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If you were about to start a company dedicated to providing software application development engineers with mapping and location-based APIs and SDKs, then what would you call it? MapTech perhaps, ...

It’s always a funny thing with enterprise technology firms, isn’t it? A company that you imagine to be laser focused on upper-tier ‘presentation layer’ technologies hits you with a message set ...

A new event for the Computer Weekly Developer Network, but one with what appears to be oodles of developer, programmer and data engineering morsels is Pluralsight Live 2018. For those that need a ...

DevOps is DevOps, but at the same time, DevOps is only DevOps if it’s Database-Driven DevOps (or DDDevOps, if you will). Contemporary approaches to software application development do of course ...

In this guest blog post Jenny Kelly, client relationship manager - business partner at Computer Futures, talks about how companies can increase diversity in their organisation and end the gender ...

IncludeOS is a unikernel, a special type of library operating system that allows developers to write and run their application in the cloud... in place, that is, of a more traditional OS. ...

There’s a lot of data out there and it comes in various different forms. TechTarget defines dark data is digital information that is not being used. Magical analyst Gartner Inc. describes dark data ...

Picture the scene... London, summer 2018, it's hot, so hot that British people have been able to take showers straight off the cold tap in their homes. Day after day of 30+ degree Celsius heat has ...

Open Banking has arrived and will gather pace over the coming tears, but what should organisations consider when they join the revolution

Google has used its 'Next' cloud conference and symposium to harden its enterprise-ready stance and build out its developer tools portfolio. Google vice president of engineering Melody ...

By Kimberly Chua Mobile app users in developing Asia-Pacific (APAC) countries prefer convenience over security, signaling a potential rift between companies and users, a new F5 Networks study has ...

Amid the global debate about trade tariffs, prompted by US president Donald Trump’s unorthodox economic policies, it’s little remarked that the digital economy is largely untouched by the ...

Bosch has forced startup firm Mayfield Robotics to cancel the release of Kuri, a home robot that was all set to patrol your house and rob your dog of its last shreds of dignity. Could it be that ...

Elastic is joining forces with Insight.io, a Palo Alto-based startup developing search tools that claim to provide a 'semantic understanding' of software source code. Known for its Elasticsearch ...

In this guest blog post, Vivian Chan, Founder and CEO of Sparrho, suggests three ways in which leaders can increase diversity in tech.  Women make up the largest single economic force in the world, ...

This is a guest post written for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Ben Taylor in his capacity as CEO of Rainbird. Rainbird is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform that can model ...

To coincide with the first day of the Google Cloud Next 2018 conference (taking place from 24-26 July) in San Francisco, John Jainschigg, content strategy lead at enterprise systems monitoring ...

Software quality company SmartBear has reached the 12.5 iteration release of its TestComplete tool. This release features new Xamarin.Forms and Electron support - so that’s good for cross-platform ...

Facebook, Twitter, Google and Microsoft have joined an open source initiative designed to help users transfer data across multiple online platforms services without facing privacy issues. ...

Rapid Application Development (RAD) gets its own acronym, so why doesn’t [rapid application] debugging? Tel Aviv and Palo Alto headquartered Rookout thinks it should. The company’s rapid production ...

Compuware has been busy. Along with its usual weekly basket of supermarket essentials, the firm has announced a product acquisition, unveiled enhancements to its automated unit testing tool Topaz ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Ides Vanneuville, director of systems engineering EMEA at Avi Networks. Vanneuville asserts that the next wave of business ...

Singapore-based Global eTrade Services (Gets) has launched an open trade blockchain (OTB) network to boost cross-border trade between China and the rest of Asia. Aligned with China’s Belt Road ...

Aston Martin unveiling plans for a “sports car of the skies” will presumably cause some headaches for those James Bond fans of the school of thought that nothing about the franchise should ever ...

Saudi Arabia is selling itself as a fintech hub with an environment for startups to flourish, but are fintechs ready to set up there?

BlueK8s is a new open source Kubernetes initiative from ‘big data workloads’ company BlueData -- the project’s direction leads us to learn a little about which direction containerised cloud-centric ...

This is a guest blogpost by Antony Bourne, Industries President at IFS Businesses are constantly told they will go bust if they do not digitally transform and quick, but for manufacturers it’s not ...

In some ways, the recent completion of Plantronics’ $2 billion purchase of Polycom was more surprising for the amount paid than the fact that this is basically an audio headset supplier taking over ...

It might not be fake Brexit news but it is outrageous spin.

1 in 10 of those who video chat with strangers have been asked to change or undress on camera … we need open and honest debate, not obfuscation and claims that these are technical matters, too ...

In this guest post Paul Timms, managing director of IT support provider MCSA, shares his thoughts on why enterprises can ill-afford to overlook the importance of business continuity and disaster ...

GitHub Enterprise 2.14 has arrived this week. This latest version of the web-based code repository and version control system also of course now features collaborative functions, options for bug ...

Fintech is nothing without VC funding and the UK risks losing a significant share

When Theresa May’s unstoppable reshuffle tour eventually reached as far as grinning app namesake Matt Hancock, he found himself thrust from his role as secretary of state for digital, culture, ...

