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This series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development.  As we have initially discussed here, with so many new ...

This series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development.  As we have initially discussed here, with so many new ...

Microsoft’s move to replace MSN.com’s human editors with artificial intelligence has resulted in the software misidentifying one woman of colour for another – before regurgitating other outlets’ ...

One of the only technology companies to have managed to stage its annual developer/customer/user-fast successfully in 2020 before the onset of Covid-19 by virtue of staging its convention in ...

As we know, Kubernetes is an open source technology for container management across hybrid cloud environments. Initially created by Google  (and subsequently open sourced and managed under the ...

As the Government Digital Service (GDS) prepares for the winding down of its Gov.uk Verify service, its future plans for digital identity are becoming a little clearer. In recent weeks, GDS has ...

This is a guest blogpost by Marc Linster, SVP, EnterpriseDB Open Source, Free and Open Source Software, Code Available, GNU General Public License (GPL), Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), ...

Open source database company Percona has been on the (virtual) road these past few weeks, hosting its web-based Percona Live 2020 conference (in obvious need due to the Covid-19 pandemic) and ...

The coronavirus pandemic has become a catalyst, accelerating radical change to how organisations operate. The economic recovery from the lockdown is forcing some to push through changes that they ...

When you need a (computing) cluster in an instant, who would you call? Perhaps this was the thought process behind the marketing folk at Instaclustr when they decided to give the organization its ...

The Covid-19 lockdown has led to an explosion of fraud and abuse, both on-line and in the "real" world.  Before Test and Trace is fully operational it is already being spoofed .  The problems are ...

I’m on a mission, or a quest, call it what you will. This personal pursuit is simple, yet it’s not… I need the ultimate travel work device. As a technology journalist (COVID-19 Coronavirus ...

In this month's Ask the Expert segment, Serkan Cetin, technical director at One Identity in Asia-Pacific and Japan, offers advice on the technical and ethical considerations of biometric security ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Volterra CEO and founder Ankur Singla -- Volterra provides a distributed cloud platform to deploy, connect, secure and ...

Restaurants in the Netherlands have been easing themselves back into business with the help of robotic waiting staff, going some way to repair the profession’s reputation after China’s automated ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Netanel Mohoni in his position as co-founder and chief executive officer at xs:code, a monetisation platform company for ...

Aqua Security is known for its technology designed to secure container-based, serverless and cloud native applications. The company has now added to its open source DNA. It has expanded its team by ...

The Covid lockdown has demonstrated the potential of Educational Technology to support remote learning and workplace training but the focus on “free” access threatens to destroy the revenue streams ...

GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post Jess Jackson, investment director at GC Angels, discusses the difficulties female tech founders face when trying to enter the sector and find funding.  The ...

Programmers, coders, software engineers of all creeds and even meddling script kiddies all see themselves as artists, of a sort.  Creating applications, data engineering and services across PCs, ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by David Brown in his position as CEO of Toro Cloud -- the company is known for its low-code API-centric approach to ...

In this guest post, Darren Watkins, managing director of colocation provider Virtus Data Centres, talks about how Covid-19 has changed what enterprises want from their datacentre partners. More ...

The Open Application Model (OAM) was initially launched as a partnership between Microsoft and Alibaba Cloud last October. Microsoft principal program manager Vaclav Turecek now tells us that the ...

When Dominic Cummings wasn’t using his press conference to brag about how many trees his dad has, you can bet he was going on about being into viruses before anyone else. The thing is, deep down, ...

AI and machine learning might not be the first thing you think of when you start listing the impacts of lockdown, but the Covid-19 crisis is having effects far beyond the obvious ones. It came up ...

Contrast Security is one of those firms talking about the new breed of so-called self-protecting software, where AI and machine learning come to the fore with predictive functions make our ...

One of the changes that has come out of the Coronavirus pandemic is that people are learning to work from home. This is more than IT providing remote and cloud-based access to business ...

