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Video and web conference ability prowess (VAWCAP) is now a thing; we’re all working in the ‘new normal’ of Zoom-type remote dial-in experiences, brought about - obviously - as a result of the ...
When IT Meets Politics
How do YOU find and attract the Cybersecurity skills/talent YOU need?
Winsafe Ltd 11 Apr 2021Review the salaries you offer to Cybersecurity and Computer Science Graduates - unless your policy is to pay more for those implementing security by design. If you are worried about losing those ...
Open Source Insider
Gitpod DevXConf ‘developer experience’: never mind UX, what about DevX?
09 Apr 2021Open source developer platform company Gitpod is sprouting new growth. The company’s software is positioned as a software engineering platform to automate the provisioning of ready-to-code ...
CW Developer Network
Okta offers 'free' Starter Developer Edition, for secure apps, APIs & infrastructure
07 Apr 2021Identity is in the news, but that’s mainly due to the media discussion surrounding the use of an individual’s identity in a Covid-19 passport... if that eventuality actually comes to pass at a ...
There’s that moment of doom when you’re on a pre-call prep-call for a professional video job and the ‘producer’ gets to speak to you about your lighting. These people live in a world of rigs, boom ...
Earlier this week, the US Supreme Court ruled that Google did not infringe Oracle copyright on the Java SE API (application programming edition). The fact the US Supreme Court has digested a load ...
When IT Meets Politics
What Agenda is the new GDS Director, Identity Assurance Programme expected to deliver?
Winsafe Ltd 06 Apr 2021Experience in "Significant agile programme management and/or major change delivery" will not be enough. The appointee will need the skills of Machiavelli and the luck of the Devil.
Businesses in Asia-Pacific (APAC) will need to get a grip on software quality and security or risk losing their agility and control of service quality, according to a top executive at Dynatrace. ...
This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Vibhav Sreekanti, VP Engineering at Stackrox -- a company known for its Kubernetes-native security capabilities, which it now ...
This is a Q&A features David Meyer in his role as SVP of products at Databricks - a data lakehouse provider. Computer Weekly: What do enterprises need to think about when it comes to ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Throwback Thursday: Mobile moments and the past left far behind
Freeform Dynamics 01 Apr 2021We have looked at many reports from years ago that show that, whilst technology details may have moved on, many of the underlying factors haven’t changed very much. But this glance back to 2009 ...
GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Gemma Foster, head of service delivery at Visualsoft, explains how ensuring female role models are visible and accessible is how the tech sector can work ...
Inspect-a-Gadget
DataLocker DL4 FE: military-grade USB drive with ‘nuclear’ device payload security
31 Mar 2021The Computer Weekly Inspect-a-Gadget elves have gotten past their initial ‘oh, look, it’s a terabyte drive' excitement factor. We’ve seen a whole raft of these units come through the testing lab ...
This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Bruno Andrade in his roles as CEO at Shipa.io -- a company known for its technology that provides a developer-centric portal ...
This is a guest post by Kerry Singleton, managing director for cyber security at Cisco Asia-Pacific, Japan and China In recent weeks, we’ve seen a number of significant cybersecurity threats ...
Open Source Insider
Containerisation in the enterprise - Jetstack: A solid path to ephemerality
29 Mar 2021As businesses continue to modernise their server estate and move towards cloud-native architectures, the elephant in the room is the monolithic core business application that cannot easily be ...
CW Developer Network
Programming in the pandemic - OutSystems: Stepping up to modernised platforms for better times
29 Mar 2021With only a proportion of developers classified as key workers (where their responsibilities perhaps included the operations-side of keeping mission-critical and life-critical systems up and ...
Data Matters
The National Data Strategy needs doers
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 26 Mar 2021This is a guest blogpost by Dan Klein, Director, Solution Centre, Zühlke Engineering Albert Einstein told us “you can’t use an old map to explore a new world”. Common sense further dictates that ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Zombified Gov.uk Verify is officially dead - so what's next?
Editor in chief 26 Mar 2021The UK government has finally admitted in public for the first time that its flagship digital identity programme, Gov.uk Verify, is dead. This will be no surprise to anyone following the project, ...
Data Matters
Alan Turing honoured with visage on £50 note
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 25 Mar 2021Alan Turing’s service to his country has been recognised steadily in recent years: the 2013 posthumous royal pardon for the 1952 conviction for homosexuality that destroyed his life; the ...
Exercise ropes have some different interpretations. In American English, we say ‘jump rope’, whereas the British English expression refers to ‘skipping rope’... but whether it’s a jump or a skip, ...
Open Source Insider
Containerisation in the enterprise - Sumo Logic: Observability is nice, clarity is better
25 Mar 2021As businesses continue to modernise their server estate and move towards cloud-native architectures, the elephant in the room is the monolithic core business application that cannot easily be ...
YouTube has claimed it rushed to remove an offensive rap advert before the Advertising Standards Authority’s verdict on it even came in. The promo for Bamby H2O, an artist with fewer Instagram ...
Data Matters
Adam Selipsky returns to AWS as Tableau melds more into Salesforce
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 24 Mar 2021Adam Selipsky, CEO of data analytics company Tableau, has returned to AWS as its CEO – as Andy Jassy takes Jeff Bezos’ place as CEO of Amazon.com. It’s not quite the Tableau of which Selipsky took ...
This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Markus Eisele, developer adoption lead for EMEA at Red Hat & Chris Jenkins, EMEA chief technologist for infrastructure ...
Every five to 10 years there is a monumental shift in IT architecture. In the early 2000s, enterprises began seeing the benefits of virtualising physical servers. Cloud computing offered enterprise ...
