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Computer Weekly Editors Blog
UK IT budgets are increasing fast as cloud adoption accelerates - Computer Weekly reader survey
Editor in chief 02 Feb 2018Every year, Computer Weekly conducts a large-scale survey of our readers to find out their IT spending priorities for the year ahead – it’s always an interesting take on what’s happening in IT ...
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Microsoft's challenge for 2018: mindshare & market relevance
Freeform Dynamics 02 Feb 2018Microsoft's revenues are up, but compared to its biggest competitors -- Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook -- its mindshare and perceived market relevance are down. Satya Nadella's Microsoft is ...
In this guest post, Kat Lee, data analyst at service provider Cloudreach, shares some best practice on cloud billing to help enterprises cut costs. IT cost control and management is a hot topic of ...
GitLab is expanding... but what is its position in the total source code repository management universe? Let's draw a couple of lines first with a nod to the SESYNC research support community for ...
This is a guest blogpost by Matt Jones, lead analytics strategist at Tessella, in which he argues companies with physical products and infrastructure cannot simply cut and paste the tech giant’s AI ...
Despite recent advancements in deep learning, which has its roots in neuroscience, it not a dramatic breakthrough in artificial intelligence as it is sometimes portrayed. That was the key point ...
News of new culture secretary Matt Hancock launching his own app sent Downtime direct to the App Store. After a tantalising few seconds waiting for Matt Hancock to download, we open it up and join ...
Smart speaker devices like Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant are making children ask for things without say "please", research from Childwise has found
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Why the IoT is pushing analytics to the limit
Freeform Dynamics 01 Feb 2018IoT Back to Basics, chapter 2: In the era of the Internet of Things (IoT) it is becoming increasingly important to be able to process, filter and analyse data close to where it is created, so it ...
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Privacy lessons from the fitness fiasco
Freeform Dynamics 01 Feb 2018Most of us already recognise that technology has the potential to wipe out our privacy, if checks and balances are not in place – or at least I hope we do! What’s scary then in the recent hoo-hah ...
This is the third in a series of articles exploring the challenges and opportunities facing the audio visual (AV) industry, which has its annual European flagship event, ISE2018, in February. This ...
Red Hat has been out shopping. The enterprise focused open source platform company has bought CoreOS, a specialist technology player known for its Kubernetes and container-native solutions. ...
Open Source Insider
Open source needs contributions: automation, scale & security are key
30 Jan 2018Automated software container security company Twistlock claims to be passionate about open source contributions. Company CTO John Morello points out that all too few firms actually contribute with ...
Facebook doesn't usually make technical headlines unless the social site is being criticised over the implementation of its algorithm structure and questioned over whether it is unfairly promoting ...
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Information management is going mainstream – at last!
Freeform Dynamics 29 Jan 2018Some assumptions have been held by IT pros for so long that they have almost become articles of faith. One of these is the idea that content management, particularly for files, semi-structured and ...
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GDPR’s latest gift? Class action privacy cases
Freeform Dynamics 29 Jan 2018Europeans will in future be able to bring US-style class actions for (alleged) privacy violations, instead of having to sue individually and expensively. It’s thanks to a little-known clause of the ...
Ahead in the Clouds
Serverless vs. Microservices: What you need to know for cloud
Senior Editor, UK 29 Jan 2018In this guest post Neil Turvin, CEO at nearshore software development company Godel Technologies, shares his thoughts on how serverless computing is gaining ground in the delivery of cloud ...
Describing itself as a machine data analytics company, Sumo Logic is aiming to put a new CAPS C into a technology market already used to Continuous Integration, Testing, Deployment and Delivery. ...
Fintech makes the world go around
Bank systems glitch leaves thousands unable to access funds, but bank doesn’t explain what happened
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 29 Jan 2018Monzo bank has broke the mould be giving customers a detailed explanation of what cause a glitch in their banking service
The Linux operating system (OS) will turn 30 in the year 2021. We know that Linus Torvalds first penned (typed) his work plans for what turned out to be Linux on a Usenet posting as follows: "I'm ...
CW Developer Network
The five enemies of continuous software (and what to do about them)
26 Jan 2018This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Eran Kinsbruner in his role as lead technical evangelist for Perfecto. Perfecto is known for its 'continuous' (as in ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Theresa May's welcome tech enthusiasm comes with a huge Brexit caveat
Editor in chief 26 Jan 2018It’s nice that we have a prime minister that chooses to use one of her most high-profile speeches of the year to talk about technology. It’s equally good that her chancellor similarly discussed the ...
Core level API-centric software quality specialist SmartBear has now come forward with Swagger Inspector, a free cloud-based API testing and documentation tool. The product is used to validate and ...
Data Matters
Empowering everyone with actionable analytics
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 25 Jan 2018This is a guest blogpost by Arijit Sengupta, head of Einstein Discovery, Salesforce The business world has ...
If you’ve ever gone through the process of getting a tech startup off the ground, you’ll be familiar with the nerve-wracking process of pitching a group of stony-faced investors with your idea to ...
