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Oracle is open sourcing some (arguably) tasty container tools for software application development professionals and the operations staff that work with them. The database company has responded to ...

Boys and older trolls are elbowing girls and older women off the Internet, just as they used to elbow them off computers in schools in the 1980s. During the first, and most successful, campaign to ...

A keynote starting at 5:30 pm, are these people insane? No it turns out they're not and Nutanix isn't - this is the way of things these days and you can do a whole afternoon's sessions beforehand ...

I feel a little sorry for Caroline Nokes, announced this week as the latest minister responsible for digital government - the third to take on that mantle in less than a year. She’s clearly a ...

Keen to cement a reputation for its work in the enterprise cloud space, ‘webscale’ hypervisor computing specialist Nutanix has formed a new alliance with Google to build and operate hybrid clouds ...

Enterprise cloud company Nutanix staged its .NEXT 2017 USA conference and exhibition this week in the 'national harbor' (drop the U) area of Washington DC on the fringes of the Maryland-Virginia ...

More than 70 vendors will be involved in the NVMe flash market by 2020 and the market will be worth $57 billion. Meanwhile, nearly 40% of all-flash arrays will be based on NVMe drives by 2020. ...

With a tech-savvy population and a smartphone penetration rate of 150%, Singapore’s adoption of digital payments is abysmal. Cash is still king in the city-state, especially in the heartlands where ...

Anglia Ruskin University invited Ahead in the Clouds along to their recent boot camp to lead a two-way discussion with its Datacentre Leadership and Management students about how to address the ...

Tech ambassador Detective Dot, created by Bright Little Labs, is a member of the Children's Intelligence Agency - but how can the CIA be used as a platform to engage kids with Stem?  I attended a ...

The fear of your children being tracked by pederasts using snapchat Spyware is overtaking "Tory Cuts" as a topic of Parent-Teacher conversation.

Founded in Nuremberg (but now parent-owned by Micro Focus) under the name Software- und System-Entwicklung (Software and Systems Development)... German softwarehause SUSE is keeping the 'systems' ...

As we all know, software and artificial intelligence is going to run the world and make all the decisions on our behalf, probably starting from a week next Tuesday. Downtime has long felt it is our ...

London's InfoSecurity conference and exhibition is now mercifully behind us, for another year. But has the balance between hardware and software centric security provisioning been fully addressed ...

The 2001 prediction of a collapse of confidence in the veracity of anything on-line is now happening and will continue until trustworthy technologies are routinely deployed.

Serverless computing is making a lot of headlines, but it has limitations, drawbacks and provisos. Before any developer team (or indeed, more likely, any DevOps team) considers widespread adoption ...

The tensions over privacy, surveillance, data sharing and civil liability between "ordinary humans" and those promoting big data business models could be used to politicians to take the heat out of ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Pascal Desmarets in his capacity as founder and CEO of Hackolade -- the company's software combines the 'comfort ...

When one is confronted by a criminal or terrorist demanding a ransom in exchange for a loved one who has been held hostage, the general rule of thumb is not to pay up and go to the police. That’s ...

It’s been over a year since US robotics designer David Hanson made Sophia an internet phenomenon with a video in which he accidentally prompts her to agree to destroy all humans. The UK got a ...

Let’s not beat about the bush because we already know that software runs the world – and that this means that every company is now a software company. So resounding is this truth that we must now ...

Software needs to go to the bathroom and make sure it has a clean and open backend. This is the mandate and call to arms now being laid down by open source document-oriented data model database ...

The impact that bad-bots are having on financial services organisations and how they can be mitigated is covered in Quocirca’s latest e-book in its Cyber-Security Threat Series.

MongoDB staged its 2017 user, developer, customer and partner showcase convention in the US city of Chicago this June. Essentially open source at the backbone, MongoDB is a database company built ...

The word ‘investment’ is often put next to IT spending and budgets in order to make the costs sound palatable. Organisations want a ‘return on investment’, many try to measure it and some even ...

In one throwaway line, largely ignored among the wider Brexit comments in his Mansion House speech today (20 June 2017), chancellor of the exchequer Philip Hammond exposed the true scale of the ...

This is a guest blogpost by Ian Watson, CEO of Altia-ABM. It reflects his experience and judgement. Specialist financial analysis software is now a crucial tool in the investigation and prosecution ...

Inspect-a-Gadget heads to London Tech Week to meet UMA, a conversational AI chatbot for the workplace. “It’s good to talk,” assured Bob Hoskins in the famous ’90s ads. The campaign - credited with ...

The data driven enterprise needs APIs to interconnect its applications and ease-of-use to ensure broad access to data

While British Airways counts the cost of its May bank holiday system outage - £80m and growing so far – much of the datacentre industry has listened to the supposed cause of “human error” and ...

In this guest post Shirley Wood, training and support director at education technology solutions organisation, Jisc, looks at the positive efforts being made to encourage more women into tech While ...

Dries Buytaert is the founder and project lead of Drupal an open source platform for building websites used by 2% of the world's websites with 35,000 active contributors. Buytaert is ...

