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The jury may currently be quite firmly “out” on whether software application developers are attracted to so-called low-code platforms. Does a software engineer have to think of themselves as coming ...

In this guest post, Jon Topper, CTO of DevOps consultancy, The Scale Factory, flags his four favourite announcements from Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) week-long Re:Invent partner and customer ...

Can corporate managers translate desired business outcomes into network performance requirements?

Helpdesk technicians in IT departments around the world will rejoice at Amazon’s announcement of a corporate version of its voice-enabled assistant Alexa for use in the workplace. It cannot now be ...

Hang on - a conference preview in 2017, are we not done on events season already? Well yes, developer conferences do actually happen in January, if you’re Alresco Software they do. Alfresco is an ...

In the fast-expanding world of ubiquitous personal data, sometimes it feels like we’re living in an enormous global beta test to work out what’s acceptable and what’s not. This week, Google was hit ...

Bank branch closures and branch staff cuts will be the tip of the iceburg when it comes to the disruption to the sector be brought by fintech

At a recent media event in Singapore, the CEO of Boston-based AI tools supplier DataRobot blamed the media for hyping up the potential of AI, and over-stating the technology’s impact on jobs. After ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog written by Ben Slater in his capacity as chief product officer at Instaclustr. Instaclustr positions itself as firm offering ...

A new research report from Quocirca, Damage Control – The impact of critical IT incidents, shows the scale of the challenge faced by organisations as they struggle to address the volume of ...

Banks need to use software robots to ensure small on line and mobile banking glitches are fixed before the inevitable Twitter frenzy.

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has graduated Apache Impala to become a Top-Level Project (TLP). Apache Impala itself is an analytic database for Apache Hadoop, the open source software ...

In this guest post, Byron Calmonson, director at recruitment consultancy Resourcing Hub, talks about the importance of backing up diversity and inclusion policies with real action and engagement ...

Cloud-native machine data analytics platform company Sumo Logic has rolled out a unified logs and metrics solution designed to improve the 'customer experience' of applications running on ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Barry Devlin, founder and principal of 9Sight Consulting. Devlin believes that data warehouse developers (Ed - is that ...

Brexit could lead to the UK economy missing out on a good share of the money being spent on digital transformations

The Linux Foundation has released its entire 2018 events schedule. The nonprofit organisation insists that it maintains a mission focused on the 'creators, maintainers and practitioners' of open ...

The use of cash is increasing faster than GDP in most countries with the notable exception of Sweden and Norway

Chancellor Philip Hammond has announced the most tech-friendly Budget ever. It wasn’t only the headline figures that mattered though, welcome as they were, including more than £500m of funding, ...

Did anyone else catch Richard & Judy on 1 April 2003? In case you missed it, they pranked the nation with a segment on a device they claimed could convert sampled speech into other languages in ...

Software runs the world, yes - but it typically needs hardware to run on and even the Computer Weekly Developer Network is occasionally tempted to focus on a piece of kit that 'does what it says on ...

A Vodafone survey has put Asia on the forefront of internet of things (IoT) adoption, with 36% of the region’s businesses reportedly using connected devices in 2017, up 200% from 2013. The global ...

This is a contributed article for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Druva's Dave Packer in his role as VP of products and alliances marketing at the company. Druva is a data ...

This is a guest blogpost by Allan Leinwand, CTO, ServiceNow      Cloud services first appeared in the late ‘90s when large companies needed a way to centralise computing, storage, and networking. ...

There are different ways to search for the Holy Grail of Google Bank and HSBC has chosen a path

Data storage has many fundamentals, but a key one is the idea that what we store should be or form part of a single, reliable copy. This is what is being strived for in concepts such as the file ...

NatWest is the latest to have a failure in its online services brought to the world's attention via Twittter

Online transportation company Uber has released its open sourced Pyro - a homegrown probabilistic programming language that has been developed internally. As many readers will know, a probabilistic ...

Report finds that manufacturers are underutilising the current industrial revolution, so should workers fear job cuts once they increase spending on technologies like artificial intelligence and ...

Pusher is a developer tools company that specialises in providing what it calls 'hosted building blocks' for programmers. The company has this month released Pusher Chatkit. This is a 'specialised' ...

This is a guest blogpost by Julian Box, CEO, Calligo. The prospect of ambulance-chasing lawyers interesting themselves in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is now very real. With just a ...

The is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Lior Abraham in his role as founder of Interana. Interana is a specialist in interactive behavioural analytics software for ...

In this guest post, Ross Brewer, managing director and vice president for Europe, Middle East and Africa at cybersecurity software supplier LogRhythm, makes the enterprise case for using artificial ...

It would be churlish not to applaud the government’s pre-Budget commitments to the tech sector – an increase in funding to support tech startups and expanding visa availability for bringing in top ...

The Neil Buchanan of Vietnamese cyber security has pulled Apple’s pants down by making a mask that can trick the iPhone X’s facial recognition technology. Come and have a look at this. Now, to make ...

Like VoIP optimisation I've been blogging about recently, so I've been testing network (LAN and WAN in old money) optimisation solutions since the late '90s. The former, AKA Load-Balancing and ...

Logic dictates that end-to-end security must be allowed to exist free from intermediate back doors. The value of “legal intercept” and back doors needs to be considered from a systems point of ...

Software has been taking over roles carried out by humans for a long time but the humanisation of tech is making it personal

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

American telecommunications mainstay AT&T is working with Indian multinational IT and networking technology firm Tech Mahindra to build an open source Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform ...

In this guest post, Drew Nielsen, chief trust officer at cloud-based backup provider Druva, shares a scary and hairy tale about how shortfalls in any company's upkeep and maintenance schedule can ...

Software integration, analytics and management company TIBCO is loving, embraces and heart-ing open source this month with its newly available Project Mashling. Branded as an open source ...

The Pentaho brand is now a fully signed up card-carrying element of Hitachi Vantara. But making good on its promise to invest in what was a company and is now a brand/product, the PentahoWorld 2017 ...

The Volvo Ocean race is not only an amazing feat of human endurance but a herculean IT project

With 90% of the world’s data created in the last two years, it’s hardly surprising that the datacentre industry is booming, with cities around the world racing to entice the global tech giants and ...

Hitachi Vantara has hosted one final event under the Pentaho banner before the 'company' finally now becomes part of the deeper 'brand' under Hitachi Vantara. As the official company line states... ...

The Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog has reached 1000 posts since starting in June 2010. This very short post is intended to convey a heartfelt thank you to all the firms (and their ...

There’s an interesting story doing the rounds this week that highlights some important issues around the UK government’s aim to have a cloud-first policy for IT purchasing. The original scoop, ...

Canonical has announced the release of the Ubuntu 17.10 operating system featuring a new GNOME desktop on Wayland and new versions of KDE, MATE and Budgie to suit a range of tastes. The firm says ...

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. ...

In this contributed blog post, John Brodie, CEO of Aquila Insight, discusses the importance of data skills and how science, technology, engineering and maths (Stem) education can help tackle the ...

A tweet from the boss of US bank Goldman Sachs hints that more business could be done in Frankfurt, but Bangalore could be a bigger threat to UK banking jobs and income

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. ...

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. ...

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 ...