In this guest post, Dob Todorov, CEO of managed services company HeleCloud, outlines why enterprises and SMEs can ill-afford to take a "set it and forget it" attitude to their public cloud ...

This guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider is written by Ocado Technology’s Matthew Cornford in his position as head of product for the company’s Handling Robotics Department and ...

There’s a time-honoured technique in quality professional journalism throughout the trade, broadcast and regional press, especially in the era of the web: never use a pun, or any element of ...

This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written in full by John DesJardins in his role as field CTO and VP of solution architecture for North America region at operational ...

These times of ours, you might have heard, are being described as both “strange” and “unprecedented”. There’s also been some talk of a “new normal”, although while for some that means extra-long ...

Database misconfigurations in the cloud are a problem, one might even say that it’s becoming a common problem.  As founder and CEO at Percona, Peter Zaitsev said this week during his organization’s ...

There’s an old (possibly slightly apocryphal) technology story related to the history of Microsoft as told by American futurist Peter Schwartz.  Somewhere between CP/M, IBM BIOS and Windows 3.0, ...

Almost two thirds of respondents to the latest Quocirca COVID-19 business impact study indicate that the pandemic could create new opportunities for product and service innovation. Channel partners ...

Named (presumably) after the Greek winged horse, Pegasystems Inc (Pega to its friends) is a specialist in cloud software for customer engagement. Pega’s uses various AI techniques to (low-code) ...

He would never enable Bluetooth on a mobile phone because of its inherent security problems. It is unclear how many of these have been fixed with the latest releases. But some are unlikely to be ...

Grafana comes from Grafana Labs -- it is a composable open source platform for metrics analytics, monitoring and visualisation.  It’s all about achieving observability, now that ‘observability’ is ...

Almost every nation except for those which already had them as a legacy of SARS (e.g. Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan) has had to move fast to produce computer systems that will help support a ...

The NHSX contact-tracing app has been in live testing on the Isle of Wight for over a week now, and already we can make one important conclusion – a conclusion that was surely self-evident anyway. ...

Two months into lockdown, Gartner is forecasting an 8% decline in global IT spending in 2020 – a figure that would be seen as catastrophic in any other year. But considering that some economies are ...

Earlier this month Ocado Technology and a consortium of academic institutes announced Armar-6, the culmination of the five years EU-funded SecondHands project. The premise behind the project was to ...

This is a guest post by Nicola Millard, principal innovation partner, BT The future isn’t at all what we expected. Ten years ago, we might easily have imagined the contact centre of 2020 as an ...

DataStax is the company behind a ‘highly available’ cloud-native NoSQL data platform built on Apache Cassandra, which (as you probably know) is a free and open source, distributed, wide column ...

Remember before the pandemic, when news of robotics firms and their increasingly capable creations filled us with dread? Well, to paraphrase Tim from The Office, we never thought we’d say this, but ...

This is a guest blogpost by Dean Stoecker, CEO, Alteryx Major global events force companies to think differently. The Covid-19 pandemic is no exception. In the first few weeks of the crisis, I ...

Everybody loves a robot. To be clear, everybody loves a plastic robot, a movie robot or a friendly neighbourhood robot if it forms part of our increasingly prolific use of home (and indeed office ...

This is a guest blogpost by Torgil Hellman, chief architect, Atea. In the situation we currently find ourselves, right in the crosshairs of a global pandemic, most people reading this article will ...

OpenTelemetry is an open source project created to provide a toolkit for cloud-native software observability... and, if anything, this is the age of software observability. The project has now ...

The Government Digital Service (GDS) has published its first blog post on Gov.uk Verify since July 2019. Given the dearth of communications about the troubled digital identity system, it tells a ...

Kubernetes is a fast-evolving toolset, with a growing capability to deliver speed and agility in how enterprises deploy, scale and manage their applications. So what’s next for this container ...

The time has come for Ofcom to regulate on price, quality of service (including the resilience required of a critical infrastructure utility) and behaviour and stop trying to predict costs and ...