In this guest post, Prakash Sadagopan, director of field systems engineering at F5 Networks Asia-Pacific, discusses mobile security issues and what enterprises can do to stay secure. The boom of ...
Ahead in the Clouds
Unblocking the database bottleneck in enterprise DevOps deployments
Senior Editor, UK 24 Jan 2018In this guest post, DevOps consultant and researcher Nicole Forsgren, PhD, shares her advice on what enterprises can do to overcome the database problem when scaling up their DevOps endeavours. ...
Fintech makes the world go around
Fintech based banks need more differentiation to convince consumers to ditch traditional players
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 24 Jan 2018New banks are putting too much importance on their digital usability as a way to win over coustomers
How do developers feel about so-called ‘low code’ platforms? In truth, we don’t really know yet as their very existence is a comparatively new phenomenon on the clock that tracks spacetime in the ...
Amazon, originator of the smart speaker category in the home, is taking Alexa into the office too. However, as David McClelland explores in the first of a two-part feature, Amazon isn't the only ...
Visual analytics company Tableau Software has launched a new data engine technology called Hyper. The software is included in the Tableau 10.5 version release. Hyper is designed to 'slice and dice' ...
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In IoT, Data matters more than Things – and here's why
Freeform Dynamics 22 Jan 2018IoT Back to Basics, chapter 1: The Internet of Things (IoT) is placing unprecedented demands on data storage, networking, processing and analytics. For end users, vendors and investors, it ...
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How will Apple spend its cash in 2018?
Freeform Dynamics 22 Jan 2018Apple probably has more cash than it knows what to do with right now, and this “problem” looks set to intensify if the company decides to repatriate the $250 billion it's holding in overseas ...
As the 'company behind' Ubuntu, Canonical has brought forward the first iteration of Slack as a snap on its software platform. Slack is a cloud-based set of proprietary team collaboration tools and ...
StorageBuzz
Microsoft purchase of Avere marks a hybrid cloud-y start to 2018
Storage Editor 22 Jan 2018Microsoft’s acquisition of Avere for an undisclosed sum, announced at the beginning of the year, marks the swallowing of an always-interesting storage player and a significant move for Microsoft ...
If age checking works well it will challenge some powerful vested interests - not all of them legitimate or reputable.
Richard Branson has overturned his Virgin Trains stooges’ decision to stop selling the Daily Mail, instantly pouring cold water over accusations that the billionaire who sued the NHS might be too ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
There's nothing for government IT outsourcing to learn from Carillion that we don't already know
Editor in chief 18 Jan 2018The demise of construction and services giant Carillion has brought fresh scrutiny of outsourcing in government. Frankly, you could find some event almost every year that brings fresh scrutiny of ...
Reports of Java's death have been greatly exaggerated -- said, well, pretty much every Java engineer that there is. The Java language and platform may have been (in some people's view) somewhat ...
Software and silicon design company Synopsys has just published an interesting report that classifies chief information security officers (CISOs) into four archetypes or what it calls “tribes”. ...
Inspect-a-Gadget
Cash in hand? This cryptocurrency body implant will secure your cyber-cash stash
18 Jan 2018Is the future of secure cryptocurrency storage and payment simply "cash in hand"? Inspect a Gadget looks at how one firm's human microchip implant could help. We’ve all looked on with interest as ...
In this guest post, Allan Brearley, cloud practice lead at IT services consultancy ECS and Tesco Bank’s former head of transformation shares his thoughts on what enterprises can do to address the ...
The Full Spectrum
When it comes to mobile spectrum, it's time for Three to get over itself
Security Editor 17 Jan 2018I was hugely pleased today to see that despite the possibility of another legal roadblock in the Court of Appeal, telecoms regulator Ofcom is going to move ahead and lay the groundwork for the ...
Fintech makes the world go around
Ordering a takeaway on a smartphone is transforming your local environment and community
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 17 Jan 2018When people get their smartphone out and order transport, evening meal and even a place to stay at a few touches they don't think about the huge social and environmental changes that they are ...
There has been an undeniable popularisation of so-called 'low-code' programming platforms. This is a strain of technology designed to provide automated blocks of functionality that can be brought ...
The finalists for this year’s everywoman in Technology Awards have been announced prior to the awards ceremony in February 2018. After sorting through applications from hundreds of candidates, ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Klaus-Michael Vogelberg in his capacity as chief technology officer at financially-focused Enterprise Resource Planning ...
The recent launch of Microsoft's Azure Stack platform provides a means for organisations to create a far more flexible and consistent hybrid private/public cloud environment. However, unless the ...
In this guest post, Ron Vermeulen, go-to-market manager for north-west Europe at IT services provider, Comparex, runs through the process of finding and fixing cloud faults There is no doubt that ...
In some ways the Meltdown and Spectre flaws represent a risk that goes to the very heart of computing. This microprocessor flaw has resulted in major network, server, PC and mobile hardware firms ...