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Software intelligence Application Performance Management (APM) company Dynatrace held its Perform conference in Las Vegas this week and the Computer Weekly Developer Network team was front and ...
CW Developer Network
Dynatrace extends Kubernetes support, observability goes 'full-stack'
05 Feb 2020Dynatrace used its Perform conference 2020 in Las Vegas this week to announced new enhancements to its support for Kubernetes. The company's explainable AI engine Davis now 'automatically ingests' ...
You can’t take your eyes off Elon Musk for a moment. Such is the rate of Downtime content generated by tech’s OG attention seeker, we once attempted to retire from indulging his antics altogether. ...
Let’s be clear about this… this is a product review, but it’s also a ‘use case’ review. The ViewSonic VX3276-2K-mhd 32" Entertainment Monitor was put under testing scrutiny by the Inspect-a-Gadget ...
As I mentioned in my previous blog post, the time for digital transformation to happen has started to hit crunch time, and then some. I recently reported on an IT event in Central Londinium, an ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Why settle for just one RTO and one RPO?
Freeform Dynamics 03 Feb 2020I think we can all agree that protecting data is important – perhaps even very important. So how come some still find it a daunting challenge to progress from that acknowledgement into tangible ...
Networks Generation
It's Not Just About Brexit, Superbowl And Footie Transfer Deadlines...
Broadband Testing 03 Feb 2020So, the past few days has seen some serious deadlines and finals come and go. And, no, we're not going to talk about the rugby (yet). In the world of IT, the "Brexit" of our industry, AKA "Digital ...
When IT Meets Politics
Broadband/5G Security, Resilience, Competition, Huawei, Ofcom and Brexit
Winsafe Ltd 01 Feb 2020Fast, reliable Internet access is essential for business competitiveness in a post Brexit world. It is also critical to the rest of modern society. If the fixed and mobile networks of BT/EE, ...
Open Source Insider
Open source licence series – Delphix: Rent vs buy, which fits your licencing cost model?
01 Feb 2020Open source grew, it proliferated… and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key means of development… but the issue of how open source software ...
Open Source Insider
Open source licence series – Tidelift: Ethical source-available licenses challenge open source
31 Jan 2020Open source grew, it proliferated… and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key means of development… but the issue of how open source software ...
Open Source Insider
Open source licence series – Puppet: consumption without collaboration equals consternation
31 Jan 2020Open source grew, it proliferated… and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key means of development… but the issue of how open source software ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Technology is losing its battle to be a unifying force
Editor in chief 30 Jan 2020The pioneers of the internet and the web saw themselves as liberators. They believed, passionately, they were creating a better world – one that was open, collaborative, broke down barriers, and ...
BT’s press office has reported some “worrying” findings as part of its Skills for Tomorrow programme, designed to “close the digital skills knowledge gap that exists between parents and children”. ...
The Computer Weekly Developer Network team is attending Appian World 2020, a conference and exhibition designed to showcase Appian’s approach to enterprise low-code software platform application ...
Data Matters
The future of enterprise application consumption: an adoption paradigm shift
Enterprise Applications Editor 29 Jan 2020This is a guest blogpost by Mark Armstrong, GM and GVP EMEA, Rimini Street. In the next 5-10 years I see three business and societal trends that will potentially lead to a radical shift in how we ...
Quiz time: list your top 10 Artificial Intelligence (AI) world hubs? Possible answers: Silicon Valley (obviously), Bangalore & Bengaluru (same place), Shanghai and Shenzen (both big footprints ...
The Logitech MX Keys keyboard is a nice keyboard. It’s actually the nicest keyboard we (the virtual Inspect-a-Gadget) team has used, possibly ever. It should be, it’s not cheap. This unit comes in ...
Data Matters
The Dream Team: why data security, compliance and privacy come hand in hand
Enterprise Applications Editor 28 Jan 2020This is a guest blogpost by Anthony Di Bello, VP Strategic Development, OpenText Today’s business landscape is littered with valuable data. The rapid adoption of digital technologies, means that ...
Advanced analytics company QuantumBlack has released its racily-named CausalNex software product. This is the company’s second open source software development following its previous launch of ...
Open Source Insider
Open source licence series - Rancher Labs: Why vendor ‘strip-mining’ is an opportunity, not a threat
27 Jan 2020Open source grew, it proliferated… and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key means of development... but the issue of how open source software ...
Open Source Insider
Open source licence series - Altus: open source is big business, get used to it
27 Jan 2020Open source grew, it proliferated… and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key means of development... but the issue of how open source software ...
Fintech makes the world go around
Cash will survive beyond demise of plastic cards, says Deutsche Bank
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 24 Jan 2020Forget the end of cash, say goodbye to your platic bank card
We’re moving on from monitoring and management in some spheres of information technology. Where we once had monitoring, alerting, abstraction and system visualisation alongside log analytics and ...
Open Source Insider
Open source licence series - Instaclustr: Is open core a rotten deal?
