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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 ...

This is a guest blogpost by Matt Jones, lead analytics strategist, Tessella Recent converts to AI and machine learning’s amazing potential may be disappointed to discover that many of its more ...

Apple proudly claims it’s set the path of technology for the next decade with its iPhone X, but it would’ve been nice if it just did that with the one it announced half hour earlier. Instead, the ...

Asia-Pacific led the world in ransomware threats during the first half of 2017, with 35.7% of all ransomware detected globally targeted at companies in the region. Following the heels of APAC was ...

Microsoft is working to partner with everybody and be open to everything... as we know, Microsoft loves Linux, well, now it does. In this regard then, this month we see cloud data management ...

Cloud-centric software-defined information management company Veritas Technologies reminds is that 2.5 quintillion bytes of data a day are currently being produced today in 2017. The company is now ...

Information management company Veritas Technologies is now self-styling itself as a multi-cloud data management and control specialist. Pretty soon the firm’s marketing department might be trying ...

HM Revenue & Customs’ (HMRC) new chief digital and information officer (CDIO), Jacky Wright, appears  to be an excellent appointment. She’s spent six years in senior roles at Microsoft, most ...

Barracuda makes physical and virtual backup and archive appliances and has embraced the cloud as a target, as well as cloud-to-cloud backup and archiving for services such as Office 365. But it is ...

It’s 2017 – and that means we’re now starting to build software application development architectures, algorithms and applications for the cloud computing model of service-based application and ...