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I very recently spoke at a webinar for a long-time client emanating from the artist formerly known as helpdesk market - Sunrise Software - on the increasing importance of APIs - usable ones, not ...
GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Eleanor Bradley, MD of registry and public benefit at Nominet, explains how digital skills and competency must be the post-pandemic focus to ensure young ...
Data is, just in case you hadn’t heard, the new lifeblood of business. It is the new oil, the new commodity, the new key ‘good’ and it is (of course) the lifeblood that drives the applications we ...
CW Developer Network
Widening the Amazon: OutSystems partners to broaden its AWS functions
07 Dec 2020More than ‘just’ a low-code software company these days, Portugal-founded OutSystems will be 20-years old next year and the company now stands for an application platform designed to provide ...
The Inspect-a-Gadget lab elves had some slightly unusual moments testing out the Razer Kaira Pro headset designed for Xbox, in a good way. Where’s the dongle? We were sure there must have been a ...
If anyone were in any doubt, the future is cloud. Just to clarify, the future is cloud and the future of cloud is hybrid cloud. For the record, the future is cloud and the future of cloud is hybrid ...
As many will know, JavaScript is a programming language that became the standard for browser-based programming, but it has also expanded beyond the client space to become a dominant language on the ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Throwback Thursday: Linux on the Desktop
Freeform Dynamics 03 Dec 2020As our contribution to the bit of fun that is Throwback Thursday, we're taking a weekly stroll in the Freeform Dynamics archives. The first thing that struck me when I re-read our 'Linux on the ...
Over the last few months Computer Weekly has asked readers about their early experiences of computing and their first computer. A number sent in stories of how they learned programming on the home ...
Networks Generation
Networking as a Service Beats Not Working as an Alternative...
Broadband Testing 03 Dec 2020So, we’ve had number of standalone elements emerge in recent years: cloud, SD-WAN, virtual anything and everything that- together – create what you could readily term a next generation network, as ...
Nobody needs to be reminded that 2020 taught us to be kinder, nicer and more caring to people. Many companies have decided to take the chance this year to explain just what they stand for over and ...
A senior lecturer in management at the University of Exeter has suggested a number of wise-cracking robots have the emotional intelligence required to make them suitable for leadership roles. ...
If Jamie Oliver (other celebrity chefs are available) launched a service named Tastiest Ever Chef, you might not think it that unusual… but it’s a brand naming convention that we don’t often find ...
As part of the 2020 Computer Weekly diversity and inclusion event, in partnership with Spinks, we ran a number of workshops in the leadup to the day covering a range of different topics relating to ...
Open Source Insider
Neural lingual cure-all: Unbabel open sources Machine Translation (MT) tool
01 Dec 2020Babel is a term long associated with language and many of us have read the Tower of Babel pages on Wikipedia and elsewhere. When doing this, if nothing else, you can get some bible study in and ...
Welcome to our last edition of Tech in APAC for the year. One of our key stories in November was a piece we did on Snowflake, which made its debut in September on Wall Street as the biggest ...
Deep in the Inspect-a-Gadget lab, our elves don’t always get out and see the light of day that much; they’re quiet reflective characters who sometimes prefer the dim light of the backlit keyboard ...
Open Source Insider
Scanuppa you face: Exadel open sources CompreFace facial recognition tool
30 Nov 2020Within appropriate boundaries governing personal security, identity protection, data governance and information sharing compliance, there’s a strong argument for making all facial recognition ...
Google wants to help the programming community work more confidently with open source software. The search-cloud-platform tech giant has developed a new scorecard system intended to allow software ...
When IT Meets Politics
Which suppliers cannot deliver rural broadband by 2025?
Winsafe Ltd 28 Nov 2020The decision to delay over £3 billion of spend is one that deserves "robust" scrutiny by the hundred or so MPs whose parliamentary majorities may depend on improve on-line access to education, ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
An IT business boost in spite of spending review forecast
Managing Editor 26 Nov 2020If there is something a CIO could do to enable the business to increase its earnings by 5%, everyone would be listening. McKinsey recently highlighted the difference in performance between those ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
The authentication arms race continues
Freeform Dynamics 26 Nov 2020This week we are heading back to 2006, when we reported on that sadly-perennial favourite: IT access security, and more specifically, Managing Access Securely. As our contribution to the bit of fun ...
Data Matters
Initial thoughts on prospective Salesforce acquisition of Slack
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 26 Nov 2020The FT’s ever-excellent, San Francisco-based Richard Waters has reported on a prospective acquisition of Slack by Salesforce. Slack, notes Waters, has evolved from being a chat app to a broader ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Rob Tribe, VP of systems engineering for EMEA region at Nutanix. Tribe contends that today, none of us can attend a ...
This dystopian shambles of a year has reached a new, personal low, after a PR email revealed that a robotics company based in Reading has completed its first successful trial of a VR-controlled ...
