Recent Blog Posts
A recent survey of 50 of the UK’s biggest firms conducted by the BBC, has reported that 24 have no plans to have staff return to their offices. Many workers do not feel compelled to return to the ...
Not long ago, somewhere in Mebane, North Carolina, Zoë Roth – better known as the Disaster Girl meme – picked up her phone and consulted Kyle Craven – better known as the Bad Luck Brian meme – ...
When IT Meets Politics
Opening the On-line World to Competition: The Penrose Report
Winsafe Ltd 05 May 2021But implementation will not be easy. This is particularly so with regard to introducing more competition to the digital industries where John calls for the new digital market unit’s up-front powers ...
K8ssandra, an open-source distribution of the Apache Cassandra database on Kubernetes, is now available on any Kubernetes environment. When we say ‘any’, we mean any. It is available on any ...
April 2021 marks the start of the tech events calendar, starting with Red Hat Summit, which was held online for the second time since the onset of the pandemic. In this month's recap on the top ...
Open Source Insider
Hello AIOpsO, Dynatrace & Atlassian team for observability-enriched AIOps
04 May 2021Atlassian has selected enterprise cloud application and data service observability platform company Dynatrace as its launch partner for its Open DevOps initiative. Atlassian has (arguably, boldly) ...
Armory is an open source continuous delivery software company. The company has this year introduced Armory Minnaker (rhymes with Spinnaker, for obvious reasons - see more below), a virtual machine ...
Quocirca Insights
8 factors to consider when selecting a cloud printing platform
Quocirca 30 Apr 2021Cloud adoption has seen explosive growth over the past year. Cloud infrastructure has proved essential to helping businesses adapt to remote working, enabling them to become flexible and resilient ...
If you had to take a random stab at naming the types of products we get to see in the Computer Weekly Inspect-a-Gadget test lab, you’d probably come up a list that includes most of the usual ...
Networks Generation
Gartner SASE 2021 Roadmap - You Know It Makes Sense...
Broadband Testing 29 Apr 2021As observed before in this blog, few of Gartner’s ‘inventions’ have caught on as quickly as SASE – Secure Access Service Edge. From traditional firewall vendors to declared SASE specialists, ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Throwback Thursday – Data governance in software testing
Freeform Dynamics 29 Apr 2021Data and information governance is extremely important today, perhaps even more so than it was in 2008, when Freeform Dynamics ran a study looking at what was being done to enhance capability in ...
CW Developer Network
Algolia software engineer: Lockdown, code commits & dynamic synonyms
29 Apr 2021With only a proportion of developers classified as key workers (where their responsibilities perhaps included the operations-side of keeping mission-critical and life-critical systems up and ...
When a digitally-heavy business takes on new distribution channels (and let’s remember that ‘channel’ in the modern sense means everything from retail shops to the web and then onwards to mobile, ...
Networks Generation
NDR and NPMD - important, meaningful acronyms for once...
Broadband Testing 26 Apr 2021I’ve recently had the chance to revisit what is old – but more relevant than ever – stomping ground of mine, thanks to Kemp Technology’s recent acquisition of Flowmon, which gave the company some ...
The Computer Weekly Developer Network is deep in container-land, we’re Kubed into Kubernetes and we’re about as hybrid multi-cloud cloud-natively virtualised into abstraction Nirvana as its ...
The president of football’s crumbling European Super League project has cited teenagers’ enjoyment of video games as a reason to constantly pit the continent’s elite teams against each other like ...
With a name like Skyflow, an organisation or brand could be loft window specialist, a plumbing contractor or a premier service for executives to buy unlimited ‘bottomless up’ drink services when ...
In this guest post, Pip White, UK and Ireland managing director at Google Cloud, sets out how cloud and datacentre providers are putting sustainability at the heart of their operations this Earth ...
Networks Generation
MPLS is Dead – Yeah Right… But Transformation IS King
Broadband Testing 21 Apr 2021Of all the regularly repeated “yeah right” claims within IT, “MPLS is dead” probably ranks highest (if not in Rome). Analyst prediction realties show that the managed MPLS market was valued at over ...
CW Developer Network
Contentful developer team: programming, products, pandemics & practical processes
21 Apr 2021The Computer Weekly Developer Network team likes to dig deep and we’re not afraid of a meaty download when it comes to software product and developer professionals expressing their views. Looking ...
In the tech sector, computer interfaces come and go in the name of progress. RS232 was superseded by USB1; now there is USB C and USB 3.1 and the latest Macs have USB 4. But not everyone wants to ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Lack of leadership, confusion and frustration - the state of digital identity in the UK
Editor in chief 20 Apr 2021To nobody’s surprise, efforts by a group of peers to force the government to accelerate progress on digital identity in the UK foundered in the House of Lords yesterday (20 April 2021). Baroness ...
Data Matters
Post-pandemic economic optimism from two B2B tech CEOs – Goldberg and Barrenechea
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 20 Apr 2021The technology industry is starting to enjoy a lucky escape. What would have happened had vaccines against Sars-Cov-2 not been invented and deployed? There has been much talk of how technology has ...
Networks Generation
The DX Moment Is Still Around The Corner For Many – If That Corner Is Still There…
Broadband Testing 20 Apr 2021Among the many conversations I have with vendors and end users themselves – via various online events – one of the most common buzz phrases of the past few years that still recurs more than it ...
