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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 ...

Enterprise identity specialist Okta kicked off its Oktane 2017 conference and exhibition this year with an appropriately charged women in technology breakfast. Welcoming female executives from ...

NVMe offers huge possibilities for flash storage to work at its full potential, at tens or hundreds of times what is possible now. But, but it’s early days, and there is no universally-accepted ...

Ten of the really BIG tech issues of today and tomorrow that no-one wants to discuss.

The future is multi-career lives, requiring the core educational skills and attitudes to rapidly acquire new vocational/technical skills as needed. The challenge to FE/HE is profound. More money ...

Okay so yes, we’ve heard of so-called digital transformation, whatever that is supposed to mean. Ah alright then, digital transformation is the movement towards cloud-centric services-driven ...

Calamitous alt-right website Breitbart has been tricked into an email exchange with a prankster posing as Donald Trump’s recently dumped adviser Steve Bannon. Under the guise of Bannon, back in the ...

Bangladesh and Pakistan have the highest malware encounter rates around the world, followed by two other countries in the ASEAN region – Cambodia and Indonesia, according to Microsoft’s ...

Google announces Android Oreo with refined notifications, better battery life, updated emojis and ‘the biggest change to the foundations of Android to date’. Google has opened the packet on version ...

Chinese telecommunications company Huawei (pronounced 'wah-way') is about to stage what is billed to be one of its biggest ever exhibition, symposium, conference events to date. Combining what was ...

Software application development engineers (in all forms and guises) will always be interested in monetising the commercial aspects of their creations when and if they want to take them to market, ...

This is a guest blogpost by Partha Sen, CEO and co-founder, Fuzzy Logix Money laundering was back at the top of the agenda recently when, on 26 June, the European Union’s Fourth Anti-Money ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Anson Kelly in his role as senior developer for independent car buying website carwow. Kelly discusses how software can be ...

Oracle bought Sun, for various reasons. Popular commentary on the subject puts the purchase down to Oracle's desire to have a more credible level of what might be called 'operational software' ...

Systems management and security software company Quest Software has announced its Toad Edge product. This is a commercial database toolset for software application development teams and database ...

Australia has always been ahead of the curve – at least in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region – when it comes to recycling of electronics goods. While most APAC countries are still coming to terms with ...

Gartner has revealed its 2017 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies. The highly-regarded annual report is seen by many professionals as an important indicator of which emerging technologies their ...

Amazon has confirmed that developers can now earn money for creating Alexa skills across more skill categories. Alexa is Amazon's intelligent personal assistant software designed to run in line ...

We need to ease the pain of transitioning to high quality, degree-linked, digital apprenticeships for the skills in current and future demand: "get three years ahead in your career not a debt and a ...

There are many truths in DevOps. We know that good DevOps will kill DevOps, ultimately. Or to be clearer, effective implementation of DevOps principles could help to ultimately dissolve and ...

James Damore thinks he was frogmarched out of Google for telling the truth. In reality, he wrote a 10-page memo, cobbled together from scraps of research chosen to fit his intense fear of gender ...

Android is set for an update and the next version is codenamed "O". The Google-developed mobile operating system has been in open beta for some time now, reaching alpha stage developer preview ...

There has been barely a passing public mention from the government about the need for new or redeveloped IT systems to support whatever trading and immigration regime the UK has when it leaves the ...

DevOps, as we know, is the portmanteau coming together of Developers and Operations to create an amalgamation of cultural philosophies, working practices and technology tools designed to make ...