Businesses need to give robots a probabtion period for different roles andd must be prepared to bring out the P45

In this guest post, Eran Kinsbruner, lead technical evangelist at DevOps software supplier Perfecto, talks about why success in agile software development hinges on getting the people, processes ...

The new DCMS secretary of state may not have much experience when it comes to digital, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't give him a chance. One thing's for sure though: Whether you want to call it ...

Information access and identity management controls have never been more in the data developer news-stream as they are today. Software Defined Networks (SDN) have a massive part to play in terms of ...

Yes this is a software column (blog), but a) this is summer b) all hardware has an element of embedded software in it and c) some of these stories just need to be told … oh okay and d) it’s the ...

Many open source enthusiasts (practitioners, paragons, partisans, preachers and protagonists) will have heard of Drupal. For those that haven’t, Drupal is an open source content management ...

This might best be achieved by engaging sponsors via sector/market/problem specific practitioner workshops to distil current good practice into draft guidance that could be used by those who will ...

With its focus on AI software for unstructured content, Boston-based Indico has now come forward with a new open source project focused on simplifying the use of transfer learning with natural ...

Slowly, slowly, the UK government is getting better at big IT projects. Thanks to Whitehall watchdog, the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA), we’re able to track the improvements in major ...

By Kimberly Chua In recent years, airlines have been able to trying to lower operating costs by taking advantage of internet-of-things (IoT) devices and satellite connectivity to gather real-time ...

Our embrace of so-called 'open data' is coming to the fore, but what is it, why does it matter and what role should it play in the wider development of enterprise technology infrastructures? ...

Trainline's data scientists are applying the latest technologies to vast data sets to make train journey ticket prices easier to navigate

Gavin Williamson unwittingly summoning Siri on his iPhone whilst updating Parliament on the fight against Daesh has marked him as national security’s weak link, which couldn’t really be any less ...

The US Department of Labor has updated its Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. Known as 2018 SOC, government agencies use the system to classify workers and, with a bit of ...

Not that surprising in this day and age that a large software company puts its European fintech resources in a city other than London

Slightly cheesy with a dash of spin perhaps? But API (Application Programming Interface) development is now a real 'thing', so should we look more deeply into what API development involves? For ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network shamefully missed its chance to attend MongoDB World 2018 for the USA leg of the schema-fluid developer-focused database company’s contribution to this year’s ...

In this guest post, Jo Morfee, co-founder of Innovate Her, discusses the UK's digital skills pipeline and how to encourage more girls to be part of it One of the main factors impeding technology ...

Diversity matters, in all walks of life, obviously. Data diversity is also an issue because data comes in many ‘types’, that is - structured, unstructured, semi-structured, big, dark, geo-tagged, ...

Passwords have been the mainstay for securing applications, devices and the data they hold, pretty much ever since IT was invented. It’s an approach that has always had weaknesses though, mostly ...

IT is often two-faced and never more so than when it comes to the financial health of the industry. Speak to one set and they'll tell you how tight it is, scrapping for every penny of profit, and ...

Who’s your daddy? -- sang the Zombies in their 1967 hit Time Of The Season. Then came Ray Winstone in Scum in 1979, he was certainly the daddy. Fast forward to 2018 and who’s the daddy? Secure ...

Somewhere deep in cyber space, a clutch of the internet’s more eccentric alt-right YouTubers have collaborated to join Ukip for a bit of attention, and the dotty old right-wing Eurosceptics have ...

The last visit to Unified Comms (UC) expo in London reinforced a view that this sector is slightly misnamed. The attempt a few years ago to tack ‘and collaboration’ (UC&C) onto the end seemed ...

What’s better than data analytics? Well, one answer is Marmite mixed with peanut butter and orange marmalade, obviously. MapD Technologies thinks it can go one better. The company’s spin doctors ...

It is hard to tell the real status of blockchain take up because there is so much background noise

Most of the skills in short supply can be acquired and assessed within days or weeks provided employers and those in their supply chains come together to agree standards and organise co-operation ...

German technologyhaus Software AG has for some time now openly focused on technologies that populate the Internet of Things (IoT). The man steering much of the company’s development in this space ...

Pusher is a developer tools company that makes communication and collaboration APIs for web and mobile applications. The company’s core product is called Channels, developers use it to create ...

There’s applications and application delivery… and then there’s the arguably more upmarket notion of Adaptive Release Orchestration & Continuous Delivery (AROCD - not a real acronym). Placing ...

Software-und System-Entwicklung (or, SUSE, to you and me) has been active this month and opened the box on SUSE CaaS Platform 3. SUSE CaaS is the acronym for the open source operating system ...

In this guest post, Chip Childers, CTO of open source platform-as-a-service Cloud Foundry, makes the case for why the future of public cloud and IaaS won't be proprietary. Once upon a time, ...

MPs on the Treasury select committee have been doing everyone in IT a favour lately. Thanks to pressure from their investigations, we’ve had near-unprecedented access to the real stories of what ...

