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As a veteran in Singapore’s IT industry, Kwong Yuk Wah has played a part in major IT initiatives over two decades, starting with the government’s computerisation programme that paved the way for ...

A civil servant has swapped her job at the Department for Education for a stint on ITV’s hit reality show Love Island. Zara McDermott, who had previously been developing government policy on ...

This is a guest blogpost by Mikael Lindmark, a senior vice president at SAP Fieldglass As CIOs and other executives across enterprises turn to contractors, freelancers and other external workers to ...

Cast is a company dedicated to the code analysis it performs as its core bread and butter. Not a security company as such, Cast describes itself as a software intelligence specialist How much code ...

Insurtech doesn't have the ring of Fintech but the opportunity to personalise insurance through tech is huge

Instaclustr has announced Kafka-as-a-Service in bid to provide an easier route to the real-time data streaming platform An open source player from the start, the e-dropping Instaclustr specifies ...

If you are starting to suspect that the AI hype is overblown, and that it's just the latest term that marketing folk love to add to make their product sound more interesting, you are not alone. ...

In this guest post, Richard Blanford, managing director of G-cloud-listed IT services provider Fordway, advises companies to weigh up the pros and cons of using SaaS and IaaS before going all-in on ...

One of the defining characteristics of the modern digital workplace is a computer on every desk and a smartphone in every pocket. The ability to centrally discover, provision, deploy, update, and ...

By Kevin Cahill The Justice Committee of the European Parliament has set the scene for a major showdown with the US over data transfers between the EU and the US by setting a Sept 1st deadline for ...

Hitachi Vantara continues its development in the post-HDS post-Pentaho post- ‘the other bit’ (okay we know it was Hitachi Insight Group) amalgam that has seen the company now build its current ...

Software definitely helped cause the pernicious problem of fake news – but could also ameliorate it, says data expert Emil Eifrem, in a guest blogpost. Time was it was the tabloid newspapers that ...

Matt Hancock, the secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport (DCMS), is not everyone’s cup of tea – especially when that cup is Matt Hancock branded. But regardless of whether you’re ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Mark Cresswell in his capacity as CEO of LzLabs. LzLabs develops what it calls its Software Defined Mainframe (SDM) package ...

This is a guest blog by Claudia Imhoff, CEO Intelligent Solutions and founder, Boulder BI Brain Trust Like any new initiative, there are both challenges and benefits to weigh when deciding whether ...

Databricks announced a new open source project called MLflow for open source machine learning at the Spark Summit this month. The company exists to focus on cloud-based big data processing using ...

Fans of Cirque du Soleil’s highly-anticipated Toruk – The First Flight were encouraged to whip out their smartphones during the performance in Singapore recently – with full blessings from the ...

This week, we suppose we’re meant to have some kind of sideways take on Downtime icon Elon Musk selling flamethrowers to his lamewad fans, but documenting this man’s hijinks is starting to become ...

There is a term which crops up a lot in the technology sector - ‘legacy’. Occasionally, especially when talking to very long-established companies, the term ‘heritage’ occurs. It is useful ...

TigerGraph has brought forward a free Developer Edition of its graph analytics platform for lifetime non-commercial use. But, please, what is graph analytics? As defined nicely here by Hitachi ...

Machine data log file analytics specialist Splunk has added an extra dose of incident management capability into its stack with the acquisition of VictorOps. The Colorado headquartered VictorOps ...

Arguably, open source is not an alternative to commercial software. Rather, it is a way to create software collaboratively, and at a global scale. Active contributors in the open source community ...

By Kevin Cahill The European Court of Justice may not have a hearing into crucial questions about the legality of the EU-US data transfer system for at least 18 months according to a spokesperson ...

Facing negative PR all around after announcing a strategic realignment that is to see 13,000 employees made redundant and the closure of its central London HQ after over 100 years, even the good ...

In this guest post, Darren Watkins, managing director at colocation provider VIRTUS Data Centres, on how to help organisations take back control over their big data. When the story broke in March ...

One app mentioned at Zendesk’s customer experience conference this month was Replika, an AI friend that on first impression seems barely an improvement on grandparent’s crumpet Eliza from 1964. ...

It has been a busy week at SAP Sapphire, the conference is staged in association with the independent ASUG (Americas SAP User Group). Along with partner news, there were core platform shifts (news ...

SAP used its ASUG (Americas SAP User Group) Sapphire Now conference held in Orlando, Florida this year to detail a number of ‘telling’ partner initiatives that could suggest new directions of focus ...

SAP staged a press 'breakfast with mimosas' session at the ASUG SAP Sapphire conference and exhibition in Orlando, Florida this year. For the uninitiated, a 'mimosa' is what would normally be ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) talks to Viktor Farcic in his his role as senior consultant at CloudBees in line with a mini-series of posts related to the rise of what we have called ...