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Elementor opens free ‘experts’ network for pro web creators during COVID-19
31 Mar 2020WordPress website builder company Elementor has launched a new people-focused offering (i.e. there’s a human element here, we’re not just talking about users) known as Elementor Experts. This ...
This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Danese Cooper, VP of strategic initiatives at NearForm. NearForm is an open source development company specialising in ...
When IT Meets Politics
Tomorrow began last week: Preparing for a Post Covid Lockdown World
Winsafe Ltd 28 Mar 2020There is much to think about while we are in lockdown if we want to live in a relatively free, safe and democratically accountable society afterwards, for however long it takes us to rebuild ...
CW Developer Network
IT modernisation series – Megaport: Why networks should be more like Spotify
27 Mar 2020Unlike 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 ...
Every day, we plug our smartphone into a power charging cable and (if we use Android on a Huawei Mate device, as is the case here) we watch the screen show a graphical representation (as depicted ...
“There’s nothing more unpleasant than watching grown-ups joining in with TikTok.” The words of Downtime less than two months ago. But as the government furthers its restrictions on UK life, the ...
When IT Meets Politics
Is personal privacy more important than combatting Covid-19?
Winsafe Ltd 26 Mar 2020Concerns over personal privacy, of serious concern to the political activists who might be "picked off" by their opponents but not to the majority of the population, have come ahead of enthusiasm ...
CW Developer Network
IT modernisation series – HashiCorp: Unlocking a common cloud operating model
26 Mar 2020Unlike 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 ...
CW Developer Network
IT modernisation series – NetApp: Threading & weaving a holistic data fabric
26 Mar 2020Unlike 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 ...
CW Developer Network
IT modernisation series – Moveworks: Why modernised IT depends on conversational AI
25 Mar 2020Unlike 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 ...
CW Developer Network
IT modernisation series – Cloudhouse: Legacy Windows platforms & the future of functionality
24 Mar 2020Unlike 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 recent spell of sunny weather, after weeks of torrential rain, brought the masses out. A lovely Spring weekend. If only so. As television and online images revealed, “It was like a bank ...
Java runtime solutions company Azul Systems has announced the general availability of its Zulu release of OpenJDK 14 builds. The builds are compliant with the Java SE 14 standard. The company ...
When IT Meets Politics
When On-line Education and Training meet the Covid-19 Lockdown
Winsafe Ltd 22 Mar 2020The most comprehensive and authoritative source of information on changes to the availability of educational materials for those of school age is the corona virus page of the London Grid for Learning
CW Developer Network
IT modernisation series – LzLabs: Making mainframe apps 'cloud-native'
20 Mar 2020Unlike 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 ...
In the midst of the ongoing Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak, technology vendors all over the world have been touting their wares to help individuals, businesses and medical workers tide over this ...
CW Developer Network
IT modernisation series – MuleSoft: Plugging loosely into an API-driven future
19 Mar 2020Unlike 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 ...
CW Developer Network
IT modernisation series – Rubrik: versioning as part of the modern API lifecycle
19 Mar 2020Unlike 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 ...
Social distancing is a bit of a busman’s holiday for Downtime, but just to be safe, we’ve alienated everyone we know. We haven’t really known what to do with ourselves since being advised to stay ...
Low-code software company OutSystems has announced a community-based app development programme to help combat the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak and its effects digitally. The company is offering ...
Ahead in the Clouds
Devs and cloud infrastructure management: Weighing up the pros and cons
Senior Editor, UK 17 Mar 2020In this guest post, Rob Greenwood, technical director at Manchester-based cloud consultancy, Steamhaus, sets out why developers might not be best-placed to run your company’s cloud. Just because ...
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 ...
As major cities around Europe enter the lockdown phase of the Covid-19 pandemic, people will increasingly rely on online services to stay in touch and to order groceries and other essentials. On ...
CW Developer Network
IT modernisation series – Confluent: Event streaming moves monoliths to microservices
16 Mar 2020Unlike 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 ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Is your perspective on outsourcing cloudy or clear?
Freeform Dynamics 13 Mar 2020"Wasn't cloud just another name for outsourcing back then?" joked another guest in a recent briefing, as our host explained just how long ago he’d joined his company’s cloud division. We all ...
CW Developer Network
IT modernisation series – Sumo Logic: cultural process shifts should precede platform lifts
13 Mar 2020Unlike 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 ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Budget 2020: Thanks for the cash, but there are bigger problems to solve first to boost UK tech
Editor in chief 13 Mar 2020Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s first Budget was a step towards making good on the new government’s promise to be “unashamedly” pro-technology. Offering £22bn in annual funding for research and ...
This is a guest post by Raju Vegesna, chief evangelist at Zoho For many, artificial intelligence (AI) is a distant and incomprehensible concept associated only with science fiction movies or ...
