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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 ...

The practical harnessing and application of AI and Robotics, beyond what was achievable decades ago, requires a supply of technician level skills (including statistics and security by design) that ...

MongoDB 3.6 will be generally available in early December. The open source (at its core) general purpose database has some noteable changes (its makers would call them enhancements) including a ...

There is a real danger that technology education in schools will wither and die, with all the risks that brings to the UK’s digital skills, research and innovation capabilities. There was great ...

SITA is trying out the application of mixed reality to the air travel industry

Australia’s broadband is under siege from a group of vicious cockatoos with no known motive. The cables they’re eating are not thought to be made from any of the birds’ classic vices, such as fruit ...

Enterprise cloud company Nutanix has hosted its .NEXT 2017 conference and exhibition on the balmy shores of the Cote D’Azur in the French city of Nice. Alongside key announcements focused on ...

In addition to its core product updates released in line with the European leg of its .NEXT conference and exhibition series, enterprise cloud company Nutanix has added to its set of cloud tools, ...

Hyperconverged enterprise cloud company Nutanix holds the French leg of its .NEXT conference series this week on the balmy shores of the Riveria down in Nice... so what do we need to keep in mind ...

With PSD2 around the corner banks face challenges to remain the main interface for financial services for their customers

Blockchain becoming so mainstream that it is being discussed in the playground, but banks just see it as another technology

If the government planned like banks and considered what the younger generations want Brexit would not even be on the radar

Are developers making the most of containers, or are they [just] treating them like virtual machines? Could the dawn of cloud-native software application development herald a new era when ...

At a time when traditional industries are being upended by technological disruption, the most progressive libraries around the world in places like South Korea are pulling all stops to stay ...

In this guest blog, Paul Ruelas, director of product management at Masergy, shares some tips on how to pick the right hybrid network supplier for your business.  A global wide area network (WAN) ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Ides Vanneuville in his capacity as director of systems engineering for EMEA at Avi Networks. Avi Networks is known for its ...

DBS Bank, Southeast Asia’s largest bank by market cap, has claimed the honour of having the world’s biggest banking API (application programming interface) platform with over 155 APIs that ...

This is a guest blogpost by Partha Sen, CEO and co-founder of Fuzzy Logix. Ever heard of the legend of Alexander the Great and the Gordian Knot? According to the myth, Alexander was confronted on ...

The government’s digital minister, Matt Hancock, is a busy and enthusiastic advocate for the UK’s digital economy. In the past month alone, he’s given five speeches, published an independent review ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider column written by Tim Mackey in his capacity as technology evangelist for open source applications and container management & ...

Sony is bringing back Aibo, Japan’s original answer to a human hankering for a robotic dog that needlessly cocks its leg. How relaunching what is essentially an elaborate Furby helps the company’s ...

For software application developers and analytical DataBase Administrators (DBAs) in the retail, banking, government services and related commercial 'shopping' space, the promise of a cashless ...

Goldman Sachs CEO fuels speculation about the UK's financial services hub post Brexit with another thinly veiled warning

This is a guest blogpost by Bastian Nominacher, co-founder and co-CEO, Celonis Over the past decade, almost every industry has been overturned by digital disruptors. Same-day delivery, restaurant ...

Microsoft UK COO Clare Barclay kicked off what is her firm's major London event (for the autumn season at least) by taking the stage for Microsoft Future Decoded 2017 staged at the ExCeL convention ...

Banks might feel hamstrung by the strict regulations they face, but if it wasn't for these rules disruption to their businesses would be far greater