As a veteran in Singapore’s IT industry, Kwong Yuk Wah has played a part in major IT initiatives over two decades, starting with the government’s computerisation programme that paved the way for ...

A civil servant has swapped her job at the Department for Education for a stint on ITV’s hit reality show Love Island. Zara McDermott, who had previously been developing government policy on ...

This is a guest blogpost by Mikael Lindmark, a senior vice president at SAP Fieldglass As CIOs and other executives across enterprises turn to contractors, freelancers and other external workers to ...

Cast is a company dedicated to the code analysis it performs as its core bread and butter. Not a security company as such, Cast describes itself as a software intelligence specialist How much code ...

Insurtech doesn't have the ring of Fintech but the opportunity to personalise insurance through tech is huge

Instaclustr has announced Kafka-as-a-Service in bid to provide an easier route to the real-time data streaming platform An open source player from the start, the e-dropping Instaclustr specifies ...

If you are starting to suspect that the AI hype is overblown, and that it's just the latest term that marketing folk love to add to make their product sound more interesting, you are not alone. ...

In this guest post, Richard Blanford, managing director of G-cloud-listed IT services provider Fordway, advises companies to weigh up the pros and cons of using SaaS and IaaS before going all-in on ...

One of the defining characteristics of the modern digital workplace is a Windows PC on every desk and a smartphone in every pocket. The ability to centrally discover, provision, deploy, update, and ...

By Kevin Cahill The Justice Committee of the European Parliament has set the scene for a major showdown with the US over data transfers between the EU and the US by setting a Sept 1st deadline for ...

Hitachi Vantara continues its development in the post-HDS post-Pentaho post- ‘the other bit’ (okay we know it was Hitachi Insight Group) amalgam that has seen the company now build its current ...

Software definitely helped cause the pernicious problem of fake news – but could also ameliorate it, says data expert Emil Eifrem, in a guest blogpost. Time was it was the tabloid newspapers that ...

Matt Hancock, the secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport (DCMS), is not everyone’s cup of tea – especially when that cup is Matt Hancock branded. But regardless of whether you’re ...

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

This is a guest blog by Claudia Imhoff, CEO Intelligent Solutions and founder, Boulder BI Brain Trust Like any new initiative, there are both challenges and benefits to weigh when deciding whether ...

Databricks announced a new open source project called MLflow for open source machine learning at the Spark Summit this month. The company exists to focus on cloud-based big data processing using ...

Fans of Cirque du Soleil’s highly-anticipated Toruk – The First Flight were encouraged to whip out their smartphones during the performance in Singapore recently – with full blessings from the ...

This week, we suppose we’re meant to have some kind of sideways take on Downtime icon Elon Musk selling flamethrowers to his lamewad fans, but documenting this man’s hijinks is starting to become ...

There is a term which crops up a lot in the technology sector - ‘legacy’. Occasionally, especially when talking to very long-established companies, the term ‘heritage’ occurs. It is useful ...

TigerGraph has brought forward a free Developer Edition of its graph analytics platform for lifetime non-commercial use. But, please, what is graph analytics? As defined nicely here by Hitachi ...

Machine data log file analytics specialist Splunk has added an extra dose of incident management capability into its stack with the acquisition of VictorOps. The Colorado headquartered VictorOps ...

Arguably, open source is not an alternative to commercial software. Rather, it is a way to create software collaboratively, and at a global scale. Active contributors in the open source community ...

By Kevin Cahill The European Court of Justice may not have a hearing into crucial questions about the legality of the EU-US data transfer system for at least 18 months according to a spokesperson ...

Facing negative PR all around after announcing a strategic realignment that is to see 13,000 employees made redundant and the closure of its central London HQ after over 100 years, even the good ...

In this guest post, Darren Watkins, managing director at colocation provider VIRTUS Data Centres, on how to help organisations take back control over their big data. When the story broke in March ...

One app mentioned at Zendesk’s customer experience conference this month was Replika, an AI friend that on first impression seems barely an improvement on grandparent’s crumpet Eliza from 1964. ...

It has been a busy week at SAP Sapphire, the conference is staged in association with the independent ASUG (Americas SAP User Group). Along with partner news, there were core platform shifts (news ...

SAP used its ASUG (Americas SAP User Group) Sapphire Now conference held in Orlando, Florida this year to detail a number of ‘telling’ partner initiatives that could suggest new directions of focus ...

SAP staged a press 'breakfast with mimosas' session at the ASUG SAP Sapphire conference and exhibition in Orlando, Florida this year. For the uninitiated, a 'mimosa' is what would normally be ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) talks to Viktor Farcic in his his role as senior consultant at CloudBees in line with a mini-series of posts related to the rise of what we have called ...

SAP has formed plans to work with Accenture, Capgemini and Deloitte with the specific aim of increasing customer adoption of the SAP S/4HANA Cloud in (even more specifically) the process ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network talks to John Pocknell is his role as senior product manager at Quest in line with a mini-series of posts related to the rise of what we have called the ...

SAP has used the ASUG (Americas SAP User Group) convention in Orlando to attempt to further justify the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in modern Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) deployments. ...