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With 90% of the world’s data created in the last two years, it’s hardly surprising that the datacentre industry is booming, with cities around the world racing to entice the global tech giants and ...

Hitachi Vantara has hosted one final event under the Pentaho banner before the 'company' finally now becomes part of the deeper 'brand' under Hitachi Vantara. As the official company line states... ...

The Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog has reached 1000 posts since starting in June 2010. This very short post is intended to convey a heartfelt thank you to all the firms (and their ...

There’s an interesting story doing the rounds this week that highlights some important issues around the UK government’s aim to have a cloud-first policy for IT purchasing. The original scoop, ...

Canonical has announced the release of the Ubuntu 17.10 operating system featuring a new GNOME desktop on Wayland and new versions of KDE, MATE and Budgie to suit a range of tastes. The firm says ...

As the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog approaches it's 1000 post since first starting in June 2010, we feature a number of comments from movers (and hopefully shakers) in this space. ...

In this contributed blog post, John Brodie, CEO of Aquila Insight, discusses the importance of data skills and how science, technology, engineering and maths (Stem) education can help tackle the ...

A tweet from the boss of US bank Goldman Sachs hints that more business could be done in Frankfurt, but Bangalore could be a bigger threat to UK banking jobs and income

As the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog approaches it's 1000 post since first starting in June 2010, we feature a number of comments from movers (and hopefully shakers) in this space. ...

As the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog approaches it's 1000 post since first starting in June 2010, we feature a number of comments from movers (and hopefully shakers) in this space. ...

Cloud application marketplace company Wireline is working with open source blockchain project developer Qtum The new union is intended to provide a conduit to consuming microservices at [web] scale ...

You: “You alright?” Boss: “Good morning Joe, I trust you slept well and the commute was satisfactory.” This could be a regular welcome if we start to work for robot bosses, and new research has ...

The #metoo hashtag has been appearing on social media following the accusations of sexual assault and harassment many women in Hollywood have suffered at the hands of Harvey Weinstein. ...

As the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog approaches it's 1000 post since first starting in June 2010, we feature a number of comments from movers (and hopefully shakers) in this space. ...

Politics, rightly or wrongly, has an impact on government technology projects. It’s an inevitable part of having a democracy and political prowess can be used to drive transformation, but can it ...

Government, business and the tech sector are getting very excited about artificial intelligence (AI). For government, AI presents an opportunity for a technology where the UK hopes to lead the ...

When some employees at FCM Travel Solutions lost their laptops over the past year, they were able to get their data back within half an hour. “People were really happy with the kind of support they ...

Celebrity man-child YouTuber Casey Neistat is the latest bizarre character to berate the nuances of the site’s recent algorithm tweaks, as they continue to put perfect lives under slight threat. We ...

This is the 1000th post on the Computer Weekly Developer Network in its seven year of existence. It would have been inappropriate not to thank all the firms and their representative communications ...

Application Performance Management (APM) specialist AppDynamics hosted its 2017 Summit #AppDSummit event in New York this week and CWDN was listening to the proceedings in full. AppDynamics CEO ...

Cloud, datacentre and communications software company Node4 has sauced up its security portfolio with a series of upgrades and new security services under the banner of SECaaS (Security as a ...

First the Earth cooled... and then there were tools, devices, machines and eventually software applications - then, finally, we started calling them apps. In the second age of man (and woman and ...

In this guest post, Steve Lowe, CTO of student accommodation finder Student.com, introduces the concept of T-shaped engineers and the value they can bring to teams tasked with delivering DevOps-led ...

Airbnb could be the latest disrupter to face challenges as government commissions analysis of its business model and industries using drones could be next up following Canada flight collision

Huawei Consumer Business Group has introduced its first mobile engineering offering with a distinct and dedicated Artificial Intelligence (AI) engineering chipset, the Kirin 970. Positioned as ...

The ability to mix the virtual world of digital content and information - text, sounds, images and video - with the physical world of three-dimensional space we inhabit has long appealed. Science ...

Everywoman has extended the deadline for its FDM everywoman in technology awards to allow more time for nominations – 2016 everywoman Startup Founder of the Year award winner Sophie Deen discusses ...

Disruptive business models in the world today will be the ones that are the norm in Mars tomorrow.

In Southeast Asia, Huawei and Alibaba are already household names to those who have either bought something online from Alibaba-owned Lazada or used Huawei’s Leica-branded P10 smartphones to take ...

Alongside Splunk’s annual event Splunk.conf runs the software firm’s learning and certification course, Splunk University, where in 2017 I spent a day learning how to use Splunk to deep dive data ...