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It may have gone unnoticed with the January 14 end of support deadline for Windows 7, but Microsoft’s 10 year old OS, had one last Patch Tuesday update. And , surprise, surprise, this included a ...
The Computer Weekly Developer Network team is looking for new innovation, always. Away from the well-trodden conference halls of Barcelona, London, San Francisco and Las Vegas, we now have an ...
Open Source Insider
Dynatrace ‘traces’ route to standardised (OpenTelemetry) observability with Google & Microsoft
15 Jan 2020Dynatrace has connected, collaborated, corroborated and cooperated on a new software huddle with Google and Microsoft. The organisation that calls itself a ‘software intelligence company’ is ...
As we have already noted on Computer Weekly Open Source Insider, open source grew, it proliferated… and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key ...
Nelson Petracek, chief technology officer at Tibco says that one of the issues in deploying and managing edge computing devices is how will the device metadata be managed and governed. Such ...
Sometimes it’s the unexpected things that make a user like a technology product or service. You’d expect a £200 (approx) pair of headphones to be better than a £100 pair, but when it comes to ...
Kicking off 2020’s conference season as regular as clockwork is Dynatrace with its Perform event from February 3 to 6 in Las Vegas. The Computer Weekly Developer Network team is once again bound ...
The Computer Weekly Developer Network and Open Source Insider team want to talk code and coding. But more than that, we want to talk about coding across the diversity spectrum… so let’s get the ...
The Internet as we know began with a DARPA three way trial of Voice over IP using a Packet Radio Van to simulate the needs of the military for secure mobile communications. The wheel has come full ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Edge computing could fail, if you only pay attention to the tail
Freeform Dynamics 10 Jan 2020In its obsession with software development, all too often at the expense of other disciplines, the IT industry has let the tail wag the proverbial dog for more than ten years. Now, with the rise of ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Tomer Weingarten is his position as CEO of endpoint security and ‘threat lifecycle’ specialist SentinelOne. Weingarten ...
Eyes on APAC
The rise of 5G, entertainment in cars and increased focus on privacy
TechTarget 10 Jan 2020This is a guest post by Srinivasan CR, chief digital officer, Tata Communications No matter how much technology keeps evolving, making predictions about the future is always a risky business. But ...
Open Source Insider
The open source licence debate: comprehension consternations & stipulation frustrations
09 Jan 2020As we have noted here, open source grew, it proliferated... and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key means of development -- but the issue of ...
Samsung may have rattled through a number of new technologies in its CES 2020 keynote, but Ballie quite simply stole the show. The very next day, Downtime interviewed several etymologists to try to ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Here we go again - strap yourself in for the next 10-year ride in digital government transformation
Editor in chief 08 Jan 2020There’s a new UK government, one with a comfortable majority, and it’s clear it wants to use that advantage for radical change. The new prime minister says the government has “a mission to ...
Open Source Insider
The open source licence debate: dead project walking & incentive models
08 Jan 2020Open source grew, it proliferated... and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key means of development. If you don't accept the options offered ...
GraphQL (query language) was the brainchild of Facebook and was open sourced in 2015. Many of the apps and websites we use are built on GraphQL, including Twitter, AWS and GitHub. Kelly Goetsch, ...
When IT Meets Politics
Will 2020 be the year that politicians bring the Internet to heel?
Winsafe Ltd 06 Jan 2020The UK has the opportunity … [to become] ... a neutral arbitrator for services that are trusted by all ... [but] ... we must first demonstrate leadership in facing down those who believe they have ...
Software application developers need testing services, this much we know already. But what form factor should those code testing services come in? Should testing come in in a packaged -as-a-Service ...
So here we are in 2020, and almost everything is still working as normal. The apocalyptic Y2K bug that caused such a thrill 20 years ago found its sequel in Y2.02K, but rather than nuclear reactor ...
I first visited Morocco in 2002… a time when things often went from A to B on the back of a wooden cart, usually pulled by a donkey. Many aspects of Maroc life are still done the old way as we head ...
In yet another example of the risks of supply chain vulnerabilities, Singapore’s Ministry of Defence (Mindef) recently disclosed that the confidentiality of its personnel's personal data could have ...
Inspect-a-Gadget
Conker SX80 road-tested in Marrakech: the ruggedised reporter rides again
02 Jan 2020What's better than one trip with the ruggedised (ruggedized) reporter? Answer: hopefully it's obvious i.e. it's a chance to find that the ruggedised reporter rides again. Our first trip out road ...
ITWorks
Why creative coding skills are vital for the enterprises of the future
Business Editor 27 Dec 2019GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, David Parry-Jones, VP EMEA at Twilio, explains why more people need to engage with the coding curriculum to gain coding skills, and why creativity is ...
This is a guest blog post by Cindi Howson, Chief Data Strategy Officer, ThoughtSpot. Nothing illustrates the double-edged nature of data use more vividly than the recent general election in the UK. ...
Data Matters
The next big thing in analytics: understanding cause and effect in user behaviour
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 20 Dec 2019This is a guest blogpost by Adam Kinney: Head of Machine Learning and Automated Insights at Mixpanel When it comes to data, machine learning (ML) is one of the hottest industry trends. But while ML ...
When IT Meets Politics
20,000 new police will not make UK law enforcement fit for the Internet Age
Winsafe Ltd 19 Dec 2019Over a decade ago the EURIM-IPPR study into “Partnership Policing for the Information Society” identified that the police would never have more than a fraction of the resources necessary to address ...
GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Rhonda Textor, head of data science at True Fit talks about the changes she had to make to her hiring practices to close the data science diversity gap I ...
DataStax has taken the Christmas wrapping paper off of DataStax Luna, a subscription-based support offering for open source Cassandra. The company says it is offering this service due to the ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Today's hybrid cloud looks more closed than open
Freeform Dynamics 18 Dec 2019We’ve had convergence towards hybrid clouds and ‘universal’ applications, but now we are seeing divergence towards different cloud platforms, each offering its own flavour of interoperability. ...
When IT Meets Politics
Nicky Morgan given oven ready bill to move fast to protect children on social media
Winsafe Ltd 18 Dec 2019Draft Bill will enable government to deliver on ambitious manifesto commitment to ‘legislate to make the UK the safest place in the world to be online’
Eyes on APAC
IDC predicts 2020: What it takes for digital transformation to succeed
TechTarget 18 Dec 2019This is a guest post by Simon Piff, vice-president of security practice at IDC Asia-Pacific The essence of IDC’s predictions for 2020 is about efficiency, velocity and productivity in this era of ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
The Horizon scandal is over but the fight continues - an inquiry into the Post Office is essential
Editor in chief 17 Dec 2019There are not enough words to fully express the depth of scandal and outrage that should accompany the conclusion of the High Court case that finally and completely found that the Post Office ...
Ahead in the Clouds
AWS Re:Invent 2019 new product round-up: What CIOs need to know
Senior Editor, UK 17 Dec 2019In this guest post, Ivaylo Vrabchev, head of professional services at IT services management company, HeleCloud, shares his round-up of the most eye-catching announcements from this year's AWS ...
When IT Meets Politics
What can we expect the new Government to deliver and when?
Winsafe Ltd 16 Dec 2019The manifesto … focussed on fairness, public service delivery and "place"- e.g. using infrastructure and R&D spend to bring jobs and services to the regions ... But the biggest change [will ...
GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Yaara Letz, partner consulting engineer at Tyk, explains why women in tech need to carve out their own career path rather than wait for diversity and ...
When IT Meets Politics
When IT Meets Christmas, Brexit, Climate Change and other intolerance
Winsafe Ltd 15 Dec 2019"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward man": regardless of whether you think God likes them or is pleased with their views on: Brexit, Climate Change, How to manage the ...
It’s winter in Northern Europe, so we’re cold. But, despite the cold, the Inspect-a-Gadget team still needs to keep connected and stay online on the move. So then... coats, hats, scarves and gloves ...
The man behind State Snaps, a set of social media pages with over a million followers, has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for getting his cousin to try to steal a domain name at gunpoint. In ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Vilified then vindicated - victory for subpostmasters in Post Office trial shows risk of tech hubris
Editor in chief 11 Dec 2019In 2004, Computer Weekly received a letter from Alan Bates, a former subpostmaster in Craig-y-Don, a coastal suburb of Llandudno in north Wales. It’s that long ago that the letter arrived ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Intel delay: Update an old Windows 7 PC, or buy AMD
Managing Editor 11 Dec 2019The shortage of Intel processors is having a knock-on effect on IT’s ability to upgrade whatever legacy Windows 7 PCs still remain in the organisation onto new Windows 10 hardware. At the time of ...
Open Source Insider
Fairwinds navigates straighter open course towards SaaS-y Kubernetes
10 Dec 2019Cloud-native infrastructure company Fairwinds recently launched a SaaS product for DevOps teams so that they can manage multiple Kubernetes clusters. The almost-eponymously named called Fairwinds ...
Ahead in the Clouds
AWS Re:Invent 2019: The kids' take on the public cloud's biggest tech show
Senior Editor, UK 10 Dec 2019Official estimates suggest 65,000 people made the trek out to Las Vegas this year for the 2019 Amazon Web Services (AWS) Re:Invent user and developer conference, and among them were five tech-savvy ...
CW Developer Network
CI/CD series - Confluent: Events provide an 'in-built primitive' for continuous coding
10 Dec 2019This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network in our Continuous Integration (CI) & Continuous Delivery (CD) series. This contribution is written by Neil Avery, lead ...
Open Source Insider
Calmer waters promised in the data lake through Linux Foundation Delta Lake Project
10 Dec 2019The Linux Foundation’s promotion and hosting of Delta Lake is an interesting development. Delta Lake (wait for it… the clue is in the name) is a project focusing on improving the reliability and ...
Open Source Insider
WhiteSource acquires & open sources Renovate ‘dependency’ update toolset
09 Dec 2019Open source security and license compliance management company WhiteSource has brought dependency update company Renovate into its stable. All of Renovate’s current commercial offerings will now be ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Jack Zampolin in his capacity as director of product at Tendermint Inc. Tendermint is the company behind the eponymously ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Everyone in UK tech must hold the new government to account on its digital promises
Editor in chief 06 Dec 2019When Computer Weekly set out to compare and analyse the tech and digital policies in the major political parties’ manifestos for the 2019 General Election, the article extended comfortably to ...
Self-styled continuous intelligence company Sumo Logic has reached beta on two new analytics services that extend its Cloud Flex offering (a credit-based licensing strategy). Interactive ...
Software integration and analytics company Tibco has added Apache Pulsar as a fully supported component in its own messaging brand, TIBCO Messaging. By way of definition and clarification then... ...