Jo Best

Jo Best

Jo Best has been covering IT for over a decade for publications including silicon.com, Guardian Government Computing, and ZDNet in both London and Sydney. As a freelance writer and full-time student, Jo has an interest in health, mobile, an…d emerging tech.

Jo Best has nothing to disclose but her love of vegan cake. She holds no shares and has no business relationships with any of the companies she writes about.

Latest from Jo Best

CommBank suffers Australia-wide outage

Commonwealth Bank users across Australia found themselves unable to make transactions today when the bank suffered a countrywide systems outage.

January 16, 2008 by Jo Best in Data Centers

Germany's biggest datacentre opens its doors, targeting the security-conscious

Deutsche Telekom's IT services arm has opened a twin facility for its existing Magdeburg datacentre.

July 7, 2014 by Jo Best in Data Centers

Apple spending €1.7bn on two new datacentres in Europe

The two facilities, built in Ireland and Denmark, will run entirely on renewable energy.

February 23, 2015 by Jo Best in Data Centers

Microsoft, Unisys take on EU data sharing

Companies team up to develop platform connecting law enforcement systems in 27 European countries.

June 28, 2006 by Jo Best in Data Centers

Google puts €450m into beefing up Finnish datacentre

Google is more than doubling its investment into the seawater-cooled facility.

November 4, 2013 by Jo Best in Data Centers

British Library to archive e-mail

Famed home of Gutenberg Bibles and First Folios will safeguard the electronic missives of "influential people."

October 19, 2004 by Jo Best in Data Centers