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YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, speaking at Recode’s Code Media conference in California, has insisted its macabre problem child Logan Paul hasn’t done enough to be kicked off the platform. The ...
Ahead in the Clouds
The Field of (Cloud) Dreams: if you build it, will they come?
Senior Editor, UK 15 Feb 2018In this guest post, Allan Brearley, cloud practice lead at IT services consultancy ECS and Tesco Bank’s former head of transformation, draws inspiration from a 1989 Kevin Costner movie to advise ...
Software quality tools company SmartBear has now announced support for OpenAPI Specification (OAS) in its AlertSite product. So let’s break that down and think about what it means in terms of the ...
Reviews of organisational security can be viewed in many positive ways, but all too often with trepidation or resignation. The rise of phishing, where spoof, but increasingly credible, messages try ...
Data Matters
The data warehouse – why it’s time to stop writing its obituary and modernise your approach
Business Applications Editor 13 Feb 2018This is a guest blogpost by Dave Wells, practice director, data management at Eckerson Group. If there’s one thing the IT industry is exceptionally good at it, it’s proclaiming the death of a ...
As part of a continuing set of analysis posts dedicated to examining major developments across the major (and some lesser) open source Linux distributions, we consider 2017 at open German ...
Fintech makes the world go around
How worried about Brexit are fintech companies?
Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 13 Feb 2018Fintech companies could be the hardest hit tech firms in the UK if there is no good deal with the EU after Brexit
With more businesses expecting enterprise-grade mobile devices to last longer than the average consumer smartphone replacement cycle, keeping those devices secure is a growing challenge. According ...
CW Developer Network
RHEL trends: secure automation, (any) cloud-native performance… and automation, again
12 Feb 2018As part of a series of analysis posts designed to look at the major (and some slightly lesser) open source distributions and what they have achieved over the last year, let us briefly revisit Red ...
Fintech makes the world go around
UK fintech faces biggest hit if Brexit deal goes sour
Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 09 Feb 2018The UK's growing fintech sector could be hit very, very hard by a bad deal or no deal between the EU and UK
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Latest Universal Credit revelations heap further pressure on Gov.uk Verify
Editor in chief 09 Feb 2018The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been consistently criticised for its lack of transparency since the controversial Universal Credit programme was launched nearly eight years ago. The ...
Application development and deployment company Progress has come forward with new releases of the Progress Telerik and Progress Kendo UI tools. New capabilities including 'Fluent' design and ...
Eyes on APAC
Singapore Airlines strikes the right notes with digital blueprint
TechTarget 08 Feb 2018Singapore Airlines (SIA) has been on roll lately with a slew of announcements that it hopes will cement its position as a leading carrier amid stiff competition from premium rivals and low-cost ...
It’s all too easy to conflate the kind of AI being hyped in the industry at the moment with the science fiction notion of machine sentience. We are still a long way from the latter, though, whether ...
Computer Weekly Open Source Insider continues its analysis and deconstruction of major open source distros this month with a series of personal conversations inside Red Hat. Stormy Peters, senior ...
If there’s one thing that Linux needs to aid its march onwards it is (arguably) more enterprise robustness. Actually, if there’s one thing that Linux needs for enterprise success it’s firms like ...
GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post from CEO of Amicable and everywoman Innovator Award category finalist, Pip Wilson, explains to encourage girls into science, technology, engineering and ...
GUEST BLOG: In this contributed post by everywoman Digital Start Award finalist Saija Mahon, founder and CEO of Mahon Digital Marketing, explains that tech being only for men is the biggest ...
StorageBuzz
Cloud on the rise as hybrid cloud storage shows real maturity
Storage Editor 05 Feb 2018This year’s storage news so far has provided a firm impression of the increasing prominence of the cloud, and in particular of attempts to harness the public cloud and private datacentre in hybrid ...
Fintech makes the world go around
Buying cryptocurrency on credit is so risky Lloyds Banking Group won’t let customers do it
Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 05 Feb 2018If you are a Lloyds Banking Group credit card holder that fancies a flutter on cryptocurrencies ,think again it's banned.
