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Open Source Insider
Containerisation in the enterprise - Open Infrastructure Foundation: The flavours of containers
02 Mar 2021As businesses continue to modernise their server estate and move towards a cloud-native architecture, the elephant in the room is the monolithic core business application that cannot easily be ...
Eyes on APAC
A sobering reminder for more vigilant supply chain security
Informa TechTarget 02 Mar 2021This is a guest post by Gaurav Chhiber, vice-president of Asia-Pacific and Japan at IronNet Cybersecurity The recent and unfolding news about the Russian APT 29, or Cozy Bear, SolarWinds breach is ...
Taking stock of retail tech
Taking back control in the face of Covid-19 and Brexit
Business Editor 02 Mar 2021GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Anastasia Laska, vice president partner alliances and business development, Revionics, an Aptos company, explains how employing tech that helps them roll ...
GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Ana Gillan, senior solutions engineer at Cloudera, discusses why she believes putting authenticity at the heart of everything you do is the key to ...
Open Source Insider
Containerisation in the enterprise - Red Hat: precision-picking practice for pot platform prowess
01 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 ...
Lockdown happened - and, consequently, a lot of people looked into the idea of finding a place to stay that would allow them some disconnection from the world and a place where they could work and ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Improve trust in algorithmic decision-making
Managing Editor 01 Mar 2021There is a new dirty word in politics. Over the last few weeks politicians and commentators have spoken publicly about how this year’s GCSE and A’levels won’t be based on algorithms. Instead, they ...
The UK cybersecurity industry is heavily concentrated. Only 150 suppliers, employing 2/3rd of the work force are large enough to provide realistic in-house work experience for trainees/apprentices. ...
This is a guest blogpost by Maarten Masschelein, CEO & Founder, Soda In the not too distant past the idea of software quality was often more discussed than adhered to. In fact, Reed Hastings ...
GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Anne Kiem, executive director, Small Business Charter, talks about how Covid-19 has heightened a "pre-existent mental health epidemic" in UK tech It’s a ...
GUEST BLOG: In this contributed post, Cloud9 Insight CEO Carlene Jackson explains why she recently told an All-Party Parliamentary Group the UK needs to create a ‘one-stop-shop’ for apprenticeships ...
ITWorks
We can futureproof our economy by closing our growing digital divide
Business Editor 25 Feb 2021GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Andrew Proctor, pro vice chancellor for digital at Staffordshire University, discusses how closing the digital divide in the UK could contribute towards ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Has the data centre of the future already arrived?
Freeform Dynamics 25 Feb 2021Predicting the future is full of potential pitfalls, but analysts still insist on trying to do it, even when a study of the evidence illustrates how wild some forecasts have proven to be. But back ...
The ENIAC is 75 years old. This complex piece of kit from the 1940s was the world’s first computer. It was commissioned by the US army to calculate missile trajectories. It was officially launched ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Industry concerns over government digital identity plans risk a confusing outcome for users
Editor in chief 23 Feb 2021A flurry of recent activity suggests the government is ramping up its plans for the long-awaited demise of Gov.uk Verify, its failed attempt to produce a digital identity system for online public ...
Twenty years in the making, Lisbon, Portugal-founded OutSystems has (arguably) been working hard to position the breadth of its total technology proposition as rather more than any single low-code ...
Scientists have been using machine learning to pick out the animal kingdom’s prime suspects for the next coronavirus, and we’re sorry to report it spells party over for a number of familiar ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
The consequence of IT failure on a space mission
Managing Editor 17 Feb 2021If everything goes to plan, an HPE edge server, Spaceborne Computer-2, will soon be running on the International Space Station, proving that commodity x86 hardware can be used to run mission ...
GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Rachel McElroy, chief marketing officer for technology solutions and services provider Solutionize Global, explains changing how girls view the tech ...
Nobody can fit a square peg into a round hole, obviously. We can though, perhaps paradoxically, rely on a squarely-named company to provide software-centric solutions for a round, circular, ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
The WFH ‘New Normal’ is nothing of the sort
Freeform Dynamics 15 Feb 2021At least, not yet. The world is still in the very abnormal grip of a pandemic, and even with widespread vaccination we will be defending ourselves against the fear of further outbreaks for months, ...
Microsoft is joining as a founding members of the Rust Foundation. Established as an independent organization to steward the Rust programming language and ecosystem and support Rust’s maintainers ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Effective IT recovery in small/midsize businesses, 10 years on? Maybe tomorrow...
Freeform Dynamics 11 Feb 2021Disaster recovery is important for every business, large or small. But how can small businesses with limited resources protect themselves? Especially as a ‘disaster’ doesn’t have to be caused by a ...
