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London-originated but Boston-headquartered cloud native application security company Snyk has acquired FossID, a software composition analysis tool that scans code for open source licenses and ...

For better or worse, we are a cat household. Various moggies have come and gone over the years. These have mainly originated from shelters or people trying to offload excess kittens arising from ...

Every company wants to be more than a specialist niche technology focus these days i.e. hyperconvegence specialists now want to be known as platform and software suite-level companies, Enterprise ...

Most surveys Computer Weekly receive on remote working during the pandemic assume everyone will be running an office laptop at home. Crouching over a laptop on the kitchen table, or sitting on a ...

Software runs on data and data is often regarded as the new oil. So it makes sense to put data as close to where it is being processed as possible, in order to reduce latency for performance-hungry ...

Cloud is complicated. Yes, cloud computing is generally agreed to be a route to providing compute, storage, analytics and an increasing amount of AI-engine power supplied as-a-Service, plus it ...

Open source database company Percona has said that the pandemic has accelerated database workloads moving to the cloud, but - with this movement - companies are also finding that costs rise… and, ...

The report is an excellent snapshot but it also illustrates why most business leaders (large or small) find it so hard to take cyber security seriously until it is put into the context of their own ...

Let’s be honest, the Inspect-a-Gadget elves have huge ears, it’s what makes us elves… but that doesn’t stop us from testing out human earphones, earbuds and (for that matter) earrings are ear ...

Splunk’s new Observability Cloud has launched this month, at a time when observability has become one of the hot/darling/killer (choose your own hype label) terms circulating across the technology ...

This is a guest blogpost by Triveni Gandhi, Senior Data Scientist, Dataiku We like to think of data and numbers as indisputable, but the reality is that every piece of information is a product of ...

There are precious few IT trade show and conferences as we stand in the late Spring of 2021, so - as a consequence - there are precious few IT trade show T-shirts to be snaffled. If data ...

A recent survey of 50 of the UK’s biggest firms conducted by the BBC, has reported that 24 have no plans to have staff return to their offices. Many workers do not feel compelled to return to the ...

Not long ago, somewhere in Mebane, North Carolina, Zoë Roth – better known as the Disaster Girl meme – picked up her phone and consulted Kyle Craven – better known as the Bad Luck Brian meme – ...

But implementation will not be easy. This is particularly so with regard to introducing more competition to the digital industries where John calls for the new digital market unit’s up-front powers ...

K8ssandra, an open-source distribution of the Apache Cassandra database on Kubernetes, is now available on any Kubernetes environment. When we say ‘any’, we mean any. It is available on any ...

April 2021 marks the start of the tech events calendar, starting with Red Hat Summit, which was held online for the second time since the onset of the pandemic. In this month's recap on the top ...

Atlassian has selected enterprise cloud application and data service observability platform company Dynatrace as its launch partner for its Open DevOps initiative. Atlassian has (arguably, boldly) ...

Armory is an open source continuous delivery software company. The company has this year introduced Armory Minnaker (rhymes with Spinnaker, for obvious reasons - see more below), a virtual machine ...

Cloud adoption has seen explosive growth over the past year. Cloud infrastructure has proved essential to helping businesses adapt to remote working, enabling them to become flexible and resilient ...

If you had to take a random stab at naming the types of products we get to see in the Computer Weekly Inspect-a-Gadget test lab, you’d probably come up a list that includes most of the usual ...

As observed before in this blog, few of Gartner’s ‘inventions’ have caught on as quickly as SASE – Secure Access Service Edge. From traditional firewall vendors to declared SASE specialists, ...

Data and information governance is extremely important today, perhaps even more so than it was in 2008, when Freeform Dynamics ran a study looking at what was being done to enhance capability in ...

With 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 ...

When a digitally-heavy business takes on new distribution channels (and let’s remember that ‘channel’ in the modern sense means everything from retail shops to the web and then onwards to mobile, ...

I’ve recently had the chance to revisit what is old – but more relevant than ever – stomping ground of mine, thanks to Kemp Technology’s recent acquisition of Flowmon, which gave the company some ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network is deep in container-land, we’re Kubed into Kubernetes and we’re about as hybrid multi-cloud cloud-natively virtualised into abstraction Nirvana as its ...

The president of football’s crumbling European Super League project has cited teenagers’ enjoyment of video games as a reason to constantly pit the continent’s elite teams against each other like ...

With a name like Skyflow, an organisation or brand could be loft window specialist, a plumbing contractor or a premier service for executives to buy unlimited ‘bottomless up’ drink services when ...

In this guest post, Pip White, UK and Ireland managing director at Google Cloud, sets out how cloud and datacentre providers are putting sustainability at the heart of their operations this Earth ...

Of all the regularly repeated “yeah right” claims within IT, “MPLS is dead” probably ranks highest (if not in Rome). Analyst prediction realties show that the managed MPLS market was valued at over ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network team likes to dig deep and we’re not afraid of a meaty download when it comes to software product and developer professionals expressing their views. Looking ...

In the tech sector, computer interfaces come and go in the name of progress. RS232 was superseded by USB1; now there is USB C and USB 3.1 and the latest Macs have USB 4. But not everyone wants to ...

To nobody’s surprise, efforts by a group of peers to force the government to accelerate progress on digital identity in the UK foundered in the House of Lords yesterday (20 April 2021). Baroness ...

The technology industry is starting to enjoy a lucky escape. What would have happened had vaccines against Sars-Cov-2 not been invented and deployed? There has been much talk of how technology has ...

Among the many conversations I have with vendors and end users themselves – via various online events – one of the most common buzz phrases of the past few years that still recurs more than it ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network newsdesk is used to seeing newsfeed stories with dateline and locations such as London, San Francisco, San Jose and New York… we’re even used to seeing ...

After our extensive enterprise containerisation series and subsequent feature entitled ‘Preparing for enterprise class containerisation’, the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider team sat down ...

This is a guest blogpost by Dmitri Krakovsky, Chief Product Officer, Unit4 The world of enterprise software has changed dramatically in the last five years. The first-generation of ...

Take a bunch of developers, any kind you like. Throw those engineers into a new software project at the deep end. Do they sink or swim? This is the question that Swimm founders were asking ...

What a difference a decade can make. When we looked at the world of private cloud almost a decade ago, it was a new idea to many people – so new, in fact, that we had to define it for them. In ...

The Linux Foundation announced the sigstore project this spring. Designed to improves the security of the software supply chain, sigstore is said to enable the adoption of cryptographic software ...

To the meme generation he was simply known as the Airplane Mode Prince, but it seems nobody has taken the passing of the Duke of Edinburgh quite as hard as National Rail. Users of the website woke ...

Yes we’re still in lockdown (or a version of it) and all meetings are virtual, but the Computer Weekly Developer Network is still talking to members of the industry glitterati about containers. ...

With the economy opening up, business leaders are looking at how quickly things can start returning to normal. What does normal look like? Numerous studies have shown that over the last year, ...

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 ...

Review 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 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 ...

Identity 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 ...

Experience 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 ...

We 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 ...

The 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 ...

As 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 ...

With 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 ...

This 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 ...

The 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, ...

Alan 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, ...

As 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 ...

Adam 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 ...

As 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 ...

As 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 ...

The 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, ...

As 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 ...

As 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 ...

As 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 ...

As 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 ...

As 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 ...

As 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 ...

It 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. ...

Cloud 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 ...

As 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 ...

Some 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 ...

Recently 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. ...

As 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 ...

As 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 ...

As 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 ...

As 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 ...

Women’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 ...

As 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 ...

There 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 ...

As 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, ...