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Dominic Raab, the Secretary of State for Exiting the EU, has been in hot water for his late-dawning admission of the importance of the Dover-Calais route to the UK’s trade in goods. Raab was ...
As we, seemingly, edge closer to something resembling a UK deal for leaving the European Union (and by the time you read this, that statement could quite possibly have been superseded by events), ...
Samsung has unveiled something resembling a VTech learning toy to try to maintain its foothold in the smartphone market. Commentators humoured the announcement, though, referring to the ...
New England headquartered Progress has announced the latest release of NativeScript, an open source framework for building native mobile apps with Angular, Vue.js, TypeScript and JavaScript. Vue.js ...
How does the The Apache Software Foundation work out who are the best people? Let’s remember that the foundation itself is a non-profit corporation established to support Apache software projects, ...
Multi-cloud automation company Mesosphere has now come forward with Mesosphere Kubernetes Engine (MKE), Mesosphere DC/OS 1.12 and the public beta of Mesosphere Jupyter Service (MJS). Mesosphere ...
StorageBuzz
IBM and Red Hat: Inspired or desperate? And a difficult journey ahead
Storage Editor 06 Nov 2018IBM’s proposed $34 billion purchase of Red Hat looks like a good idea for both sides. But is the proposed coming together borne of inspiration, or desperation? In other words, were the two ...
Fintech makes the world go around
The fintech interview: Part 9 TrueLayer
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 06 Nov 2018TrueLayer is at the core of the fintech sector's drive into the open banking space
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Last call for a European public cloud?
Freeform Dynamics 05 Nov 2018Europe’s self-described No.1 ‘hyper-scale cloud provider’, OVH, held its 6th annual customer conference in Paris recently. Attendees got to meet the new CEO, Michel Paulin, and hear about the ...
Everybody’s favourite social media platform company Facebook has -- despite the US supreme court apologies and multifarious shenanigans -- continued to pump blood through its undeniably vibrant ...
Data Matters
The Bond of Intelligence at Oracle Open World
Enterprise Applications Editor 02 Nov 2018Oracle Open World 2018 seems a world away. Especially, when you have had a few days’ furlough in between. Mark Hurd’s second keynote at OOW convoked a common room of former spies from the US and UK ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Chancellor's Budget boost for tech is tempered by Brexit realities
Editor in chief 02 Nov 2018Gone, or so it seems, are the days when Computer Weekly laments after every Budget statement from the Chancellor of the Exchequer that tech has been overlooked. There is little doubt that ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by William Ayerst in his role as senior consultant at Amido, a company that specialises in the implementation of ‘cloud-first’ ...
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Fidor Bank to separate from BCPE after short marriage
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 02 Nov 2018The integration of digital bank Fidor to BCPE's business fails to materialise
At IDC's annual FutureScapes event this week, the APAC group vice-president of the technology analyst firm, Sandra Ng, took a shot at predicting the technology trends that will shape the things to ...
On 1 November 2018 Google staff from offices around the world staged walkouts to protest the company’s alleged poor treatment of women. Staff across all departments, in several cities globally, ...
It’s been almost a year since Downtime talked emojis, but from far-right tool bag Jair Bolsonaro seizing power in Brazil to a supermarket magazine editor thinking it’s normal to reply to a ...
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Industrial IoT makes your people more important, not less
Freeform Dynamics 01 Nov 2018The recent Industry of Things World conference in Berlin offered insights into the state of the much-hyped Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). At one end, big early adopters such as Airbus, ...
This is a guest blogpost by Julian Nolan, CEO, Iprova A technology revolution is taking place in the research and development (R&D) departments of businesses around the world. Driven by data, ...
Fintech makes the world go around
IR35 changes could see banking IT jobs offshored
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 01 Nov 2018New rules on how contractors pay tax could tip the big banks towards increasing IT outsourcing
Open Source Insider
Drop in the (Digital) Ocean: where we're going wrong with open source
01 Nov 2018It’s easy to knock open source; there are frailties in fragilities in all code and open source libraries have been variously castigated by a litany of security software vendors attempting to ply ...
Fintech makes the world go around
The fintech interview: Part 8 InvestCloud
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 31 Oct 2018InvestCloud is a fintech with a few miles on the clock. It was even around when businesses didn't understand cloud services.
Unless you were hiding under a rock holding a sign reading ‘don’t tell me about any big corporate technology news’ all week, you’ll know that IBM agreed to buy Red Hat for a total enterprise value ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Keith Casey in his capacity as API problem solver (yes, real job title) at identity management specialist company Okta. ...
Microservices you say? An approach to contemporary software application development in which an (often large) application is built as a suite of modular and discrete components or services. Tish ...
