Recent Blog Posts

Teradata has used its 2017 EMEA user, partner, customer, developer (and other-related practitioner) conference this week to explain how it now positions itself as a firm with a suite of data ...

We should build our Post-Brexit industrial strategy round making good use of the digital talent of the other half of the population.

We need to train our own, not rely on imported talent, in a post Brexit world

As all tech experts know, it is only a matter of time before artificial intelligence (AI) takes over the world, eliminates all our jobs, creates Skynet and the terminator, and enslaves us all in ...

In this guest post, Gary Bloom, CEO of database software supplier MarkLogic, explains why adopting a cloud-neutral strategy is essential for enterprises to avoid lock-in. Not so long ago, choosing ...

Prior to this week’s publication of the latest National Audit Office (NAO) report on the Government Digital Service (GDS), rumour had it the Whitehall watchdog had pulled back from serious ...

The CWDN law of headlines states that any firm who acquires, merges with or forms a working partnership alongside the now TIBCO-owned API management division Mashery must also wilfully accept the ...

Google has produced a new 'umbrella' website to coalesce all the search and data giant's open source projects under one virtual roof. The logically named opensource.google.com will serve as a ...

Let’s start with the disclosure. I voted for the UK to remain in the European Union (EU). My reasoning at the time was that the EU is an over-bureaucratic, dysfunctional organisation that ought to ...

Managed cloud company Rackspace gathered the great and the good from the London media-focused tech scene once more this month to congregate, postulate and ruminate over the future for so-called ...

German storage supplier Zstor has uprated the JBOD (Just a bunch of disks) for the NVMe flash era and produced the JBOF. The NV24P allows for up to 24 2.5” NVMe-mounted flash drives of up to 8TB ...

2017 Spend to Grow 7%. Large retailers spend £2,000 per employee on IT & telecom products and services.  This is dramatically less than the corresponding outlay by all UK large organisations ...

The Hyperledger Project is an open source consortium focused on development issues for blockchain, the distributed database of 'permanent' time-stamped records. Led by the Linux Foundation, ...

With the UK’s formal Brexit notification due on 29 March, heralding two years of uncertainty, the tech sector’s lobbying for consideration in negotiations with the EU is likely to intensify. Two ...

This is a guest blogpost by Stuart Wells, Chief Technology Officer, FICO. Recent research by Industry Week found that 73% of manufacturing companies recognise the potential benefits of successful ...

Analyst house IDC predicts that by 2018, as many as 70 percent of siloed digital transformation initiatives will ultimately fail because of insufficient collaboration, integration, sourcing or ...

An application that is difficult to use may not be used - individuals will find workarounds. An application that provides greater value than the effort of using it will be firmly embraced. Make ...

In a age when developers became mobile developers, who then became Internet of Things (IoT) developers... we must also embrace the reality of the machine learning specialist developer. Arise, ...

Beijing’s Temple of Heaven park toilets are clamping down on local loo roll kleptomaniacs by rolling out face-scanning dispensers. But there’s a problem with this, isn’t there? Very rarely does ...

Automation specialist Chef Software is, unsurprisingly perhaps, a champion of the so-called 'continuous enterprise' i.e. one in which software application development can be executed on a ...

In a world of big data and cloud, software application development professionals are becoming data developers and the terms 'data scientist' and 'data engineer' are becoming very real (and ...

The share prices of Google and Facebook have held up but recent on-line advertising cancellations will force fundamental change.

Let’s think about the UK in 2027 for a moment. By then, just 10 years from now, we will have been out of the EU for eight years. We might not even be the UK any more, but if we are, the population ...

Application delivery platform company Nginx (Engine-X, get it?) has announced the availability of its Plus release 12 (R12). The latest software improves the high-performance load balancer, content ...

Healthcare systems host valuable data and are consequently a target for cyber-crime. The problem of bad-bots (automate threats), which help hackers gain entry to systems, can be mitigated.

Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is in a bad need of an overhaul. The increasing use of metadata as seen in certain Enterprise Information Management (EIM) systems is the way forward.

This is a guest blog post by Bhavin Turakhia, Founder and CEO of Flock Today, collaboration is a key to a company’s success. It is therefore critical to understand that collaboration itself can be ...

Amazon has announced a new programme designed to allow Alexa developers to build and host most Alexa skills using Amazon Web Services (AWS). Alexa is an 'intelligent' personal assistant developed ...

Software development and verification tools company AdaCore has pushed out four product releases in line with the Embedded World Conference in Nuremberg this month. Vehemently verifying ...

This is a guest blogpost by Gal Horvitz, CEO, PNMsoft Artificial Intelligence (AI) refers to a wide variety of algorithms and methodologies that enable software to improve its performance over time ...