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Research from mobile provider Plusnet has revealed the depths to which the British people will apparently stoop if they can get an unlimited mobile data allowance out of the deal. Asked what they ...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has reached what the firm thinks is a milestone for software application developers interested in cutting edge infrastructure, data-centric computing and software-defined ...

Quocirca is a research and analysis company with a primary focus on the European market. Quocirca produces free to market content aimed at IT decision makers and those that influence them in ...

Smallest SMEs Spending Most. The smallest SMEs in the construction industry are spending over £10m on custom software.  By contrast large enterprises (1000+ employees) are expending a third of that ...

Tomorrow we see Hewlett Packard Enterprise (or as we know it now, HPE) host its Discover 2016 event at London's 'never very easy to get to' ExCeL conference centre, so what can we expect? In a ...

The technology recruitment market is a lacklustre place, at least that's what people say. Run down by years of pushy headhunters, the movement to online advertising and individual's proclivity for ...

As organisations become more reliant on IT, problems with IT systems are increasingly unacceptable. The response is to invest more in tools to reduce the impact and cost of critical IT events.

SD-WAN case studies are beginning to demonstrate the true value of WAN access bonding. In many rural locations there are several mobile operators but individually their services speeds are too low.

Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond’s Autumn Statement showed a welcome and necessary understanding of the need to look at the long-term future of the UK’s digital economy. The £1bn ...

Freely available company information may seem a challenge to monetise. However companies like Dun & Bradstreet (D&B), Experian, Bureau van Dijk, Graydon, Equifax and Creditsafe have been ...

The Tinder Foundation has changed its name after years of explaining to lovelorn singletons that it exists to help people use the internet to get a leg-up in life, rather than a leg-over. The ...

The team behind the Open Source Virtual Reality (OSVR) consortium has detailed news of a forthcoming Steam update that will accommodate for open platform Virtual Reality (VR) content. The result of ...

The broadband business rates "holiday" does not, yet, fully address the problem.

The ending of business rates on full fibre broadband has fired the start gun for an explosion of activity. But there is much more to do.

This is a guest blog by Daniel Cohen, a solutions engineer at DataStax MiFID II – or to give it its full title, the updated Markets in Financial Instruments Directive – is an updated set of ...

Nutanix is working to modernise the data centre of lubrication and cleaning product manufacturer WD-40, at its EMEIA Headquarters in Milton Keynes. By adopting the Nutanix solution built on a ...

Dear readers, I'd like to ask for your opinion. Let me tell you a story. In late October, I was approached by a whistleblower in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). This individual, who ...

Could Windows every become open source? To be honest, although that discussion is fun to have, it's really not on the cards right now or up for discussion. This was the avowed verbalisation made by ...

UK-based identity and access management (IAM) vendor ProofID has revamped and renamed it ARMS product. Now called ProofID IGA (Identity Governance and Admin) its prime use case is to aid the ...

Beverages & Tobacco Manufacturers are Top Spenders. Beverages & tobacco manufacturers top the list of medium sized manufacturers' spend on telecom services.  Their outlay is around £600 per ...

The world does not yet have enough operating systems, it appears. The current proliferation of new OSs is, in part perhaps, due to the emergence of the Internet of Things and the race to try and ...

Everywoman has announced the entrepreneurial women who are finalists for the 2016 NatWest Everywoman Awards Iris Award Category. The Iris Awards, the technology category for the NatWest Everywoman ...

In terms of technology events, Microsoft’s Connect () is an interesting proposition. To some extent staged so that an online audience can log in and attend virtually, the physical event itself does ...

Over two thirds (around 70%) of the Earth’s surface is covered by water, mostly the oceans. So, when it comes to thinking about universal coverage for wide area networks (WAN), there are some ...

It's a good week for open source, Google has joined the .NET steering group inside the independent .NET Foundation and Microsoft has joined the Linux Foundation as a Platinum member. The list of ...

