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Cloud application marketplace company Wireline is working with open source blockchain project developer Qtum The new union is intended to provide a conduit to consuming microservices at [web] scale ...

You: “You alright?” Boss: “Good morning Joe, I trust you slept well and the commute was satisfactory.” This could be a regular welcome if we start to work for robot bosses, and new research has ...

The #metoo hashtag has been appearing on social media following the accusations of sexual assault and harassment many women in Hollywood have suffered at the hands of Harvey Weinstein. ...

As the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog approaches it's 1000 post since first starting in June 2010, we feature a number of comments from movers (and hopefully shakers) in this space. ...

Politics, rightly or wrongly, has an impact on government technology projects. It’s an inevitable part of having a democracy and political prowess can be used to drive transformation, but can it ...

Government, business and the tech sector are getting very excited about artificial intelligence (AI). For government, AI presents an opportunity for a technology where the UK hopes to lead the ...

When some employees at FCM Travel Solutions lost their laptops over the past year, they were able to get their data back within half an hour. “People were really happy with the kind of support they ...

Celebrity man-child YouTuber Casey Neistat is the latest bizarre character to berate the nuances of the site’s recent algorithm tweaks, as they continue to put perfect lives under slight threat. We ...

This is the 1000th post on the Computer Weekly Developer Network in its seven year of existence. It would have been inappropriate not to thank all the firms and their representative communications ...

Application Performance Management (APM) specialist AppDynamics hosted its 2017 Summit #AppDSummit event in New York this week and CWDN was listening to the proceedings in full. AppDynamics CEO ...

Cloud, datacentre and communications software company Node4 has sauced up its security portfolio with a series of upgrades and new security services under the banner of SECaaS (Security as a ...

First the Earth cooled... and then there were tools, devices, machines and eventually software applications - then, finally, we started calling them apps. In the second age of man (and woman and ...

In this guest post, Steve Lowe, CTO of student accommodation finder Student.com, introduces the concept of T-shaped engineers and the value they can bring to teams tasked with delivering DevOps-led ...

Airbnb could be the latest disrupter to face challenges as government commissions analysis of its business model and industries using drones could be next up following Canada flight collision

Huawei Consumer Business Group has introduced its first mobile engineering offering with a distinct and dedicated Artificial Intelligence (AI) engineering chipset, the Kirin 970. Positioned as ...

The ability to mix the virtual world of digital content and information - text, sounds, images and video - with the physical world of three-dimensional space we inhabit has long appealed. Science ...

Everywoman has extended the deadline for its FDM everywoman in technology awards to allow more time for nominations – 2016 everywoman Startup Founder of the Year award winner Sophie Deen discusses ...

Disruptive business models in the world today will be the ones that are the norm in Mars tomorrow.

In Southeast Asia, Huawei and Alibaba are already household names to those who have either bought something online from Alibaba-owned Lazada or used Huawei’s Leica-branded P10 smartphones to take ...

Alongside Splunk’s annual event Splunk.conf runs the software firm’s learning and certification course, Splunk University, where in 2017 I spent a day learning how to use Splunk to deep dive data ...

Many experts – and many articles in Computer Weekly – have warned of the potential for social and cultural disruption and unrest as a result of the digital revolution. Does it feel to you, too, ...

This is a guest blogpost by Emil Eifrem, CEO, Neo4j Google's dominant search engine has always been driven by smart software. But around 2012, the search giant quietly transformed the way users ...

This is a guest blogpost by Greg Kefer, vice-president, marketing, Infor. Blockchain is arguably, one of the most hyped technologies around. Despite the fact that Gartner believes that 90% of ...

There was a time not too long ago when backup software pretty much only handled one scenario, ie backing up physical servers. Then came virtualisation. And for quite some time the long-standing ...

Mark Zuckerberg has apologised for an insensitive Facebook Spaces broadcast in which his cartoon alter ego takes a chirpy virtual reality tour of hurricane-devastated Puerto Rico. Facebook’s cause ...

The number of women in tech is still much lower than the number of men in the industry with many highlighting issues such as lack of mentors, lack of role models and imposter syndrome as factors ...

Hardcore technologists will be found in all departments in businesses because most will become tech companies at core.

Load balancing and application services used to rely on traditional (i.e. old fashioned) appliance-based web application firewalls. That day has now passed, according to Avi Networks... a firm ...

This is guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network blog written by Ben Newton, analytics lead at Sumo Logic. Sumo Logic, a firm known for its cloud-native machine data analytics platform ...

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) appears to have a very different view of how the IR35 tax avoidance reforms are affecting the public sector compared to many of the IT contractors Computer Weekly ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Eric Sigler in his capacity as head of DevOps at PagerDuty. Pager Duty offers what it calls a Digital Operations Management ...

Chapter 11 is never a good look for a tech supplier, whatever the reason for it. In the case of unified communications and network solutions supplier Avaya, it wanted to buy time to restructure its ...

Six years after launching Computer Weekly’s annual search for the most influential women in UK technology – and perhaps 20 years since we started writing about the issue of diversity in IT – ...

