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Sumo Logic gets real (time) on continuous intelligence into microservices
28 Nov 2017Cloud-native machine data analytics platform company Sumo Logic has rolled out a unified logs and metrics solution designed to improve the 'customer experience' of applications running on ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Barry Devlin, founder and principal of 9Sight Consulting. Devlin believes that data warehouse developers (Ed - is that ...
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UK risks missing out on large share of digital industrial revolution spend
Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 27 Nov 2017Brexit could lead to the UK economy missing out on a good share of the money being spent on digital transformations
The Linux Foundation has released its entire 2018 events schedule. The nonprofit organisation insists that it maintains a mission focused on the 'creators, maintainers and practitioners' of open ...
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Cash surviving fintech attack and thriving worldwide apart from in Sweden and Norway
Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 24 Nov 2017The use of cash is increasing faster than GDP in most countries with the notable exception of Sweden and Norway
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
The chancellor just placed tech at the heart of solving Britain’s productivity crisis
Editor in chief 23 Nov 2017Chancellor Philip Hammond has announced the most tech-friendly Budget ever. It wasn’t only the headline figures that mattered though, welcome as they were, including more than £500m of funding, ...
Did anyone else catch Richard & Judy on 1 April 2003? In case you missed it, they pranked the nation with a segment on a device they claimed could convert sampled speech into other languages in ...
Software runs the world, yes - but it typically needs hardware to run on and even the Computer Weekly Developer Network is occasionally tempted to focus on a piece of kit that 'does what it says on ...
A Vodafone survey has put Asia on the forefront of internet of things (IoT) adoption, with 36% of the region’s businesses reportedly using connected devices in 2017, up 200% from 2013. The global ...
This is a contributed article for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Druva's Dave Packer in his role as VP of products and alliances marketing at the company. Druva is a data ...
Data Matters
Why it’s time to move past the multi-tenant cloud model
Business Applications Editor 22 Nov 2017This is a guest blogpost by Allan Leinwand, CTO, ServiceNow Cloud services first appeared in the late ‘90s when large companies needed a way to centralise computing, storage, and networking. ...
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HSBC, like its competitors, is searching for the Holy Grail of digital banking, Google Bank
Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 22 Nov 2017There are different ways to search for the Holy Grail of Google Bank and HSBC has chosen a path
Data storage has many fundamentals, but a key one is the idea that what we store should be or form part of a single, reliable copy. This is what is being strived for in concepts such as the file ...
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Yet another online banking outage as NatWest goes offline
Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 21 Nov 2017NatWest is the latest to have a failure in its online services brought to the world's attention via Twittter
Online transportation company Uber has released its open sourced Pyro - a homegrown probabilistic programming language that has been developed internally. As many readers will know, a probabilistic ...
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Should manufacturing sector workers fear or welcome new information technology?
Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 21 Nov 2017Report finds that manufacturers are underutilising the current industrial revolution, so should workers fear job cuts once they increase spending on technologies like artificial intelligence and ...
Pusher is a developer tools company that specialises in providing what it calls 'hosted building blocks' for programmers. The company has this month released Pusher Chatkit. This is a 'specialised' ...
Data Matters
GDPR means businesses must show they are serious about cloud data privacy
Business Applications Editor 20 Nov 2017This is a guest blogpost by Julian Box, CEO, Calligo. The prospect of ambulance-chasing lawyers interesting themselves in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is now very real. With just a ...
The is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Lior Abraham in his role as founder of Interana. Interana is a specialist in interactive behavioural analytics software for ...
Ahead in the Clouds
Cloud AI in the enterprise: Making the security case
Datacentre Editor 17 Nov 2017In this guest post, Ross Brewer, managing director and vice president for Europe, Middle East and Africa at cybersecurity software supplier LogRhythm, makes the enterprise case for using artificial ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
A digital economy needs more than startups - government must address UK's lack of IT investment
Editor in chief 17 Nov 2017It would be churlish not to applaud the government’s pre-Budget commitments to the tech sector – an increase in funding to support tech startups and expanding visa availability for bringing in top ...
The Neil Buchanan of Vietnamese cyber security has pulled Apple’s pants down by making a mask that can trick the iPhone X’s facial recognition technology. Come and have a look at this. Now, to make ...
Like VoIP optimisation I've been blogging about recently, so I've been testing network (LAN and WAN in old money) optimisation solutions since the late '90s. The former, AKA Load-Balancing and ...
Logic dictates that end-to-end security must be allowed to exist free from intermediate back doors. The value of “legal intercept” and back doors needs to be considered from a systems point of ...
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The latest Terminator might say, “I need your clothes, your boots and your job.”
Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 15 Nov 2017Software has been taking over roles carried out by humans for a long time but the humanisation of tech is making it personal
Red Hat has provided a presence (and a lot of free red Fedora giveaways) at SAP’s TechEd Europe 2017 conference in Barcelona this week. The open source champions (Red Hat, not SAP) have announced ...
CW Developer Network
SAP digs deeper roots for machine learning with 'foundation' expansion
14 Nov 2017German enterprise software company SAP has used its TechEd Europe 2017 conference and exhibition to detail news of its SAP Leonardo Machine Learning Foundation (which is based on the SAP Cloud ...
When IT Meets Politics
The Taboo Debate: Unreformed Remain is no more serious an option than Clean Brexit
Winsafe Ltd 14 Nov 2017The best way of salvaging the current Brexit negotiations is a parallel, public, debate on frameworks for agreeing processes for making positive use of WTO disputes resolution processes after they ...
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Some CIOs at FTSE listed companies don’t know what robotic process automation is
Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 13 Nov 2017Despite millions of pounds being spend on software to automate business processes, known as robotic process automation, some CIOs have never heard of it
In this guest post, Darren Turner, general manager at healthcare-focused hosting provider Carelink, takes a look at why the healthcare sector has been slow to adopt cloud, and how NHS Digital’s ...