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Time to dump the all-flash scepticism
Freeform Dynamics 05 Feb 2018When we surveyed several hundred IT professionals on the topic of All-Flash Arrays, one thing that came out was just how broad was the chasm in thinking between those whose organisations already ...
Why did Snowflake Computing call itself Snowflake Computing? Was it because its founders are snowflake generation kids who are incapable of taking a few hard knocks here and there? Um, ah no, it’s ...
The development version of openSUSE Leap 15 has reached its beta phase builds and snapshots are available for testers. As a free and open source (FOSS) operating system, Leap is derived from the ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
As Gov.uk Verify concerns mount, is GDS about to lose control of digital identity policy?
Editor in chief 02 Feb 2018There’s a growing body of opinion that the government’s flagship digital identity system, Gov.uk Verify, has now become a major hindrance to the development of the UK’s digital identity ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
UK IT budgets are increasing fast as cloud adoption accelerates - Computer Weekly reader survey
Editor in chief 02 Feb 2018Every year, Computer Weekly conducts a large-scale survey of our readers to find out their IT spending priorities for the year ahead – it’s always an interesting take on what’s happening in IT ...
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Microsoft's challenge for 2018: mindshare & market relevance
Freeform Dynamics 02 Feb 2018Microsoft's revenues are up, but compared to its biggest competitors -- Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook -- its mindshare and perceived market relevance are down. Satya Nadella's Microsoft is ...
In this guest post, Kat Lee, data analyst at service provider Cloudreach, shares some best practice on cloud billing to help enterprises cut costs. IT cost control and management is a hot topic of ...
GitLab is expanding... but what is its position in the total source code repository management universe? Let's draw a couple of lines first with a nod to the SESYNC research support community for ...
This is a guest blogpost by Matt Jones, lead analytics strategist at Tessella, in which he argues companies with physical products and infrastructure cannot simply cut and paste the tech giant’s AI ...
Despite recent advancements in deep learning, which has its roots in neuroscience, it not a dramatic breakthrough in artificial intelligence as it is sometimes portrayed. That was the key point ...
News of new culture secretary Matt Hancock launching his own app sent Downtime direct to the App Store. After a tantalising few seconds waiting for Matt Hancock to download, we open it up and join ...
Smart speaker devices like Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant are making children ask for things without say "please", research from Childwise has found
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Why the IoT is pushing analytics to the limit
Freeform Dynamics 01 Feb 2018IoT Back to Basics, chapter 2: In the era of the Internet of Things (IoT) it is becoming increasingly important to be able to process, filter and analyse data close to where it is created, so it ...
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Privacy lessons from the fitness fiasco
Freeform Dynamics 01 Feb 2018Most of us already recognise that technology has the potential to wipe out our privacy, if checks and balances are not in place – or at least I hope we do! What’s scary then in the recent hoo-hah ...
This is the third in a series of articles exploring the challenges and opportunities facing the audio visual (AV) industry, which has its annual European flagship event, ISE2018, in February. This ...
Red Hat has been out shopping. The enterprise focused open source platform company has bought CoreOS, a specialist technology player known for its Kubernetes and container-native solutions. ...
Open Source Insider
Open source needs contributions: automation, scale & security are key
30 Jan 2018Automated software container security company Twistlock claims to be passionate about open source contributions. Company CTO John Morello points out that all too few firms actually contribute with ...
Facebook doesn't usually make technical headlines unless the social site is being criticised over the implementation of its algorithm structure and questioned over whether it is unfairly promoting ...
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Information management is going mainstream – at last!
Freeform Dynamics 29 Jan 2018Some assumptions have been held by IT pros for so long that they have almost become articles of faith. One of these is the idea that content management, particularly for files, semi-structured and ...
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GDPR’s latest gift? Class action privacy cases
Freeform Dynamics 29 Jan 2018Europeans will in future be able to bring US-style class actions for (alleged) privacy violations, instead of having to sue individually and expensively. It’s thanks to a little-known clause of the ...
