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Discussing the intersection between politics and the information society.

Computer Weekly's editor gives a personal perspective on the biggest issues in technology and IT strategy.

Taking a look at the lighter side of IT - technology may be a serious business but it rarely fails to raise a smile too.

Analysis of the latest trends in cloud and datacentre technology.

Exploring the challenges involved in large-scale IT projects in the public sector.

A place for women in IT - opinion and debate on how to bring more women into the technology sector.

The software developer community's commitment to poor posture has been laid bare in a blog, showcasing the wide variety of inventive ways coders have found to punish their spines over the course of ...

Operational in-memory computing company Hazelcast -- known for its open source In-Memory Data Grid (IMDG) -- has shared its community growth numbers from the Github repository.

An insider's view on the issues, trends and controversies around outsourcing and IT services.

As a football fan, one of my primary experiences of European antitrust law comes through watching the English Premier League on TV.Once upon a time, I paid Sky Sports for a subscription and saw any ...

We look at the latest technology gadgets and consumer tech toys and what they can offer to business IT.

Tips, opinion and advice on data storage strategy.

Discussing the latest news and views about networking, telecoms and broadband.

Debate and discussion around data management, analytics, BI and information governance.

Information security expert David Lacey discussed the latest ideas, best practices, and business issues associated with managing security.

IT training and skills advice to empower the digital economy.

An in-depth look at the latest trends and technologies in enterprise networking.

Pushing further... Hootsuite has announced video integrations with YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

The Computer Weekly editorial team give their take on the latest technology news.

Discussing the IT strategy and management issues facing CIOs, CTOs and CDOs.

Putting green IT, sustainability and lean thinking into a business context.

The data and statistics that help to understand modern technology trends.

Discussing the trends, technologies and corporate strategies for social media.

Examining how to build Enterprise 2.0 with social software.

Tackling the IT issues facing small and medium-sized enterprises.

Dealing with the operational challenges of information security and risk management.

Building the broadband economy - the economic, business and infrastructure challenges for a digital Britain.

Former Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude used to call Liam Maxwell "the man who checks the homework". First as an advisor to Maude, then as government CTO, Maxwell was responsible for making ...

In this contributed blog post, Katie Gallagher, managing director at the North West's digital trade association Manchester Digital, discusses the use of collaboration in narrowing the skills gap. ...

Ed Vaizey's robust comments to the Select Committee on the failure of the Advertising Standards Authority to take action against adverts based on a quality of service received by under 20% of ...

First there was Artificial Intelligence (AI), then came machine learning... neural networks and finally cognitive computing technology.

This is a guest blog post by Martin Willcox, director of big data, Teradata Today's increasingly crowded and competitive business environment has led to an explosion in the popularity of real-time ...

A look at the latest trends in IT security from the experts at Bloor Security.

Ian White and Michael Pincher discuss the latest trends and technologies in collaboration software.

GENBAND was founded in 1999 as 'General Bandwidth' -- the firm itself is a specialist in IP-based real time communications software for fixed wireline, mobile and cable service providers and large ...

After four years of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) spending taxpayers' money on legal fees to prevent the release of key Universal Credit documents, the only surprise revealed by their ...

Microsoft doesn't let a week (sometimes not much more than a day) go by without pushing some new code morsels down the feeding pipe.

The UK government culture secretary John Whittingdale - the minister in charge of overseeing the British media industry - has been in embroiled in allegations this week after reports suggested that ...

Student Ellie Tisdell reviews the Bigshot Do-It-Yourself Camera, with mixed results... The Bigshot "Do-It-Yourself" Camera claims to be an interactive and creative educational task, but after ...

In this contributed blog post, HR consultant for Equality Pays Michelle Gyimah discusses the lack of women in Manchester-based businesses. Back in February 2016 I attended the Manchester Digital ...

Open source data analytics player Pentaho has upped its metadata injection feature set.

The firm's Distil API Security service is designed to protect vulnerable Application Programming Interface (API) endpoints from malicious traffic.

