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Unlike digital-first organisations, traditional businesses have a wealth of enterprise applications built up over decades, many of which continue to run core business processes. In this series of ...
When IT Meets Politics
100,000 Community and Cyber Police volunteers to help handle the Covid aftermath
Winsafe Ltd 03 Apr 2020The proportion of special constables to full time police has fallen over the past 20 years from 16% in 1996 to 9% in 2019. The trend is distorted by the Metropolitan Police where the proportion ...
Open Source Insider
IT modernisation series – Coralogix: A thoroughly modern two-pronged approach to log analytics
03 Apr 2020Unlike digital-first organisations, traditional businesses have a wealth of enterprise applications built up over decades, many of which continue to run core business processes. In this series of ...
Eyes on APAC
How ‘servitisation’ is shaping the semiconductor industry
Informa TechTarget 02 Apr 2020This is a guest post by Kelvin Lim, chief operating officer of Innovative Global Solutions & Services 2020 was supposed to be the year for rapid transformation in the global semiconductor ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
After Universal Credit delays, GDS's silence over Gov.uk Verify is embarrassing and shameful
Editor in chief 02 Apr 2020In the past couple of weeks, nearly a million people have signed up for Universal Credit as a result of the Covid-19 coronavirus crisis. Never has the UK government’s move to a digital-first world ...
CW Developer Network
TIBCO CTO Petracek: Getting the fuel mix right to feed the AI engine
02 Apr 2020Not all software is equal. Some software is just software i.e. it’s application (apps), components or perhaps even mircoservices. Some software is higher-level software i.e. it’s platform-level ...
Inspect-a-Gadget
Planet Astro Slide, the ‘first’ 5G smartphone will full physical keyboard
02 Apr 2020The Computer Weekly Inspect-a-Gadget team has already played with the Gemini PDA by Planet Computers in a story that provides some level of validation for this ‘invention’, because humans need a ...
Perhaps no more than a decade ago, the notion of ‘smart cities’ probably implied thoughts of which metropolitan areas could be said to have the greatest density of schools, colleges and ...
Data Matters
Moving to the “dark side” – a personal perspective from a former user organisation executive
Enterprise Applications Editor 01 Apr 2020This is a guest blogpost by Ben Schein, from Domo, where he talks, in a very personal mode, about going over to the dark side, from a user organisation to a vendor, and has advice for other ...
CW Developer Network
IT modernisation series – Paperspace: We need a common (ML) dev tool stack
01 Apr 2020Unlike digital-first organisations, traditional businesses have a wealth of enterprise applications built up over decades, many of which continue to run core business processes. In this series of ...
Open Source Insider
Elementor opens free ‘experts’ network for pro web creators during COVID-19
31 Mar 2020WordPress website builder company Elementor has launched a new people-focused offering (i.e. there’s a human element here, we’re not just talking about users) known as Elementor Experts. This ...
This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Danese Cooper, VP of strategic initiatives at NearForm. NearForm is an open source development company specialising in ...
When IT Meets Politics
Tomorrow began last week: Preparing for a Post Covid Lockdown World
Winsafe Ltd 28 Mar 2020There is much to think about while we are in lockdown if we want to live in a relatively free, safe and democratically accountable society afterwards, for however long it takes us to rebuild ...
CW Developer Network
IT modernisation series – Megaport: Why networks should be more like Spotify
27 Mar 2020Unlike digital-first organisations, traditional businesses have a wealth of enterprise applications built up over decades, many of which continue to run core business processes. In this series of ...
Every day, we plug our smartphone into a power charging cable and (if we use Android on a Huawei Mate device, as is the case here) we watch the screen show a graphical representation (as depicted ...
“There’s nothing more unpleasant than watching grown-ups joining in with TikTok.” The words of Downtime less than two months ago. But as the government furthers its restrictions on UK life, the ...
When IT Meets Politics
Is personal privacy more important than combatting Covid-19?
Winsafe Ltd 26 Mar 2020Concerns over personal privacy, of serious concern to the political activists who might be "picked off" by their opponents but not to the majority of the population, have come ahead of enthusiasm ...
CW Developer Network
IT modernisation series – HashiCorp: Unlocking a common cloud operating model
26 Mar 2020Unlike digital-first organisations, traditional businesses have a wealth of enterprise applications built up over decades, many of which continue to run core business processes. In this series of ...
CW Developer Network
IT modernisation series – NetApp: Threading & weaving a holistic data fabric
26 Mar 2020Unlike digital-first organisations, traditional businesses have a wealth of enterprise applications built up over decades, many of which continue to run core business processes. In this series of ...
CW Developer Network
IT modernisation series – Moveworks: Why modernised IT depends on conversational AI
25 Mar 2020Unlike digital-first organisations, traditional businesses have a wealth of enterprise applications built up over decades, many of which continue to run core business processes. In this series of ...
CW Developer Network
IT modernisation series – Cloudhouse: Legacy Windows platforms & the future of functionality
24 Mar 2020Unlike digital-first organisations, traditional businesses have a wealth of enterprise applications built up over decades, many of which continue to run core business processes. In this series of ...
The recent spell of sunny weather, after weeks of torrential rain, brought the masses out. A lovely Spring weekend. If only so. As television and online images revealed, “It was like a bank ...
Java runtime solutions company Azul Systems has announced the general availability of its Zulu release of OpenJDK 14 builds. The builds are compliant with the Java SE 14 standard. The company ...
When IT Meets Politics
When On-line Education and Training meet the Covid-19 Lockdown
Winsafe Ltd 22 Mar 2020The most comprehensive and authoritative source of information on changes to the availability of educational materials for those of school age is the corona virus page of the London Grid for Learning
CW Developer Network
IT modernisation series – LzLabs: Making mainframe apps 'cloud-native'
20 Mar 2020Unlike digital-first organisations, traditional businesses have a wealth of enterprise applications built up over decades, many of which continue to run core business processes. In this series of ...
