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Kainos electoral registration software and DUP constituency MPs is the undoubted winner. IT industry lobbyists are the biggest losers.

Information management company Veritas Technologies is targeting the headaches that the firm suggests might be thrown up by running multi-cloud operations. Hybrid cloud deployments featuring a mix ...

This is a guest blogpost by Yasmeen Ahmad , Director of Think Big Analytics, Teradata Will you be superseded by an intelligent algorithm? Despite the fear mongering of robots taking over the world ...

Amid all the chaos, recriminations and excitement on the morning after the General Election, the future of digital government is far from the minds of anyone other than those of us with a personal ...

Google knows (one would imagine) about the C-word. C for Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment and Continuous Management. The online world runs on a continuous ...

The pressures on major players to "clean up the Internet" before advertising funded business models collapse are now likely to produce results before parliament can agree workable legislation.

In this guest post, Jon Topper, co-founder and principal consultant of  hosted infrastructure provider The Scale Factory, shares his thoughts on how the DevOps movement is maturing as enterprises ...

When StarHub’s residential fibre network went down in October 2016, the Singapore telco initially pinned the blame on distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks brought on by internet of things ...

Darling of the hyperconverged enterprise cloud space Nutanix holds its annual .NEXT conference, exhibition, symposium, expo (Ed - we get it, it's a 'do') in the American capital of Washington DC ...

Creating more world class graduate and post graduate apprenticeships is more important than enabling unskilled students to graduate with less debt.

TIBCO is in the middle of a raft of product updates and extensions. The data integration firm's TIBCO Spotfire Data Catalog is describe as a data connectivity and data management product with a ...

Digital transformation blah blah blah, there's usually more to TIBCO (The Integration Bus COmpany) than the usual industry padding and rhetoric, so what could its Now 2017 conference and exhibition ...

Apple opened this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference with a video speculating what the world might look like if all the apps used on their devices suddenly disappeared. As all the big guns, ...

Those who stand in the way of cleaning up the Internet by claiming to defend freedom of speach and secure encryption do their cause no good.

Unified communications expert Paul Clarke says the technology is still far from ubiquity especially as more CIOs implement mobile-first strategies. From a unified communications perspective, the ...

The Conservative Manifesto contains a serious attempt to look at creating the digital infrastructure for a smart society but this is spread across more voter friendly topics.

You would expect, of course, that a publication such as Computer Weekly would call on whoever wins the 2017 general election to put the digital economy on its list of immediate priorities. While ...

The HSA Foundation has made available to developers the HSA PRM (Programmer’s Reference Manual) conformance test suite as open source software. HSA who? Yes, sorry... the HSA (Heterogeneous System ...

SQL (Structured Query Language) is a standardised programming language used for managing relational databases and performing various operations on the data in them. So then, SQL databases – and the ...

The future of data storage will not be in the binary switching of electrical cells as in flash storage. It may also not be in magnetism-based potential successors to flash such as Racetrack Memory, ...

Donald Trump has written a new page into the book of Twitter folklore with his now deleted classic, “Despite the constant negative press covfefe”. The garbled message, surely reaching for the word ...

Conceived in 2014, Singapore’s National Health IT Masterplan is coming to fruition, with key projects such as the National Electronic Health Record (NEHR) system already in place. This was revealed ...

It was back in 2014 that we last reported a major step in Java with the launch of version 8. Java 9 had been expected to drop by July of this year in 2017. Reports now suggest that Java 9 Standard ...

Big data analytics and infrastructure deployment company BlueData has attempted to explain why developers and data scientists working on the front line of big data implementations need to consider ...

Longtime open source advocate Perforce has updated its version control software. The new Helix4Git is designed to accelerate build processes in large-scale Git environments. How do build processes ...

Most of the IT industry appears to have little or nothing to fear from the hardest of Brexits. But this illustrates the failure of those of us who have spend decades trying to make a reality of the ...

The anger among independents over the use of Tier 2 visa to depress UK contract rates will ensure that who-ever is elected will need to respond

In this guest post, Susan Bowen, vice president and general manager at Cogeco Peer 1  and new trustee at education technology solutions organisation Jisc, explains her journey into the technology ...

The world’s number one player of strategy board game Go has been beaten by Google’s DeepMind AlphaGo artificial intelligence (AI). Imagine the hours Ke Jie must have dedicated to playing Go, a ...

In this guest blog, Anthony Sutton from Cobham Wireless discusses how venue owners can maximise visitor satisfaction by improving mobile network availability. It’s match day! You’ve managed to get ...