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Open source Ruby and Erlang based configuration management tool company Chef has now committed to develop all of its software as open source software under the Apache 2.0 license. Open open open… ...
The Computer Weekly Developer Network and Open Source Insider team is digging into four days of open source goodness at SUSECON. SUSE these days describes itself as a provider of enterprise-grade ...
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Hard drives that do their own data processing
Freeform Dynamics 02 Apr 2019It’s getting hard these days to find places where container technology doesn’t feature, but in a hard drive? Yet that’s what is being explored in one of the Storage Networking Industry Association ...
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Fintechs taking large chunk of SME lending sector
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 01 Apr 2019Alternative lending platforms targeting the SME sector have managed to get their message across to their customer base
Being able to present a fully operational and bug-free app experience is, obviously, just as important as having a website for any business, be it a small coffee shop, or a fledgeling e-commerce ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Complexities of safety critical augmented systems
Managing Editor 29 Mar 2019There are no lessons that can be gleaned from the tragic loss of life following the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crash on March 10, 2019. As has been reported across the web, the crash bears ...
Everyone knows about the European Union’s famous Article 50 by now, but what do all the other ones do? It’s like being invited into the cockpit of a Boeing 747 and only pressing one random button. ...
Fintech makes the world go around
Azimo is stripping high streets and denting the universe: Fintech interview part 18
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 27 Mar 2019Cross border money transfer fintech Azimo is disrupting the high street
GUEST BLOG: In this contributed post Claudia Harris, the new chair of software bootcamp Makers, discusses the challenges and solutions to the UK’s tech skills gap - could encouraging more women ...
Not at all a question of parts unknown, more a case of parts where some are better known than others. The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)’s Jim Jagielski and Sally Khudairi have detailed 20 major ...
The Full Spectrum
Is Avaya entertaining private equity bidders? I have déjà vu
Security Editor 26 Mar 2019The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results. It's a handy quote for all occasions - whether or not you believe Albert Einstein ever ...
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Add Apple credit card to list of things you can do on your iPhone
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 26 Mar 2019Apple has announced a fintech service which will enable customers to turn their mobile phone into a credit card. From the summer customers in the US will have access to the Apple Card. There is an ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
MPs hear more revelations about Gov.uk Verify as troubled project gets a new leader
Editor in chief 25 Mar 2019Hello and good luck, to Lisa Barrett - the newly appointed director of digital identity at the Government Digital Service (GDS). She's taken on what many people outside GDS see as something of a ...
The Computer Weekly Developer Network team spoke this month to Will Cappelli in his role as CTO for EMEA and VP of product strategy at Moogsoft on the subject of just how far we need to understand ...
Corporate (but ultimately technically-related) news from March saw the completion of SuSE’s acquisition by growth investor EQT from Micro Focus. EQT is a Scandinavia equity funds organisation that ...
The term accessibility might read better if the English language had decided to spell it accessability -- or perhaps even access-ability -- given its use to describe products or services or ...
Budgets in IT general do not grow at a rate that can sustain stellar financial performance across the IT industry. However, Gartner’s latest spending forecast has reported that worldwide software ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Hubris over Horizon? Post Office shocks High Court with accusation of bias
Editor in chief 22 Mar 2019The Post Office likes to describes itself as “the nation’s most trusted brand”. Anyone following the latest developments in the increasingly heated High Court case about its Horizon IT system would ...
CW Developer Network
Infor tunes into (and visualises) high-fidelity self-orchestrated data
22 Mar 2019Infor builds business cloud software, this much we know. But this is software that is ‘specialised by industry’... a term used to convey its custom-aligned tuning to specific industry use cases ...
Earlier this week, open source software company Suse announced that it is strengthening its presence in the Asia-Pacific region following its acquisition by growth investor EQT from Micro Focus. ...
With eight days until the UK's scheduled exit from the European Union, a prime minister who has lost control, a paralysed political system, and Britain reduced to a laughing stock on the world ...
The Computer Weekly Developer Network and Open Source Insider team enjoy hardcore programming discussion, truly vibrant open communities where code commits fly around in a swarm, well-cooked ...
Vote Leave’s band of zip-wiring cowboy builders has been handed another fine: this time for sending out nearly 200,000 unsolicited texts to the poor sods who entered their contest to win £50m if ...
Ahead in the Clouds
What the Myspace data loss debacle tells us about how the internet values creative content
Senior Editor, UK 20 Mar 2019The news that Myspace lost 12 years of user-generated content during a botched server migration has prompted a lot of debate this week, which Caroline Donnelly picks over here. When details of ...
