Recent Blog Posts

The DevOps honeymoon is over - well, it could be... and here's one reason why. As we know by now, DevOps is a portmanteau term used to describe the notion of more connected, cyclical, integrated ...

The UK Security Minister sent an apparently very odd message to Google and Facebook in a Sunday Times interview on New Year's Eve, "obey the law or be taxed." HMRC has a long and dishonourable ...

AI as an excuse for obfuscating responsibility for commercial decisions Much of the current hype over Big Data and Artificial intelligence results from the large scale use of use of old techniques ...

Christmas has always been a time of heightened security against current and potential subversives - even in the womb.

The Brexit impact studies that never were make for embarrassing reading: the UK is being driven towards a cliff by a driver without a licence and in a vehicle that has not had an MoT test

This is a guest blog by Jayne Wilcock, curriculum and data manager at East Riding of Yorkshire Council ‘Technology gives the quietest student a voice’ and few would argue ...

This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Jim Ivers in his capacity as vice president at Synopsys’ Software Integrity Group. Essentially, Synopsys specialises ...

A vote by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to repeal the net neutrality rules spearheaded by the Obama administration was largely met with disdain by internet companies and users. ...

This is Q&A session with Carlos Sanchez in his capacity as engineer at CloudBees, a provider of continuous delivery and integration software services. The company's open source continuous ...

I was tempted to write this blog post on Computer Weekly's Downtime blog, where we try to look at the lighter side of the world of IT. But I'm not entirely sure this is a joke. While budgetary ...

Has the role of 'identity developer' now been formalised? Perhaps not, identity and user authentication controls will probably fall at the feet of specialist security developers and systems ...

The switch from graduate recruitment to degree-linked apprenticeships has begin. It is delayed only by lack of information on the latter. That will change if the pilots being organised under the ...

CEO of WiFi analytics platform Purple Gavin Wheeldon has joined futurist Mike Ryan in an assertive prediction to state that by 2025, a surge in data use stimulated by unlimited mobile contract ...

Barely even featuring as an item on its press room pages, news has filtered out this week of Czech virus deerstalking firm Avast releasing its machine code decompiler RetDec to open source. The ...

Did you know the UK government has a minister for identity? It’s Baroness Susan Williams, whose full responsibilities go under the grander title of minister of state for countering extremism. ...

By hosting its cloud infrastructure at Equinix’s Singapore datacentre, Kingsoft Cloud has become the latest Chinese cloud service provider to set its foot in Southeast Asia. The move is expected to ...

YugaByte is a newly established company that sets out to deliver what it describes as turnkey distributed consistent and highly available database delivering data access with cache level ...

Stream is an activity feed platform for developers and product owners - it is used by programmers to build newsfeeds (think: how your Twitter or Instagram feed populates, or how YouTube recommends ...

In this guest post, Rob Anderson, principal analyst for central government at market watcher GlobalData, takes a look at the implications of delaying the launch of G-Cloud 10 by up to a year.

This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Lars Herrmann in his capacity as general manager for integrated solutions and container strategy at Red Hat. Herrmann states ...

This is the first in a series of articles exploring the challenges and opportunities facing the audio visual (AV) industry, which has its annual European flagship event, ISE2018, in February. This ...

The FCA is right to force banks to publish information about cyber security and operational incidents but this will prove difficult to enforce

In this guest post, Darren Roos, president of SAP ERP Cloud, explains why automation, AI, machine learning and cloud are key to improving workplace productivity. If you take productivity at its ...

High streets in London saying goodbye to bank branches as one tipping point reached

Robots should be ideal at home or in the workplace, right? These fully co-operative, obedient and reliable machines should make all our lives easier, right? They can’t think for themselves, they ...

Open source In-Memory Data Grid (IMDG) company Hazelcast has joined the Eclipse Foundation - and it has done so for a reason. Hazelcast’s primary focus will be on JCache the Eclipse MicroProfile ...

It’s that ‘wonderful’ time of year, when people all across the land exchange presents, meal invitations and predictions for what the open source landscape might look like in the months ahead ...

In this guest blog post, Naser Ali, head of solutions marketing for EMEA at Hitachi Vantara, explores the use cases and benefits for using cloud bursting in the enterprise. When NASA needed to ...

Congratulations to everyone on Computer Weekly’s 2017 list of the most influential people in UK IT – our task of choosing 50 people becomes harder every year. It’s clear from analysing this year’s ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog written by John Pocknell in his capacity as senior product manager at Quest. Pockell has been with Quest Software since 2000, ...