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This is a guest post written for the Computer Weekly Developer Network by Rebecca Fitzhugh in her role as principal technologist at Rubrik. Fitzhugh writes from here... One exciting change that has ...

Customer engagement software company Freshworks Inc. hosted its Refresh 19 conference and exhibition in Las Vegas this month... and the Computer Weekly Developer Network team was there to drink it ...

The recent Open Source Summit was held in the balmy climes of San Diego and, among the news emanating from the event itself, the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider team were made aware of ...

Tandem Bank names seasoned artificial intelligence expert to drive its journey to personalise banking

An open letter to the Chancellor The Recruitment and Employment confederation has pulled together a coalition of business organisations, representing tens of thousands of employers and millions of ...

The Government Digital Service (GDS) has published details of the planned pilot project for opening up passport data to companies that wish to offer digital identity services. GDS recently held a ...

Scylla [pronounced: sill-la] was (and to all intents and purposes still is) a Greek god era sea monster whose mission is to haunt and torment the rocks of a narrow strait of water opposite the ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider team blog written by Joe Drumgoole in his capacity as director for developer advocacy across EMEA region at MongoDB.  Drumgoole ...

Azimo has made its first profit as the fintech moves onto its next phase of growth

It is not enough to have policies that satisfy the conflicting requirements of the EU and US for data protection, including notification to attract fraudsters to the victims of a breach, like ...

The other day, the government announced yet another consultation on the future of the UK's digital networking infrastructure, this time exploring the possibility of liberalising the planning laws ...

Technology skills platform company Pluralsight acquired developer productivity specialist GitPrime back in Spring of this year. It was a move that made logical enough sense. This was a coming ...

The latest version of Siren’s ‘investigative intelligence’ technology includes five new artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities: entity resolution, deep learning-based predictive analytics and ...

Additional news tabled at this year’s Pluralsight LIVE 2019 saw the company’s philanthropically-driven ‘social enterprise’ division Pluralsight One now partnering with the US national workforce ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Nate Clinton, Designit executive director.  Designit offers integrated strategic design and innovation services, ...

The Government Digital Service (GDS) insists that its plans for Gov.uk Verify “remain on track” despite the withdrawal of three of the five remaining identity providers (IDPs) supporting the ...

Apple has reiterated its searing contempt for the hoi polloi that uses its products by releasing a physical credit card you’re not supposed to put in your wallet. The titanium card is, in Apple’s ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network and Open Source Insider team want to talk code and coding. But more than that, we want to talk coding across the diversity spectrum… so let’s get the tough ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network team has started its week in Utah at the Pluralsight LIVE 2019 conference. For those that would like a reminder, Pluralsight specialises in online cloud-based ...

Like any milestone birthday it’s a time for reflection, writes Andrew Meyer, director of NHS Digital's Digital Delivery Centre. Have you achieved what you wanted in the time passed, are there ...

A few months ago Automation Anywhere began collaborating with freelance software developer recruitment platform, Toptal, on robotic process automation in the human workforce. The concept is called ...

DevOps started as a grass-roots movement led by practitioners. The motives were pure, and focused simply on finding better ways of doing things for the good of everyone involved in software ...

UK businesses could put themselves at risk because of myths surrounding the PSD2 security standard

CRM is, of course, Customer Relationship Management... apart from when it's not. Some days, CRM is CRM (as above)... but, increasingly, CRM is also Cloud Resource Management. This is a software ...

This is a guest post by Stephen Dane, managing director for cyber security at Cisco Asia-Pacific, Japan and Greater China We live in a multi-cloud world. A world where a multitude of offerings from ...

Had some very interesting conversations in the past few weeks with a number of US-based vendors across primarily the security and optimisation sectors, with one commonality - established in the ...

Funding Options took a few years to realise that dating sites were the perfect model for a fintech helping small businesses get access to the right loans for them

Banks and retailers have work to do to ensure that open banking and PSD2 don't open doors for fraudsters

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog written by Matt Boyle in his capacity as lead software engineer at Curve. Curve allows users to spend money from all their ...

PSD2 widens the target for fraudsters preying on consumers through social engineering and other non technical attacks

Earlier in August, Huawei announced it was launching its own open-source operating system, named HarmonyOS, which may replace Google’s Android on its devices, writes Promon head of development, Jan ...

1 Action Fraud had an impossible task The Times undercover investigation at Action Fraud  has led to a rash of publicity, both tabloid  and professional . The only surprise is that it has taken so ...

Managing and securing access to multiple public cloud services can be a challenge for enterprises that are embarking on a multi-cloud strategy. Besides making sure that only authorised members of ...

Gartner's latest magic quadrant report on cloud infrastructure puts IBM in the bottom left quadrant, as a niche player, alongside Oracle and Alibaba. IBM is hoping the £34bn it has spent on buying ...