It is time to take a different view of the politics of left and right. We sinisters (from Leonardo  da Vinci to Bill Gates) have always been in the forefront of change, cutting through the defences ...

Microsoft has joined the Cloud Foundry Foundation (CFF). The firm comes in with gold member status confirmed from the start. Cloud Foundry's mantra is ‘ubiquitous and flexible’ cloud computing. ...

Do human resources (HR) software application developers build 'healthy' applications? This is the question. To be clearer - we talk about 'application health' all the time in terms of a piece of ...

Do Human Resources (HR) software application developers build 'healthy' applications? This is the question. To be clearer... we talk about 'application health' all the time in terms of a piece of ...

More countries are rushing to make their cities smarter, by driving the use of technology – though that may not always be fully appreciated by citizens. Take Singapore, one of the poster boys for ...

Among those ever present first world problems is how to keep your phone charged - especially if you are out on the razz. The University of the West of England may have just the answer. It has ...

Digital intelligence company New Relic has added extra functions to its eponymously named Digital Intelligence Platform. The company has brought forward what it calls a so-called Health Map. ...

This is a guest blogpost by Ciaran Dynes, senior vice president of Product, Talend. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a bit like Brexit for some: you secretly hoped the day was never ...

Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary is making a costly mistake by ruling out in-flight Wi-Fi, argues iPass' Patricia Hume. It’s just under a year since the United Nations declared that internet access ...

Open source (and enterprise commercial) software operations company Puppet has rolled out its 2017 'state of DevOps report' resulting from a survey of some 3,200 technical professionals. The ...

Kainos electoral registration software and DUP constituency MPs is the undoubted winner. IT industry lobbyists are the biggest losers.

Information management company Veritas Technologies is targeting the headaches that the firm suggests might be thrown up by running multi-cloud operations. Hybrid cloud deployments featuring a mix ...

This is a guest blogpost by Yasmeen Ahmad , Director of Think Big Analytics, Teradata Will you be superseded by an intelligent algorithm? Despite the fear mongering of robots taking over the world ...

Amid all the chaos, recriminations and excitement on the morning after the General Election, the future of digital government is far from the minds of anyone other than those of us with a personal ...

Google knows (one would imagine) about the C-word. C for Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment and Continuous Management. The online world runs on a continuous ...

The pressures on major players to "clean up the Internet" before advertising funded business models collapse are now likely to produce results before parliament can agree workable legislation.

In this guest post, Jon Topper, co-founder and principal consultant of  hosted infrastructure provider The Scale Factory, shares his thoughts on how the DevOps movement is maturing as enterprises ...

When StarHub’s residential fibre network went down in October 2016, the Singapore telco initially pinned the blame on distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks brought on by internet of things ...

Darling of the hyperconverged enterprise cloud space Nutanix holds its annual .NEXT conference, exhibition, symposium, expo (Ed - we get it, it's a 'do') in the American capital of Washington DC ...

Creating more world class graduate and post graduate apprenticeships is more important than enabling unskilled students to graduate with less debt.

TIBCO is in the middle of a raft of product updates and extensions. The data integration firm's TIBCO Spotfire Data Catalog is describe as a data connectivity and data management product with a ...

Digital transformation blah blah blah, there's usually more to TIBCO (The Integration Bus COmpany) than the usual industry padding and rhetoric, so what could its Now 2017 conference and exhibition ...

Apple opened this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference with a video speculating what the world might look like if all the apps used on their devices suddenly disappeared. As all the big guns, ...

Those who stand in the way of cleaning up the Internet by claiming to defend freedom of speach and secure encryption do their cause no good.

Unified communications expert Paul Clarke says the technology is still far from ubiquity especially as more CIOs implement mobile-first strategies. From a unified communications perspective, the ...

The Conservative Manifesto contains a serious attempt to look at creating the digital infrastructure for a smart society but this is spread across more voter friendly topics.

You would expect, of course, that a publication such as Computer Weekly would call on whoever wins the 2017 general election to put the digital economy on its list of immediate priorities. While ...

The HSA Foundation has made available to developers the HSA PRM (Programmer’s Reference Manual) conformance test suite as open source software. HSA who? Yes, sorry... the HSA (Heterogeneous System ...

SQL (Structured Query Language) is a standardised programming language used for managing relational databases and performing various operations on the data in them. So then, SQL databases – and the ...

The future of data storage will not be in the binary switching of electrical cells as in flash storage. It may also not be in magnetism-based potential successors to flash such as Racetrack Memory, ...

Donald Trump has written a new page into the book of Twitter folklore with his now deleted classic, “Despite the constant negative press covfefe”. The garbled message, surely reaching for the word ...

Conceived in 2014, Singapore’s National Health IT Masterplan is coming to fruition, with key projects such as the National Electronic Health Record (NEHR) system already in place. This was revealed ...

It was back in 2014 that we last reported a major step in Java with the launch of version 8. Java 9 had been expected to drop by July of this year in 2017. Reports now suggest that Java 9 Standard ...

Big data analytics and infrastructure deployment company BlueData has attempted to explain why developers and data scientists working on the front line of big data implementations need to consider ...

