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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 ...

Open banking has some way to go before and banks' shouldn't pin all their hopes on Millennials

Front end engineer at Red Ventures is Edward Granger and he’s not happy -- so what’s his problem? Granger says he doesn’t like the term ‘code smell’, which is being increasingly popularised. But ...

Looking at the promise from StorOne to offer its software-defined storage for $799 a month – that’s about £640 – for 15TB of file, block or object storage capacity, I thought I’d compare it with ...

The recent spate of band reunions and Glastonbury illustrates the longevity of rock music. But the software industry seems to be stuck on finding the next big thing. Who would ever describe Windows ...

By goodness and by golly, hasn’t AI already thrown up its own set of buzzphrases? Many of them have come about as a result of the bias that was an inherent part of initial systems development in ...

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 ...

A new popup store has opened in Westfield London to use data collected from social media to sell only products that are trending in real time. By partnering with tech firm Nextatlas, the store will ...

The founder of digital bank Fidor has turned his attention to fixing the inefficiencies of debt processing at banks through technology and empathy

This is a guest post by Rosie Cairnes, regional director at Skillsoft ANZ When most people hear the term blockchain, they immediately think of bitcoin, the most widely known of the hundreds of ...

DevOps happened, right? So then, users (both Dev… and Ops) now find themselves in a place where they need to manage their digital identities inside increasingy connected systems. This much we can ...

Business process services company Wipro and technology consulting firm Moogsoft has snuggled up in bed, by which of course we mean formed a partnership. Moogsoft’s developer credentials stem from ...

Neneh Cherry’s Glastonbury performance gained some unexpected attention from the tech world at this year’s festival, after the laptop playing the evergreen singer’s backing visuals crashed and ...

Fintechs welcome Facebook Libra but realise the scale of the social media giant's challenge to make it work

Developers use databases -- no surprise there. But, crucially, developers aren’t DataBase Administrators (DBAs), so they tend to prefer database platforms that can provide them with as much ...

Three years ago I blogged on why I made the mistake of voting Remain. I would still prefer the UK to be a member of a reformed, multi-track, democratically accountable European Union. But that is ...

We’re expanding our blockchain cryptocurrency vocabulary all the time. As such, Loopring may be the next term you add to your technology lexicon. Loopring is an open source and multilateral token ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Tal Lev-Ami in his capacity as co-founder and CTO of Cloudinary. California and Israel based Cloudinary provides ...

1) DCMS kicks the can down the road - again The deadline for submissions to the DCMS consultation on On Line Harms  is July 1st. The NAO report politely savaging the UK failure to join up its ...

GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Byron Calmonson, director at The Resourcing Hub discusses what the future of work will look like, and whether the next generation are ready for it. The ...

This is a guest blog post by Tom Dailey, chief international legal, policy and regulatory officer at Verizon The regulatory and policy landscape is a really important topic for all businesses given ...

The ID Co is offering businesses technology that has the potential of getting a mortgage approval in seconds

While enterprises are expected to be one of the early beneficiaries of 5G networks that promise low-latency connectivity for driverless vehicles and factory machinery, consumer use cases of the ...

Toronto residents are grappling with a quandary posed by the plans of Google sister company Sidewalk Labs to build a smart city on its eastern waterfront. It’s always fun to learn about Google’s ...

Facebook faces major hurdles to make Libra a success even if it overcomes the rampant scepitisim

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Chris Carreiro in his capacity as CTO of ParkView at Park Place Technologies -- the company is a specialist in datacentre ...

There are certain functions in database administration, that are good candidates for automation. These are the nuts and bolts of the job - like how to partition the storage, what happens if a disk ...

Don'y forget the tech SMEs amid the noise being made by the unicorns

It's hard to recall a recent presentation from a vendor that didn't include the AI or Machine-Learning buzz-phrases. I'm not just talking IT here - coffee vending machines probably also incorporate ...

Software is a multi-faceted thing. Because of this core reality, we often talk about elements of software code as layers in a fabric, or indeed (to use a more literal term and one that proliferates ...

I hate it when you realise that your point of reference has been unduly influenced by what’s currently trending rather than what’s really important. A recent briefing with Jim Liddle of Storage ...

Alibaba Cloud said it has become the first public cloud supplier in the industry to obtain the Outsourced Service Providers Audit Report (OSPAR) validation by the Association of Banks in Singapore ...

Blockchain is changing everything. Software application developers are now working to accommodate for streams where Blockchain-based immutable data [flows, stores and more] can be used for greater ...

A Pakistani politician has played down the embarrassment of one of his briefings being streamed live to Facebook with the cat filter on. “The cat filter was turned on by mistake,” said Shaukat ...

With London Tech Week held recently various tech sector executives have kindly offered to provide their opinions of this year’s London Tech week. Here are the opinions already published: London ...

Fintech IT heads are the top earners but this will change as the industry matures and needs for different skills

There is an irony in the appointment by the House of Lords of a committee to explore the impact of digital technologies on democracy.  The Internet is now, however, global. The majority of users ...

Developers care about system, software and device passwords -- a secure approach to password integrity and protection is part and parcel of what they do... and is a key part of the programmer ...

Much as we would like it to be, the Computer Weekly Developer Network and Open Source Insider team can’t be everywhere at once -- and this week, that means we’re missing MongoDB World 2019 in New ...

There is life in UK tech beyond the Big Smoke

Business document information company Abbyy has launched Mobile Web Capture, a Software Development Kit (SDK) for developers to add real-time image and data capture to mobile web-based onboarding ...

The technology industry likes to use the CRM acronym; it is normally used to shorten Customer Relationship Management (CRM) technologies. But CRM now means something else too; in these cloud-native ...

Lloyds Banking Group launches the latest edition of its open banking journey