Kate is the co-founder & managing director of Memset, the UK's leading provider of business Web hosting, dedicated servers & virtual machines. Memset was the UK's first Carbon Neutral ISP, and Kate is a well known advocate of green IT, energy efficient data centre technologies and cloud/utility computing. She is the youngest-ever main board member of Intellect, the UK's high-tech trade association, sits on their energy & environment leadership group, and is also a committee member of the BCS Data Centre Specialist Group.
In addition to her environmental interests, Kate is also a champion for the cause of women in technology, and has a particular interest in encouraging more girls towards the hard sciences and careers in technology. She sits on Intellect's women in IT forum management committee, and is also heavily involved with the BCS's work on that front.
Yesterday I was in the Sunday Times thanks to being included in Management Today’s ’35 Women Under 35’ 2009 List; I snuck in with a healthy margin of 2.5 years. Obviously I am delighted to be among such prestigious company, but was dissapointed to see that I was the only female technologist in the list.
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The British Computer Society’s Data Centre Specialist Group has released a beta version of their data centre cost and energy simulator to members of the specialist group. The simulator has come out of the Carbon Trust’s Low Carbon Collaboration initiative jointly funded by BCS and Romonet. Here are my first impressions from the preview a few weeks ago.
Earlier this week Dell launched a new Website subsection targeted at women called ‘Della’. The site is incredibly patronising and grossly sexist, offending me and many other women, both techies and non-techies alike. Read my letter here, and send your own!
Twitter recently announced that they would be removing replies to people you do not follow from the timeline. In my view, and that of just about everyone I know and follow, that is highly undesirable and eliminates a large part of what was unique about Twitter. Now it has taken a giant leap back in time to IRC-days.
Last month I had a brief spot on CNBC due to our inclusion in the 2008 Deloitte UK Technology Fast 50. It is a two minute spot where I talk about what has driven our rapid growth, and some of the challenges that has brought us. Watch the video here.