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Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Question value after conferences shutdown due to coronavirus risk
Managing Editor 17 Feb 2020The tech industry loves big tech events and for the host cities, these huge events represent a massive boost to the local economy. Thousands upon thousands of customers, sales people, and industry ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Want to hear the latest on Gov.uk Verify? Sorry, GDS still has nothing to say
Editor in chief 14 Feb 2020The great and the good of the digital identity sector gathered in London yesterday (13 February) for the Think Digital Identity for Government conference – a popular bi-annual event that always ...
GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Lucy Taylor, data analyst at Nominet, talks about her career path and how she moved from dancing to data analytics, whilst giving advice to other women ...
In what must be one of the most inappropriate gestures in the history of human life, adult website CamSoda has offered free webcam sessions to the 3,600-plus passengers currently quarantined aboard ...
Some events start with training workshops, some start with partner days, others use fancy terms for extra-curricular activities like 'unconference' (often held at the end), while others still ...
The first ‘wearable’ technology innovation is argued to have arrived sometime around the 13th century with the development of the first eyeglasses. In between that time and now we’ve had hearing ...
Earlier this week, SAP acknowledged that many of its customers are going to take far longer to move to S/4Hana, its next generation ERP system. For over 20 years, Computer Weekly has looked at the ...
GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Evgeny Shadchnev, co-founder and CEO of Makers, explains why lists like the UK Women in Software list are important for the future of digital I am ...
This is a guest post by Zhang Dixuan, Atlas datacentre domain general manager at Huawei’s intelligent computing business department The quest for knowledge has driven us to discover the highest ...
Dynatrace used its annual Perform conference to detail the expansion of its digital experience management capabilities. This includes advanced analytics (and segmentation) of mobile app user ...
Open Source Insider
Open source licence series - Cockroach Labs: Scaling a sustainable open source business model
06 Feb 2020Open source grew, it proliferated… and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key means of development… but the issue of how open source software ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
The cloud deal question that follows on from an Oracle audit
Managing Editor 06 Feb 2020On 17 December 2019, the US District Court, Northern District of California, San Jose Division, dismissed the 2018 class action case brought by the City of Sunrise Firefighters’ Pension Fund ...
Open Source Insider
Open source licence series - OpenStack Foundation: Protecting open source freedoms
05 Feb 2020Open source grew, it proliferated… and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key means of development… but the issue of how open source software ...
Software intelligence Application Performance Management (APM) company Dynatrace held its Perform conference in Las Vegas this week and the Computer Weekly Developer Network team was front and ...
CW Developer Network
Dynatrace extends Kubernetes support, observability goes 'full-stack'
05 Feb 2020Dynatrace used its Perform conference 2020 in Las Vegas this week to announced new enhancements to its support for Kubernetes. The company's explainable AI engine Davis now 'automatically ingests' ...
You can’t take your eyes off Elon Musk for a moment. Such is the rate of Downtime content generated by tech’s OG attention seeker, we once attempted to retire from indulging his antics altogether. ...
Let’s be clear about this… this is a product review, but it’s also a ‘use case’ review. The ViewSonic VX3276-2K-mhd 32" Entertainment Monitor was put under testing scrutiny by the Inspect-a-Gadget ...
As I mentioned in my previous blog post, the time for digital transformation to happen has started to hit crunch time, and then some. I recently reported on an IT event in Central Londinium, an ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Why settle for just one RTO and one RPO?
Freeform Dynamics 03 Feb 2020I think we can all agree that protecting data is important – perhaps even very important. So how come some still find it a daunting challenge to progress from that acknowledgement into tangible ...
Networks Generation
It's Not Just About Brexit, Superbowl And Footie Transfer Deadlines...
Broadband Testing 03 Feb 2020So, the past few days has seen some serious deadlines and finals come and go. And, no, we're not going to talk about the rugby (yet). In the world of IT, the "Brexit" of our industry, AKA "Digital ...
When IT Meets Politics
Broadband/5G Security, Resilience, Competition, Huawei, Ofcom and Brexit
Winsafe Ltd 01 Feb 2020Fast, reliable Internet access is essential for business competitiveness in a post Brexit world. It is also critical to the rest of modern society. If the fixed and mobile networks of BT/EE, ...
Open Source Insider
Open source licence series – Delphix: Rent vs buy, which fits your licencing cost model?
01 Feb 2020Open source grew, it proliferated… and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key means of development… but the issue of how open source software ...
Open Source Insider
Open source licence series – Tidelift: Ethical source-available licenses challenge open source
31 Jan 2020Open source grew, it proliferated… and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key means of development… but the issue of how open source software ...
Open Source Insider
Open source licence series – Puppet: consumption without collaboration equals consternation
31 Jan 2020Open source grew, it proliferated… and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key means of development… but the issue of how open source software ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Technology is losing its battle to be a unifying force
Editor in chief 30 Jan 2020The pioneers of the internet and the web saw themselves as liberators. They believed, passionately, they were creating a better world – one that was open, collaborative, broke down barriers, and ...
