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Rubrik Build open source cloud data management for 'any' contributor
19 Feb 2019Rubrik has announced Rubrik Build, a new open source community built around the organisation’s own cloud data management platform. The community created is said to be 100% public and 100% open ...
The Internet of Things (IoT) isn't perfect, we know this much to be true. Inside the IT industry (if not outside, as well) we know that the IoT just kind of 'happened' and that the levels of ...
Fintech makes the world go around
Forget all the fancy stuff and apply AI to paying invoices, says Previse: Fintech interview part 15
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 18 Feb 2019While self driving cars and robotic co-workers take the limelight businesses can benefit from the seemingly more mundane application of machine learning
When IT Meets Politics
Fit for whose purpose? Submit your views on the Initial National Cybersecurity Skills Strategy
Winsafe Ltd 18 Feb 2019The meeting illustrated the difficulty of the task the DCMS team will have reconciling the need of MoD and GCHQ for patriotic cyberwarriors and the need of the rest of us for the skills to protect ...
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Fintech reveals that Brexit induced fall in pound’s value hits migrant workers in UK
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 15 Feb 2019Cross border payments Fintech identifies migrant workers in UK losing out because of falling pound
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
NHS takes a small digital step into the 21st century - with bigger ones to come
Editor in chief 15 Feb 2019Here is our quote of the week: “We spend £8m a year on paper. We spend £2m a year on envelopes. We can save lives, save staff time and cut costs by using an extraordinary piece of technology that ...
As all self-respecting geeks now, it’s important to bow to your sensei. When it comes to open source cloud-native user-centric monitoring, it may soon be important to bow to your Sensu. Sensu Go is ...
Tech gossip doesn’t get steamier than the richest person in the world, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, being blackmailed with his own dick pics by The National Enquirer. But why would he mind who has to ...
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HSBC to turn off mobile app after it finds life in open banking features
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 13 Feb 2019HSBC's exploration of open banking functionality with fintech Bud has identified what customers want
The term “digital” is only referenced twice, in the 87 minutes of GE’s Q4 2018 earnings call that took place at the end of January. In a transcript of the call, posted on the Seeking Alpha ...
IBM used its Think 2019 conference this month to announce Code and Response, a $25 million, four-year initiative to put open source technologies developed as part of coding challenges in the ...
Networks Generation
Scoop! Symantec Acquisition Makes Sense Of Software Defined Perimeter Security...
Broadband Testing 12 Feb 2019OK - so that's probably not the perfect headline to be announced by anyone who whistles through their teeth... Been having some interesting conversations recently around the idea of zero trust ...
Fintech makes the world go around
Lloyds Bank outage just the latest of a recurring trend as complexity grows
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 12 Feb 2019Lloyds Bank IT outage he latest to hit UK consumers as banking systems wobble under pressure
GUEST BLOG: In this contributed post, Patricia DuChene, GM EMEA and VP of Sales at Wrike, discusses the fine line between diversity and inclusion, as well as lessons she's learnt during her career ...
Fintech makes the world go around
Positive discrimination needed to remedy shocking under-investment in fintechs founded by women
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 12 Feb 2019Positive discrimination if the lack of investment in fintechs founded by women is to become a thing of the past
Furnace is a free and open source platform for the creation of streaming data (you may prefer to say data streaming) applications. Launched by the warmly named Furnace Ignite Ltd, Furnace itself ...
In the run-up to Valentine's Day, toothpaste brand Closeup has teamed up with MullenLowe, a Singapore creative agency, to discover if love can overcome all boundaries (even firewalls), with a ...
Senior director of platform strategy at ‘mass customisation’ specialist company Cimpress is Eugene Hsu. Hsu argues the point that modern software architectures have changed the nature of the build ...
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Challenger bank Monzo applying agile development techniques to business banking product
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 11 Feb 2019Monzo is testing out a business banking proposition with 1000 customers as it plans to be an SME finance management hub
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Nathan Wright in his role as SwaggerHub product marketing manager and API evangelist at SmartBear. SmartBear Software is ...
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Makers launches nominations for inaugural Women in Software Power List
Business Editor 11 Feb 2019Software developer bootcamp Makers has launched its first annual Women in Software Power List, nominations for which are now open. In partnership with Level39, the Women in Software Power List is ...
Fintech makes the world go around
Consequences of failure at banks means they can’t mimic Google too closely
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 08 Feb 2019Banks are under pressure to transform digitally but is it fair to set Google as the destination?
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
IT misaligned with business' appetite for data
Managing Editor 08 Feb 2019A recent pop event at Lloyds Bank in London hosted by DominoData has highlighted one of the age-old ailments of IT. It is the illness of being misaligned with the business. The latest example of ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Of course there's technology for the Irish border - that doesn't mean it will work
Editor in chief 07 Feb 2019It’s understandable that people express cynicism when a politician – particularly one with a clear ideological bent – proclaims that “digital” or “technology” can solve the core Brexit issue of the ...
