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CW Developer Network
CI/CD series - Veracode: up the code pipeline without going down the rabbit hole
31 Oct 2019This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network in our Continuous Integration (CI) & Continuous Delivery (CD) series. This contribution is written by Paul Farrington in his ...
Fintech makes the world go around
TrueLayer set to expand its services through Visa network
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 31 Oct 2019Open banking specialist fintech will offer its APIs through payments giant Visa
CW Developer Network
CI/CD series - GitLab: everyone deserves to deploy at high velocity
31 Oct 2019This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network in our Continuous Integration (CI) & Continuous Delivery (CD) series. This contribution is written by Jason Lenny, director of ...
The world of entertainment has come down on Netflix like a ton of bricks for trialling a feature that allows content to be watched at different speeds. We don’t know. Is this really such a big ...
StorageBuzz
Cloudian sees S3 interest and object storage going mainstream
Storage Editor 30 Oct 2019Object storage, based on Amazon’s S3 – pretty much a de facto standard now – is set to go mainstream. That’s the view of Cloudian’s co-founder and CEO Michael Tso. He says it’ll be, “The next NFS”, ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network in our Continuous Integration (CI) & Continuous Delivery (CD) series. This contribution is written by Ido Benmoshe, VP of product ...
This is a guest blogpost by Neo4j’s Amy Hodler. Imagine the possibilities when AI can handle ambiguity, she says. Business and governments are turning to Artificial Intelligence (AI) to automate ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Francis Carden is his capacity as vice president for digital automation and robotics at Pegasystems -- the company is known ...
Product Director for Nice advanced process automation solutions Itay Reiner spoke to the Computer Weekly Developer Network to discuss how Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is used to aid Enterprise ...
CW Developer Network
CI/CD series - Tibco: Continuous self-service intelligence with Kafka DataOps
29 Oct 2019This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network in our Continuous Integration (CI) & Continuous Delivery (CD) series. This contribution is written by Mark Palmer in his capacity ...
Can a corporate piece of software change the culture of an organisation. It happened in 1983 when Mitch Kapor developed Lotus 1-2-3 for the IBM PC, the PC’s first killer application. Aldus ...
Tibco is focused on open source and Agile this month. The integration and analytics specialist has upped the toolset in a group of its products with a key focus on Agile agility for cloud-native ...
The Computer Weekly Developer Network team engulfed itself in process intelligence at Abbyy Content IQ this season at a session delivered by Ryan Raiker, senior product marketing manager and Alex ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
IT employers must recognise benefits of flexible workforce and not hit contractors over IR35 reforms
Editor in chief 25 Oct 2019For any IT professional who has managed to make a living as a contractor for the past 20 years, the acronym IR35 must be like a crucifix held up to a vampire. The tax reforms were considered ...
At any large-scale event, whether it’s an independence day parade or a Coldplay concert, chances are you’ll see security personnel using push-to-talk devices or walkie-talkies to coordinate with ...
CW Developer Network
Big Lemon: How developers are helping change student energy consumption
24 Oct 2019This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer network written by Owen Richards, co-founder and head developer of Big Lemon. Big Lemon is a software development agency based in South Wales. ...
Abbyy (or ABBYY if you follow the firm's corporate brand guidelines) kicked of its Content IQ Summit in Nashville, Tennesse this week and the Computer Weekly Developer Network team were there to ...
Liverpool may be flying high at the top of the Premier League table right now, but when they get home after a hard-fought 90 minutes, their fans are the most likely to have had their personal data ...
DataStax offers a commercially supported ‘enterprise-robust’ database built on open source Apache Cassandra. As such, DataStax has told Computer Weekly Open Source Insider that it is actively ...
What’s not to love about log file management and trace analytics? Nothing apparently. Splunk managed to attract what was claimed to be somewhere over 11,000 attendees to Las Vegas for its .conf ...
Splunk has built new functions into its Security Operations Suite to modernize and unify its Security Operations Center (SOC) product. Anchored by the newly launched Splunk Mission Control, the ...
Software used to shut down. Users would boot up applications and wrangle about with their various functions until they had completed the tasks, computations or analyses that they wanted -- and then ...
Splunk has ‘closed funding’ in Zonehaven, a cloud-based analytics application designed to help communities improve evacuations and reduce wildfire risk with data. The funding is the first ...
More Gherkin And IT As A Business Strategy - Back at the Gherkin event, two of the primary vendors who were present for the discussions actually substantiated the previous blog comments about ...
Had another interesting cloudy discussion last week with SIOS – one of ITs better kept secrets, certainly in the UK. Much of that is down to the sensitivity of what it does and who it does it for. ...
