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Ahead in the Clouds
The people vs. Amazon: Weighing the risks of its stance on facial recognition and climate change
Senior Editor, UK 28 May 2019Amazon's annual shareholder meeting appears to have highlighted a disconnect between what its staff and senior management think its stance on facial recognition tech and climate change should be. ...
When IT Meets Politics
5/10 for the IfA Digital Apprenticeships Standards Review
Winsafe Ltd 25 May 2019The Statutory Review of the Digital Apprenticeship standards inherited by the Institute for Apprenticeships answers less than half the question. Much of the question (e.g. allowable costs) is ...
Just in case you hadn’t noticed, SAP playing the cloud platform long game. So much so, that the firm has openly agreed that Oracle database instances running on its SAP Cloud Platform is ‘just ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Beware the Application Complexity Monster
Freeform Dynamics 24 May 2019How many new applications, tools, devices, and cloud services have you introduced into your environment over the past few years? Now think about how much you got rid of over that same period, i.e. ...
DataStax closed out the final day of its 'Accelerate 2019' conference by focusing on a selection of platform-level developments including its community development stream. Nate McCall, project ...
The Makers Academy coding bootcamp recently put together a list of 30 women in the software industry to showcase the sector’s female talent. Out of the many women who were put forward for ...
Open Source Insider
DataStax CEO Bosworth : accelerating development on (and in) the cloud
22 May 2019DataStax CEO Billy Bosworth started out as a database administrator (DBA), so one would hope that he knows how to build, compile, manage and deploy in all senses of those terms, right? Bosworth ...
What happens when the Amazon rainforest, globally cherished as the lungs of the planet, asks a company that named itself after it not to enjoy exclusive use of the .amazon domain extension? Where ...
The Computer Weekly Developer Network team is at DataStax Accelerate. DataStax is a provider of a hybrid cloud database built on Apache Cassandra. DataStax has built a set of technologies designed ...
Fintech makes the world go around
Fintechs should get out of London to open their eyes and grow
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 22 May 2019Call for fintechs to stop designing products for themselves and look outside the London bubble.
NoSQL database company Couchbase has moved off the sofa (the firm is no couch potato, get it?) and come forward with new features aligned to allow ‘deployers’ to build (and scale) applications. The ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
How racist bias is embedded in software systems
Managing Editor 20 May 2019The issue of racist bias encoded in software made mainstream news last week, with a report on Channel Four news highlighting how software for profiling criminal suspects, tend to have racial ...
Open source software platform company SuSE has announced SUSE Enterprise Storage 6, a software-defined storage solution powered by Ceph technology. Many would argue that storage on its own is ...
I like the Tech UK response to the Doteveryone report but we also need the 80% of optimists to also join the political party of their choice and work to produce policies that will: Address the ...
So – another year and another Netevents; lots of old faces (not least mine!) and a few new ones. And it’s kind of the same with topics – understandably – as there’s only so much you can talk about ...
Fintech makes the world go around
Brits want their banks to offer the latest fintech services but are not ready to use them
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 16 May 2019London might be one of world’s fintech hubs, but Brits are still wary of new tech for banking
CW Developer Network
Black Girls Code CEO: problem proximity & standing back both crucial for change
15 May 2019Kimberly Bryant is the Founder and CEO of Black Girls Code (BGC), a non-profit organisation dedicated to ‘changing the face of technology’ by introducing girls of colour (her preferred term) ...
Oracle recently came to the dinner table with its Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition, so what it, why is important to developers and does Larry Ellison still have a beard? Built on Java SE, GraalVM ...
When Anna Wintour failed to extend a single Met Gala invite to anyone from Computer Weekly this year, she sent out a clear message to the entire world: tech is out. We were left to only imagine ...
There is no formal acronym to celebrate the coming together of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) -- obviously it would be AIRPA if there was -- but the twining (or ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Growing fast, OpenStack shakes off old misconceptions
Freeform Dynamics 15 May 2019One of the most interesting things about the recent Open Infrastructure Summit – the new name for the OpenStack users and friends conferences – in Denver was how many people wanted to know if I ...
Fintech makes the world go around
Nationwide invests in behavioural AI startup
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 15 May 2019Nationwide invests in a startup developing AI that can work out how it should change the way it communicates with different people.
Low-code software platform company Appian held its Appian World 2019 conference and exhibition under comparatively cloudy skies this week in the Californian city of San Diego. With a large number ...
InCountry is aiming to position its technology as a benefit for developers dealing with the headache of data compliance. The InCountry application uses its own API to store and retrieve records in ...
Back in the day (you remember the seventies and eighties right?), people went to work. Workers would get to the office, make a cup of tea or coffee, talk about football, family, friends and ...
