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But what is bare metal cloud? Who uses it? What does it do? -- and how should developers code for this environment?

It was the core philosophy of the coalition government's ICT strategy: creative chaos. But instead of fixing government IT it has let it run rampant, according to the National Audit Office.The ...

For companies in wide ranging business sectors, network access control (NAC) is proving to be a key building block in their security architecture for meeting governance, risk and compliance (GRC) ...

NOG Brussel: Neelie Kroes (Photo credit: Wikipedia)There has been a lot of speculation in the past week around plans championed by Neelie Kroes to scrap roaming charges throughout Europe. A report ...

According to the official press statement from JK Shin, CEO and President of IT & Mobile Division, Samsung Electronics, the Galaxy Gear is all about integrating smart device technology deeper ...

It seems that Australia is experiencing a shortage of IT professionals for some major projects. A company that specialises in emigration to Australia and New Zealand reckons the Aussies can't get ...

Work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith - the person ultimately responsible for the delivery of Universal Credit - has been touring TV and radio stations this morning, and facing questions in ...

Large firms in the computer industry typically spend £180m each on IT & telecom staff. The outlay for a large telecommunications company is £130m. For an information services provider the sum ...

Mobile is becoming an increasingly important way of working as well as a critical channel to customers. Many businesses will lack the knowledge required to implement mobile technologies and ...

In an unprecedented show of partial openness, the head of the troubled Universal Credit programme has gone public on some of the problems in the government's flagship welfare reform project.This ...

Russia has issued an advisory to cyber and other criminals not to leave the country to avoid being kidnapped by the US to face legal proceedings, according to Wired.com.According to the advisory, ...

With the latest round of 4G rollouts now taking shape across the UK, many living in or travelling through more remote and rural parts will once again be wondering about coverage and reliability of ...

If you believe the hype cycles, DevOps is getting sexier.

The next version of the open source Android mobile operating system has been named KitKat.

Dog sunny Day Afternoon (Photo credit: allert)The current online obsession with 'selfies' - yes it is a word, it has been added to the Oxford English Dictionary - has given us paws for thought ...

I am sure by now you have seen the news that Microsoft has agreed a deal to buy Nokia's device and services businesses for a significant €5.44bn. Nokia expects €3.2bn of that to be a gain and even ...

I wrote an article last week about some research written by the Hackett Group about how a combination of factors including offshoring IT jobs to low cost regions is decimating the European IT ...

In an attempt to prove that a tweet is mightier than a corporation, a frustrated airline passenger has bought a promoted tweet to complain about British Airways. Unhappy about lost luggage ...

Job search website indeed.com has compiled a job trends report with a supporting graphical analysis to detail to the top keywords that employers look for

DuckDuckGo does not collect (or share) its user's information (unlike Google) and collates its search results from a compendium of crowdsourced resources including Wikipedia

Civil engineering companies typically spend £400 per employee on telecom services, falling well short of the all UK average of £600. For organisations employing 1000+ staff civil engineers have ...

I would also like to contrast the power of the Internet in enabling individual research and free-thinking with its danger in creating cyber-ghettoes within which like-minded individuals reinforce ...

Did you know that a great white shark swam within a few hundred metres of your beach paddle last year while you were in Florida?

Flash storage is becoming more of a topic when discussing enterprise storage. Are some of the perceptions around lack of longevity and the need for "enterprise" flash real?

Can you name a cryptographic hash or explain what a nibble is? No? Well perhaps your kids will be able to help.

In today's video interview, part of our series showcasing the diverse roles and opportunities available to women within the IT industry, Katrina Collier, speaker, trainer and writer on social media ...

As I blogged in March, the Met Police's IT contract with Capgemini was being reviewed, along with other IT investments, by the London Assembly's Budget and Performance Committee. The damning report ...

The patents system simply "doesn't work for software" due to the fact that it has become almost impossible for genuine technology companies

Medium sized software publishers employing 100-999 staff are top spenders on development software tools with a typical outlay of almost £300k. Telecommunications companies are the next highest ...

Mícheál Ó Foghlú is CTO of open source application development framework company FeedHenry.

Mozilla is of course famed for its Firefox browser and multifarious web extensions, but the organisation has now also developed its own Firefox OS operating system.

Play-i recently shared this infographic with me, which I thought might interest the WITsend community.

According to the CBI's (Confederation of British Industry) latest education and skills survey, businesses are finding that too many STEM-qualified applicants don't arrive rounded, grounded and ...

I recently read an article in the Guardian which discussed ways to get more women involved in the technology sector. This is a timely issue. In 2010, women accounted for just 25% of the technology ...

