Recent Blog Posts

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. ...

Automated 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 ...

Some 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 ...

Europeans 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 ...

In 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. ...

Monzo 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 ...

This 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 ...

It’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 ...

In 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.   ...

New 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' ...

IoT 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 ...

Apple 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 ...

Microsoft’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 ...

The 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”. ...