You don't normally expect a Jim Whitehurst LinkedIn update to hit you over a cuppa at 7am on a Monday morning. Whitehurst is CEO of commercially supported open source enterprise Linux operating ...
Applications have features, so, logically, feature management (and delivery) is now a thing. The very logically named Rollout is a company that describes itself as a feature delivery and management ...
World-renowned auction house Christie’s has offered up its first ever artwork created by an algorithm, but as usual with artificial intelligence (AI), there’s an elephant in the room: it’s crap. ...
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The fintech interview: Part 7 ClauseMatch
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 24 Oct 2018ClauseMatch is a London based startup that offers to automate the process that banks go through to prove they comply with industry regulations
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Google has got serious about Enterprise IT
Freeform Dynamics 24 Oct 2018Google has made a complete about-face on the enterprise. It took so long that if you were watching all the time you probably didn’t notice it, but it has turned through 180 degrees. Thinking back ...
German softwarehaus SAP held its annual European TechEd technical conference in Barcelona this week. So was it technical? Yes, any keynote with command line code presentations surely ranks as ...
Afternoon sessions at this year's SAP TechEd Europe 2018 in Barcelona opened up the opportunity to speak to Thomas Grassl, SAP’s global head for developer and community relations. The Computer ...
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Blockchain not the best technology for every use considered, says Australian government report
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 23 Oct 2018Australian government report finds that there is a better technology than blockchain for every use considered in its report
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Cloud Foundry’s growth highlights open source success and the cracks in commercial licensing
Freeform Dynamics 23 Oct 2018Open source has crested the hill of enterprise acceptance. There's no longer the fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) that there was around open source a few years ago, plus it's often a lot easier ...
So, in recent blogs I've talked about all things migration-wise; Windows migration issues and the testing thereof, migrating to the cloud, even migrating the cloud back to OnPrem, from OnPrem to ...
The Full Spectrum
How the IoT can form part of a targeted approach to infrastructure asset management
Security Editor 22 Oct 2018This is a guest blog by Manish Jethwa, CTO at IoT specialist Yotta Our national infrastructure assets are under more strain than ever. According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the UK ...
Open source software configuration management company Puppet used its colourfully named Puppetize Live event in San Francisco this month to detail a new product designed to help measure their ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Can Matt Hancock be the minister that finally gets NHS technology right?
Editor in chief 19 Oct 2018A large and toxic cloud has hung over NHS IT since the failure of the £12bn National Programme that saw billions wasted on systems that barely worked. Since then, we’ve seen the collapse of ...
There’s open source and there’s open source. There’s genuine free and open source software (FOSS) and then there’s largely locked down proprietary non-dynamic library open source that is generally ...
Taking stock of retail tech
Addicted to clicks? Would you try online retail rehab?
Business Editor 19 Oct 2018In early October 2018, fintech firm iZettle ran a rehab centre for online shopping addicts to show the impact e-commerce has on the highstreet. But will this change customer habits? Spoiler alert, ...
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The fintech interview: Part 6 Rebuilding Society
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 19 Oct 2018Rebuilding Society is a Leeds based fintech trying to offer SMEs access to better loans as well as selling its technology to organisations setting up crowdfuning initiatives
This is a guest blog post by Tony Judd, MD UKI and Benelux at Verizon With the popularity of new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT) and ...
Several women in tech spoke about the importance of diversity at Splunk.conf 2018 in Florida, some about shocking diversity statistics and others giving advice from one woman in tech to another. To ...
Earlier this week, all members of Computer Weekly’s APAC CIO advisory panel gathered for the first time to share their thoughts on digital transformation and what the overused term means to them. ...
We used to say: if you’re a developer, then you’re a full stack software application developer. Then we moved on to say: all developers are essentially mobile developers because all applications ...
Whether you can pronounce the company’s name or not, it’s for sure that Huawei (say: wah-way) has become a significant presence in the smartphone market today. Now with corporate ambitions to ...
WITsend
In conversation with: Russ Shaw, everywoman male agent of change 2018
Business Editor 17 Oct 2018In 2018 Russ Shaw, founder of Tech London Advocates (TLA) and Global Tech Advocates (GTA), won the Male Agent of Change Award at the 2018 FDM everywoman in Technology Awards. Everywoman introduced ...
Fintech makes the world go around
The fintech interview: Part 5 Honcho
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 17 Oct 2018How a serial entrepreneur and a former soldier plotted to take on the car insurance price comparison sites
As if smartphone devices aren't already taking over our lives enough, a US company has launched a miniature phone to act as a companion to your main device. In a world where smartphones are ...
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Serious about diversity and inclusion? Set measurable targets or fail
Business Editor 16 Oct 2018In this guest post Byron Calmonson, director of the resourcing hub, claims the only way to ensure diversity and inclusion in an organisation is to set measurable targets. Are you getting fed up ...