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This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Nate Clinton, Designit executive director.  Designit offers integrated strategic design and innovation services, ...

The Government Digital Service (GDS) insists that its plans for Gov.uk Verify “remain on track” despite the withdrawal of three of the five remaining identity providers (IDPs) supporting the ...

Apple has reiterated its searing contempt for the hoi polloi that uses its products by releasing a physical credit card you’re not supposed to put in your wallet. The titanium card is, in Apple’s ...

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 ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network team has started its week in Utah at the Pluralsight LIVE 2019 conference. For those that would like a reminder, Pluralsight specialises in online cloud-based ...

Like any milestone birthday it’s a time for reflection, writes Andrew Meyer, director of NHS Digital's Digital Delivery Centre. Have you achieved what you wanted in the time passed, are there ...

A few months ago Automation Anywhere began collaborating with freelance software developer recruitment platform, Toptal, on robotic process automation in the human workforce. The concept is called ...

DevOps started as a grass-roots movement led by practitioners. The motives were pure, and focused simply on finding better ways of doing things for the good of everyone involved in software ...

UK businesses could put themselves at risk because of myths surrounding the PSD2 security standard

CRM is, of course, Customer Relationship Management... apart from when it's not. Some days, CRM is CRM (as above)... but, increasingly, CRM is also Cloud Resource Management. This is a software ...

This is a guest post by Stephen Dane, managing director for cyber security at Cisco Asia-Pacific, Japan and Greater China We live in a multi-cloud world. A world where a multitude of offerings from ...

Had some very interesting conversations in the past few weeks with a number of US-based vendors across primarily the security and optimisation sectors, with one commonality - established in the ...

Funding Options took a few years to realise that dating sites were the perfect model for a fintech helping small businesses get access to the right loans for them

Banks and retailers have work to do to ensure that open banking and PSD2 don't open doors for fraudsters

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog written by Matt Boyle in his capacity as lead software engineer at Curve. Curve allows users to spend money from all their ...

PSD2 widens the target for fraudsters preying on consumers through social engineering and other non technical attacks

Earlier in August, Huawei announced it was launching its own open-source operating system, named HarmonyOS, which may replace Google’s Android on its devices, writes Promon head of development, Jan ...

1 Action Fraud had an impossible task The Times undercover investigation at Action Fraud  has led to a rash of publicity, both tabloid  and professional . The only surprise is that it has taken so ...

Managing and securing access to multiple public cloud services can be a challenge for enterprises that are embarking on a multi-cloud strategy. Besides making sure that only authorised members of ...

Gartner's latest magic quadrant report on cloud infrastructure puts IBM in the bottom left quadrant, as a niche player, alongside Oracle and Alibaba. IBM is hoping the £34bn it has spent on buying ...

A teenage girl has turned to her family’s smart fridge in a desperate quest to reach Twitter followers, after her mum confiscated her electronic devices one by one. The 15-year-old, known to her ...

Codefresh is the first Kubernetes-native CI/CD technology, with CI denoting Continuous Integration and CD denoting Continuous Delivery, obviously. The organisation has this month worked to improve ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) team is fond of craft beer, Mormon temples, clean air and an opportunity to dig into cloud-based enterprise technology learning platforms. That’s lucky ...

Hence the need to address the cyberskills for justice and deterrence , not just those for cyberwarfare, protection and surveillance. And the more widespread those skills, the more dangerous the ...

Hermes is the Greek god of trade, heraldry and commerce… but also the Greek god of thieves and trickery. Facebook was presumably thinking of Hermes’ more virtuous qualities when it named its ...

In this guest post, Will Grannis, founder and director of the Google Office of the CTO, sets out how adopting a multi-cloud strategy can help enterprises navigate IT challenges around value, risk ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Nikita Ivanov, CTO and co-founder of GridGain Systems. GridGain specialises in software and services for big data systems ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) team is extremely partial to baked beans, broiled lobster, New England architecture, Sam Adams beers and ERP systems that boast specific competencies in ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Nikita Ivanov, CTO and co-founder of GridGain Systems.  GridGain specialises in software and services for big data systems ...

Now that we have Wi-Fi at home and at work, good options for global cellular roaming and (for times when neither of those are accessible) we also have Wi-Fi portable hotspots too. One would imagine ...

Pulsant specialises in managed cloud hosting, colocation and application hosting services. As a core competency, Pulsant works on hybrid (value-added) cloud solutions with a core focus on ...

In this guest post, Dob Todorov, CEO and chief cloud officer, HeleCloud, sets out why it is wrong to declare cloud not fit for business use in the wake of the Capital One data breach. In two ...

As we watched a former porn site merchant’s video statement, him sat there in front of a Benjamin Franklin backdrop to the sound of a military bugle call, defending 8chan’s white supremacist ...

This is a guest blogpost by Sean Martin, CTO and co-founder, Cambridge Semantics The post-big data landscape has been shaped by two emergent, intrinsically related forces: the predominance of ...

With its roots and foundations in the open source Apache Cassandra database, Santa Clara headquartered DataStax insists that it likes to keep things open. As such, the company is opening a wider ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network team is a big fan of smoky casinos, 1-cent slot machines, cloud-based CRM software platforms, intelligent workflow automation technology and basketball legend ...

Red Hat… no, wait, stop there -- not Red Hat the IBM company, actually just Red Hat -- that’s how the company is still putting out news stories. We’ll start again, open source enterprise software ...

In this guest post, Justin Day, CEO of hybrid cloud connectivity platform provider Cloud Gateway shares his thoughts one why some enterprises are choosing to pull back from off-premise life and ...

Developer-centric automation software company CircleCI has launched general availability of support for Windows in its product set. CircleCI (the clue is in the name) has a specialism in Continuous ...

Gov.uk Verify – the government’s flagship digital identity system – faces a critical few months ahead. Again. As the clock ticks down towards the end of March 2020, when further public investment ...

On 24 July 2019, as jubilant Conservative party members emerged from Boris Johnson's victory speech in Westminster, one supporter was heard to remark Johnson had promised to "insert high-speed ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) 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 ...

Virtual Private Network (VPN) company NordVPN has introduced NordLynx technology built around the WireGuard protocol.  WireGuard is thought to be shaking up the VPN space as a new type of protocol ...

According to wikis, hacker forum discussions and the team itself, Kubernetes is so-named because it translates from (κυβερνήτης in Greek) to governor, helmsman or captain -- and further, ...

Amazon-owned live video streaming platform Twitch has lost one of its biggest stars to Microsoft-owned rival site Mixer, but rather than lament the departure of Ninja, one clandestine member of the ...

Database development company Redgate has been to the shops. The Cambridge, UK-based firm has bought eggs, fresh bloomers (no, the bread kind) and, direct from the meat counter, a US$10 million ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Mark Cresswell in his role as CEO of LzLabs. LzLabs develops what it calls its Software Defined Mainframe (SDM) package — ...

In just under three years, tech veteran Ramesh Munamarty has accomplished what some of his peers can only dream of – building an agile culture, shoring up the IT infrastructure and delivering ...

FutureBricks is offering savers better rates through lending to the SME building industry

Distributed SQL database company NuoDB has reached its version 4.0 iteration... and aligned further to core open source cloud platform technologies. The new release expands cloud-native and ...