Fintech makes the world go around
Striving to be a good bank at Tandem Bank: Fintech Interview 21
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 10 May 2019Tandem Bank is using the latest technology to help people manage their finances and half a million have already taken up its offer
Amid the repetition of mendacious claims, meaningless mantras and fake news, some Brexit questions are off limits. No wants publicity for answers which reveal what is feallt at stake and for whom.
The hybrid cloud message rang loud and clear at Red Hat Summit 2019, with executives from the open source bigwig touting its wares to help enterprises run their workloads on-premise and on the ...
A demo at this week’s .Next conference in Anaheim gave a snapshot of how far modern VDI has come. Virtual desktops should not be considered just as an option for users who only require low ...
Ahead in the Clouds
Has the UK government's cloud-first policy served its purpose?
Senior Editor, UK 09 May 2019The government has confirmed its long-standing public cloud-first policy is under review, and that it is seeking to launch an alternative procurement framework to G-Cloud. But why? It is hard not ...
Fintech makes the world go around
Fintech Tink gets UK expansion rolling with NatWest deal
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 09 May 2019Swedish fintech Tink gets its UK expansion going with NatWest deal
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Gov.uk Verify is the Theresa May of digital government
Editor in chief 08 May 2019Gov.uk Verify is the Theresa May of digital government. The embattled Prime Minister faces calls to quit from all around – her own Conservative MPs, grassroots Tory activists, the right-wing press ...
Open source software has evolved from providing low-cost alternatives to proprietary offerings to a platform for innovation. Most recent developments in cloud computing and software development, ...
Fintech makes the world go around
Open banking take-up in the Netherlands less than expected because government promoted GDPR so well
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 08 May 2019The Dutch government promoted GDPR so much to the public that take up of open banking has been low
The Full Spectrum
Is BT’s boss about to make his mark with new full-fibre targets?
Security Editor 08 May 2019BT’s new chief executive, Philip Jansen, is to revise Openreach’s targets for its full-fibre broadband network roll-out upwards when he reveals BT’s full-year financial results on Thursday 9 May, ...
For decades, the server operating system (OS) has been an indispensable part of any technology stack, harnessing the power of the underlying hardware infrastructure to run a wide array of business ...
Fintech makes the world go around
Azimo safeguards its EU passporting rights with Dutch licence
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 07 May 2019Azimo makes Dutch office operational with licence and gaurantees itself the right to operate across EU after Brexit
When IBM announced that it was going to acquire open source juggernaut Red Hat for a whopping $34bn last October, several industry analysts weighed in on the merits of the mega deal and who would ...
Theresa May has wielded the axe on her notoriously slapdash defence secretary after deeming him responsible for leaking National Security Council confab about the use of Huawei networking ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Huawei furore leads inevitably to a global polarisation of the tech sector
Editor in chief 02 May 2019The sacking of defence minister Gavin Williamson is another indication of how technology is influencing politics, and vice versa. While his crime was to leak details from a national security ...
Fintech makes the world go around
Banks changing APIs at short notice highlights a failing of open banking standard
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 02 May 2019Why are the high street banks changing APIs so regularly and at such short notice?
Cloud-native machine data analytics platform company Sumo Logic has used its time in the ring at DockerCon 2019 to announce support for Docker Enterprise. The company wants to provide joint ...
Fintech makes the world go around
NatWest owned fintech reaches £50m mark for SME lending
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 01 May 2019NatWest owned SME lending platform Esme Loans has lent more than £50m to UK SMEs over two years. Esme cuts the time it takes to apply for a loan to 10 minutes for SMEs, offering SMEs loans of up to ...
Fintech makes the world go around
Chancellor Hammond regrets uncertainty of the elephant in the room in speech to the fintechs
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 01 May 2019Chancellor of the Exchequer addresses fintechs on day two of Innovate Finance Summit 2019
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Paul Clough in his role as data scientist at UK-headquartered business analytics company Peak Indicators -- Clough is also ...
Cloud data integration and data integrity company Talend has now supported OpenAPI specification (OAS) version 3.0 with its Talend Data Fabric product. As noted here by Swagger, the OpenAPI ...
JNBridgePro is a provider of interoperability tools to connect Java and .NET frameworks... the company’s mission has always been to enable developers to connect anything Java together with anything ...
This is a guest blogpost by David Richards, co-founder and CEO, WANdisco At its recent Cloud Next conference Google rolled out a number of new cloud products, services and packages – all designed ...
In his role co-CEO of big data analytics company Plandek, Charlie Ponsonby guest writes for the Computer Weekly Developer Network to examine how teams can get more out of Agile development ...
Data Matters
Data driven business is about culture, not tools
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 29 Apr 2019This is a guest blog post by Rich Pugh, co-founder and Chief Data Scientist, Mango Solutions Data is the new oil, or so we are told. In some respects, this is true – successful businesses today run ...