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MongoDB 3.6 will be generally available in early December. The open source (at its core) general purpose database has some noteable changes (its makers would call them enhancements) including a ...

There is a real danger that technology education in schools will wither and die, with all the risks that brings to the UK’s digital skills, research and innovation capabilities. There was great ...

SITA is trying out the application of mixed reality to the air travel industry

Australia’s broadband is under siege from a group of vicious cockatoos with no known motive. The cables they’re eating are not thought to be made from any of the birds’ classic vices, such as fruit ...

Enterprise cloud company Nutanix has hosted its .NEXT 2017 conference and exhibition on the balmy shores of the Cote D’Azur in the French city of Nice. Alongside key announcements focused on ...

In addition to its core product updates released in line with the European leg of its .NEXT conference and exhibition series, enterprise cloud company Nutanix has added to its set of cloud tools, ...

Hyperconverged enterprise cloud company Nutanix holds the French leg of its .NEXT conference series this week on the balmy shores of the Riveria down in Nice... so what do we need to keep in mind ...

With PSD2 around the corner banks face challenges to remain the main interface for financial services for their customers

Blockchain becoming so mainstream that it is being discussed in the playground, but banks just see it as another technology

If the government planned like banks and considered what the younger generations want Brexit would not even be on the radar

Are developers making the most of containers, or are they [just] treating them like virtual machines? Could the dawn of cloud-native software application development herald a new era when ...

At a time when traditional industries are being upended by technological disruption, the most progressive libraries around the world in places like South Korea are pulling all stops to stay ...

In this guest blog, Paul Ruelas, director of product management at Masergy, shares some tips on how to pick the right hybrid network supplier for your business.  A global wide area network (WAN) ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Ides Vanneuville in his capacity as director of systems engineering for EMEA at Avi Networks. Avi Networks is known for its ...

DBS Bank, Southeast Asia’s largest bank by market cap, has claimed the honour of having the world’s biggest banking API (application programming interface) platform with over 155 APIs that ...

This is a guest blogpost by Partha Sen, CEO and co-founder of Fuzzy Logix. Ever heard of the legend of Alexander the Great and the Gordian Knot? According to the myth, Alexander was confronted on ...

The government’s digital minister, Matt Hancock, is a busy and enthusiastic advocate for the UK’s digital economy. In the past month alone, he’s given five speeches, published an independent review ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider column written by Tim Mackey in his capacity as technology evangelist for open source applications and container management & ...

Sony is bringing back Aibo, Japan’s original answer to a human hankering for a robotic dog that needlessly cocks its leg. How relaunching what is essentially an elaborate Furby helps the company’s ...

For software application developers and analytical DataBase Administrators (DBAs) in the retail, banking, government services and related commercial 'shopping' space, the promise of a cashless ...

Goldman Sachs CEO fuels speculation about the UK's financial services hub post Brexit with another thinly veiled warning

This is a guest blogpost by Bastian Nominacher, co-founder and co-CEO, Celonis Over the past decade, almost every industry has been overturned by digital disruptors. Same-day delivery, restaurant ...

Microsoft UK COO Clare Barclay kicked off what is her firm's major London event (for the autumn season at least) by taking the stage for Microsoft Future Decoded 2017 staged at the ExCeL convention ...

Banks might feel hamstrung by the strict regulations they face, but if it wasn't for these rules disruption to their businesses would be far greater

American telecommunications mainstay AT&T is working with Indian multinational IT and networking technology firm Tech Mahindra to build an open source Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform ...

In this guest post, Drew Nielsen, chief trust officer at cloud-based backup provider Druva, shares a scary and hairy tale about how shortfalls in any company's upkeep and maintenance schedule can ...

Software integration, analytics and management company TIBCO is loving, embraces and heart-ing open source this month with its newly available Project Mashling. Branded as an open source ...

The Pentaho brand is now a fully signed up card-carrying element of Hitachi Vantara. But making good on its promise to invest in what was a company and is now a brand/product, the PentahoWorld 2017 ...

The Volvo Ocean race is not only an amazing feat of human endurance but a herculean IT project

With 90% of the world’s data created in the last two years, it’s hardly surprising that the datacentre industry is booming, with cities around the world racing to entice the global tech giants and ...

Hitachi Vantara has hosted one final event under the Pentaho banner before the 'company' finally now becomes part of the deeper 'brand' under Hitachi Vantara. As the official company line states... ...

The Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog has reached 1000 posts since starting in June 2010. This very short post is intended to convey a heartfelt thank you to all the firms (and their ...

There’s an interesting story doing the rounds this week that highlights some important issues around the UK government’s aim to have a cloud-first policy for IT purchasing. The original scoop, ...

Canonical has announced the release of the Ubuntu 17.10 operating system featuring a new GNOME desktop on Wayland and new versions of KDE, MATE and Budgie to suit a range of tastes. The firm says ...