Open Source Insider
Containerisation in the enterprise - a Computer Weekly feature series
11 Feb 2021As businesses continue to modernise their server estate and move towards a cloud-native architecture, the elephant in the room is the monolithic core business application that cannot easily be ...
Data Matters
AI: An intelligence without reasoning! Can we trust it?
Enterprise Applications Editor 10 Feb 2021This is a guest blogpost by Dr Jamil El Imad, Chief Scientist at NeuroPro. Alan Turing, a brilliant scientist and mathematician is attributed with being the father of artificial intelligence. He ...
A Texan lawyer has helped the internet through its Handforth Parish Council comedown by donning a sad kitten filter in virtual court. “I believe you have a filter turned on in your video settings,” ...
The finalists for the 2021 FDM everywoman in Technology Awards have been announced prior to the awards ceremony in March 2021 Each year professional women’s network everywoman, in partnership with ...
As promised in a recent blog focusing on Cato Networks’ recent customer survey results - “The 2021 Networking Survey The Future of Enterprise Networking and Security: Are You Ready For The Next ...
Dynatrace has now enhanced its infrastructure monitoring capabilities to analyse logs from Kubernetes and multi-cloud environments, plus, also, the most widely used open source log data ...
With 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 ...
CW Developer Network
Programming in the pandemic - Skymind: Thoughts from the AI ecosystem
09 Feb 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 ...
Here’s the thing about Honor keyboards… at first you don’t think you like them; the keypads on these machines are such a light-touch chicklet design and feel that you almost thing there’s not ...
With 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 ...
CW Developer Network
Programming in the pandemic - Veracode: Depend on deeper dependencies (on two levels)
08 Feb 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 ...
CW Developer Network
Programming in the pandemic - Coralogix: Don't run with scissors, do run with a runbook
07 Feb 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 ...
CW Developer Network
Programming in the pandemic - Plutora: Don't dream it, value stream it
07 Feb 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 ...
In terms of so-called first world problems, we all have them from time to time. I can’t make spaghetti bolognese tonight as I only have linguine or pappardelle. My Internet access at home is ...
Anyone can be a novice, an amateur or a beginner - the clue is pretty much in the name, right? Then there’s that second tier of accomplishment… let’s call that intermediary, normal (if you’re ...
Quocirca Insights
How can managed print services providers thrive in the Amazon Era?
Quocirca 04 Feb 2021Quocirca’s “The Amazon Effect” Executive Briefing Report examines the disruptive effect that Amazon has had on a technology sectors such as the Cloud, IoT, Edge Computing and the Smart Connected ...
Ahead in the Clouds
Datacentre storage investments: A lesson in future-proofing
Senior Editor, UK 04 Feb 2021In this guest post, Amy Fowler, vice president of strategy and solutions at datacentre hardware provider Pure Storage sets out why enterprises should consider adding unified fast file and object ...
The husband and wife who made hundreds of millions selling Bebo to AOL before buying it back for a relative pittance five years later have spent lockdown planning to relaunch the site (again). In a ...
Developers love software application development security provisioning, penetration testing, procedural process management and (software) program protection planning in all its forms. Okay, so ...
Over the next few years the tech industry has a roadmap to overcome the challenges facing quantum computing. This will pave the way to growth in mainstream quantum computing to solve "hard ...
CW Developer Network
Programming in the pandemic - IBM developer lead: personal insights & professional process
03 Feb 2021The Computer Weekly Developer Network examines the impact of Covid-19 on the software application development community. With only a proportion of developers classified as key workers (where their ...
CW Developer Network
Programming in the pandemic - Perforce: In open source, ‘crowd’ is a positive
03 Feb 2021The Computer Weekly Developer Network examines the impact of Covid-19 (Coronavirus) on the software application development community. With only a proportion of developers classified as key workers ...
The Inspect-a-Gadget elves are well-versed in all manner of shiny devices, hard lumps of computing power and even the occasionally frivolous technology gadget (the clue’s in the name, right ...
CW Developer Network
Programming in the pandemic - Appvia: GitOps-as-a-Watercooler (GaaW)
01 Feb 2021The Computer Weekly Developer Network examines the impact of Covid-19 on the software application development community. With only a proportion of developers classified as key workers (where their ...
Like everybody else, the Inspect-a-Gadget elves have been in lockdown. But, normally, the elves like to get out on the road, attend a few technology conferences and stay in a few cheap motels rooms ...
Data Matters
How to thrive in the post-Covid world – 5 tips for success
Enterprise Applications Editor 28 Jan 2021This is a guest blogpost by Gordon Wilson, CEO, Advanced It would be an understatement to say that Covid-19 has disrupted the way the world does business. How we now operate has to be set in a new ...
The maintainers of Linkerd, a lightweight service mesh have announced the creation of the Linkerd Steering Committee. As TechTarget reminds us, a service mesh is a dedicated infrastructure layer ...