Open Source Insider
Containerisation in the enterprise - Infoblox: Embracing cluster-addon operators
19 Mar 2021As businesses continue to modernise their server estate and move towards cloud-native architectures, the elephant in the room is the monolithic core business application that cannot easily be ...
Open Source Insider
Containerisation in the enterprise - SUSE: The deployment surface shifted, pack up for portability
18 Mar 2021As businesses continue to modernise their server estate and move towards cloud-native architectures, the elephant in the room is the monolithic core business application that cannot easily be ...
When IT Meets Politics
Ofcom enables £multi-billion refunding of BT to finance full-fibre roll out.
Winsafe Ltd 18 Mar 2021The Ofcom decision today appears to open the way for BT to similarly complete the convergence begun with the EE merger. But first it has to raise the money.
A Pennsylvania mum has been charged with multiple counts of harassment after reportedly using deepfake technology to oust her daughter’s cheerleading rivals. In a current-day reimagining of Sophie ...
Inspect-a-Gadget has a confession to make - we have been shouting at our laptop. Okay if not quite shouting, we have certainly been ‘projecting’ at the built-in microphone during Zoom calls, ...
Open Source Insider
Containerisation in the enterprise - VMware Tanzu: Superfood syndrome & rubberducking
17 Mar 2021As businesses continue to modernise their server estate and move towards cloud-native architectures, the elephant in the room is the monolithic core business application that cannot easily be ...
Open Source Insider
Containerisation in the enterprise - Red Hat: API accuracy unlocks container complexity
16 Mar 2021As businesses continue to modernise their server estate and move towards cloud-native architectures, the elephant in the room is the monolithic core business application that cannot easily be ...
GUEST BLOG: Neurodiversity Celebration Week takes place in the UK on 15 to 21 March 2021, and World Autism Awareness Week is from 29 March to 4 April 2021. In this contributed blog post, Larissa ...
Open Source Insider
Containerisation in the enterprise - Nutanix: Building a Kubernetes powerhouse for developers
16 Mar 2021As businesses continue to modernise their server estate and move towards cloud-native architectures, the elephant in the room is the monolithic core business application that cannot easily be ...
Open Source Insider
Containerisation in the enterprise - Couchbase: Standardisation keeps a lid on container sprawl
15 Mar 2021As businesses continue to modernise their server estate and move towards cloud-native architectures, the elephant in the room is the monolithic core business application that cannot easily be ...
Open Source Insider
Containerisation in the enterprise - D2iQ: The container complexity conundrum
13 Mar 2021As businesses continue to modernise their server estate and move towards cloud-native architectures, the elephant in the room is the monolithic core business application that cannot easily be ...
Open Source Insider
Containerisation in the enterprise - Cockroach Labs: The legacy impedance mismatch
13 Mar 2021As businesses continue to modernise their server estate and move towards cloud-native architectures, the elephant in the room is the monolithic core business application that cannot easily be ...
Data Matters
Is AI washing helpful for digital healthcare?
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 12 Mar 2021It has been fashionable for the past several years to invoke the term “artificial intelligence” as a ritual bath for the use of IT in healthcare. And while a level of hype can be taken with a pinch ...
In an open letter celebrating the birthday of the web Tim Berners-Lee and co-author, Rosemary Leith have called for better connectivity for young people in order to build a better post Covid world. ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Remember when cloud was going to kill the IT channel?
Freeform Dynamics 11 Mar 2021Cloud computing is now so much part of our everyday lives that it’s hard to remember a time when this wasn’t the case. Less than a decade ago, our surveys were still throwing up results confirming ...
Open Source Insider
Containerisation in the enterprise - Qualys: There's (sometimes) a hole in my bucket
11 Mar 2021As businesses continue to modernise their server estate and move towards cloud-native architectures, the elephant in the room is the monolithic core business application that cannot easily be ...
PayPal is taking its seductive “buy now, pay later” service to Australia, after successful roll-outs in Britain and the US saw it handle more than £540m of transactions by the end of 2020. It’s ...
Networks Generation
The New Norm Still Means The Old Norm When It Comes To Exchange Vulnerabilities
Broadband Testing 10 Mar 2021Some things in IT never change and one is exposing vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s armoury, not least as has recently been reported, Microsoft Exchange. Oh, how the hackers love Exchange… So, at the ...
Networks Generation
SASE in focus for enterprises in post-pandemic 2021
Broadband Testing 10 Mar 2021Recently in this ‘ere blog I took off tangentially a couple of times from a recently published customer survey carried out by Cato Networks, itself at the epicentre of an IT pandemic known as SASE. ...
Open Source Insider
Containerisation in the enterprise - Hammerspace: Portable potential in storageless data
10 Mar 2021As businesses continue to modernise their server estate and move towards cloud-native architectures, the elephant in the room is the monolithic core business application that cannot easily be ...
Open Source Insider
Containerisation in the enterprise - Appvia: Immutable truths to unplug the cost sinkers
09 Mar 2021As businesses continue to modernise their server estate and move towards cloud-native architectures, the elephant in the room is the monolithic core business application that cannot easily be ...
Open Source Insider
Containerisation in the enterprise - New Relic: MELT-ing Kubernetes observability
08 Mar 2021As businesses continue to modernise their server estate and move towards cloud-native architectures, the elephant in the room is the monolithic core business application that cannot easily be ...
Open Source Insider
Containerisation in the enterprise - Persistent Systems: The 'spectrum' of legacy containerisation
06 Mar 2021As businesses continue to modernise their server estate and move towards cloud-native architectures, the elephant in the room is the monolithic core business application that cannot easily be ...
WITsend
Winners announced for the 2021 FDM everywoman in Technology awards
Business Editor 05 Mar 2021Women’s network everywoman has announced the winners of the 2021 everywoman in Technology Awards, sponsored by FDM. While “legacy” is a word which often carries negative connotations when relating ...