FD Insights Issue 11 | Page 5

Contents 04 Welcome letter from the Managing Director 05 Contents 06 The Customer Rules the Cloud: An opinion from First Distribution’s GM for Cloud, Kevin Derman 08 The Highlights Reel: A look back at some of the year’s big developments for First Distribution 12 From Strength to Strength: A closer look at First Distribution’s Hosted Solutions division 16 The Way of the Future: First for Cloud’s webstore roll-out continues 20 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 28 The Fearsome Foursome: Introducing First Distribution’s ladies golf team 30 Black Hat and Def Con: The Weird, Wonderful and Slightly Scary World of Online Security Conventions 33 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 34 The World’s Fastest Countries by Internet Speed 36 State of the Internet in 2015: Akamai’s quarterly report reveals some interesting stats 08 12 The FD Stack Section 40 FD Stack Intro 41 Client Computing 42 Hosted Solutions 43 Security 44 Software 45 Virtualisation 46 Storage 47 Servers 48 Networking 49 First for Cloud 20 30