-generation data centre. The cloud computing provider will develop a 35,000 sq.ft, 1.5MW facility at its Liverpool Innovation Park based in Edge Lane boasting an new cooling system and saving 3,000 tonnes of CO2 a year, pushing the city to the forefront of UK energy efficient digital provision.

Virgin Media is to invest more than £110m over 18 months to double the broadband speed for most of its 4m internet customers and tested speeds of up to 1.5Gb a second in a trial of tech businesses at the so-called Silicon Roundabout in London. The company says that those who subscribe to its up to 10Mb service – 74% of its 4.1m internet clients will see their speed double to 20Mb. But don't hold your breath.

Surrey based European computing giant MTI opened its offices in Edinburgh last month, has already a staff of five and expects to bring in between £5m and £6m-worth of business during the first year. The firm with operations in France, Germany and the Netherlands has not as yet had time to become a ScotlandIS member.

Trelligence (Texas) IES (Glasgow) and ONUMA (Pasedena) reacting to widespread ambiguity in the architecture, engineering, construction (AEC) industry over the concept of a Building Information Model (BIM) server are providing an open definition of the concept with a mutual intent to keep their respective technologies consistent with that common direction.

The National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) is to launch a new UK initiative to help police forces save up to £3m yearly which is spent analysing crime scene forensic samples. In Finland, CSC boosts its biomedical performance with cloud computing, as the China and the US reveal sequencing is deluged with so much data as to threaten retaining data records one the analytical findings are concluded.

“Grid Based Propositional Satisfiability Solving” research by Antti Hyvärine at Aalto University School of Science and Technology, Finland, shows how grid and cloud computing can be applied to efficiently solving propositional satisfiability problem (SAT) instances. Propositional logic provides a convenient language for expressing real-world problems such as AI planning, automated test pattern generation, bounded model checking and cryptoanalysis.

US researchers argue that servers can be sent to homes and ofﬁce buildings and used as the primary heat source. Calling this the Data Furnace (DF) approach, there are three advantages over traditional data centers: namely a smaller carbon footprint; reduced total cost of ownership per server and closer proximity to users.

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