A teenage girl has turned to her family’s smart fridge in a desperate quest to reach Twitter followers, after her mum confiscated her electronic devices one by one. The 15-year-old, known to her ...

Codefresh is the first Kubernetes-native CI/CD technology, with CI denoting Continuous Integration and CD denoting Continuous Delivery, obviously. The organisation has this month worked to improve ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) team is fond of craft beer, Mormon temples, clean air and an opportunity to dig into cloud-based enterprise technology learning platforms. That’s lucky ...

Hence the need to address the cyberskills for justice and deterrence , not just those for cyberwarfare, protection and surveillance. And the more widespread those skills, the more dangerous the ...

Hermes is the Greek god of trade, heraldry and commerce… but also the Greek god of thieves and trickery. Facebook was presumably thinking of Hermes’ more virtuous qualities when it named its ...

In this guest post, Will Grannis, founder and director of the Google Office of the CTO, sets out how adopting a multi-cloud strategy can help enterprises navigate IT challenges around value, risk ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Nikita Ivanov, CTO and co-founder of GridGain Systems. GridGain specialises in software and services for big data systems ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) team is extremely partial to baked beans, broiled lobster, New England architecture, Sam Adams beers and ERP systems that boast specific competencies in ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Nikita Ivanov, CTO and co-founder of GridGain Systems.  GridGain specialises in software and services for big data systems ...

Now that we have Wi-Fi at home and at work, good options for global cellular roaming and (for times when neither of those are accessible) we also have Wi-Fi portable hotspots too. One would imagine ...

Pulsant specialises in managed cloud hosting, colocation and application hosting services. As a core competency, Pulsant works on hybrid (value-added) cloud solutions with a core focus on ...

In this guest post, Dob Todorov, CEO and chief cloud officer, HeleCloud, sets out why it is wrong to declare cloud not fit for business use in the wake of the Capital One data breach. In two ...

As we watched a former porn site merchant’s video statement, him sat there in front of a Benjamin Franklin backdrop to the sound of a military bugle call, defending 8chan’s white supremacist ...

This is a guest blogpost by Sean Martin, CTO and co-founder, Cambridge Semantics The post-big data landscape has been shaped by two emergent, intrinsically related forces: the predominance of ...

With its roots and foundations in the open source Apache Cassandra database, Santa Clara headquartered DataStax insists that it likes to keep things open. As such, the company is opening a wider ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network team is a big fan of smoky casinos, 1-cent slot machines, cloud-based CRM software platforms, intelligent workflow automation technology and basketball legend ...

Red Hat… no, wait, stop there -- not Red Hat the IBM company, actually just Red Hat -- that’s how the company is still putting out news stories. We’ll start again, open source enterprise software ...

In this guest post, Justin Day, CEO of hybrid cloud connectivity platform provider Cloud Gateway shares his thoughts one why some enterprises are choosing to pull back from off-premise life and ...

Developer-centric automation software company CircleCI has launched general availability of support for Windows in its product set. CircleCI (the clue is in the name) has a specialism in Continuous ...

Gov.uk Verify – the government’s flagship digital identity system – faces a critical few months ahead. Again. As the clock ticks down towards the end of March 2020, when further public investment ...

On 24 July 2019, as jubilant Conservative party members emerged from Boris Johnson's victory speech in Westminster, one supporter was heard to remark Johnson had promised to "insert high-speed ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) and Open Source Insider team want to talk code and coding.  But more than that, we want to talk coding across the diversity spectrum… so let’s get the ...

Virtual Private Network (VPN) company NordVPN has introduced NordLynx technology built around the WireGuard protocol.  WireGuard is thought to be shaking up the VPN space as a new type of protocol ...

According to wikis, hacker forum discussions and the team itself, Kubernetes is so-named because it translates from (κυβερνήτης in Greek) to governor, helmsman or captain -- and further, ...

Amazon-owned live video streaming platform Twitch has lost one of its biggest stars to Microsoft-owned rival site Mixer, but rather than lament the departure of Ninja, one clandestine member of the ...

Database development company Redgate has been to the shops. The Cambridge, UK-based firm has bought eggs, fresh bloomers (no, the bread kind) and, direct from the meat counter, a US$10 million ...

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

In just under three years, tech veteran Ramesh Munamarty has accomplished what some of his peers can only dream of – building an agile culture, shoring up the IT infrastructure and delivering ...

FutureBricks is offering savers better rates through lending to the SME building industry

Distributed SQL database company NuoDB has reached its version 4.0 iteration... and aligned further to core open source cloud platform technologies. The new release expands cloud-native and ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) team is a big fan of historic California townships with eucalyptus groves and forward-thinking DevOps based upon real time analytics of enterprise log ...

Identity (ID) is now an aspect of every developer’s architectural planning process when she/he/they start to create plans for building the next big thing, or at least it should be. Indeed, ID ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) team has packed up its Mardi Gras party beads, loaded up on jambalaya and shrimp creole recipes, downloaded a copy of The Big Easy and read up on supply ...