The term "Uber moment" now be taken to mean the point at which a digital disrupter finds its business model needs to change to tow the line

If you live in Singapore and have started using the newly-minted parking.sg app developed by the government to pay for street parking at public car parks, you may have noticed something in fine ...

People are trying to work out why Siri thought Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee hit Despacito was the Bulgarian national anthem. But the chance to enjoy the error for yourself has come and gone. Indeed, ...

UK should be ready to fill holes in its white collar workforce with robots a real alternative

Enterprise cloud company Nutanix has announced new capabilities for its Acropolis File Services (AFS) software. This is new technology and it has only been around for a couple of quarters. In that ...

The Google Cloud Platform challenges tier-1 public clouds as well as the hybrid cloud concept

There are software application development professionals in every industry from oil & gas to cake baking, obviously. There are core characteristics and functions that will bind all developers ...

Oracle launched what it has described as the “world’s first autonomous database” at OpenWorld this week in San Francisco. CTO Thomas Kurian said, in the press conference following his keynote at ...

Veritas dates back to the early 1980s but disappeared for 10 years to become part of Symantec, with its NetBackup and Backup Exec leading the way in the data protection market. But, in 2014 Veritas ...

Much of the rhetoric about the EU-GDPR, which comes into force in May 2018, relates to the danger of data breaches and the huge fines that may be imposed when they occur. What is the reality?

Software application developer-focused revision (and version) control system company Perforce Software has nipped down to IKEA and bought itself Sweden-based Hansoft Technologies. Hansoft is ...

The consumerisation of IT and digital disruption are transforming how business and people use IT. But it has also changed how we think about IT and as a consequence how we write about it.

Everybody is loving that thing we're all calling machine learning aren't they? Splunk wants to make it mainstream, several other firms want to demystify it (or probably democratise it... or both) ...

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Relationship Intelligence (RI) software company SugarCRM has launched a mobile Software Development Kit (SDK). The SDK can be used to develop ...

How do we enable digital employers to harness the native talent available and how do we prepare that talent for the opportunities available.

Asia-Pacific has been a hotbed of IT innovation, thanks to technology-driven growth policies and a relatively young population who are not reined in by legacy technology when solving the region’s ...

Right now, if you’re responsible for transforming your legacy wide-area network estate, you might be asking yourself, what does it mean to monetise your enterprise WAN? How can I leverage my WAN as ...

It can’t be often that an IT leader decides to take a job because his or her new employer says it “doesn’t want to have an IT department”. But it’s fair to say that Starling Bank – where that IT ...

Twitter’s move to double its 140-character limit to 280 has been marked by CEO Jack Dorsey unwittingly composing the worst tweet of all time, in a failed mission to justify the merits of waffle. ...

Splunk is using its .conf2017 annual conference to explain how governments and higher education institutions using its machine data machine learning technologies to analyze, correlate and act on ...

Machine data operational intelligence platform specialist Splunk has hosted its .conf 2017 conference and exhibition in Washington DC. Many of the firm’s partners (Splunkners, perhaps?) also ...

HP continues to shine a spotlight on print security with the recent announcement of embedded print security features that aim to mitigate the threat of malware. So how vulnerable are printers to ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Chris Gray in his capacity as technical director at Amido. Amido is a technical consultancy specialising in customer ...

Machine data operational intelligence platform company Splunk has staged its .conf 2017 conference and exhibition in Washington DC. As part of its market-facing moves for this show, the company has ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Patrick McFadin in his role as role of VP of developer relations at DataStax,. DataStax Enterprise is an always-on data ...

Machine data operational intelligence platform specialist Splunk has gone all Alan Partridge. The company known for its down-at-the-data-layer technologies and its tongue-in-cheek t-shirts now says ...

Got me thinking – just what IS a start-up company? Ok – so there are definitions within even Techtrailblazers itself as competitions are based upon rules, and rules dictate strict definitions, so ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider column written by Shawn Powers -- describing himself as Linux Journal editor, CBT Nuggets trainer, writer and geek all wrapped into ...

This is a guest blogpost by Matt Jones, lead analytics strategist, Tessella Recent converts to AI and machine learning’s amazing potential may be disappointed to discover that many of its more ...

Apple proudly claims it’s set the path of technology for the next decade with its iPhone X, but it would’ve been nice if it just did that with the one it announced half hour earlier. Instead, the ...

Asia-Pacific led the world in ransomware threats during the first half of 2017, with 35.7% of all ransomware detected globally targeted at companies in the region. Following the heels of APAC was ...

Microsoft is working to partner with everybody and be open to everything... as we know, Microsoft loves Linux, well, now it does. In this regard then, this month we see cloud data management ...

Cloud-centric software-defined information management company Veritas Technologies reminds is that 2.5 quintillion bytes of data a day are currently being produced today in 2017. The company is now ...

Information management company Veritas Technologies is now self-styling itself as a multi-cloud data management and control specialist. Pretty soon the firm’s marketing department might be trying ...