SanDisk has upgraded its InfiniFlash big data boxes with the addition of the IF150. The new box takes advantage of the SAS (Serial-attached SCSI) 3.0 protocol that was launched last summer and ...

Box World Tour: a content platform for a modern IT stack

Automation-centric open source configuration management tool company Puppet Labs is integrating with Atlassian HipChat.

Ransomware is designed to be scare you into parting with money to avoid losing your data; there is no reason that either should happen. Traditional anti-virus and cloud storage services such as ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog written by Wayne Citrin in his role as CTO of JNBridge.

Between 1811 and 1813, English textile workers and weavers conducted a campaign of protests, sabotage and occasional rioting against the spread of new technology that threatened their livelihoods ...

This is a guest blogpost by Jarred McGinnis, UK managing consultant of Ontotext, which explores the interdependency of business intelligence and enterprise-strength semantic search. Business ...

Storage performance monitoring tool supplier Virtual Instruments and storage testing tool maker Load Dynamix had worked together on the same enterprise accounts - and in roughly similar but ...

There's new harmony across the tech ether this week as IBM and SAP cast off their normal "no, our database is better" T-shirts and partner up on what they like to call co-innovation solutions.

The United States White House and the federal government have already been widely reported to have adopted a degree of open source software, tools and platforms -- but this trend is now officially ...

As a newly formed operational entity, Anchore Inc. has announced the formation of the company itself and (in literally the same mouthful) the firm has launched its beta program for users working ...

There are computing platforms for hosting applications and building custom extension applications, additional functionality libraries and cross-platform compatibility plug-ins in the normal ...

This is a guest blogpost by Alex Bordei, head of product management, Bigstep In today's fast-paced business landscape, experimentation is key when it comes to innovation and gaining and maintaining ...

SmartBear's new developer focused test automation tool is called TestLeft.

MariaDB ColumnStore is Open Source GPL2, a fork based on InfiniDB and open source community contributions.

This is a guest blogpost by George Mathew, president & COO, Alteryx In recent years, we've seen a trend line for data volumes and velocity to go up, and to the right. This continued growth has ...

it is unclear whether the best approach is to agree to something (but what?) or to agree to do nothing - and allow market forces to work their magic, now that we have a regulator who appears to ...

Xamarin is a 'offshoot sprout' of the Mono cross-platform software programming tools project, developers can use Xamarin to write native iOS, Android and Microsoft Windows apps with native user ...

Microsoft used its Build 2016 developer conference this week to roll out new free development tools to help programmers scale their apps for all platforms. Steve Guggenheimer, corporate vice ...

Customer service platform company Zendesk Inc. has now launched the first customer support solution designed for Microsoft Office 365 Groups for conversations within an organisation designed to ...

If you thought that Microsoft Office was a piece of software, a productivity 'suite' featuring a word processor with a spreadsheet and more... then you're still right, this is what Microsoft Office ...

Red Hat has announced the availability of a no-cost Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) subscription, available as part of the Red Hat Developer Program.

This week sees the Microsoft Build 2016 developer convention and symposium staged in San Francisco.

Exec 'veep' for Microsoft's 'Windows and Devices' Group Terry Myerson used his time at the firm's //Build 2016 conference to detail the forthcoming Windows 10 Anniversary update.

In this contributed blog post, Andrew Lawson, UK and Ireland managing director for Salesforce, discusses the business benefits of gender equality I've recently pledged my support for the United ...

Almost the only certainty is that Bazalgette was right but we do not have the equivalent of the Great Stink to concentrate the mind of Parliament. In consequence the future will belong to those ...

Buidl 2016 kicks off with a [email protected] Reception and the first morning's keynotes will be delivered by CEO Satya Nadella, Terry Myerson who is is executive vice president of the Windows and ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is going to take over the world, steal all our jobs and ultimately subjugate us all - or so we are told.We've seen IBM's AI system, Watson, beat humans on the US game ...