Flash storage is over-rated. Well, if not over-rated, then certainly more costly than many would have us believe and price parity with spinning disk is a very, very long way off. Those are the ...

No more quirky headlines trying to crowbar in references to 'polish', 'shine' or any form of gleaming surface we promise, caching and content delivery specialist Varnish Software has announced ...

On  the very eve itself of Microsoft's third major developer event this year -- Connect() 2016 in New York -- the firm has taken another directly open stride in its Artificial Intelligence (AI) ...

In this is contributed blog post from O2's HR director Ann Pickering, she discusses the barriers women can face when trying to move up within an organisation - Breaking barriers for women in tech: ...

Downtime has always considered itself the home of the unfortunate "reply all" email story. In recognition of the truth that we've all done it, many years ago we even held a competition for readers ...

After another summer of turmoil at the Government Digital Service (GDS), with several senior executives leaving and a new chief brought in to the surprise of many, expectations for its new strategy ...

Spending Double the UK Norm. Small publishing companies (50-99 employees) each typically have a budget of around £500k for IT & Telecom products and services.  This is twice the amount ...

Redis Labs has introduced a new open source project called Redis-ML, the Redis Module for Machine Learning. The Redis brand itself is known for Redis... an open source (BSD licensed) in-memory data ...

In this guest blog by Cloud4Wi's Jeff Abramowitz, we explore the need to balance public Wi-Fi network installations with advanced security measures to protect users. Connecting to the internet in ...

This is a guest blog by Nick Clarke, Head of Analytics, Tessella For most people, the term 'data analytics' conjures up images of Amazon, Facebook and Google: digitally born companies that gather ...

The Digital Economy Bill’s data sharing code of practice aims to clarify what it means by data sharing and when it should be done, but full transparency is still lacking.

It’s probably fair to say that the world doesn’t need another journalist trying to explain why Donald Trump won the US presidency right now. Nonetheless, I think that we in the technology sector ...

An enterprising Australian hot dog enthusiast faces a massive fine after using a drone to collect a sausage from a barbecue at a Melbourne DIY store, and delivering it direct to his hot tub in the ...

Does blockchain technology hold promise for print manufacturers in the IoT world? The Internet of Things (IoT) is a world of connected devices embedded with software and network connectivity, that ...

Enterprise cloud infrastructure layer company Nutanix wrapped up its first European .NEXT conference this week with another oversold standing room only keynote session designed to detail its latest ...

Pre-conference networking shindigs for Nutanix .NEXT Europe 2016 this week in Vienna featured a notable change on the firm’s signage and logo emblazonments. The firm we used to know as the ...

In this contributed post, Christine Flounders, regional manager for engineering at Bloomberg L.P. London explains the importance of diversity in open source.  Tech’s gender gap is no secret. It has ...

Too many people consider the IoT to be of concern only for organisations. However, the consumer IoT is providing new attack surfaces for criminals - ones that need to be protected sooner rather ...

Information management company Veritas continues its drive to finesse the data backup universe and platform it is building to serve IT engineers, administrators, software teams and ...

Budget to Rise 23%. A legal firm with 1000+ staff is typically expected to increase its total IT & telecom budget by 23% between 2014 and 2019.  IT & telecom staff is forecast to be the ...

The datacentre industry operates under a veil of secrecy, which could be having a detrimental impact on its ability to attract new talent, fear market experts.   When you tell people you write ...

The first edition of Big Data London, replete with Communist iconography, this week (3-4 November 2016) has been buzzy and busy, and testament to the rude health of the data science scene in and ...

The Home Builders Federation opposes Ashford Borough Council's fibre to the home policy because it goes further than their deal with BT for free fibre.

With BT Wholesale having announced that from 2020 you will no longer be able to purchase integrated services digital network (ISDN) and public switched telephone network (PSTN) circuits as it ...

Open source in-memory data grid (IMDG) company Hazelcast has worked with Striim (sounds like 'stream', get it?), a provider of end-to-end real-time data integration and streaming analytics to ...