Longtime open source advocate Perforce has updated its version control software. The new Helix4Git is designed to accelerate build processes in large-scale Git environments. How do build processes ...

Most of the IT industry appears to have little or nothing to fear from the hardest of Brexits. But this illustrates the failure of those of us who have spend decades trying to make a reality of the ...

The anger among independents over the use of Tier 2 visa to depress UK contract rates will ensure that who-ever is elected will need to respond

In this guest post, Susan Bowen, vice president and general manager at Cogeco Peer 1  and new trustee at education technology solutions organisation Jisc, explains her journey into the technology ...

The world’s number one player of strategy board game Go has been beaten by Google’s DeepMind AlphaGo artificial intelligence (AI). Imagine the hours Ke Jie must have dedicated to playing Go, a ...

In this guest blog, Anthony Sutton from Cobham Wireless discusses how venue owners can maximise visitor satisfaction by improving mobile network availability. It’s match day! You’ve managed to get ...

Once loved now (arguably) oft-maligned former darling of search Yahoo! (yes, we even left the exclamation point in to be nice) has open sourced its Daytona an application-agnostic framework for ...

Online marketplace Etsy is under growing investor pressure, following a drop in share price, to cut costs. But will embracing public cloud do the trick? Etsy is one of a handful of household names ...

WhereScape is a data warehouse automation firm. But what does that mean? WhereScape is the company name. Data (in its plural form) and datum (in singular) we will take as read. A data warehouse ...

Open source Continuous Automation firm Chef has used its ChefConf 2017 event to announce new capabilities focused on the transition process to cloud-native and container-first environments with ...

The lack of a major cyber security event is seen as one of the reasons for the indifference towards cyber security in many organisations. That event took place recently, with the WannaCry ...

This year was the 10th anniversary of the annual Eskenzi PR IT Analyst and CISO forum. The latest event took place in the immediate aftermath of the WannaCry ransomware outbreak. Proceedings were ...

When Sanderson Hotel London invited me to a Code First: Girls introduction to coding event (including free cocktails) I decided to see if code still gave me the cold sweats it did at university ...

This is a guest blogpost by Luca Olivari, president, ArangoDB. Data is one of today’s biggest assets but organizations need the right tools to manage it. That’s why, during the last decade, we’ve ...

MarkLogic has hit iteration version 9 of its eponymously named operational & transactional enterprise NoSQL database. What marks this product out is its data integration capabilities i.e. it ...

What do the Party Manifesto commitments mean for the IT industry? Part 1

Misspellings, suspicious hyperlinks, abnormal sender address, no attempt at personalisation. The classic signs of a phishing email? Or a botched marketing email from IBM promoting — wait for it — a ...

It’s easy to read too much into any party election manifesto, but the Conservatives’ plans – should they win the election, as the polls suggest they will – offer plenty of scope for speculation ...

Obviously, the Computer Weekly Developer Network is not interested in advertising, public relations spin or any of the elements that go to make up the so-called 'marketing mix' in any shape or ...

Royal mail and the Post Office appear about to work together to rebuild an integrated local delivery service for the Internet Age. Will they also provide the trusted, to-your-doorstep and/or ...

Royal Mail is now looking at collection points at every Post Office for goods ordered over the Internet. This could herald a rebuilding of integrated local access to the Internet Age.

German software powerhaus SAP has used its Sapphire Now 2017 conference and exhibition to denote new machine learning power as it now exists inside its flagship SAP S/4HANA cloud platform. The SAP ...

Data availability and integrity based on robust authentication and encryption over resilient networks are more important than privacy.

Best app we've come across recently has to be Shinder. Shinder is a kind of dating website from self-styled comedian/entrepreneur, Sheridan ‘Shed’ Simove. Best practices for online dating suggests ...

SAP kicked off its Sapphire NOW 2017 conference this week in the heat and humidity of Orlando, Florida. Known as the German software firm's user, partner and customer conference, Sapphire has ...

Top 10 Sectors Account for 70% of Total Spend. Public administration tops the spend on IT & Telecom by large UK enterprises (1000+ employees).  In 2017 public administration contributed over ...

The cyber attack on the computer networks of the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) last week has once again cast the state of Singapore’s cyber ...

In all the debate about the NHS ransomware attack, much has been made of a government decision in 2015 to end a contract with Microsoft to provide support for the ageing Windows XP operating system ...

The OpenStack community of users and contributors are united in their belief in the enterprise-readiness of the open source platform, but accelerating its adoption requires some back-to-basics ...

The current ransomware scare should be used to change the priorities of GCHQ and the NCSC so as the make good use of the powers they have just acquired.

No self-respecting data management firm operates today without a healthy dose of machine learning at the heart of its technology stack. Data search, logging, security and analytics shop Elastic ...

The involvement of GCHQ in the NHS ransomware incidence marks a turning point in the first against cybercrime

Have you ever considered that software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) may be the technology equivalent of the men’s “skinny suit” fashion trend? In the right context, it’s a flattering fit. ...

A new survey by Gartner has found that CEOs in the Asia-Pacific region believe that “conventional technologies” such as cloud, ERP, analytics and CRM will help them to improve productivity, rather ...