The biggest disappointment in Steve Ballmer's announcement that he is to retire as Microsoft CEO came from the absence of a suitable accompanying video.How we would have loved to see Ballmer ...

The 2013 GCSE results showed a 25% increase in students taking the ICT exam - the first rise in numbers since 2005. However, the proportion of girls studying the subject continued to fall, from 46% ...

This guest blog post comes from Satya Ramaswamy, who is global head of digital enterprise at Tata Consultancy Services. It looks at how the telecoms industry is being impacted by the fact that ...

A teddy bear has managed to leap from space to recreat Felix Baumgartner's record-breaking 24 mile skydive. The teddy, named Babbage, was controlled by a Raspberry Pi computer and rose to a height ...

Information security should treated as core component of marketing strategy and brand management - not a "mere" adjunct to data protection and regulatory "compliance". Those who want more of their ...

Why then is customer support and help and succour, sustenance and service not a more up-front message in the message sets used by cloud vendors?

Medium and large sized residential care and social work establishments spend about £40 per staff member on application packaged software. For smaller sized organisations, social workers have a ...

Perhaps I should not have contrasted Google and GCHQ. Given the revelations regarding LOVINT , I should have contrasted both with Investigative Journalists and the revelations that may begin to ...

Continuing our new video interview series, showcasing the diverse roles and opportunities available to women within the industry, Katrina Collier, speaker, trainer & writer on social media in ...

We all knew the day would come but, now it looms, it seems like it has come all too soon... He may not be as creepy as John Chambers, as geeky as Bill Gates, or have the religious following of ...

Scotland has tagged red kites with satellite tracking information which sends their positionings to a computer six times a day. Combined with information on weather, habitat and landscape, it ...

Data analytics was born among the American industrialists of the late 1800s.

Meanwhile the spread of low cost, mass market, encryption tools, from Scrambls to Silent Circle thratens to also destroy the business models of many of those who are so ensthusiastic about Big Data ...

I've been surprised the number of times I've been asked this particular question. Often it feels loaded. As if it could be a bad thing. Why just girls?

I recently took part in the Magnolia Cup, a charity race at the Glorious Goodwood Festival, which invites successful women to participate as jockeys to raise money in aid of charity and to showcase ...

Mobile devices are getting smaller, smarter and less dependent on traditional desktop computers - is this the end of an era?

When I started my tech career 20 years ago, I was repeatedly warned that I was entering a 'man's world'. I have, however, always firmly believed that a successful career in technology is due to ...

Rental & leasing companies with over 1000 staff spend around £60 per employee on custom software. This is considerably less than the £160 spent by all large UK organisations. For all other size ...

The open source Tizen operating system could be your next mobile device experience.

The budding mid-market CIO is focussed in information and applications not technology and as result is more and more likely to work with IT service providers

Speaking to Maranda Cigna, IT security manager at FIS, today at the Rapid7 United 2013 security summit, she shared her story so far as a US female in the security industry.

Does it actually matter whether government buys its IT from small suppliers or big multinationals? The Cabinet Office seems to think so - it has increased the target for IT spending through SMEs to ...

Less than one per cent of government expenditure on the coalition's flagship Universal Credit programme has gone to SMEs, according to a Computer Weekly investigation.The revelation may demonstrate ...

Keep the Lights On (KTLO) technology refers to that portion of information technology expenditure a company has to perform on daily operational tasks.

Meanwhile other players appear rather less than enthusiastic about their responsibilities with regard to policing abuse, (from cyber stalking and bullying to impersonation and fraud) while ...

Well not quite today, but at the end of September it will be exactly 20 years since the original text of text of BS7799 (now ISO 27002) was published in the form of BSI document DISC PD0003. The ...

White Toilet Bowl in Malaysia (Photo credit: epSos.de)We may have all described our smartphones' battery lives as piss poor, but ever thought that could be the answer to our woes? Researchers at ...

Bug fixing is an inevitable part of a developer's life. It is not normally considered the most glamorous or exciting part of the job.

Overall, membership organisations spend 5% of their turnover on IT & telecom products and services. This is two and a half times that for all UK enterprises. For membership organisations the ...

These days, though, its hard to think of a good reason why organisations would want to manage their own email.

As many of you will know, I have been following the BDUK process closely over the past few months and things in recent weeks have been hotting up. You see, both citizens and businesses were ...

Many things are needed for Unified Communications deployments to work, but user buy in and an understanding of how to get the best from it, are critical

Notification Hubs is designed to allow mobile software application developers to produce personalised "push notifications" to customers via Android, iOS and Windows devices.

