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When a digitally-heavy business takes on new distribution channels (and let’s remember that ‘channel’ in the modern sense means everything from retail shops to the web and then onwards to mobile, ...
Networks Generation
NDR and NPMD - important, meaningful acronyms for once...
Broadband Testing 26 Apr 2021I’ve recently had the chance to revisit what is old – but more relevant than ever – stomping ground of mine, thanks to Kemp Technology’s recent acquisition of Flowmon, which gave the company some ...
The Computer Weekly Developer Network is deep in container-land, we’re Kubed into Kubernetes and we’re about as hybrid multi-cloud cloud-natively virtualised into abstraction Nirvana as its ...
The president of football’s crumbling European Super League project has cited teenagers’ enjoyment of video games as a reason to constantly pit the continent’s elite teams against each other like ...
With a name like Skyflow, an organisation or brand could be loft window specialist, a plumbing contractor or a premier service for executives to buy unlimited ‘bottomless up’ drink services when ...
In this guest post, Pip White, UK and Ireland managing director at Google Cloud, sets out how cloud and datacentre providers are putting sustainability at the heart of their operations this Earth ...
Networks Generation
MPLS is Dead – Yeah Right… But Transformation IS King
Broadband Testing 21 Apr 2021Of all the regularly repeated “yeah right” claims within IT, “MPLS is dead” probably ranks highest (if not in Rome). Analyst prediction realties show that the managed MPLS market was valued at over ...
CW Developer Network
Contentful developer team: programming, products, pandemics & practical processes
21 Apr 2021The Computer Weekly Developer Network team likes to dig deep and we’re not afraid of a meaty download when it comes to software product and developer professionals expressing their views. Looking ...
In the tech sector, computer interfaces come and go in the name of progress. RS232 was superseded by USB1; now there is USB C and USB 3.1 and the latest Macs have USB 4. But not everyone wants to ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Lack of leadership, confusion and frustration - the state of digital identity in the UK
Editor in chief 20 Apr 2021To nobody’s surprise, efforts by a group of peers to force the government to accelerate progress on digital identity in the UK foundered in the House of Lords yesterday (20 April 2021). Baroness ...
Data Matters
Post-pandemic economic optimism from two B2B tech CEOs – Goldberg and Barrenechea
Enterprise Applications Editor 20 Apr 2021The technology industry is starting to enjoy a lucky escape. What would have happened had vaccines against Sars-Cov-2 not been invented and deployed? There has been much talk of how technology has ...
Networks Generation
The DX Moment Is Still Around The Corner For Many – If That Corner Is Still There…
Broadband Testing 20 Apr 2021Among the many conversations I have with vendors and end users themselves – via various online events – one of the most common buzz phrases of the past few years that still recurs more than it ...
The Computer Weekly Developer Network newsdesk is used to seeing newsfeed stories with dateline and locations such as London, San Francisco, San Jose and New York… we’re even used to seeing ...
Open Source Insider
Veracode architect lead: containers can be cleaner, but developers still need wet wipes
19 Apr 2021After our extensive enterprise containerisation series and subsequent feature entitled ‘Preparing for enterprise class containerisation’, the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider team sat down ...
This is a guest blogpost by Dmitri Krakovsky, Chief Product Officer, Unit4 The world of enterprise software has changed dramatically in the last five years. The first-generation of ...
CW Developer Network
Swimm: Continuous Everything (CE) means Continuous Documentation (CD)
16 Apr 2021Take a bunch of developers, any kind you like. Throw those engineers into a new software project at the deep end. Do they sink or swim? This is the question that Swimm founders were asking ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Throwback Thursday: Private cloud in contexts old and new
Freeform Dynamics 15 Apr 2021What a difference a decade can make. When we looked at the world of private cloud almost a decade ago, it was a new idea to many people – so new, in fact, that we had to define it for them. In ...
The Linux Foundation announced the sigstore project this spring. Designed to improves the security of the software supply chain, sigstore is said to enable the adoption of cryptographic software ...
To the meme generation he was simply known as the Airplane Mode Prince, but it seems nobody has taken the passing of the Duke of Edinburgh quite as hard as National Rail. Users of the website woke ...
Yes we’re still in lockdown (or a version of it) and all meetings are virtual, but the Computer Weekly Developer Network is still talking to members of the industry glitterati about containers. ...
With the economy opening up, business leaders are looking at how quickly things can start returning to normal. What does normal look like? Numerous studies have shown that over the last year, ...
Video and web conference ability prowess (VAWCAP) is now a thing; we’re all working in the ‘new normal’ of Zoom-type remote dial-in experiences, brought about - obviously - as a result of the ...
When IT Meets Politics
How do YOU find and attract the Cybersecurity skills/talent YOU need?
Winsafe Ltd 11 Apr 2021Review the salaries you offer to Cybersecurity and Computer Science Graduates - unless your policy is to pay more for those implementing security by design. If you are worried about losing those ...
Open Source Insider
Gitpod DevXConf ‘developer experience’: never mind UX, what about DevX?
09 Apr 2021Open source developer platform company Gitpod is sprouting new growth. The company’s software is positioned as a software engineering platform to automate the provisioning of ready-to-code ...
CW Developer Network
Okta offers 'free' Starter Developer Edition, for secure apps, APIs & infrastructure
07 Apr 2021Identity is in the news, but that’s mainly due to the media discussion surrounding the use of an individual’s identity in a Covid-19 passport... if that eventuality actually comes to pass at a ...