When you’re in the middle of a global pandemic and the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) contagion has drastically altered a massive proportion of the aspects of life around you… then that old chestnut the ...

In this guest post, Paul Finch, CEO of Essex-based colocation provider Kao Data, sets out the potential for digital twins and AI technology to usher in a rethink of how designing datacentres is ...

Anvil was founded with the aim of making it simple and fast to create and deploy powerful web apps, using only the Python language. It is a web-based development environment and was a spin-out from ...

Jeff Bezos may get brickbats over Amazon's treatment of its warehouse workers and Bill Gates may find himself at the centre of a coronavirus conspiracy theory, but for surefire billionaire Bond ...

Anchore might make you think of anchovies, anchors, chores, s’mores or perhaps even a nicely chilled bottle of Piat D’Or. It is of course none of those things, Anchore is a container compliance and ...

In the last blog, I touched on the lasting effects of the COVID-19 pandemic; the obvious fallout here is the massive increase in home/remote working, something I’ve been practicing since 1989 – ...

I was recently sent an article by my PR mate Hannah from one of their clients, Versa – a company I’ve met up with and they talk a lot of common sense, far more than their er, so-called president… ...

In-memory real-time analytics and data processing company GigaSpaces is known for its InsightEdge brand, a unified analytics, ML and transactional data processing platform. The company is currently ...

As the UK government starts trials of its contact-tracing app in the Isle of Wight, attention will soon shift towards another potential app-enabled solution to help ease lockdown requirements and ...

What do gigantic mythical gorillas have in common with cloud connectivity tools? Answer: not much, usually, unless you consider Kong. Originally developed in Italy but now with headquarters in San ...

Some things, products, services (people even) take a little getting used to, but once you do, the effort is worth it. This is the deal with MX Master 3 mouse. You’ve most likely not been using a ...

This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Derek Smart in his role as senior staff engineer at Delphix. As noted here on TechTarget, instead of working on live ...

This is the weirdest tech conference, like, ever… we thought. You fly to Amsterdam and the Hilton Amsterdam Airport Schiphol hotel is connected to the airport terminal itself.  Okay, it’s a long ...

Artificial Intelligence IT Operations (AIOps) company Moogsoft has come forward with version 8.0 of its Moogsoft Enterprise product. This is software designed to serve IT Ops and DevOps teams as ...

This is a guest post by Michael Warnock, Australian head of growth for SecureAuth Cyber attackers are turning their attention to identity, raising the security stakes for Australian companies ...

We’re all enjoying the Internet of Things (IoT), right? Well mostly… but a lot of the IoT is industrial mechanised sensors on aircraft and manufacturing equipment that we never see, plus, a lot of ...

As the BBC’s Kate Russell said this week on the broadcaster’s flagship techzine programme ‘Click’, “I wouldn’t be doing my job as a tech evangelist if I didn’t point out that lockdown is a perfect ...

Since the lockdown began on March 24, UK tech workers have shown that they can adapt and develop new processes very quickly to enable many people to remain productive during the Coronavirus ...

This the first plague where predictions of its likely local impact reached rulers/politicians/journalists before their subjects/voters/readers starting falling ill and/or dying in large numbers ... ...

The COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic is throwing up discussion surrounding the ways and means that the technology industry will respond to the global contagion. There is talk of tracing apps, there ...

You sometimes hear people say we might all be part of an elaborate simulation, a highly sophisticated video game created somewhere else in the universe for a bit of entertainment. If that’s the ...

At Computer Weekly, we strive to provide the latest news and independent advice to help IT decision makers navigate the changing IT industry landscape. While we hope our readers like you have found ...

Nobody knows why voice-to-text transcription app company Otter is called Otter with its free Otter.ai app. Semi-aquatic carnivores related to weasels, badgers, minks, polecats and wolervines, the ...

