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To Shenzhen, China, where tech entrepreneur Zhao Shuping has had cold water poured on his business after his sharing economy start-up Sharing E Umbrella rented 300,000 umbrellas to damp locals, and ...

This is a guest blogpost by Yasmeen Ahmad, director of Think Big Analytics, Teradata. In recent years, the hype of big data has fuelled board and executive level awareness of the value to be gained ...

GitHub is asking for feedback and collaboration from its user community in updating its Terms of Service and other site policies.  The web-based version control and data hosting organisation is ...

Belgium-based research institute IMEC has developed a platform that uses silicon photonics in high-speed optical links to support the growing bandwidth needs of cloud datacentres. According to ...

This is a guest blogpost by Michael Corcoran, Chief Marketing Officer at Information Builders In less than a year the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into force, updating and ...

The Alpine Linux distribution is described as 'minimal' and best suited for 'power users'. Originally created by Gentoo, the project is now wholly independent and, as such, it is self-hosting. ...

Organisations need to plan for effective operational intelligence. This may involve the sharing of datasets between different organisations as well as identifying and sourcing external datasets. An ...

This is a guest post written for the Computer Weekly Developer Network by Muyiwa Olu Olu holds the position of software developer (and a 'full stack' developer, at that) for independent car buying ...

We are deluged with regulation, legislation and opinion on data protection and privacy these days, in a digital world where personal data is proliferating almost beyond control. Enterprises are ...

Despite the conjecture spouted about the usefulness of artificial intelligence (AI), what’s been sorely lacking (as far as Downtime is concerned) is that one killer use case that really captures ...

HTTP accelerator company Varnish and Content Delivery Network (CDN) vendor Akamai are teaming up to launch the Akamai Connector for Varnish. Why is this (potentially) interesting? Well, the ...

As IT attack surfaces are extended through the proliferation of IoT devices, organisations need to make sure their security systems are co-ordinated for the challenge. This is especially true for ...

Open source database company MariaDB Corporation has moved to iteration MariaDB TX 2.0. This now available version of the transactional database product has new server-specific MariaDB Server and ...

On July 11th Quocirca will be presenting new analysis of recent fines imposed by the ICO under the UK Data Protection Act. There will also be advice on how to help avoid future penalties from ...

As one of Southeast Asia’s “tiger cub” economies, Thailand has seen tremendous growth in the past three decades. Driven by its export-focused growth strategy, particularly in automobiles, ...

Organisations need to balance innovation and business improvement with good governance and efficient use of IT budgets and resources. But this is not easy. Plenty of people right across the ...

The issues of fake news are not new and democracy has always been a fragile flower, not a vigorous weed.

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 ...