Change is accelerating, making attempts to predict the future in order to regulate it ever more impractical - although that does not appear to stop some regulators from trying.

San Mateo headquartered graph database company Neo4j (with roots in open source) is working with French defence company Thales (pronounced ta-less). A graph database is a database designed to treat ...

What does a modern desktop look like? For the last few decades since the desktop PC established its place in offices, the role of desktop IT has been to provide end-users with access to corporate ...

Open source distributed SQL database company YugaByte has confirmed that its eponymously named YugaByte DB is now 100 percent open source under the Apache 2.0 license. The additional homage to open ...

Okay, so let’s start with a real world use case story to justify this product review. I have been using a Huawei Mate 20 Pro to play my music on -- and, as this smartphone comes with no headphone ...

The aviation sector is a hotbed of innovation, according to the head of global innovation at the International Airlines Group (IAG), Dupsy Abiola. While is seems obvious someone with her job title ...

Cloud-native infrastructure solutions provider Fairwinds has been shooting the breeze, blowing fresh air, firing up the wind turbines, enjoying the scent of... (Ed -- enough already, we get it, the ...

Nick Clegg – Sir Nick to you – continues to flourish as Facebook’s hired appeaser, most recently resurfacing from his Atherton mansion with a sound bite about how his employer was “rocked to its ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Scott Sherwood in his capacity as founder of software testing tool company TestLodge. Sherwood explains that he created ...

The increasing use of renewable energy, consumer expectations of digital services and market liberalisation are some of the forces that have been reshaping Singapore’s energy industry in recent ...

It’s traditional upon the coronation of a new Prime Minister to write a list of all the things they need to address in the tech and digital sectors. It would be a long list – digital skills, IT ...

This is a guest blogpot by Kasia Kulma, a senior data scientist at Mango Solutions When we think of empathy in a career, we perhaps think of a nurse with a good bedside manner, or perhaps a ...

Innovate Finance is continuing to expand its network of fintechs with agreements with three regional hubs

In this guest post, HPE UK MD Marc Waters sets out why the government's decision to place its cloud-first policy under review makes sense, as the hybrid IT consumption model continues to take hold ...

Microsoft is investing $1 billion in OpenAI, a San Francisco-based non-profit focused on open source Artificial Intelligence (AI). OpenAI has worked on open source AI advancements in areas ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network and Open Source Insider team want to talk code and coding.  But more than that, we want to talk coding across the diversity spectrum… so let’s get the tough ...

There’s a problem with architecture modernisation -- and it’s a big problem. As many as 99% of IT executives are said to currently report challenges with architecture modernisation -- but what does ...

TSB has integrated biometric ID technology into its mobile app to enable people to open accounts with a selfie

BRM is now a ‘thing’... and it’s not in fact meant to relate to the noise that children make when they pretend to rev up the imaginary engines on their toy cars, instead, it stands for Business ...

The BT share price looks set to drift down to under a £pound. That would leave it unable to invest other than from cash flows and Government subsidies. It would also be unsaleable because of the ...

I went to a Code Club and polled the children in attendance to find out their opinions on technology careers, and I was surprised by their answers. There is a debate among those in the technology ...

Esme Loans has emerged from an RBS innovation initiative and after a controlled launch is ready to scale its business

I recently completed a report for a long-time client, Kemp Technologies, in the area formerly known as L-B/ADC - i.e. Load-Balancing/Application Delivery Control. It really hit home, during the ...

GUEST BLOG: As companies continue to face an enormous digital skills gap, Helen Wollaston, Chief Executive of WISE, the campaign for gender balance in science, technology, engineering and maths ...

Investment patterns in the UK fintech sector reveals how the businesses in it are maturing

“Once you put someone in orbit, it is a lot harder to fix it if something goes wrong,” says Paul Kostek, a senior Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) member and senior systems ...

Current UK digital skills policy is disjointed and unsustainable. Help set the agenda for harnessing our native talent instasd of relying on imported skills.

With Kubernetes now established in many organisations as the container orchestration platform of the future, are cracks already starting to show? Well, not exactly – but if I could pull out one ...

People use headphones while they’re at work, get used to the facts. Now then, some of those people are call centre workers, some of them are air traffic controllers, some of them are telesales ...

Things changed at BlackBerry, more than once, to be fair. The company that used to be known as Research in Motion (RIM) decided to drop the somewhat incongruous name and some bright spark in ...

The latest select committee report by MPs into the progress of digital government in the UK has resurrected a question that has reared its head on several occasions in the past – do we need a ...

This month saw the Church of England release its own Digital charter, intended to improve the online community’s “common sense, kindness and sound judgement”. Now, you can sit there and have a go ...

Pentaho is still Pentaho, but these days it’s a product line and accompanying division inside of Hitachi… and not just plain old Hitachi Ltd, but Hitachi Vantara -- a company branding exercise that ...