There’s been some excitement around the inaugural virtual House of Commons sessions, which essentially comprise some MPs social distancing in the chamber while others can be viewed on several ...

As we know, we’re all in this (COVID-19 Coronavirus lockdown) together… and so, logically, many tech outfits are finding it hard to come forward with their new platform roadmap developments in ...

There’s an old saying in marketing-communications (marcoms): when there’s no news, do a survey. As anyone who has read a technology industry survey knows, they often skew towards delivering a ...

Cartesi is a DApp infrastructure. DApps (sometimes called Dapps) are from the blockchain universe and so, logically, the apps part stands for application (obviously) and the D part stands for ...

Unlike digital-first organisations, traditional businesses have a wealth of enterprise applications built up over decades, many of which continue to run core business processes.  In this series of ...

German software giant SAP has built an app to provide its employees and customers with accurate real-time information on Covid-19 and guidance on how to cope with the virus. Built on the SAP Cloud ...

This is a guest blogpost by Ed Thompson, CTO and co-founder, Matillion. Jessica is a data analyst at a leading eCommerce company and is tasked with analysing the usage patterns of the business to ...

Bots are everywhere… and nobody knows when we really first started enthusing about them. Thinking back, Microsoft spoke of not much else besides bots at its 2015 Build developer conference… so ...

COVID-19 has plunged many businesses into a paralysis. The majority are now focused on weathering or surviving the crisis to emerge intact when the new normal arrives. Some of the changes invoked ...

This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Brendan O’Leary in his position as senior developer evangelist at GitLab. As many readers will already know, GitLab is an ...

This paired couplet of guest posts for the Computer Weekly Developer Network is written by PK’s Ram Sathia in his position as VP of intelligent automation and Ajmeer Ali Liyakkathali in his ...

This paired couplet of guest posts for the Computer Weekly Developer Network is written by PK’s Ram Sathia in his position as VP of intelligent automation and Ajmeer Ali Liyakkathali in his ...

We’ve all been in Amanda Holden’s shoes. One minute, someone’s sending you a petition explicitly linking 5G to Covid-19; the next, you’re accidentally sharing it with 1.9 million Twitter followers. ...

COVID 19: Accelerating the need for business transformation in the print industry Quocirca recently conducted a snapshot online survey between 31st March and 7th April 2020 to understand the impact ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Ilkka Turunen in his role as global director of solution architecture at Sonatype. Turunen describes himself as a software ...

The UK is apparently the number one target for covid-related on-line fraud but doorstep fraudsters are targeting those who do not go on-line with “testing” and “decontamination” services.

Unlike digital-first organisations, traditional businesses have a wealth of enterprise applications built up over decades, many of which continue to run core business processes.  In this series of ...

A UK firm is behind a new drive to provide the planet with the world’s first supply of carbon-neutral laptops. Circular Computing specialises in ‘remanufactured’ laptops. As a comparatively new ...

While questions are being asked of the government over its coronavirus exit strategy, one thing is clear: large parts of the UK workforce are able to work remotely, thanks to the efforts of IT ...

Unlike digital-first organisations, traditional businesses have a wealth of enterprise applications built up over decades, many of which continue to run core business processes. In this series of ...

Unlike digital-first organisations, traditional businesses have a wealth of enterprise applications built up over decades, many of which continue to run core business processes.  In this series of ...

The proportion of special constables to full time police has fallen over the past 20 years from 16% in 1996 to 9% in 2019. The trend is distorted by the Metropolitan Police where the proportion ...

Unlike digital-first organisations, traditional businesses have a wealth of enterprise applications built up over decades, many of which continue to run core business processes.  In this series of ...

This is a guest post by Kelvin Lim, chief operating officer of Innovative Global Solutions & Services 2020 was supposed to be the year for rapid transformation in the global semiconductor ...

In the past couple of weeks, nearly a million people have signed up for Universal Credit as a result of the Covid-19 coronavirus crisis. Never has the UK government’s move to a digital-first world ...