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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 ...
Open Source Insider
Containerisation in the enterprise - Percona: Don't leave container costs to cluster luck
05 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 ...
Kids love electronic devices, but not every family is going to be comfortable with starting their offspring off on a smartphone and smartwatch during their pre-teen years, or indeed while they are ...
When IT Meets Politics
Making sense of the changing UK Cyber Policing and Skills Scene
Winsafe Ltd 04 Mar 2021There is an urgent need to make rapid use of the trusted partner programmes of the new Cyber Resilience Centres to help business of all sizes (and charities, schools, reputable training providers ...
Open Source Insider
Containerisation in the enterprise - Engine Yard: Container fun with Bob and Alice
04 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 ...
Online genealogy platform MyHeritage has embraced deep learning with its Deep Nostalgia service, which allows users to crudely animate photos of their long-dead descendants – or, let’s face it, ...
Open Source Insider
Containerisation in the enterprise - Glue42: Different shapes, web application containers
03 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 - Open Infrastructure Foundation: The flavours of containers
02 Mar 2021As businesses continue to modernise their server estate and move towards a cloud-native architecture, the elephant in the room is the monolithic core business application that cannot easily be ...
This is a guest post by Gaurav Chhiber, vice-president of Asia-Pacific and Japan at IronNet Cybersecurity The recent and unfolding news about the Russian APT 29, or Cozy Bear, SolarWinds breach is ...
Taking stock of retail tech
Taking back control in the face of Covid-19 and Brexit
Business Editor 02 Mar 2021GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Anastasia Laska, vice president partner alliances and business development, Revionics, an Aptos company, explains how employing tech that helps them roll ...
GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Ana Gillan, senior solutions engineer at Cloudera, discusses why she believes putting authenticity at the heart of everything you do is the key to ...
Open Source Insider
Containerisation in the enterprise - Red Hat: precision-picking practice for pot platform prowess
01 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 ...
Lockdown happened - and, consequently, a lot of people looked into the idea of finding a place to stay that would allow them some disconnection from the world and a place where they could work and ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Improve trust in algorithmic decision-making
Managing Editor 01 Mar 2021There is a new dirty word in politics. Over the last few weeks politicians and commentators have spoken publicly about how this year’s GCSE and A’levels won’t be based on algorithms. Instead, they ...
The UK cybersecurity industry is heavily concentrated. Only 150 suppliers, employing 2/3rd of the work force are large enough to provide realistic in-house work experience for trainees/apprentices. ...
Data Matters
Should we test data like we test software?
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 26 Feb 2021This is a guest blogpost by Maarten Masschelein, CEO & Founder, Soda In the not too distant past the idea of software quality was often more discussed than adhered to. In fact, Reed Hastings ...
GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Anne Kiem, executive director, Small Business Charter, talks about how Covid-19 has heightened a "pre-existent mental health epidemic" in UK tech It’s a ...
GUEST BLOG: In this contributed post, Cloud9 Insight CEO Carlene Jackson explains why she recently told an All-Party Parliamentary Group the UK needs to create a ‘one-stop-shop’ for apprenticeships ...
ITWorks
We can futureproof our economy by closing our growing digital divide
Business Editor 25 Feb 2021GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Andrew Proctor, pro vice chancellor for digital at Staffordshire University, discusses how closing the digital divide in the UK could contribute towards ...