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Features in this issue

• Alan Bates: The ‘details man’ the Post Office paid the price for ignoring

  by  Karl Flinders

  In 2003, subpostmaster Alan Bates had his contract terminated when he refused to comply with Post Office policy. A decade and a half later, against the odds, he took the Post Office to the High Court and won a multimillion-pound legal case

• Oracle customers complain of cloud coercion

  by  Cliff Saran

  In December, Oracle won its day in court – but a poll reveals a sales tactic based on audit threats combined with heavy cloud discounts

• From consumer to prosumer: Reducing the datacentre industry’s reliance on the national grid

  by  Nicholas Fearn

  With the government ramping up plans to go net zero on carbon emissions by 2050, where does the datacentre industry stand – and how can it become more sustainable over the coming years?