Open Source Insider
OpenUK schools competition uses MiniMU Glove, Red Hat also lends a hand
11 Mar 2020OpenUK, the open technology advocate organisation for open data, open source hardware and open source software in Britain, today announced a new competition for children at what is known as age ...
The Advertising Standards Authority has scorned Spotify for letting an It Chapter Two advert crop up in a classical lullaby playlist. Restful tots kicking back to Erik Satie would have been ...
Most years, the Computer Weekly Developer Network team looks forward to attending Appian World 2020, a conference and exhibition designed to showcase Appian’s approach to enterprise low-code ...
Low code heavyweight Appian has augmented its core platform with an amalgamated (i.e. integrated) automation offering focused on Robotic Process Automation (RPA). The ingeniously named Appian RPA ...
Quocirca’s Cloud Print Services 2020 report reveals the opportunities for managed print service (MPS) providers and their customers in transitioning to a cloud-based print infrastructure. The ...
Ahead in the Clouds
IR35 private sector reforms: Examining the infrastructure challenges it poses to umbrellas
Senior Editor, UK 06 Mar 2020In this guest post, John Whelan, CEO of cloud-based accountancy software provider My Digital Accounts, sets out why umbrella companies should be seizing on the incoming IR35 reforms in the private ...
Jack Dorsey faces a battle to remain Twitter CEO, as the ruthless activist fund that just bought a 4% stake in the company continues to push hard to get rid of him. Elliott Management, headed by ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Cabinet Office gives more non-answers on the future of Gov.uk Verify
Editor in chief 04 Mar 2020The remarkable levels of secrecy and avoidance of scrutiny around the Gov.uk Verify digital identity scheme continue – and if anything, seem to have reached new levels of absurdity. Last week, ...
When IT Meets Politics
An effective UK response to Covid 19 will require over-ruling current Ofcom policy
Winsafe Ltd 03 Mar 2020The effect of corporate and individual responses to the Covid-19 problem is to expedite changes in demand that make a nonsense of Ofcom's recent market reviews. They also overtake most of the ...
As more cases of the coronavirus are found in the UK, businesses are going to have to face the very real prospect that encouraging people to go into the office, raises the risk of the virus ...
CW Developer Network
IT modernisation series - WhereScape: Automation pushes IT beyond a ‘10-year view’
03 Mar 2020Unlike 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 ...
CW Developer Network
IT modernisation series - Unisys: cloud barometer interdependencies
03 Mar 2020Unlike 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 ...
Based in London, Planet Computers is the mobile handset manufacturer behind the Gemini PDA and the new Cosmo Communicator. Computer Weekly reviewed the very delightful Gemini PDA device here and ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Would you still consider the UK an attractive destination for global tech talent?
Editor in chief 28 Feb 2020Imagine you’re a skilled, ambitious IT professional living outside the UK and you want to maximise your earning potential and your exposure to the latest technology. You’re assessing where in the ...
UPDATE: Since this post was first written, SUSE has canceled the SUSECON 2020 due to the Coronavirus Covid-19 outbreak -- we will aim to report on whatever virtual resrouces are made available in ...
Eyes on APAC
Australia kicks off public consultation on 5G spectrum allocation
TechTarget 27 Feb 2020Earlier this week, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) called for feedback on potential competition issues associated with an upcoming allocation for the 26GHz spectrum which ...
CW Developer Network
IT modernisation series - Appvia: how to (safely) get databases to the cloud
27 Feb 2020Unlike 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 ...
Ahead in the Clouds
How lack of discipline can kill cloud efficiency and ROI
Senior Editor, UK 26 Feb 2020In this guest post, Dale Vile, CEO and research director at IT market watcher Freeform Dynamics, tells CIOs not to be afraid to change the course of their cloud plans as their IT and business needs ...
IR35 has claimed its first big name, after Eamonn Holmes failed to convince the courts he’s a freelancer in his case against HMRC. For the humble freelancer, the introduction of the kaleidoscopic ...
This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Andrew C. Oliver. Oliver is a former OSI board member, co-founder of Apache POI and present director of product marketing and ...
The finalists for the 2020 FDM everywoman in Technology Awards have been announced prior to the awards ceremony and everywoman Tech Forum in March 2020. Every year the woman’s network, everywoman, ...
Anchore is on the up. The container workflow, analysis and security company has a foundation in open source and is now being backed by funding led by tech venture capital firm SignalFire. But we ...
This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Ali Ghodsi in his capacity as co-founder and CEO at data science, big data processing and machine learning company ...
Ricky Gervais often compares social media abuse to a “tramp” shouting at you from a bin. The only problem with that is, when you lift the tin lid on that swirling vortex of cyber vitriol, rising ...