24 Jan 2020Open source grew, it proliferated… and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key means of development... but the issue of how open source software ...
This is a guest posted by by Marc Caltabiano, vice-president for ANZ at Mulesoft Companies across industries have been gearing up for digital transformation, which has become a buzzword in the tech ...
Open Source Insider
Open source licence series - WhiteSource: permissive is winning, but is there a hurt factor?
23 Jan 2020Open source grew, it proliferated… and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key means of development... but the issue of how open source software ...
Facebook has extended its apologies to China’s president Xi Jinping for erroneously translating his name to “Mr Shithole”. With Slick Nick busy defending his employer’s decision to keep letting ...
Open Source Insider
Open source licence series - Percona: is the battle won, or is this a different war?
22 Jan 2020Open source grew, it proliferated… and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key means of development... but the issue of how open source software ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Davos 2020: Tech sector and the climate change challenge
Managing Editor 21 Jan 2020Last week Microsoft chief, Satya Nadella, made the headlines, with an audacious plan to eradicate the company’s historic carbon footprint, by reversing all its emissions since 1975. As political ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Consent and GDPR: at least get the basics right!
Freeform Dynamics 20 Jan 2020Why do companies find it so hard to get their heads around even the basics of GDPR compliance? I’m not even thinking here of techie stuff like not getting hacked, and not losing a laptop full of ...
Low-code application development company OutSystems has noted a milestone, the firm’s Forge asset portal has hit one million unique component downloads. The Forge offers access to over 2,500 assets ...
Open source grew, it proliferated… and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key means of development... but the issue of how open source software ...
In this guest blog post, Satyam Vaghani VP/GM, IoT & AI, Nutanix discusses the way IT will need to change to support edge computing. The rise of the edge will require a redistribution of the ...
Open source grew, it proliferated… and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key means of development... but the issue of how open source software ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Business AI needs to focus on psychology, not technology
Freeform Dynamics 17 Jan 2020There's no doubt now that AI works, and it can work very well indeed – as a technology, at least. And as one of our recent research projects reported, AI-based machine learning (ML) is increasingly ...
MariaDB Corporation is upping its cloud-native playbook. At the same time, MariaDB is aiming to up its approach to so-called ‘smart’ applications., so before we define the parameters at play here, ...
CW Developer Network
Qualys offers GPS guidance for developers at the application security crossroads
17 Jan 2020All developers care deeply about application [development] security. Okay, that’s perhaps not always strictly true… let’s try again. All developers care deeply about application functionality and ...
The BBC’s Dan Walker has sat down with Boris Johnson to probe him over all manner of hot topics, including the government’s decision to let Huawei build its 5G telecoms infrastructure. Having ...
It may have gone unnoticed with the January 14 end of support deadline for Windows 7, but Microsoft’s 10 year old OS, had one last Patch Tuesday update. And , surprise, surprise, this included a ...
The Computer Weekly Developer Network team is looking for new innovation, always. Away from the well-trodden conference halls of Barcelona, London, San Francisco and Las Vegas, we now have an ...
Open Source Insider
Dynatrace ‘traces’ route to standardised (OpenTelemetry) observability with Google & Microsoft
15 Jan 2020Dynatrace has connected, collaborated, corroborated and cooperated on a new software huddle with Google and Microsoft. The organisation that calls itself a ‘software intelligence company’ is ...
As we have already noted on Computer Weekly Open Source Insider, open source grew, it proliferated… and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key ...
Nelson Petracek, chief technology officer at Tibco says that one of the issues in deploying and managing edge computing devices is how will the device metadata be managed and governed. Such ...
Sometimes it’s the unexpected things that make a user like a technology product or service. You’d expect a £200 (approx) pair of headphones to be better than a £100 pair, but when it comes to ...
Kicking off 2020’s conference season as regular as clockwork is Dynatrace with its Perform event from February 3 to 6 in Las Vegas. The Computer Weekly Developer Network team is once again bound ...
The Computer Weekly Developer Network and Open Source Insider team want to talk code and coding. But more than that, we want to talk about coding across the diversity spectrum… so let’s get the ...
The Internet as we know began with a DARPA three way trial of Voice over IP using a Packet Radio Van to simulate the needs of the military for secure mobile communications. The wheel has come full ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Edge computing could fail, if you only pay attention to the tail
Freeform Dynamics 10 Jan 2020In its obsession with software development, all too often at the expense of other disciplines, the IT industry has let the tail wag the proverbial dog for more than ten years. Now, with the rise of ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Tomer Weingarten is his position as CEO of endpoint security and ‘threat lifecycle’ specialist SentinelOne. Weingarten ...
Eyes on APAC
The rise of 5G, entertainment in cars and increased focus on privacy
TechTarget 10 Jan 2020This is a guest post by Srinivasan CR, chief digital officer, Tata Communications No matter how much technology keeps evolving, making predictions about the future is always a risky business. But ...