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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 ...
Based in London, Planet Computers is the mobile handset manufacturer behind the Gemini PDA and the new Cosmo Communicator. Computer Weekly reviewed the very delightful Gemini PDA device here and ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Would you still consider the UK an attractive destination for global tech talent?
Editor in chief 28 Feb 2020Imagine you’re a skilled, ambitious IT professional living outside the UK and you want to maximise your earning potential and your exposure to the latest technology. You’re assessing where in the ...
UPDATE: Since this post was first written, SUSE has canceled the SUSECON 2020 due to the Coronavirus Covid-19 outbreak -- we will aim to report on whatever virtual resrouces are made available in ...
Eyes on APAC
Australia kicks off public consultation on 5G spectrum allocation
Informa TechTarget 27 Feb 2020Earlier this week, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) called for feedback on potential competition issues associated with an upcoming allocation for the 26GHz spectrum which ...
CW Developer Network
IT modernisation series - Appvia: how to (safely) get databases to the cloud
27 Feb 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 ...
Ahead in the Clouds
How lack of discipline can kill cloud efficiency and ROI
Senior Editor, UK 26 Feb 2020In this guest post, Dale Vile, CEO and research director at IT market watcher Freeform Dynamics, tells CIOs not to be afraid to change the course of their cloud plans as their IT and business needs ...
IR35 has claimed its first big name, after Eamonn Holmes failed to convince the courts he’s a freelancer in his case against HMRC. For the humble freelancer, the introduction of the kaleidoscopic ...
This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Andrew C. Oliver. Oliver is a former OSI board member, co-founder of Apache POI and present director of product marketing and ...
The finalists for the 2020 FDM everywoman in Technology Awards have been announced prior to the awards ceremony and everywoman Tech Forum in March 2020. Every year the woman’s network, everywoman, ...
Anchore is on the up. The container workflow, analysis and security company has a foundation in open source and is now being backed by funding led by tech venture capital firm SignalFire. But we ...
This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Ali Ghodsi in his capacity as co-founder and CEO at data science, big data processing and machine learning company ...
Ricky Gervais often compares social media abuse to a “tramp” shouting at you from a bin. The only problem with that is, when you lift the tin lid on that swirling vortex of cyber vitriol, rising ...
Some of your data is on your device/machine. Some of your data is in a datacentre… gently being drip-fed to you depending upon which application/cloud/web service you are using. Some of your data ...
The Linux Foundation’s Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) is a project designed to support best practices with a key eye on the security of critical open source software projects. The CII team ...
Eyes on APAC
Veeam readies Availability Suite V10, offers universal licensing
Informa TechTarget 18 Feb 2020Veeam has taken the wraps off the latest iteration of its software to speed up backup and recovery, along with other features to help enterprises better manage their data in a hybrid cloud ...
Joe Drumgoole is deep in thought. MongoDB’s director of developer relations has just opened a piece of internal research that suggests as few as 29% of Europe’s developers take full responsibility ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Question value after conferences shutdown due to coronavirus risk
Managing Editor 17 Feb 2020The tech industry loves big tech events and for the host cities, these huge events represent a massive boost to the local economy. Thousands upon thousands of customers, sales people, and industry ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Want to hear the latest on Gov.uk Verify? Sorry, GDS still has nothing to say
Editor in chief 14 Feb 2020The great and the good of the digital identity sector gathered in London yesterday (13 February) for the Think Digital Identity for Government conference – a popular bi-annual event that always ...
GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Lucy Taylor, data analyst at Nominet, talks about her career path and how she moved from dancing to data analytics, whilst giving advice to other women ...
In what must be one of the most inappropriate gestures in the history of human life, adult website CamSoda has offered free webcam sessions to the 3,600-plus passengers currently quarantined aboard ...
Some events start with training workshops, some start with partner days, others use fancy terms for extra-curricular activities like 'unconference' (often held at the end), while others still ...
The first ‘wearable’ technology innovation is argued to have arrived sometime around the 13th century with the development of the first eyeglasses. In between that time and now we’ve had hearing ...
Earlier this week, SAP acknowledged that many of its customers are going to take far longer to move to S/4Hana, its next generation ERP system. For over 20 years, Computer Weekly has looked at the ...
GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Evgeny Shadchnev, co-founder and CEO of Makers, explains why lists like the UK Women in Software list are important for the future of digital I am ...
This is a guest post by Zhang Dixuan, Atlas datacentre domain general manager at Huawei’s intelligent computing business department The quest for knowledge has driven us to discover the highest ...
Dynatrace used its annual Perform conference to detail the expansion of its digital experience management capabilities. This includes advanced analytics (and segmentation) of mobile app user ...
Open Source Insider
Open source licence series - Cockroach Labs: Scaling a sustainable open source business model
06 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 ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
The cloud deal question that follows on from an Oracle audit
Managing Editor 06 Feb 2020On 17 December 2019, the US District Court, Northern District of California, San Jose Division, dismissed the 2018 class action case brought by the City of Sunrise Firefighters’ Pension Fund ...
Open Source Insider
Open source licence series - OpenStack Foundation: Protecting open source freedoms
05 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 ...
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 ...