Some of your data is on your device/machine. Some of your data is in a datacentre… gently being drip-fed to you depending upon which application/cloud/web service you are using. Some of your data ...
The Linux Foundation’s Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) is a project designed to support best practices with a key eye on the security of critical open source software projects. The CII team ...
Eyes on APAC
Veeam readies Availability Suite V10, offers universal licensing
TechTarget 18 Feb 2020Veeam has taken the wraps off the latest iteration of its software to speed up backup and recovery, along with other features to help enterprises better manage their data in a hybrid cloud ...
Joe Drumgoole is deep in thought. MongoDB’s director of developer relations has just opened a piece of internal research that suggests as few as 29% of Europe’s developers take full responsibility ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Question value after conferences shutdown due to coronavirus risk
Managing Editor 17 Feb 2020The tech industry loves big tech events and for the host cities, these huge events represent a massive boost to the local economy. Thousands upon thousands of customers, sales people, and industry ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Want to hear the latest on Gov.uk Verify? Sorry, GDS still has nothing to say
Editor in chief 14 Feb 2020The great and the good of the digital identity sector gathered in London yesterday (13 February) for the Think Digital Identity for Government conference – a popular bi-annual event that always ...
GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Lucy Taylor, data analyst at Nominet, talks about her career path and how she moved from dancing to data analytics, whilst giving advice to other women ...
In what must be one of the most inappropriate gestures in the history of human life, adult website CamSoda has offered free webcam sessions to the 3,600-plus passengers currently quarantined aboard ...
Some events start with training workshops, some start with partner days, others use fancy terms for extra-curricular activities like 'unconference' (often held at the end), while others still ...
The first ‘wearable’ technology innovation is argued to have arrived sometime around the 13th century with the development of the first eyeglasses. In between that time and now we’ve had hearing ...
Earlier this week, SAP acknowledged that many of its customers are going to take far longer to move to S/4Hana, its next generation ERP system. For over 20 years, Computer Weekly has looked at the ...
GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Evgeny Shadchnev, co-founder and CEO of Makers, explains why lists like the UK Women in Software list are important for the future of digital I am ...
This is a guest post by Zhang Dixuan, Atlas datacentre domain general manager at Huawei’s intelligent computing business department The quest for knowledge has driven us to discover the highest ...
Dynatrace used its annual Perform conference to detail the expansion of its digital experience management capabilities. This includes advanced analytics (and segmentation) of mobile app user ...
Open Source Insider
Open source licence series - Cockroach Labs: Scaling a sustainable open source business model
06 Feb 2020Open source grew, it proliferated… and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key means of development… but the issue of how open source software ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
The cloud deal question that follows on from an Oracle audit
Managing Editor 06 Feb 2020On 17 December 2019, the US District Court, Northern District of California, San Jose Division, dismissed the 2018 class action case brought by the City of Sunrise Firefighters’ Pension Fund ...
Open Source Insider
Open source licence series - OpenStack Foundation: Protecting open source freedoms
05 Feb 2020Open source grew, it proliferated… and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key means of development… but the issue of how open source software ...
Software intelligence Application Performance Management (APM) company Dynatrace held its Perform conference in Las Vegas this week and the Computer Weekly Developer Network team was front and ...
CW Developer Network
Dynatrace extends Kubernetes support, observability goes 'full-stack'
05 Feb 2020Dynatrace used its Perform conference 2020 in Las Vegas this week to announced new enhancements to its support for Kubernetes. The company's explainable AI engine Davis now 'automatically ingests' ...
You can’t take your eyes off Elon Musk for a moment. Such is the rate of Downtime content generated by tech’s OG attention seeker, we once attempted to retire from indulging his antics altogether. ...
Let’s be clear about this… this is a product review, but it’s also a ‘use case’ review. The ViewSonic VX3276-2K-mhd 32" Entertainment Monitor was put under testing scrutiny by the Inspect-a-Gadget ...
As I mentioned in my previous blog post, the time for digital transformation to happen has started to hit crunch time, and then some. I recently reported on an IT event in Central Londinium, an ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Why settle for just one RTO and one RPO?
Freeform Dynamics 03 Feb 2020I think we can all agree that protecting data is important – perhaps even very important. So how come some still find it a daunting challenge to progress from that acknowledgement into tangible ...
Networks Generation
It's Not Just About Brexit, Superbowl And Footie Transfer Deadlines...
Broadband Testing 03 Feb 2020So, the past few days has seen some serious deadlines and finals come and go. And, no, we're not going to talk about the rugby (yet). In the world of IT, the "Brexit" of our industry, AKA "Digital ...
