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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 ...

Computer Weekly has been banging the drum for full-fibre broadband for several years. We’ve been critical of BT for its reticence and reluctance to embrace fibre to the premises (FTTP) as the ...

A 16-year-old from Nevada’s quest for a year’s supply of chicken nuggets from US burger chain Wendy’s has broken Twitter’s retweet record, usurping the star-studded Oscars selfie uploaded by Ellen ...

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which takes effect on 25th May 2018, could prove to be a catalyst to change the existing haphazard approach to print security. Networked printers ...

If you want 99.999 per cent system availability, uptime and performance, then you probably want 'several nines' in your database delivery stats gauge. In the quest for five nines and beyond then, ...