As the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog approaches it's 1000 post since first starting in June 2010, we feature a number of comments from movers (and hopefully shakers) in this space. ...

In this contributed blog post, John Brodie, CEO of Aquila Insight, discusses the importance of data skills and how science, technology, engineering and maths (Stem) education can help tackle the ...

A tweet from the boss of US bank Goldman Sachs hints that more business could be done in Frankfurt, but Bangalore could be a bigger threat to UK banking jobs and income

As the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog approaches it's 1000 post since first starting in June 2010, we feature a number of comments from movers (and hopefully shakers) in this space. ...

As the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog approaches it's 1000 post since first starting in June 2010, we feature a number of comments from movers (and hopefully shakers) in this space. ...

Cloud application marketplace company Wireline is working with open source blockchain project developer Qtum The new union is intended to provide a conduit to consuming microservices at [web] scale ...

You: “You alright?” Boss: “Good morning Joe, I trust you slept well and the commute was satisfactory.” This could be a regular welcome if we start to work for robot bosses, and new research has ...

The #metoo hashtag has been appearing on social media following the accusations of sexual assault and harassment many women in Hollywood have suffered at the hands of Harvey Weinstein. ...

As the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog approaches it's 1000 post since first starting in June 2010, we feature a number of comments from movers (and hopefully shakers) in this space. ...

Politics, rightly or wrongly, has an impact on government technology projects. It’s an inevitable part of having a democracy and political prowess can be used to drive transformation, but can it ...

Government, business and the tech sector are getting very excited about artificial intelligence (AI). For government, AI presents an opportunity for a technology where the UK hopes to lead the ...

When some employees at FCM Travel Solutions lost their laptops over the past year, they were able to get their data back within half an hour. “People were really happy with the kind of support they ...

Celebrity man-child YouTuber Casey Neistat is the latest bizarre character to berate the nuances of the site’s recent algorithm tweaks, as they continue to put perfect lives under slight threat. We ...

This is the 1000th post on the Computer Weekly Developer Network in its seven year of existence. It would have been inappropriate not to thank all the firms and their representative communications ...

Application Performance Management (APM) specialist AppDynamics hosted its 2017 Summit #AppDSummit event in New York this week and CWDN was listening to the proceedings in full. AppDynamics CEO ...

Cloud, datacentre and communications software company Node4 has sauced up its security portfolio with a series of upgrades and new security services under the banner of SECaaS (Security as a ...

First the Earth cooled... and then there were tools, devices, machines and eventually software applications - then, finally, we started calling them apps. In the second age of man (and woman and ...

In this guest post, Steve Lowe, CTO of student accommodation finder Student.com, introduces the concept of T-shaped engineers and the value they can bring to teams tasked with delivering DevOps-led ...

Airbnb could be the latest disrupter to face challenges as government commissions analysis of its business model and industries using drones could be next up following Canada flight collision

Huawei Consumer Business Group has introduced its first mobile engineering offering with a distinct and dedicated Artificial Intelligence (AI) engineering chipset, the Kirin 970. Positioned as ...

The ability to mix the virtual world of digital content and information - text, sounds, images and video - with the physical world of three-dimensional space we inhabit has long appealed. Science ...

Everywoman has extended the deadline for its FDM everywoman in technology awards to allow more time for nominations – 2016 everywoman Startup Founder of the Year award winner Sophie Deen discusses ...

Disruptive business models in the world today will be the ones that are the norm in Mars tomorrow.

In Southeast Asia, Huawei and Alibaba are already household names to those who have either bought something online from Alibaba-owned Lazada or used Huawei’s Leica-branded P10 smartphones to take ...

Alongside Splunk’s annual event Splunk.conf runs the software firm’s learning and certification course, Splunk University, where in 2017 I spent a day learning how to use Splunk to deep dive data ...

Many experts – and many articles in Computer Weekly – have warned of the potential for social and cultural disruption and unrest as a result of the digital revolution. Does it feel to you, too, ...

This is a guest blogpost by Emil Eifrem, CEO, Neo4j Google's dominant search engine has always been driven by smart software. But around 2012, the search giant quietly transformed the way users ...

This is a guest blogpost by Greg Kefer, vice-president, marketing, Infor. Blockchain is arguably, one of the most hyped technologies around. Despite the fact that Gartner believes that 90% of ...

There was a time not too long ago when backup software pretty much only handled one scenario, ie backing up physical servers. Then came virtualisation. And for quite some time the long-standing ...

Mark Zuckerberg has apologised for an insensitive Facebook Spaces broadcast in which his cartoon alter ego takes a chirpy virtual reality tour of hurricane-devastated Puerto Rico. Facebook’s cause ...

The number of women in tech is still much lower than the number of men in the industry with many highlighting issues such as lack of mentors, lack of role models and imposter syndrome as factors ...

Hardcore technologists will be found in all departments in businesses because most will become tech companies at core.

