Contents
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Welcome letter from the Managing Director
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Contents
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The Customer Rules the Cloud: An opinion from First
Distribution’s GM for Cloud, Kevin Derman
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The Highlights Reel: A look back at some of the year’s big
developments for First Distribution
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From Strength to Strength: A closer look at First
Distribution’s Hosted Solutions division
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The Way of the Future:
First for Cloud’s webstore roll-out continues
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The Best Game in the World at Which to be Bad:
A preview of the three golf courses at which First
Distribution’s end-of-year golf days will be hosted
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The Fearsome Foursome: Introducing First Distribution’s
ladies golf team
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Black Hat and Def Con: The Weird, Wonderful and Slightly
Scary World of Online Security Conventions
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Consistent Visibility is Key to a Better E-Commerce
Experience: Thought-leadership from Karl Campbell,
Regional Vice President for UK and South Africa at Riverbed
Technology
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The World’s Fastest Countries by Internet Speed
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State of the Internet in 2015: Akamai’s quarterly report
reveals some interesting stats
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The FD Stack Section
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FD Stack Intro
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Client Computing
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Hosted Solutions
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Security
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Software
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Virtualisation
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Storage
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Servers
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Networking
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First for Cloud
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