BT’s press office has reported some “worrying” findings as part of its Skills for Tomorrow programme, designed to “close the digital skills knowledge gap that exists between parents and children”. ...
The Computer Weekly Developer Network team is attending Appian World 2020, a conference and exhibition designed to showcase Appian’s approach to enterprise low-code software platform application ...
Data Matters
The future of enterprise application consumption: an adoption paradigm shift
Business Applications Editor 29 Jan 2020This is a guest blogpost by Mark Armstrong, GM and GVP EMEA, Rimini Street. In the next 5-10 years I see three business and societal trends that will potentially lead to a radical shift in how we ...
Quiz time: list your top 10 Artificial Intelligence (AI) world hubs? Possible answers: Silicon Valley (obviously), Bangalore & Bengaluru (same place), Shanghai and Shenzen (both big footprints ...
The Logitech MX Keys keyboard is a nice keyboard. It’s actually the nicest keyboard we (the virtual Inspect-a-Gadget) team has used, possibly ever. It should be, it’s not cheap. This unit comes in ...
Data Matters
The Dream Team: why data security, compliance and privacy come hand in hand
Business Applications Editor 28 Jan 2020This is a guest blogpost by Anthony Di Bello, VP Strategic Development, OpenText Today’s business landscape is littered with valuable data. The rapid adoption of digital technologies, means that ...
Advanced analytics company QuantumBlack has released its racily-named CausalNex software product. This is the company’s second open source software development following its previous launch of ...
Open Source Insider
Open source licence series - Rancher Labs: Why vendor ‘strip-mining’ is an opportunity, not a threat
27 Jan 2020Open source grew, it proliferated… and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key means of development... but the issue of how open source software ...
Open Source Insider
Open source licence series - Altus: open source is big business, get used to it
27 Jan 2020Open source grew, it proliferated… and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key means of development... but the issue of how open source software ...
Fintech makes the world go around
Cash will survive beyond demise of plastic cards, says Deutsche Bank
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 24 Jan 2020Forget the end of cash, say goodbye to your platic bank card
We’re moving on from monitoring and management in some spheres of information technology. Where we once had monitoring, alerting, abstraction and system visualisation alongside log analytics and ...
Open Source Insider
Open source licence series - Instaclustr: Is open core a rotten deal?
24 Jan 2020Open source grew, it proliferated… and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key means of development... but the issue of how open source software ...
This is a guest posted by by Marc Caltabiano, vice-president for ANZ at Mulesoft Companies across industries have been gearing up for digital transformation, which has become a buzzword in the tech ...
Open Source Insider
Open source licence series - WhiteSource: permissive is winning, but is there a hurt factor?
23 Jan 2020Open source grew, it proliferated… and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key means of development... but the issue of how open source software ...
Facebook has extended its apologies to China’s president Xi Jinping for erroneously translating his name to “Mr Shithole”. With Slick Nick busy defending his employer’s decision to keep letting ...
Open Source Insider
Open source licence series - Percona: is the battle won, or is this a different war?
22 Jan 2020Open source grew, it proliferated… and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key means of development... but the issue of how open source software ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Davos 2020: Tech sector and the climate change challenge
Managing Editor 21 Jan 2020Last week Microsoft chief, Satya Nadella, made the headlines, with an audacious plan to eradicate the company’s historic carbon footprint, by reversing all its emissions since 1975. As political ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Consent and GDPR: at least get the basics right!
Freeform Dynamics 20 Jan 2020Why do companies find it so hard to get their heads around even the basics of GDPR compliance? I’m not even thinking here of techie stuff like not getting hacked, and not losing a laptop full of ...
Low-code application development company OutSystems has noted a milestone, the firm’s Forge asset portal has hit one million unique component downloads. The Forge offers access to over 2,500 assets ...
Open source grew, it proliferated… and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key means of development... but the issue of how open source software ...
In this guest blog post, Satyam Vaghani VP/GM, IoT & AI, Nutanix discusses the way IT will need to change to support edge computing. The rise of the edge will require a redistribution of the ...
Open source grew, it proliferated… and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key means of development... but the issue of how open source software ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Business AI needs to focus on psychology, not technology
Freeform Dynamics 17 Jan 2020There's no doubt now that AI works, and it can work very well indeed – as a technology, at least. And as one of our recent research projects reported, AI-based machine learning (ML) is increasingly ...
MariaDB Corporation is upping its cloud-native playbook. At the same time, MariaDB is aiming to up its approach to so-called ‘smart’ applications., so before we define the parameters at play here, ...
CW Developer Network
Qualys offers GPS guidance for developers at the application security crossroads
17 Jan 2020All developers care deeply about application [development] security. Okay, that’s perhaps not always strictly true… let’s try again. All developers care deeply about application functionality and ...