HM Revenue & Customs’ (HMRC) new chief digital and information officer (CDIO), Jacky Wright, appears  to be an excellent appointment. She’s spent six years in senior roles at Microsoft, most ...

Barracuda makes physical and virtual backup and archive appliances and has embraced the cloud as a target, as well as cloud-to-cloud backup and archiving for services such as Office 365. But it is ...

It’s 2017 – and that means we’re now starting to build software application development architectures, algorithms and applications for the cloud computing model of service-based application and ...

Slowly, technology issues are rising to centre of the Brexit debate – as they should. This week saw the publication of the UK government’s Data Protection Bill – our implementation of the European ...

The topic of diversity in the technology industry has been on many people’s minds of late – especially following various reports of sexual discrimination in the Silicon Valley tech scene and the ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network by Barry Devlin in his capacity as founder and principal of 9sight Consulting. A TechTarget contributor is his own right, Devlin is a ...

This is a guest blogpost by Vera Loftis, UK managing director, Bluewolf The availability of real time customer data and the increasing capability of companies to analyse and create actionable ...

Data analytics and Internet of Things company Software AG has used its 2017 'Innovation Tour' series to detail its technology roadmap and explain its wider notion of what it calls smart ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog written by Richard Morrell, group CTO at Falanx Cyber Technologies and CISO of the Cloud Security Alliance. Morrell looks back ...

Linux has always done well in the server room. As we know, Linux is particularly good at uptime, running multiple processes at once and configuration changes can be executed while systems are live ...

Halfway through its 2016/17 financial year, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) digital team had spent £60m over budget, a freedom of information (FoI) request submitted by Computer Weekly ...

Backup appliance maker Rubrik plans to add analytics to its products, including in the cloud. Talking to ComputerWeekly.com this week CEO Bipul Sinha would not give details, but did say the company ...

The money can only be spent by councils with above contract access or below contract spend to allow BT to extend access or improve services.

“Let me tell you about your first match. Ooh la la! She lives five miles away!” You probably wouldn’t think Alexa would say something like that but now it can, thanks to some creative intervention ...

How much of your on-line advertising budget is spent getting clicks from avatars? Claims as to proportion of paid for adtech clicks that are fraudulent range from 25% in 2015 to 80% earlier this ...

Chinese telecommunications company Huawei has used its Connect 2017 conference to remind us that its core operational foundation does indeed still rest in telco and connected devices – but, there ...

Neurala, Inc. is known for its work developing its own Neurala Brain. This is a piece of deep learning neural network software that makes smart products like robots, drones, toys, self-driving ...

During a breakout session at its Connect 2017 conference and exhibition, Chinese telecommunications company staged a session designed to examine the concept of what the company has called ...

Software analysis and measurement company Cast has conducted its annual developer survey with a twist (this year) which attempts to uncover whether developers are being held accountable for the ...

Around about a decade ago (somewhere near the dawn of the iPad), the software application development community started using a saying that kind of stuck. A new mindset was about to dawn. Aware ...

There are firms, companies, organisations and businesses of all kinds, but these terms may no longer be enough to describe contemporary industry players embracing cloud native architectures and ...

One of the advantages of my role as Computer Weekly’s business applications editor is that I get to have fairly in-depth conversations with US CEOs visiting London. These are background interviews ...

Reviewing progress in moving from talk to action in the rapid, cost effective development of world class security skills.

Chinese cloud and networking company Huawei and Microsoft have signed a strategic memorandum of understanding (MOU) on cloud services in an attempt to provide a new layer of compatibility and ...

Enterprise Jenkins and DevOps outfit CloudBees has stuck a bit of extra Ops vision in DevOps with what it calls DevOptics (did you see what they did there?) as its latest play in the application ...

Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei has hosted its Huawei Connect 2017 conference at the International Expo Centre in Shanghai this September 2017. After a breakfast of black eggs boiled in ...

Having trouble recruiting IT professionals? If so, the government wants your help. Most IT managers that Computer Weekly talks to have some form of skills shortages in their teams, and struggle to ...

It’s hard to imagine any attempt to create a Tory answer to Momentum going very well, but the bumbling inception of Activate has exceeded all expectations of ineptitude. The all-new “independent ...

The office of the future, as viewed through rose-tinted augmented reality glasses. A new film from augmented reality outfit Meta paints a vivid picture of how the office of the future may no longer ...

Cash is still king in Singapore, especially at mom-and-pop shops that have to pay credit card fees that do not make business sense for small transactions. In a bid to encourage greater adoption of ...

Cloud identity authentication specialist Okta has used its Oktane 2017 conference and exhibition to attempt to explain how software application developers should approach identity as a key element ...

Cloud identity authentication specialist Okta has used its Oktane 2017 conference and exhibition to extend the capabilities of its Okta Identity Cloud platform. To clarify, the firm now brings ...

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), is a wholly owned subsidiary of guess who? Yes, Hitachi, Ltd. But the fine folks at HDS do like to remind us of this fact. Now very much a software company (even if you ...