Load balancing and application services used to rely on traditional (i.e. old fashioned) appliance-based web application firewalls. That day has now passed, according to Avi Networks... a firm ...

This is guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network blog written by Ben Newton, analytics lead at Sumo Logic. Sumo Logic, a firm known for its cloud-native machine data analytics platform ...

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) appears to have a very different view of how the IR35 tax avoidance reforms are affecting the public sector compared to many of the IT contractors Computer Weekly ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Eric Sigler in his capacity as head of DevOps at PagerDuty. Pager Duty offers what it calls a Digital Operations Management ...

Chapter 11 is never a good look for a tech supplier, whatever the reason for it. In the case of unified communications and network solutions supplier Avaya, it wanted to buy time to restructure its ...

Six years after launching Computer Weekly’s annual search for the most influential women in UK technology – and perhaps 20 years since we started writing about the issue of diversity in IT – ...

The term "Uber moment" now be taken to mean the point at which a digital disrupter finds its business model needs to change to tow the line

If you live in Singapore and have started using the newly-minted parking.sg app developed by the government to pay for street parking at public car parks, you may have noticed something in fine ...

People are trying to work out why Siri thought Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee hit Despacito was the Bulgarian national anthem. But the chance to enjoy the error for yourself has come and gone. Indeed, ...

UK should be ready to fill holes in its white collar workforce with robots a real alternative

Enterprise cloud company Nutanix has announced new capabilities for its Acropolis File Services (AFS) software. This is new technology and it has only been around for a couple of quarters. In that ...

The Google Cloud Platform challenges tier-1 public clouds as well as the hybrid cloud concept

There are software application development professionals in every industry from oil & gas to cake baking, obviously. There are core characteristics and functions that will bind all developers ...

Oracle launched what it has described as the “world’s first autonomous database” at OpenWorld this week in San Francisco. CTO Thomas Kurian said, in the press conference following his keynote at ...

Veritas dates back to the early 1980s but disappeared for 10 years to become part of Symantec, with its NetBackup and Backup Exec leading the way in the data protection market. But, in 2014 Veritas ...

Much of the rhetoric about the EU-GDPR, which comes into force in May 2018, relates to the danger of data breaches and the huge fines that may be imposed when they occur. What is the reality?

Software application developer-focused revision (and version) control system company Perforce Software has nipped down to IKEA and bought itself Sweden-based Hansoft Technologies. Hansoft is ...

The consumerisation of IT and digital disruption are transforming how business and people use IT. But it has also changed how we think about IT and as a consequence how we write about it.

Everybody is loving that thing we're all calling machine learning aren't they? Splunk wants to make it mainstream, several other firms want to demystify it (or probably democratise it... or both) ...

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Relationship Intelligence (RI) software company SugarCRM has launched a mobile Software Development Kit (SDK). The SDK can be used to develop ...

How do we enable digital employers to harness the native talent available and how do we prepare that talent for the opportunities available.

Asia-Pacific has been a hotbed of IT innovation, thanks to technology-driven growth policies and a relatively young population who are not reined in by legacy technology when solving the region’s ...

Right now, if you’re responsible for transforming your legacy wide-area network estate, you might be asking yourself, what does it mean to monetise your enterprise WAN? How can I leverage my WAN as ...

It can’t be often that an IT leader decides to take a job because his or her new employer says it “doesn’t want to have an IT department”. But it’s fair to say that Starling Bank – where that IT ...

Twitter’s move to double its 140-character limit to 280 has been marked by CEO Jack Dorsey unwittingly composing the worst tweet of all time, in a failed mission to justify the merits of waffle. ...

Splunk is using its .conf2017 annual conference to explain how governments and higher education institutions using its machine data machine learning technologies to analyze, correlate and act on ...

Machine data operational intelligence platform specialist Splunk has hosted its .conf 2017 conference and exhibition in Washington DC. Many of the firm’s partners (Splunkners, perhaps?) also ...

HP continues to shine a spotlight on print security with the recent announcement of embedded print security features that aim to mitigate the threat of malware. So how vulnerable are printers to ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Chris Gray in his capacity as technical director at Amido. Amido is a technical consultancy specialising in customer ...

Machine data operational intelligence platform company Splunk has staged its .conf 2017 conference and exhibition in Washington DC. As part of its market-facing moves for this show, the company has ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Patrick McFadin in his role as role of VP of developer relations at DataStax,. DataStax Enterprise is an always-on data ...

Machine data operational intelligence platform specialist Splunk has gone all Alan Partridge. The company known for its down-at-the-data-layer technologies and its tongue-in-cheek t-shirts now says ...

Got me thinking – just what IS a start-up company? Ok – so there are definitions within even Techtrailblazers itself as competitions are based upon rules, and rules dictate strict definitions, so ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider column written by Shawn Powers -- describing himself as Linux Journal editor, CBT Nuggets trainer, writer and geek all wrapped into ...