Ahead in the Clouds
Serverless vs. Microservices: What you need to know for cloud
Senior Editor, UK 29 Jan 2018In this guest post Neil Turvin, CEO at nearshore software development company Godel Technologies, shares his thoughts on how serverless computing is gaining ground in the delivery of cloud ...
Describing itself as a machine data analytics company, Sumo Logic is aiming to put a new CAPS C into a technology market already used to Continuous Integration, Testing, Deployment and Delivery. ...
Fintech makes the world go around
Bank systems glitch leaves thousands unable to access funds, but bank doesn’t explain what happened
Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 29 Jan 2018Monzo bank has broke the mould be giving customers a detailed explanation of what cause a glitch in their banking service
The Linux operating system (OS) will turn 30 in the year 2021. We know that Linus Torvalds first penned (typed) his work plans for what turned out to be Linux on a Usenet posting as follows: "I'm ...
CW Developer Network
The five enemies of continuous software (and what to do about them)
26 Jan 2018This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Eran Kinsbruner in his role as lead technical evangelist for Perfecto. Perfecto is known for its 'continuous' (as in ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Theresa May's welcome tech enthusiasm comes with a huge Brexit caveat
Editor in chief 26 Jan 2018It’s nice that we have a prime minister that chooses to use one of her most high-profile speeches of the year to talk about technology. It’s equally good that her chancellor similarly discussed the ...
Core level API-centric software quality specialist SmartBear has now come forward with Swagger Inspector, a free cloud-based API testing and documentation tool. The product is used to validate and ...
This is a guest blogpost by Arijit Sengupta, head of Einstein Discovery, Salesforce The business world has ...
If you’ve ever gone through the process of getting a tech startup off the ground, you’ll be familiar with the nerve-wracking process of pitching a group of stony-faced investors with your idea to ...
In this guest post, Prakash Sadagopan, director of field systems engineering at F5 Networks Asia-Pacific, discusses mobile security issues and what enterprises can do to stay secure. The boom of ...
Ahead in the Clouds
Unblocking the database bottleneck in enterprise DevOps deployments
Senior Editor, UK 24 Jan 2018In this guest post, DevOps consultant and researcher Nicole Forsgren, PhD, shares her advice on what enterprises can do to overcome the database problem when scaling up their DevOps endeavours. ...
Fintech makes the world go around
Fintech based banks need more differentiation to convince consumers to ditch traditional players
Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 24 Jan 2018New banks are putting too much importance on their digital usability as a way to win over coustomers
How do developers feel about so-called ‘low code’ platforms? In truth, we don’t really know yet as their very existence is a comparatively new phenomenon on the clock that tracks spacetime in the ...
Amazon, originator of the smart speaker category in the home, is taking Alexa into the office too. However, as David McClelland explores in the first of a two-part feature, Amazon isn't the only ...
Visual analytics company Tableau Software has launched a new data engine technology called Hyper. The software is included in the Tableau 10.5 version release. Hyper is designed to 'slice and dice' ...
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In IoT, Data matters more than Things – and here's why
Freeform Dynamics 22 Jan 2018IoT Back to Basics, chapter 1: The Internet of Things (IoT) is placing unprecedented demands on data storage, networking, processing and analytics. For end users, vendors and investors, it ...
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How will Apple spend its cash in 2018?
Freeform Dynamics 22 Jan 2018Apple probably has more cash than it knows what to do with right now, and this “problem” looks set to intensify if the company decides to repatriate the $250 billion it's holding in overseas ...
As the 'company behind' Ubuntu, Canonical has brought forward the first iteration of Slack as a snap on its software platform. Slack is a cloud-based set of proprietary team collaboration tools and ...
StorageBuzz
Microsoft purchase of Avere marks a hybrid cloud-y start to 2018
Storage Editor 22 Jan 2018Microsoft’s acquisition of Avere for an undisclosed sum, announced at the beginning of the year, marks the swallowing of an always-interesting storage player and a significant move for Microsoft ...