The open-source movement continues to gain traction in 2013 among core groups

Buildings & landscape services companies spend £25m on software. The largest amount, some £10m, is devoted to application packages followed by £8m expenditure on customised software. System ...

The British Library's wifi network was found to have denied access to an online copy of Shakespeare's Hamlet because the text contained "violent content". A user wanted to check a line of the play ...

CompTIA is aiming to allow the world of ICT to do the same, by providing an internationally recognised benchmark which shows solution providers meet an industry approved level of service and ...

It was the least surprising news of the year. BlackBerry is up for sale, the Canadian mobile phone company finally admitting to the inevitability that everyone else recognised ages ago, with a ...

This graph from Thomson Reuters shows the most popular integrated suite accountancy software used by accountancy firms

North Korea's first smart phone has shades of Big Brother about it. Korean leader, Kim Jong-un revealed the phone, the Arirang, at North Korea's may 11th.

Box for Android -- key among the refreshed features is a new navigation drawer and an account toggling facility.

There aren't many times when we confuse the building and construction of physical buildings with the building and construction of software applications.

Fujitsu has launched three business-ready laptops in their mid-high range E Line. The 13, 14 and 16-inch notebooks are from first impressions feel streamlined, and include a Fujitsu red accent to ...

It would be reasonable for organisations in any level of government, or working for them, to demand use of certified providers. That would also benefit from a clearly defined process for what ...

Wholesale trade companies spend £350 per employee on hardware. This is similar to the all UK value for all industry sectors. There are notable differences by size of organisation. Wholesale traders ...

BOX argues that the education industry is seeing the same technology trends as other industries

The Cabinet Office said it will not renew most of the large IT outsourcing deals coming up to the end of their terms in 2015.In its latest report on spending with SMEs the Cabinet Office also said, ...

Progress Software continues is unabashed assault on the cloud developer space with new data connectivity and application capabilities as part of its Progress Pacific application ...

A survey by graduate careers site, targetjobs.co.uk has found that only 4% of female students are put off a career in IT due to gender imbalance within the industry.

Large electricity & gas supply companies spend one third of their IT & telecom budgets on external software. Just over a quarter is dedicated to IT & telecom staff with a similar amount ...

I've had an issue with laptop bags for quite some time. Either they're too bulky, heavy, not in anyway attractive, or look so much like a corporate laptop bag they should have been embroidered with ...

This is a guest blog by Clare McDonald.Since the advancement of mobile technology, an office environment has become less and less important in business. Everyone would rather use their mobile or ...

The drive to bring open source technologies into focus for public services and the NHS in particular has been a recurring theme for more than half a decade now.

The UK government is distancing the Romans from its G-cloud initiative in an attempt to distance itself from now defunct group of infrastructure builders.The latest version of G-Cloud has done away ...

It's fair to say that I didn't take the conventional route to becoming a web developer, but the statistics would show that considering I'm female it's surprising I found any route at all. Now that ...

GFI Software has published the worst "face-palm" moments in IT.Here are Downtime's top three from the list:"The project lead on another client engagement read an article about Java saying it was ...

In the second in our new video interview series, showcasing the diverse roles and opportunities available to women within the industry, Katrina Collier, Speaker, Trainer & Writer on Social ...

The first round of UK engineering students have arrived in India to begin their training with Indian IT services firm Wipro. The programme, a three-month technology induction course followed by six ...

So, what's really going on with the Universal Credit IT programme?If you trust journalistic warning bells - and believe the saying that there's no smoke without fire - then there has to be ...

The MinnowBoard is an Intel Atom processor-based raw materials (i.e. motherboard only) unit aimed at the low cost, hobbyist and embedded computing markets.

But time is running out and we need to expedite the process of "harvesting" and cross-linking the good work that is being done before the current erosion of trust and confidence in the on-line ...

"How many Bradley Mannings are copying your supposedly secure big data, from whcih clouds, to publish to the world?" Apparently 1.5 million Americans have similarly security clearances to Bradley ...

A techy toilet which is controlled via an Android app has a hardware flaw meaning that it can be controlled by any phone with the application. The My Satis toilet, manufactured by Japanese firm ...

In technology terms we use the word zombie to refer to malicious bots set up by hackers to forward transmissions (often spam and viruses) to other computers on the Internet. But there is a new kind ...

Inspired by our top 25 Most Influential Women in UK IT Katrina Collier ( http://www.winningimpression.com/blog/about-your-social-recruitment-trainer/ ), Speaker, Trainer & Writer on Social ...

Printing companies with 50-99 employees devote 3% of their turnover on IT & telecoms. This is the largest portion for all manufacturing sectors with a 50-99 head count. Next in line are ...