The Information Bus COmpany (the clue is in the name) TIBCO continues its 'goodness we have a lot of products to release' stream this month with the availability of its Personal Automation ...

As we know, the open source community contribution model of software application development and programming revolves around the community at the centre and its ability to augment, extend and ...

Darling of the hyperconvergence set Nutanix is set to host its .NEXT Europe conference, exhibition, symposium and all round shindig next week in the European capital city jewel that is Vienna, ...

IT contractors working in government are under pressure like never before over their tax status, and many people in Whitehall IT fear that a clampdown on the use of temporary staff could lead to a ...

In this contribued blog post David McClelland reviews the new Google Pixel XL smartphone In brief The Google Pixel XL is a solid 5.5-inch smartphone with high-end specs and a top-end price. ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog written by Mat Keep in his role as director of market research and analysis at MongoDB. The company is known for its MongoDB ...

The world has gone deep 3D and even Virtual Reality (VR) headsets don’t make you want to throw up and fall over anymore, mostly. But it’s not even just VR now… to go with virtual, we also have ...

Critical IT events are an inevitability for any organisation. However, new Quocirca research shows that effective operational intelligence can reduce their impact and cost.

Microsoft has updated its Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit, a piece of software designed for so-called 'deep learning' used to speed advances in areas such as speech and image recognition -- and it's ...

Spend 10 Fold Greater than the Norm. Electricity & gas supply companies are due to spend over £2,200 per employee on application software packages in 2016.  This is ten times greater than the ...

Chief Executives should back the sector skills partnerships to reform the UK apprenticeship system not just resist Brexit so they can continue to import EU talent

This is a guest blogpost by John Mancini, CEO of AIIM.  As his organisation gears up for another ‘World Paper Free Day’ on 4 November, he reviews where we’ve come from – and how far we still have ...

This week’s slightly-better-than-expected GDP figures show the importance of the tech sector to not just the UK economy but to any plans for our international trade relations once we leave the ...

This contributed post by David Allison, founder and managing director of GetMyFirstJob, discusses the potential for apprenticeships to fill the UK's tech skills gap.  Despite a challenging economic ...

Problematic events happen and organisations need to be able to cope when things go wrong. Business resilience has always required organisations to consider many diverse elements - premises, people, ...

IFS has presented a new version of its IFS Enterprise Operational Intelligence (EOI) software with new features including capabilities for adding custom visualisations (presenting abstracted data ...

It’s interesting to take a look at IDC’s recently-released market tracker figures for external disk storage systems for China. Interesting in two senses: To see who the key players are, and that ...

It is a truth universally acknowledged on this side of the Atlantic that the version of English used by our American friends does, on occasions, stray from its British roots. Downtime received its ...

Micael Dahlen, professor of marketing at the Stockholm School of Economics, regaled delegates to the IFS user conference in Gothenburg with many an amusing tale. One such is an unintended ...

Three letter acronym company names are all the rage in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software firm circles, but this time we’re talking about IFS. IFS actually encompasses more than ‘mere’ ERP ...

Headline key: IFS gets IoT into ERP & EAM for EOI -- Industrial and Financial Systems gets Internet of Things [data] into Enterprise Resource Planning and Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) for ...

Computer Weekly’s first opportunity to meet with Kevin Cunnington, the new director general of the Government Digital Service (GDS) answered a lot of questions – but raised plenty too. It’s ...

Many organisations are having to rethink network security to support Internet of Things (IoT) deployments. This includes being ability to continuously monitor devices attaching to networks and ...

A pair of university students from Maryland USA have used the Indiegogo online crowdfunding site as the initial platform to launch HUMANS. The firm itself is dedicated to championing a variety of ...

Computer Services Spend to Rise by 28%. Users' computer services spend is expected to increase by 28% between 2014 and 2019.  It is going to be the fastest growing UK IT & ...

The Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog recently ran a story on real time personalisation here... and it's a topic that appears to have provoked more interest in the subject. Chief science ...

As citizens of the UK try to decipher the new thinking and emerging rhetoric of a post-Brexit-vote government and a new Prime Minister, for us in tech there is already a welcome change of tone in ...

Embattled former darling of the search wars Yahoo has open sourced its neural network porn detector software. The firm has explained that it is in fact tremendously difficult to automatically ...

As an attendee at VMworld events for about half a decade, this one provided the clearest message I’ve yet heard from VMware. That’s because, in its explanation of its Cross Cloud strategy and ...

The tipping point at which public cloud operations attain a 50% share of IT workloads will come in 2030. Until then, and beyond, we face “decades of a hybrid [cloud] world”. That’s the view ...

What about yer InfoSec now? Black Duck is the roast and toast of Northern Ireland this month after the firm announced the formation of its Belfast-based Open Source Security Research Group during ...

Red Hat has become a major provider of infrastructure software and tools and faces the same challenges as any technology vendor with a broad product portfolio. However, it remains loyal to the open ...

Software shop Axway classifies itself in the oh-so-woolly and non-specific technology space known by some as 'digital business enablement', a term which in and of itself is (arguably) too broad to ...

Robin Webster, technology director at Centiq spoke to the Computer Weekly Developer Network blog this week to detail his company's position on SAP HANA -- Centiq itself is an IT services and ...

The Linux Foundation has used the London OSCON show to detail news of the JS Foundation now attaining status as a Linux Foundation Project. The JS Foundation supports projects across the JavaScript ...

Open source business analytics company Pentaho (now a Hitachi Group Company of course) has just reached software version 7.0 with its self-named platform. The new software addresses data ...

The theft of the email addresses and other account details of 500 million Yahoo users is a golden opportunity for cyber-criminals working with bad-bots.

The deadline for FDM’s Everywoman in Technology Awards has been extended to Monday 17th of October. This is your last chance to nominate inspirational women in tech for the FDM Everywoman in ...

Hardware Spend to Double. Hardware spend per employee by motor trade companies is set to double from around £100 in 2008 to over £200 in 2019. Its progress undulates with troughs in recession ...

The tech term question of the day is… what is real-time personalisation? We know that real-time is physically impossible i.e. time itself is always faster… but some processing can happen at a speed ...

Rackspace continues to try and evidence, validate and clarify the use of its 'hey, we're the managed cloud company' tagline by hosting a series of press-facing debates throughout London in 2016. ...

The Government Digital Service (GDS) is an uncertain place at the moment – or so the rumour mill says. The team are carrying on with their pre-existing strategy – one that was written last year to ...

When the Prime Minister used her closing conference speech to say it is "just not right" that "half of people living in rural areas, and so many small businesses, can't get a decent broadband ...

IT consultancy Crayon has commissioned a new survey through the venerably anal analysts at Vanson Bourne which warns that software application development shops should be prepared for software ...

This is a guest blog post by Stuart Wilson, VP EMEA, Alteryx Data. A small word with big promise. For years, we’ve seen countless stories about the importance of data in business. New research ...

This is a guest blog post by Stuart Wells, chief technology officer, FICO Debt is an age-old, yet very current problem: a recent UK survey revealed that over 20% of people under the age of 30 were ...

The addition of a risk engine to Nok Nok’s FIDO-driven Authentication Server further strengthens the way web service providers can authenticate the consumers they transact with.

Mainframes are dead and the PC has been around since 1981 and any legacy mainframes running systems of record in large scale enterprises need not trouble the modern software application development ...

In this blog post, Vicki L. Hanson, president for the Association for Computing Machinery, explores the possibility that as digital becomes a vital part of all industries, more women will begin to ...

Digital rights management is evolving in response to the rise of cloud services, the diversification of user end-points and increasing cyber-threats. New products are emerging to overcome the ...