In the midst of the ongoing Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak, technology vendors all over the world have been touting their wares to help individuals, businesses and medical workers tide over this ...
CW Developer Network
IT modernisation series – MuleSoft: Plugging loosely into an API-driven future
19 Mar 2020Unlike digital-first organisations, traditional businesses have a wealth of enterprise applications built up over decades, many of which continue to run core business processes. In this series of ...
CW Developer Network
IT modernisation series – Rubrik: versioning as part of the modern API lifecycle
19 Mar 2020Unlike digital-first organisations, traditional businesses have a wealth of enterprise applications built up over decades, many of which continue to run core business processes. In this series of ...
Social distancing is a bit of a busman’s holiday for Downtime, but just to be safe, we’ve alienated everyone we know. We haven’t really known what to do with ourselves since being advised to stay ...
Low-code software company OutSystems has announced a community-based app development programme to help combat the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak and its effects digitally. The company is offering ...
Ahead in the Clouds
Devs and cloud infrastructure management: Weighing up the pros and cons
Senior Editor, UK 17 Mar 2020In this guest post, Rob Greenwood, technical director at Manchester-based cloud consultancy, Steamhaus, sets out why developers might not be best-placed to run your company’s cloud. Just because ...
Unlike digital-first organisations, traditional businesses have a wealth of enterprise applications built up over decades, many of which continue to run core business processes. In this series of ...
As major cities around Europe enter the lockdown phase of the Covid-19 pandemic, people will increasingly rely on online services to stay in touch and to order groceries and other essentials. On ...
CW Developer Network
IT modernisation series – Confluent: Event streaming moves monoliths to microservices
16 Mar 2020Unlike digital-first organisations, traditional businesses have a wealth of enterprise applications built up over decades, many of which continue to run core business processes. In this series of ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Is your perspective on outsourcing cloudy or clear?
Freeform Dynamics 13 Mar 2020"Wasn't cloud just another name for outsourcing back then?" joked another guest in a recent briefing, as our host explained just how long ago he’d joined his company’s cloud division. We all ...
CW Developer Network
IT modernisation series – Sumo Logic: cultural process shifts should precede platform lifts
13 Mar 2020Unlike digital-first organisations, traditional businesses have a wealth of enterprise applications built up over decades, many of which continue to run core business processes. In this series of ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Budget 2020: Thanks for the cash, but there are bigger problems to solve first to boost UK tech
Editor in chief 13 Mar 2020Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s first Budget was a step towards making good on the new government’s promise to be “unashamedly” pro-technology. Offering £22bn in annual funding for research and ...
Eyes on APAC
AI and machine learning is not the future, it's the present
Informa TechTarget 12 Mar 2020This is a guest post by Raju Vegesna, chief evangelist at Zoho For many, artificial intelligence (AI) is a distant and incomprehensible concept associated only with science fiction movies or ...
Open Source Insider
OpenUK schools competition uses MiniMU Glove, Red Hat also lends a hand
11 Mar 2020OpenUK, the open technology advocate organisation for open data, open source hardware and open source software in Britain, today announced a new competition for children at what is known as age ...
The Advertising Standards Authority has scorned Spotify for letting an It Chapter Two advert crop up in a classical lullaby playlist. Restful tots kicking back to Erik Satie would have been ...
Most years, the Computer Weekly Developer Network team looks forward to attending Appian World 2020, a conference and exhibition designed to showcase Appian’s approach to enterprise low-code ...
Low code heavyweight Appian has augmented its core platform with an amalgamated (i.e. integrated) automation offering focused on Robotic Process Automation (RPA). The ingeniously named Appian RPA ...
Quocirca’s Cloud Print Services 2020 report reveals the opportunities for managed print service (MPS) providers and their customers in transitioning to a cloud-based print infrastructure. The ...
Ahead in the Clouds
IR35 private sector reforms: Examining the infrastructure challenges it poses to umbrellas
Senior Editor, UK 06 Mar 2020In this guest post, John Whelan, CEO of cloud-based accountancy software provider My Digital Accounts, sets out why umbrella companies should be seizing on the incoming IR35 reforms in the private ...
Jack Dorsey faces a battle to remain Twitter CEO, as the ruthless activist fund that just bought a 4% stake in the company continues to push hard to get rid of him. Elliott Management, headed by ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Cabinet Office gives more non-answers on the future of Gov.uk Verify
Editor in chief 04 Mar 2020The remarkable levels of secrecy and avoidance of scrutiny around the Gov.uk Verify digital identity scheme continue – and if anything, seem to have reached new levels of absurdity. Last week, ...
When IT Meets Politics
An effective UK response to Covid 19 will require over-ruling current Ofcom policy
Winsafe Ltd 03 Mar 2020The effect of corporate and individual responses to the Covid-19 problem is to expedite changes in demand that make a nonsense of Ofcom's recent market reviews. They also overtake most of the ...
As more cases of the coronavirus are found in the UK, businesses are going to have to face the very real prospect that encouraging people to go into the office, raises the risk of the virus ...
CW Developer Network
IT modernisation series - WhereScape: Automation pushes IT beyond a ‘10-year view’
03 Mar 2020Unlike digital-first organisations, traditional businesses have a wealth of enterprise applications built up over decades, many of which continue to run core business processes. In this series of ...
CW Developer Network
IT modernisation series - Unisys: cloud barometer interdependencies
03 Mar 2020Unlike digital-first organisations, traditional businesses have a wealth of enterprise applications built up over decades, many of which continue to run core business processes. In this series of ...