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Complete this sentence to win a prize for your technology insight: “2018 will be the year of…” Rather like the missing word round in Have I Got News For You, the answers will range from the obvious ...

In this guest post, Rob Greenwood, technical director at Manchester-based cloud and DevOps consultancy Steamhaus weighs up the pros and cons of using OpenStack over other public cloud platforms. ...

Did anyone else notice how many people ruined the festive season’s pub visits by mistaking Bitcoin for something resembling an entertaining topic of conversation? Suddenly all these bozos you grew ...

The babel fish is around the corner but look out for the arrival androids that are indistinguishable from humans

The Computer Weekly Developer Network wants to know what’s next for software engineers, that much you already know. In that regard then, we want to know how developer-programmers should be thinking ...

This is a guest blogpost by Sebastian Darrington, UK MD at Exasol The days of operating a single vendor IT software estate are behind us. Such is the pace of innovation and change, putting all your ...

This is a guest blogpost by Shafi Rahman, principal scientist, FICO Last year, artificial intelligence (AI) generated countless news headlines and ideas that fascinate us. Its predictive ability ...

Named after the South American waterfall, but with the ‘creative’ use of a lower case first letter, iguazio is a data platform company specialising in continuous analytics and event ...

The DevOps honeymoon is over - well, it could be... and here's one reason why. As we know by now, DevOps is a portmanteau term used to describe the notion of more connected, cyclical, integrated ...

The UK Security Minister sent an apparently very odd message to Google and Facebook in a Sunday Times interview on New Year's Eve, "obey the law or be taxed." HMRC has a long and dishonourable ...

AI as an excuse for obfuscating responsibility for commercial decisions Much of the current hype over Big Data and Artificial intelligence results from the large scale use of use of old techniques ...

Christmas has always been a time of heightened security against current and potential subversives - even in the womb.

The Brexit impact studies that never were make for embarrassing reading: the UK is being driven towards a cliff by a driver without a licence and in a vehicle that has not had an MoT test

This is a guest blog by Jayne Wilcock, curriculum and data manager at East Riding of Yorkshire Council ‘Technology gives the quietest student a voice’ and few would argue ...

This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Jim Ivers in his capacity as vice president at Synopsys’ Software Integrity Group. Essentially, Synopsys specialises ...

A vote by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to repeal the net neutrality rules spearheaded by the Obama administration was largely met with disdain by internet companies and users. ...

This is Q&A session with Carlos Sanchez in his capacity as engineer at CloudBees, a provider of continuous delivery and integration software services. The company's open source continuous ...

I was tempted to write this blog post on Computer Weekly's Downtime blog, where we try to look at the lighter side of the world of IT. But I'm not entirely sure this is a joke. While budgetary ...

Has the role of 'identity developer' now been formalised? Perhaps not, identity and user authentication controls will probably fall at the feet of specialist security developers and systems ...

The switch from graduate recruitment to degree-linked apprenticeships has begin. It is delayed only by lack of information on the latter. That will change if the pilots being organised under the ...

CEO of WiFi analytics platform Purple Gavin Wheeldon has joined futurist Mike Ryan in an assertive prediction to state that by 2025, a surge in data use stimulated by unlimited mobile contract ...

Barely even featuring as an item on its press room pages, news has filtered out this week of Czech virus deerstalking firm Avast releasing its machine code decompiler RetDec to open source. The ...

Did you know the UK government has a minister for identity? It’s Baroness Susan Williams, whose full responsibilities go under the grander title of minister of state for countering extremism. ...

By hosting its cloud infrastructure at Equinix’s Singapore datacentre, Kingsoft Cloud has become the latest Chinese cloud service provider to set its foot in Southeast Asia. The move is expected to ...

YugaByte is a newly established company that sets out to deliver what it describes as turnkey distributed consistent and highly available database delivering data access with cache level ...

Stream is an activity feed platform for developers and product owners - it is used by programmers to build newsfeeds (think: how your Twitter or Instagram feed populates, or how YouTube recommends ...

In this guest post, Rob Anderson, principal analyst for central government at market watcher GlobalData, takes a look at the implications of delaying the launch of G-Cloud 10 by up to a year.

This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Lars Herrmann in his capacity as general manager for integrated solutions and container strategy at Red Hat. Herrmann states ...

This is the first in a series of articles exploring the challenges and opportunities facing the audio visual (AV) industry, which has its annual European flagship event, ISE2018, in February. This ...

The FCA is right to force banks to publish information about cyber security and operational incidents but this will prove difficult to enforce

In this guest post, Darren Roos, president of SAP ERP Cloud, explains why automation, AI, machine learning and cloud are key to improving workplace productivity. If you take productivity at its ...

High streets in London saying goodbye to bank branches as one tipping point reached

Robots should be ideal at home or in the workplace, right? These fully co-operative, obedient and reliable machines should make all our lives easier, right? They can’t think for themselves, they ...

Open source In-Memory Data Grid (IMDG) company Hazelcast has joined the Eclipse Foundation - and it has done so for a reason. Hazelcast’s primary focus will be on JCache the Eclipse MicroProfile ...

It’s that ‘wonderful’ time of year, when people all across the land exchange presents, meal invitations and predictions for what the open source landscape might look like in the months ahead ...

In this guest blog post, Naser Ali, head of solutions marketing for EMEA at Hitachi Vantara, explores the use cases and benefits for using cloud bursting in the enterprise. When NASA needed to ...

Congratulations to everyone on Computer Weekly’s 2017 list of the most influential people in UK IT – our task of choosing 50 people becomes harder every year. It’s clear from analysing this year’s ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog written by John Pocknell in his capacity as senior product manager at Quest. Pockell has been with Quest Software since 2000, ...

Mendix Atlas UI is a low-code tool intended for software application developers who find themselves bereft of any perceptible level of ‘front-end’ development or UI design skills. Atlas can be used ...

The hype over digital transformation is tapering off. Organisations in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region are now confronting the realities of rolling out digitalisation initiatives, many of which are ...

Digital networking and collaboration software company TeamViewer has reached the version 13 iteration of its central product. In terms of basic function, TeamViewer is a software product designed ...

The sole purpose of phone software updates is now universally regarded as a means of accessing the latest batch of emojis that may have been introduced, and somewhere in California, plans were in ...

Organisations that need an app to solve a business challenge can offer a cash reward to entrepreneurs that find the answer

Hitachi Data Systems is no more. It has been rolled into a new division, Hitachi Vantara. That is, HDS, with its largely enterprise-focused data storage products has been joined with the Internet ...

This is a guest blogpost by Ted Dunning, chief application architect, MapR Technologies. I am a foreigner to the UK. I am an engineer. These characteristics are what shaped the first impressions I ...

In a guest blogpost, Peter Pugh-Jones, head of technology at SAS UK & Ireland, reflects on how the analytics industry is evolving and what organisations need in a data-driven economy. Forty ...

Opening a bank account can be completed on a smartphone so why are some banks expecting customers to carry out manual processes, including visiting a branch?

More and more developers are now writing SQL code as part of their roles – for example, research shows that 75% of developers now work in teams responsible for both the application and the ...

Open source cross-platform developer and graphic designer focused user interface specialist Qt (now known as the Qt Company) has this month come forward with Qt 3D Studio. Emanating from its ...

A UK startup has lost its next round of funding as it was about to launch, as a direct result of Brexit

Mozilla is on a mission… and it’s a mission designed to ‘empower’ software application developers with tools to help create more STT apps. STT you say? Yes, that would be speech-to-text ...

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 ...