There’s that moment of doom when you’re on a pre-call prep-call for a professional video job and the ‘producer’ gets to speak to you about your lighting. These people live in a world of rigs, boom ...
Earlier this week, the US Supreme Court ruled that Google did not infringe Oracle copyright on the Java SE API (application programming edition). The fact the US Supreme Court has digested a load ...
When IT Meets Politics
What Agenda is the new GDS Director, Identity Assurance Programme expected to deliver?
Winsafe Ltd 06 Apr 2021Experience in "Significant agile programme management and/or major change delivery" will not be enough. The appointee will need the skills of Machiavelli and the luck of the Devil.
Businesses in Asia-Pacific (APAC) will need to get a grip on software quality and security or risk losing their agility and control of service quality, according to a top executive at Dynatrace. ...
This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Vibhav Sreekanti, VP Engineering at Stackrox -- a company known for its Kubernetes-native security capabilities, which it now ...
This is a Q&A features David Meyer in his role as SVP of products at Databricks - a data lakehouse provider. Computer Weekly: What do enterprises need to think about when it comes to ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Throwback Thursday: Mobile moments and the past left far behind
Freeform Dynamics 01 Apr 2021We have looked at many reports from years ago that show that, whilst technology details may have moved on, many of the underlying factors haven’t changed very much. But this glance back to 2009 ...
GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Gemma Foster, head of service delivery at Visualsoft, explains how ensuring female role models are visible and accessible is how the tech sector can work ...
Inspect-a-Gadget
DataLocker DL4 FE: military-grade USB drive with ‘nuclear’ device payload security
31 Mar 2021The Computer Weekly Inspect-a-Gadget elves have gotten past their initial ‘oh, look, it’s a terabyte drive' excitement factor. We’ve seen a whole raft of these units come through the testing lab ...
This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Bruno Andrade in his roles as CEO at Shipa.io -- a company known for its technology that provides a developer-centric portal ...
This is a guest post by Kerry Singleton, managing director for cyber security at Cisco Asia-Pacific, Japan and China In recent weeks, we’ve seen a number of significant cybersecurity threats ...
Open Source Insider
Containerisation in the enterprise - Jetstack: A solid path to ephemerality
29 Mar 2021As businesses continue to modernise their server estate and move towards cloud-native architectures, the elephant in the room is the monolithic core business application that cannot easily be ...
CW Developer Network
Programming in the pandemic - OutSystems: Stepping up to modernised platforms for better times
29 Mar 2021With only a proportion of developers classified as key workers (where their responsibilities perhaps included the operations-side of keeping mission-critical and life-critical systems up and ...
This is a guest blogpost by Dan Klein, Director, Solution Centre, Zühlke Engineering Albert Einstein told us “you can’t use an old map to explore a new world”. Common sense further dictates that ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Zombified Gov.uk Verify is officially dead - so what's next?
Editor in chief 26 Mar 2021The UK government has finally admitted in public for the first time that its flagship digital identity programme, Gov.uk Verify, is dead. This will be no surprise to anyone following the project, ...
Data Matters
Alan Turing honoured with visage on £50 note
Enterprise Applications Editor 25 Mar 2021Alan Turing’s service to his country has been recognised steadily in recent years: the 2013 posthumous royal pardon for the 1952 conviction for homosexuality that destroyed his life; the ...
Exercise ropes have some different interpretations. In American English, we say ‘jump rope’, whereas the British English expression refers to ‘skipping rope’... but whether it’s a jump or a skip, ...
Open Source Insider
Containerisation in the enterprise - Sumo Logic: Observability is nice, clarity is better
25 Mar 2021As businesses continue to modernise their server estate and move towards cloud-native architectures, the elephant in the room is the monolithic core business application that cannot easily be ...
YouTube has claimed it rushed to remove an offensive rap advert before the Advertising Standards Authority’s verdict on it even came in. The promo for Bamby H2O, an artist with fewer Instagram ...
Data Matters
Adam Selipsky returns to AWS as Tableau melds more into Salesforce
Enterprise Applications Editor 24 Mar 2021Adam Selipsky, CEO of data analytics company Tableau, has returned to AWS as its CEO – as Andy Jassy takes Jeff Bezos’ place as CEO of Amazon.com. It’s not quite the Tableau of which Selipsky took ...
This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Markus Eisele, developer adoption lead for EMEA at Red Hat & Chris Jenkins, EMEA chief technologist for infrastructure ...
Every five to 10 years there is a monumental shift in IT architecture. In the early 2000s, enterprises began seeing the benefits of virtualising physical servers. Cloud computing offered enterprise ...
Open Source Insider
Containerisation in the enterprise - Infoblox: Embracing cluster-addon operators
19 Mar 2021As businesses continue to modernise their server estate and move towards cloud-native architectures, the elephant in the room is the monolithic core business application that cannot easily be ...
Open Source Insider
Containerisation in the enterprise - SUSE: The deployment surface shifted, pack up for portability
18 Mar 2021As businesses continue to modernise their server estate and move towards cloud-native architectures, the elephant in the room is the monolithic core business application that cannot easily be ...
When IT Meets Politics
Ofcom enables £multi-billion refunding of BT to finance full-fibre roll out.
Winsafe Ltd 18 Mar 2021The Ofcom decision today appears to open the way for BT to similarly complete the convergence begun with the EE merger. But first it has to raise the money.