If age checking works well it will challenge some powerful vested interests - not all of them legitimate or reputable.
Richard Branson has overturned his Virgin Trains stooges’ decision to stop selling the Daily Mail, instantly pouring cold water over accusations that the billionaire who sued the NHS might be too ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
There's nothing for government IT outsourcing to learn from Carillion that we don't already know
Editor in chief 18 Jan 2018The demise of construction and services giant Carillion has brought fresh scrutiny of outsourcing in government. Frankly, you could find some event almost every year that brings fresh scrutiny of ...
Reports of Java's death have been greatly exaggerated -- said, well, pretty much every Java engineer that there is. The Java language and platform may have been (in some people's view) somewhat ...
Software and silicon design company Synopsys has just published an interesting report that classifies chief information security officers (CISOs) into four archetypes or what it calls “tribes”. ...
Inspect-a-Gadget
Cash in hand? This cryptocurrency body implant will secure your cyber-cash stash
18 Jan 2018Is the future of secure cryptocurrency storage and payment simply "cash in hand"? Inspect a Gadget looks at how one firm's human microchip implant could help. We’ve all looked on with interest as ...
In this guest post, Allan Brearley, cloud practice lead at IT services consultancy ECS and Tesco Bank’s former head of transformation shares his thoughts on what enterprises can do to address the ...
The Full Spectrum
When it comes to mobile spectrum, it's time for Three to get over itself
Security Editor 17 Jan 2018I was hugely pleased today to see that despite the possibility of another legal roadblock in the Court of Appeal, telecoms regulator Ofcom is going to move ahead and lay the groundwork for the ...
Fintech makes the world go around
Ordering a takeaway on a smartphone is transforming your local environment and community
Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 17 Jan 2018When people get their smartphone out and order transport, evening meal and even a place to stay at a few touches they don't think about the huge social and environmental changes that they are ...
There has been an undeniable popularisation of so-called 'low-code' programming platforms. This is a strain of technology designed to provide automated blocks of functionality that can be brought ...
The finalists for this year’s everywoman in Technology Awards have been announced prior to the awards ceremony in February 2018. After sorting through applications from hundreds of candidates, ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Klaus-Michael Vogelberg in his capacity as chief technology officer at financially-focused Enterprise Resource Planning ...
The recent launch of Microsoft's Azure Stack platform provides a means for organisations to create a far more flexible and consistent hybrid private/public cloud environment. However, unless the ...
In this guest post, Ron Vermeulen, go-to-market manager for north-west Europe at IT services provider, Comparex, runs through the process of finding and fixing cloud faults There is no doubt that ...
In some ways the Meltdown and Spectre flaws represent a risk that goes to the very heart of computing. This microprocessor flaw has resulted in major network, server, PC and mobile hardware firms ...
Fintech makes the world go around
Insurtech firm lost EU funding as a result of Brexit, but filled gap through fintech platform
Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 15 Jan 2018When a UK startup had its EU funding put on hold due to Brexit it could not wait, so it turned to crowdfunding and succeeded in getting the funds it needs
It had to happen. DevOps consolidated the developer and operations functions into one ‘workplace culture’ and so came together the previously separately plated chicken & waffles of the software ...
The latest data breach in Leicester City Council , putting some of the most vulnerable in society at immediate risk from potential local predators, illustrates why it is so important to implement ...
This is a guest blogpost by Gamil Jassin, a journalism Masters degree student at City, University of London. We all moan and groan about how bad the battery life on our phones is. Then, we keep ...
As sociable as Amazon’s smart assistant may at first appear, Alexa has never mixed well with Windows. Until now. Historically, Alexa has played nicely with smart speakers, TV sticks, robots, ...
Ahead in the Clouds
Choosing the right public cloud provider: A checklist
Senior Editor, UK 11 Jan 2018In this guest post, Gordon Grosse, director of technical services at IT support and datacentre managed service provider MCSA, offers advice on how to choose the right public cloud provider for your ...
This is the second in a series of articles exploring the challenges and opportunities facing the audio visual (AV) industry, which has its annual European flagship event, ISE2018, in February. This ...