When IT Meets Politics
Broadband/5G Security, Resilience, Competition, Huawei, Ofcom and Brexit
Winsafe Ltd 01 Feb 2020Fast, reliable Internet access is essential for business competitiveness in a post Brexit world. It is also critical to the rest of modern society. If the fixed and mobile networks of BT/EE, ...
Open Source Insider
Open source licence series – Delphix: Rent vs buy, which fits your licencing cost model?
01 Feb 2020Open source grew, it proliferated… and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key means of development… but the issue of how open source software ...
Open Source Insider
Open source licence series – Tidelift: Ethical source-available licenses challenge open source
31 Jan 2020Open source grew, it proliferated… and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key means of development… but the issue of how open source software ...
Open Source Insider
Open source licence series – Puppet: consumption without collaboration equals consternation
31 Jan 2020Open source grew, it proliferated… and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key means of development… but the issue of how open source software ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Technology is losing its battle to be a unifying force
Editor in chief 30 Jan 2020The pioneers of the internet and the web saw themselves as liberators. They believed, passionately, they were creating a better world – one that was open, collaborative, broke down barriers, and ...
BT’s press office has reported some “worrying” findings as part of its Skills for Tomorrow programme, designed to “close the digital skills knowledge gap that exists between parents and children”. ...
The Computer Weekly Developer Network team is attending Appian World 2020, a conference and exhibition designed to showcase Appian’s approach to enterprise low-code software platform application ...
Data Matters
The future of enterprise application consumption: an adoption paradigm shift
Business Applications Editor 29 Jan 2020This is a guest blogpost by Mark Armstrong, GM and GVP EMEA, Rimini Street. In the next 5-10 years I see three business and societal trends that will potentially lead to a radical shift in how we ...
Quiz time: list your top 10 Artificial Intelligence (AI) world hubs? Possible answers: Silicon Valley (obviously), Bangalore & Bengaluru (same place), Shanghai and Shenzen (both big footprints ...
The Logitech MX Keys keyboard is a nice keyboard. It’s actually the nicest keyboard we (the virtual Inspect-a-Gadget) team has used, possibly ever. It should be, it’s not cheap. This unit comes in ...
Data Matters
The Dream Team: why data security, compliance and privacy come hand in hand
Business Applications Editor 28 Jan 2020This is a guest blogpost by Anthony Di Bello, VP Strategic Development, OpenText Today’s business landscape is littered with valuable data. The rapid adoption of digital technologies, means that ...
Advanced analytics company QuantumBlack has released its racily-named CausalNex software product. This is the company’s second open source software development following its previous launch of ...
Open Source Insider
Open source licence series - Rancher Labs: Why vendor ‘strip-mining’ is an opportunity, not a threat
27 Jan 2020Open source grew, it proliferated… and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key means of development... but the issue of how open source software ...
Open Source Insider
Open source licence series - Altus: open source is big business, get used to it
27 Jan 2020Open source grew, it proliferated… and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key means of development... but the issue of how open source software ...
Fintech makes the world go around
Cash will survive beyond demise of plastic cards, says Deutsche Bank
Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 24 Jan 2020Forget the end of cash, say goodbye to your platic bank card
We’re moving on from monitoring and management in some spheres of information technology. Where we once had monitoring, alerting, abstraction and system visualisation alongside log analytics and ...
Open Source Insider
Open source licence series - Instaclustr: Is open core a rotten deal?
24 Jan 2020Open source grew, it proliferated… and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key means of development... but the issue of how open source software ...
This is a guest posted by by Marc Caltabiano, vice-president for ANZ at Mulesoft Companies across industries have been gearing up for digital transformation, which has become a buzzword in the tech ...
Open Source Insider
Open source licence series - WhiteSource: permissive is winning, but is there a hurt factor?
23 Jan 2020Open source grew, it proliferated… and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key means of development... but the issue of how open source software ...
Facebook has extended its apologies to China’s president Xi Jinping for erroneously translating his name to “Mr Shithole”. With Slick Nick busy defending his employer’s decision to keep letting ...
Open Source Insider
Open source licence series - Percona: is the battle won, or is this a different war?
22 Jan 2020Open source grew, it proliferated… and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key means of development... but the issue of how open source software ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Davos 2020: Tech sector and the climate change challenge
Managing Editor 21 Jan 2020Last week Microsoft chief, Satya Nadella, made the headlines, with an audacious plan to eradicate the company’s historic carbon footprint, by reversing all its emissions since 1975. As political ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Consent and GDPR: at least get the basics right!
Freeform Dynamics 20 Jan 2020Why do companies find it so hard to get their heads around even the basics of GDPR compliance? I’m not even thinking here of techie stuff like not getting hacked, and not losing a laptop full of ...
Low-code application development company OutSystems has noted a milestone, the firm’s Forge asset portal has hit one million unique component downloads. The Forge offers access to over 2,500 assets ...