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Cloud-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 ...

Brexit 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 ...

The use of cash is increasing faster than GDP in most countries with the notable exception of Sweden and Norway

Chancellor 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 ...

This 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. ...

There 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 ...

NatWest 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 ...

Report 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' ...

This 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 ...

In 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 ...

It 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 ...

Software 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 ...

German 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 ...

The 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 ...

Despite 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 ...