Had my first visit to The Gherkin recently at a “mini” Netevents security briefing in London. I can certainly recommend the brioche-bun bacon butties with a view of the London rain from the 38th ...
The Computer Weekly Developer Network team are big fans of business intelligence and big data analytics, interactive data dashboard technologies, data visualisation specialists and companies that ...
Eyes on APAC
5G trials to spice up hotpot experience, improve last-mile connectivity
TechTarget 18 Oct 2019Singapore telco M1 is planning a 5G trial at the latest outlet of Haidilao, a well-known hotpot restaurant in the city-state, in a bid to demonstrate the use of 5G networks in the food and beverage ...
Fintech makes the world go around
The demise of Lehman Brothers sparked Inbotiqa’s flame: Fintech interview 29
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 17 Oct 2019Following its demise former IT workers at Lehman Brothers used the experience they gained at the bank to create a tech start up
Towo Labs, a Swedish startup aimed at simplifying ‘crypto self-custody’, has announced an investment from Xpring, Ripple’s developer initiative. Xpring is described as an initiative by Ripple that ...
A robot hand has been taught by OpenAI to successfully solve a Rubik’s Cube in an average time of four minutes. “So what?” you ask, being the unbearable Rubik’s Cube expert you are. It’s true, mere ...
Low-code software company Appian has announced the availability of the Appian Robotic Workforce Manager for UiPath, the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) specialist. The software optimises ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Dr. Takis Katsoulakos in his role as managing director for Inlecom Systems. Inlecom Systems is an information learning and ...
Fintech makes the world go around
Financial services firms reveal their fintech status in major study
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 16 Oct 2019Fintech leaders in traditional banks are making significant progress but major challenges remain
UiPath has been shopping, perhaps unsurprisingly. The software automation company specialises in the platform-level development of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) technologies. Having been on a ...
The Computer Weekly Developer Network team is off to Splunk .conf for the fourth consecutive year. Splunk is a Data-to-Everything Platform, helping organisations to get a complete view of their ...
Software automation specialist organisation UiPath staged it's annual FORWARD user conference this week in Las Vegas and the Computer Weekly Developer Network team was there to soak up the tech ...
The Computer Weekly Developer Network team are big fans of robust data management, younger-breed tech mavericks who want to carve a new niche in the crowded information intelligence market, ...
Dynatrace has added a new raft of analytics to its software intelligence offering. Known as Digital Business Analytics, the software itself is made of code (it’s digital), it’s intended for ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Software development spires and foundations
Managing Editor 14 Oct 2019CCS Insight has predicted that by 2023, psychometric testing of software developers will become commonplace. The analyst firm believes that ethical psychometric testing will appear more regularly ...
The Computer Weekly Developer Network and Open Source Insider team are big fans of Greek classics, San Francisco clam chowder shared-nothing architectures and open source-centric real-time big data ...
Data Matters
Why businesses should be concerned by the notion of ‘data lock-in’
Enterprise Applications Editor 11 Oct 2019This is a guest blogpost by James Fisher, SVP of data firm Qlik A little over a year ago we, at Qlik, started to outline our vision for the “third generation” of BI and analytics, which we ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
IT leaders must recognise and acknowledge the growing mental health issues from working in tech
Editor in chief 11 Oct 2019As Computer Weekly readers will know, there are many great reasons for working in tech – it’s fast-moving and creative, it’s changing the way we live and work, and mostly it’s well remunerated. ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Dr Jon Sneyers, senior image researcher at Cloudinary. Cloudinary is a SaaS technology company headquartered in Santa ...
In our voyages from software conference to software conference, we technology journalists often find stories that are developing and worth sharing. At Percona Live Europe last week, one such ...
ITWorks
The Samsung Digital Discovery Centre has been relaunched at the British Museum
Business Editor 09 Oct 2019Ten years after it was first introduced, the Samsung Digital Discovery Centre has been relaunched at the British Museum after an update to install new technology and create new digital experiences ...
It’s a tough one and a big ask -- you’re a software company and you need to stay current and to show some level of evidence to suggest that your portfolio, suite and wider stack of software and ...
Coleen Rooney has detailed the detective work that went into unmasking Rebekah Vardy as the alleged mole of her private Instagram account. Adopting the standard celebrity statement release protocol ...
Singapore’s DBS Bank has launched a digital logistics solutions package for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the logistics sector that are looking to expand their regional footprint. ...
The Computer Weekly Developer Network and Open Source Insider team want to talk code and coding. But more than that, we want to talk coding across the diversity spectrum… so let’s get the tough ...