The Computer Weekly Developer Network newsdesk is used to seeing newsfeed stories with dateline and locations such as London, San Francisco, San Jose and New York… we’re even used to seeing ...
Open Source Insider
Veracode architect lead: containers can be cleaner, but developers still need wet wipes
19 Apr 2021After our extensive enterprise containerisation series and subsequent feature entitled ‘Preparing for enterprise class containerisation’, the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider team sat down ...
This is a guest blogpost by Dmitri Krakovsky, Chief Product Officer, Unit4 The world of enterprise software has changed dramatically in the last five years. The first-generation of ...
CW Developer Network
Swimm: Continuous Everything (CE) means Continuous Documentation (CD)
16 Apr 2021Take a bunch of developers, any kind you like. Throw those engineers into a new software project at the deep end. Do they sink or swim? This is the question that Swimm founders were asking ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Throwback Thursday: Private cloud in contexts old and new
Freeform Dynamics 15 Apr 2021What a difference a decade can make. When we looked at the world of private cloud almost a decade ago, it was a new idea to many people – so new, in fact, that we had to define it for them. In ...
The Linux Foundation announced the sigstore project this spring. Designed to improves the security of the software supply chain, sigstore is said to enable the adoption of cryptographic software ...
To the meme generation he was simply known as the Airplane Mode Prince, but it seems nobody has taken the passing of the Duke of Edinburgh quite as hard as National Rail. Users of the website woke ...
Yes we’re still in lockdown (or a version of it) and all meetings are virtual, but the Computer Weekly Developer Network is still talking to members of the industry glitterati about containers. ...
With the economy opening up, business leaders are looking at how quickly things can start returning to normal. What does normal look like? Numerous studies have shown that over the last year, ...
Video and web conference ability prowess (VAWCAP) is now a thing; we’re all working in the ‘new normal’ of Zoom-type remote dial-in experiences, brought about - obviously - as a result of the ...
When IT Meets Politics
How do YOU find and attract the Cybersecurity skills/talent YOU need?
Winsafe Ltd 11 Apr 2021Review the salaries you offer to Cybersecurity and Computer Science Graduates - unless your policy is to pay more for those implementing security by design. If you are worried about losing those ...
Open Source Insider
Gitpod DevXConf ‘developer experience’: never mind UX, what about DevX?
09 Apr 2021Open source developer platform company Gitpod is sprouting new growth. The company’s software is positioned as a software engineering platform to automate the provisioning of ready-to-code ...
CW Developer Network
Okta offers 'free' Starter Developer Edition, for secure apps, APIs & infrastructure
07 Apr 2021Identity is in the news, but that’s mainly due to the media discussion surrounding the use of an individual’s identity in a Covid-19 passport... if that eventuality actually comes to pass at a ...
There’s that moment of doom when you’re on a pre-call prep-call for a professional video job and the ‘producer’ gets to speak to you about your lighting. These people live in a world of rigs, boom ...
Earlier this week, the US Supreme Court ruled that Google did not infringe Oracle copyright on the Java SE API (application programming edition). The fact the US Supreme Court has digested a load ...
When IT Meets Politics
What Agenda is the new GDS Director, Identity Assurance Programme expected to deliver?
Winsafe Ltd 06 Apr 2021Experience in "Significant agile programme management and/or major change delivery" will not be enough. The appointee will need the skills of Machiavelli and the luck of the Devil.
Businesses in Asia-Pacific (APAC) will need to get a grip on software quality and security or risk losing their agility and control of service quality, according to a top executive at Dynatrace. ...
This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Vibhav Sreekanti, VP Engineering at Stackrox -- a company known for its Kubernetes-native security capabilities, which it now ...
This is a Q&A features David Meyer in his role as SVP of products at Databricks - a data lakehouse provider. Computer Weekly: What do enterprises need to think about when it comes to ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Throwback Thursday: Mobile moments and the past left far behind
Freeform Dynamics 01 Apr 2021We have looked at many reports from years ago that show that, whilst technology details may have moved on, many of the underlying factors haven’t changed very much. But this glance back to 2009 ...
GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Gemma Foster, head of service delivery at Visualsoft, explains how ensuring female role models are visible and accessible is how the tech sector can work ...
Inspect-a-Gadget
DataLocker DL4 FE: military-grade USB drive with ‘nuclear’ device payload security
31 Mar 2021The Computer Weekly Inspect-a-Gadget elves have gotten past their initial ‘oh, look, it’s a terabyte drive' excitement factor. We’ve seen a whole raft of these units come through the testing lab ...
This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Bruno Andrade in his roles as CEO at Shipa.io -- a company known for its technology that provides a developer-centric portal ...
This is a guest post by Kerry Singleton, managing director for cyber security at Cisco Asia-Pacific, Japan and China In recent weeks, we’ve seen a number of significant cybersecurity threats ...
Open Source Insider
Containerisation in the enterprise - Jetstack: A solid path to ephemerality
29 Mar 2021As businesses continue to modernise their server estate and move towards cloud-native architectures, the elephant in the room is the monolithic core business application that cannot easily be ...
CW Developer Network
Programming in the pandemic - OutSystems: Stepping up to modernised platforms for better times
29 Mar 2021With only a proportion of developers classified as key workers (where their responsibilities perhaps included the operations-side of keeping mission-critical and life-critical systems up and ...