US telecoms stalwart AT&T is expanding its Application Programming Interface (API) marketplace connectivity points. The AT&T API Marketplace (it’s an online store zone, not a real market, ...
Big Switch Networks describes itself as the cloud-first networking company. The firm focuses on what public cloud-style networking matched with hybrid cloud consistency. News this month sees the ...
Progress puts forward another (arguably weighty) hand in the low-code game this week. The Boston, MA-based application development firm has upped the spec on its Progress Kinvey platform with extra ...
The question is in the title already: do we need a global IT event calendar? Why do we ask? Simply because this short piece could have been called May the 6th be with you (as in May the 4th [force] ...
Luxury wrist-worn supercar key manufacturer Senturion has revealed it will release seven limited edition £211,550 pieces, fashioned from some asteroid, later this year. But who’ll get them? They ...
All developers like software management controls (or at least they should) -- largely because they need code to work effectively and see that it operates at the right level of performance and to ...
Fintech makes the world go around
Hear from some of the women shaping UK fintech
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 13 Mar 2019Find out what needs to done to increase diversity in fintech from some of the women shaping the industry
Everything (in software) these days is about automation and low-code, no-code platforms with AI-enriched cloud-based intelligent data analytics services, right? Bringing at least two of those ...
You may have a ‘personal attitude’ when pushed to certain limits in a social situation, but what kind of ‘total enterprise attitude’ (TOA - not a real acronym, but it could be) to cybersecurity ...
The privately held Nginx will be acquired for a total enterprise value of approximately £500 million. Nginx points to its open source community as one of the most attractive elements of the ...
Software application developers will always be looking to create the next big thing (Twitter etc.) and come up with a killer app to forge their name in history. So what’s trending next? A recent ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Web @ 30: Thank you for global connectivity
Managing Editor 11 Mar 2019For the last three decades since its introduction, the web has informed, educated and entertained society. It has given musicians, artists and businesses of any size connectivity to a global ...
Yes it’s March, not last Christmas… but there’s still time to look at the state of software for the year ahead. If anything, getting to the first quarter of this year’s post-apocalyptic Brexit ...
Lumigo, a Tel Aviv based startup, has announced the release of its serverless intelligence platform for developers. Software application developers with an appreciation for the higher (cloudier) ...
Improving crop yield using artificial intelligence (AI) has been a hot topic as researchers and tech suppliers cast their sights on an industry that isn’t exactly the forerunners in applying ...
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Nationwide Building Society creating digital platform with fintech 10x
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 07 Mar 2019Nationwide Building Society creating business banking platform with 10 X
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Open Source Inside blog written by Chip Childers, CTO of the Cloud Foundry Foundation. Cloud Foundry is an open source project with an open contribution ...
Government-funded agricultural project 5G RuralFirst has made an app that allows you to track the daily activities of a cow of your choice, live from its home on a connected farm. Opportunities to ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
WWW @ 30: Why the Web needs to remain open
Managing Editor 06 Mar 2019While the internet existed way before the Worldwide Web (WWW), the web changed everything. Its success has as much to do with the simplicity of using an HTTP web browser, as the fact that it was ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
NAO hammers another nail into Gov.uk Verify
Editor in chief 06 Mar 2019It’s not commonly known outside Whitehall that by the time the National Audit Office (NAO) – Parliament’s independent spending watchdog – publishes a report, it will have been through several ...
Fintech makes the world go around
NatWest fintech loan platform partners Microsoft for data warehouse and AI chatbot
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 06 Mar 2019NatWest fintech loans platform tapping Microsoft data warehouse expertise to support its rapid decision making
Fintech makes the world go around
Innovate Finance launches initiative to get teens into fintech
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 05 Mar 2019Innovate Finance wants to establish a long term pipeline of fintech talent
Fintech makes the world go around
NatWest launches its baseline open banking feature
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 05 Mar 2019NatWest is the latest bank to offer its baseline open banking service
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FDM everywoman finalist profile: Laurelin Chase, student at Clacton County High School
Business Editor 04 Mar 2019WOMEN IN TECH PROFILE: Laurelin Chase, student at Clacton County High School and FDM everywoman in technology awards finalist in the “One to Watch Award” category, talks about the role models that ...
All the world loves robots, and when they are robots holding something a human might hold, doing an activity a human might do, and preferably doing it while looking a bit like a human (two legs, ...
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FDM everywoman finalist profile: Nelly Kiboi, software engineer, American Express
Business Editor 04 Mar 2019WOMEN IN TECH PROFILE: Nelly Kiboi, software engineer at American Express, and FDM everywoman in technology awards finalist in the software engineering category, answers questions about her role ...