Tel-Aviv based development shop Typemock has polished up its automated unit testing solutions.

As we all know, the Government Digital Service (GDS) was awarded £450m by George Osborne in his Autumn Statement last year. A business plan detailing how that money will be spent was due to be ...

Organisations looking to benefit from the IoT opportunity need to think a bit differently about what they are doing

Tableau Software this month comes forward with the 9.3 version iteration of its core product.

EMC's Enterprise Content Division (ECD) has announced enhancements to its developer programme by making a new body of open source code accessible to users on GitHub.

It is often the case that what should be a simple case of agreeing what was said turns into a nasty argument due to a lack of real proof of what was communicated. A surprisingly easy means of ...

Analytics and event processing firm TIBCO and application development methodology polyglot Pivotal have snuggled up this month in a bid to offer a 'cloud native' platform for digital business.

Hence the need for the Digital Policy Alliance exercise to look at the communications infrastructure needs of a "smart society" so that those who are "only going to do this once" can install ...

After the recent news analysis surfacing in relation to Jive Software and its Jive World 2016 conference and exhibition, the Computer Weekly Developer Network blog fills in the missing blanks in ...

The use of public cloud services is not just a risk that needs to be managed but can also do a lot a reduce an organisation's overall IT risk

Amid all the political fallout and the carnage within the Conservative Party since the shock resignation of work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith last week, many observers have started ...

The lack of flexibility of existing data centres is beginning to consign them to the heap of modern dinosaurs. Just what can be done as an owned data centre facility has to continually morph and ...

Apache PDFBox allows for the creation of new PDF documents, manipulation, rendering, signing of existing documents and the ability to extract content from documents.

This bylined article by Eileen O'Mara, senior VP sales EMEA at Salesforce, explains why 2016 may be the year for women in tech. The theme of this year's International Women's Day - Pledge for ...

The decision to allow people on the internet to have their say in anything has backfired again, this time on the Natural Environment Research Council

Much has been made recently of large scale (previously proprietary) firms adopting new uber open stances and suddenly getting the open source religion.

Kony: any-user low-code tools for 'instant' native app prototypes

Amazon Web Services (AWS) celebrated its 10th anniversary on 14 March, having devoted the past decade to popularising the cloud computing concept and - in turn - shaking up the IT industry. To mark ...

The mainframe is dead. Except it isn't - it still runs mission critical workloads the world over, and you will touch a mainframe application pretty much every day. A new approach of running ...

Someone has finally found a use for London's ubiquitous pigeon population that involves fitting their fat, feathery bodies with tiny air pollution-detecting backpacks. The bird-brained scheme has ...

This is a guest blogpost by James Richardson, Business Analytics Strategist, QlikWhen we design a Qlik app, does its aesthetic quality influence how much credence people give to the analysis it ...

While central government is increasingly moving away from outsourcing deals with single suppliers with a clear view of creating agile services that respond to the changing needs of both government ...

Embracing the digital workplaceAn information managed service (IMS) is emerging as a key approach to enable digital transformation. Such providers are building on their traditional print heritage ...

Black Duck's open source 'rookies of the year' 2015

This is a guest blogpost by Martin Willcox, director, Big Data (International) at TeradataWhile it's not particularly breaking news - unless you've recently emerged from some isolated cave - the ...

Jive Software has showcased a number of its application implementation successes to validate the use full-blown use of collaboration software in the healthcare industry.

The deal with the council estates also needs to be seen as one of a set of complementary initiatives to put Salford at the heart of developing, applying and exploiting smart technologies: including ...

Submissions should address matters contained within the Bill and concentrate on issues where you have a special interest or expertise, and factual information of which you would like the Committee ...

This week I have to host a panel debate on "stress testing cloud applications and infrastructure" at Netevents in Rome (I know - it's tough, but someone's got to do it...). One of the areas to ...

DataStax has run a survey with developers worldwide -- of 273 responses, only eight per cent of those surveyed thought that there were enough skilled people available to meet demand from companies ...