Open Source Insider
Open source a stream: Alibaba Cloud conjures up e-retail stream processing ‘magic’
25 Nov 2020The stuff of legends? The original Ali Baba for sure, but the tech firm Alibaba is also hoping to go down in the history books. TechTarget’s Aaron Tang has already detailed some of the firm’s most ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
We need to start prioritizing workforce health and wellbeing
25 Nov 2020This has been a shot in the arm for those who have long overlooked their health.
In this guest post, Tony Jacob, vice president of design and construction for Europe, Middle East and Africa at colocation giant Digital Realty predicts what the next decade holds for the ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
What next for digital identity in the UK? Industry welcomes latest DCMS plan
Editor in chief 24 Nov 2020After months – some would say years – of frustration and delay, tech suppliers have largely welcomed the latest government initiative to establish a digital identity ecosystem in the UK. The ...
Software intelligence company Dynatrace enjoys tracing, dynamically, obviously. As such then, the fourth generation of its distributed tracing and code-level analysis technology, PurePath captures, ...
Champion of continuous intelligence Sumo Logic spends its time looking inside the state of the modern application technology stack, including changing trends in cloud and application adoption and ...
All laptops are pretty much the same today, right? Open the packaging and you get your basic clamshell unit, a power cable and adapter, a little warranty leaflet that you leave in the back of the ...
Data Matters
CTRL, ALT, REPEAT – Why short-sighted digitisation strategies may see businesses revert to analogue
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 20 Nov 2020This is a guest blogpost by Stuart Bernard, Iron Mountain’s VP of Digital Solutions. In it he writes about a new study suggesting Covid-driven digitisation of business processes could be ...
Open Source Insider
OpenUK joins Euro data infrastructure Gaia-X project as ‘UK lifeline’ amid Brexit maelstrom
20 Nov 2020OpenUK is the open technology advocate organisation for open data, open source hardware and open source software in the UK - so yeah, pretty open all round. The organisation has now joined the ...
With just a couple of weeks left of 2020, it is worth reflecting on what IT professionals can take away from this year. First and foremost, the hard work put in by IT staff, enabled many, many ...
To emerge stronger in 2021, print industry players must adopt a future forward mindset to address the rapidly evolving cloud and hybrid workplace era – or risk being left behind. The office print ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Throwback Thursday: IT Support, now and then
Freeform Dynamics 19 Nov 2020As our contribution to the bit of fun that is Throwback Thursday, we're taking a weekly stroll in the Freeform Dynamics archives. This week I look at a report we produced back in August 2006, the ...
The Labour Party has called for emergency laws to prevent social media companies from playing host to anti-vaccine content. You’d’ve thought the ruling elite would have already got the memo to ...
As Tears For Fears would say: everybody wants to rule the world… … but as Equinix, Inc. would say: everybody wants to scale to the breadth of potentially web-scale operational scope and the best ...
CW Developer Network
Nutanix: hyper-converged-hybrid cloud needs ‘near-instant’ infrastructure
18 Nov 2020Whenever anyone tells you that technology needs an ever-increasing injection of agility, you would be forgiven for a) possibly starting to yawn - but also b) predominantly thinking about the ...
Question: how do you build a hybrid cloud strategy? To start with, it’s a good idea to think about having Kubernetes at the core, to enable the orchestration of container workloads around the ...
Open Source Insider
Pocket (machine identity) rocket: Jetstack donates cert-manager to CNCF
17 Nov 2020Jetstack wants to be seen as a ‘proper’ open source company i.e. not just a corporate beast with an ‘open technologies’ department that is guilty of open-washing its wares by popping the off bit of ...
Let’s go back to basics and step back in time. When you’ve had a pair of (now considered ‘retro’) Sennheiser headphones in your teens (example shown here) the experience tends to leave you with a ...
Shipa is a cloud native application management framework company. Ketch enables developers to deploy cloud native applications to Kubernetes without a single YAML file, so no Kubernetes expertise ...
The rise of the virtual workplace and its implications for inclusivity and Generation Z.
Data Matters
Software: to build or not to build? That is the question
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 13 Nov 2020This is a guest blogpost by Kevin Hurd, Founder & CEO, Digital Hive. In 2015 Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella famously said: “every business will be a software business”. And it’s hard to argue ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Why setting IT budgets for 2021 will be harder - and easier - than ever
Editor in chief 13 Nov 2020It’s the time of year when many IT leaders will be setting budgets for 2021 and trying to persuade their boardroom why they should have more money to invest in technology. After the year we’ve all ...
Version control is important. There now - we’ve said it, do you feel better now? Revision control or source code control are also important, mainly because they’re all the same thing i.e. the ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Will we lose our treasured memories to cloud policies?
Managing Editor 12 Nov 2020People who use the free Google Drive service for personal use to store, share and collaborate on documents, will be aware that the company has been slowly shifting consumers to pay for cloud ...
GUEST BLOG: In this contributed post, Laurent Homeyer, retail and hospitality industry advisor in EMEA & APJ, Workday, explains how retailers can properly plan their strategies during the ...