Hyundai, along with a handful of key investors, is pumping more money into Grab, Southeast Asia’s largest ride-hailing service in an effort to bring its mobility services to the region. The South ...
Fintech makes the world go around
As open banking hits UK is it time to dispel the Google Bank theory?
Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 10 Jan 2018As the UK embarks oon a journey to open retail banking up to more competition it is time to stop talking about Google Bank?
Time now to check in with Downtime linchpin Sophia the robot, who’s been dazzling the world once again – this time at CES 2018. No, it’s not wig-cleaning day for Ray’s wife at Disney World’s “Hall ...
CW Developer Network
Chef: The DevOps tools arms race is over, time for application-centrism
10 Jan 2018The Computer Weekly Developer Network asked, is 2018 the year of the DevOps backlash? Well, it was only meant to be an open question, a hypothesising supposition, a point of informed speculation ...
Ahead in the Clouds
Meltdown and Spectre: Making a case for greater public cloud use
Senior Editor, UK 09 Jan 2018The Meltdown and Spectre CPU vulnerabilities constitute the greatest test yet of the public cloud provider community’s data security claims, says Caroline Donnelly, while providing enterprise IT ...
Networks Generation
Hold The Front Page: Common Sense Prevails In IT Security Shock!
Broadband Testing 09 Jan 2018IT is overloaded with slick marketing terms that have little or no substance behind them – the classic “solution searching for a problem” scenario but… just occasionally the complete opposite prevails
Every company is now a software company, this much we know to be true. If we accept this new truism, then a camera company must be a software company… or at least it must be a digital camera ...
The Computer Weekly Developer Network asked, is 2018 the year of the DevOps backlash? Well, it was only meant to be an open question, a hypothesising supposition, a point of informed speculation ...
Professor Giovanni Vigna has been lauded as the world’s fourth most influential researcher in cyber security and is the founder of Lastline, a malware protection company. He is responsible for ...
Some 20 teams of cyber security industry professionals and tertiary students in Singapore pitted their skills against one another in a competition aimed at plugging the cyber security skills gap in ...
It's time for a little open source history. The 'open source' label itself was created at a strategy session held by members of the group that we now call the Open Source Initiative (OSI) on ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Five things in tech to watch out for in 2018
Editor in chief 04 Jan 2018Complete this sentence to win a prize for your technology insight: “2018 will be the year of…” Rather like the missing word round in Have I Got News For You, the answers will range from the obvious ...
Ahead in the Clouds
OpenStack vs the rest of the public cloud: Where next from here?
Senior Editor, UK 04 Jan 2018In this guest post, Rob Greenwood, technical director at Manchester-based cloud and DevOps consultancy Steamhaus weighs up the pros and cons of using OpenStack over other public cloud platforms. ...
Did anyone else notice how many people ruined the festive season’s pub visits by mistaking Bitcoin for something resembling an entertaining topic of conversation? Suddenly all these bozos you grew ...
Fintech makes the world go around
Could the babel fish be around the corner via Google
Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 04 Jan 2018The babel fish is around the corner but look out for the arrival androids that are indistinguishable from humans
The Computer Weekly Developer Network wants to know what’s next for software engineers, that much you already know. In that regard then, we want to know how developer-programmers should be thinking ...
Data Matters
Big data best practice means a best-of-breed approach
Business Applications Editor 03 Jan 2018This is a guest blogpost by Sebastian Darrington, UK MD at Exasol The days of operating a single vendor IT software estate are behind us. Such is the pace of innovation and change, putting all your ...
Data Matters
Combining machine learning and scorecards to assess credit risk
Business Applications Editor 03 Jan 2018This is a guest blogpost by Shafi Rahman, principal scientist, FICO Last year, artificial intelligence (AI) generated countless news headlines and ideas that fascinate us. Its predictive ability ...
Named after the South American waterfall, but with the ‘creative’ use of a lower case first letter, iguazio is a data platform company specialising in continuous analytics and event ...