Fintech makes the world go around
Finastra business expands with fintech disruption: Fintech interview part 14
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 07 Feb 2019Finastra is an IT supplier build on very old foundations but fintech disruption has forced it to extend beyond them
Data analytics firm MapR Technologies has sealed the cellophane on the MapR Ecosystem Pack (MEP) at its 6.1 version iteration. The toolpack is meant to give developers (and data scientists, unless ...
For years now, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has been hounded to add a feature that allows users to amend their typo-laden tweets, but do we really need more ways to take the platform so seriously? Take ...
Oh yes, AIOps… hadn’t you heard? That’s Ops (as in Ops, operations… as recently ‘shown some love’ by DevOps) driven by Artificial Intelligence (AI) in a world where many of the core operational ...
The finalists for the 2019 FDM everywoman in Technology Awards have been announced prior to the awards ceremony in March 2019 Judges have decided on the finalists for the 2019 FDM everywoman in ...
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InstaReM, from ruined bachelor party to global business: Fintech Interview part 13
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 06 Feb 2019Money transfer company InstaRem is an example of something worth remembering after a Bachelor party
Enterprises are still exploring use cases to augment their business models with Artificial intelligence (AI)... this is a market that is very much still-nascent. Magical analyst house Gartner has ...
The pace of change in the skills in demand (as machine intelligence, now called AI, matures) is matched only by the pace of change in educational technology (using machine intelligence to transform ...
NanoVMs has announced the first unikernel tool for developers that loads any Linux application as a unikernel. But hang on… what is a unikernel? The company says that unikernels are unique single ...
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Could Atom bank’s deal with Thought Machine be a stepping stone for legacy replacement at BBVA?
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 05 Feb 2019Could BBVA follow Lloyds Banking Group onto the Google inspired banking platform from Thought Machine
This is a contributed post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Ranga Rajagopalan is his capacity as CTO and co-founder of Avi Networks. Avi Networks is known for its Intelligent ...
The Computer Weekly Developer Network sat down with Mike Duensing, CTO at Skuid to discuss the state of the developer nation in microservices. Skuid (pronounced squid) is a low-code cloud-based UX ...
BT has announced plans to train another 3,000 apprentices on top of 3,500 engineers, including apprentices, hired last year. The announcement included an update on BT’s plans for new and upgraded ...
GUEST BLOG: In this contributed post, Clare Young, head of delivery at dxw digital discusses how tech careers are portrayed and what the industry needs to do to attract more women into tech. ...
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The women in tech debate: are we still in the era of unconscious gender bias?
Business Editor 01 Feb 2019GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Dr Joanne Phoenix, interim executive director at Sensor City asks how far we've really come in eliminating gender bias In recent years, we have seen a ...
Malaysia has become the latest country to look into the security concerns surrounding Huawei, which has been accused by mostly western powers of conducting corporate espionage and potentially ...
Gay dating app Scruff has had to ban pictures of users in their underwear because Google Play kept suspending it. This is welcome news for those of us who eat pizza every single day and can’t be ...
Andi Grabner works as the DevOps Activist (real job title, not joking) for software intelligence company Dynatrace. Activist eh? Why’s that Andi? “Because I want to activate people into becoming ...
Nginx is the company that likes to be called NGINX, except it’s not… because it’s not an acronym, it’s supposed to say “engine-X”, which is a cool snazzy name, right? Actually, Nginx would only ...
This is a guest post written for the Computer Weekly Developer Network by Eran Kinsbruner in his role as chief evangelist for Perfecto. Acquired by Clearlake Capital-backed Perforce in October ...
You know Cisco, that networking company that makes hardware for deep internal systems and spends all its time developing switches, routers, hubs and token ring adapters and suchlike, right? No, ...
In the world of technology, there’s open source, but it is often open source served up in a somewhat limited or restricted format under an essentially proprietary overhang that leads quite quickly ...
Open source process automation, content management and information governance software company Alfresco has hit the version 3.0 iteration for it ADF 3.0 (Application Development Framework). Company ...
Software applications need management, monitoring, testing and continual levels of deep tissue massage to ensure they run as intended and deliver to the user requirements for which they were ...
Fintech makes the world go around
What the fintechs think about open banking’s progress? Part 2 Fluidly
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 29 Jan 2019What do fintechs think of the first year of Open Banking and what do they expect over the next 12 months?
Networks Generation
How To Save IT From Drowning In Its Own Self-Containerised World (and other stories)
Broadband Testing 29 Jan 2019Anyone out there right now could be more than excused for thinking we're drowning in security start-ups; too many "me too" vendors trying to resolve the same perceived problems - niche or broad. ...