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Our embrace of so-called 'open data' is coming to the fore, but what is it, why does it matter and what role should it play in the wider development of enterprise technology infrastructures? ...
Fintech makes the world go around
Trainline shaking up rail travel beyond making trains run on time
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 05 Jul 2018Trainline's data scientists are applying the latest technologies to vast data sets to make train journey ticket prices easier to navigate
Gavin Williamson unwittingly summoning Siri on his iPhone whilst updating Parliament on the fight against Daesh has marked him as national security’s weak link, which couldn’t really be any less ...
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Workplace software as an occupational hazard
Freeform Dynamics 04 Jul 2018The US Department of Labor has updated its Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. Known as 2018 SOC, government agencies use the system to classify workers and, with a bit of ...
Fintech makes the world go around
London fintechs managed by Oracle's Brussels arm: a shock a few years ago, but not today
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 04 Jul 2018Not that surprising in this day and age that a large software company puts its European fintech resources in a city other than London
Slightly cheesy with a dash of spin perhaps? But API (Application Programming Interface) development is now a real 'thing', so should we look more deeply into what API development involves? For ...
The Computer Weekly Developer Network shamefully missed its chance to attend MongoDB World 2018 for the USA leg of the schema-fluid developer-focused database company’s contribution to this year’s ...
In this guest post, Jo Morfee, co-founder of Innovate Her, discusses the UK's digital skills pipeline and how to encourage more girls to be part of it One of the main factors impeding technology ...
Diversity matters, in all walks of life, obviously. Data diversity is also an issue because data comes in many ‘types’, that is - structured, unstructured, semi-structured, big, dark, geo-tagged, ...
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Millennial versus Mature – who's the real IT security risk?
Freeform Dynamics 29 Jun 2018Passwords have been the mainstay for securing applications, devices and the data they hold, pretty much ever since IT was invented. It’s an approach that has always had weaknesses though, mostly ...
Networks Generation
IT On A Budget? Still Plenty Of Investment Money Around...
Broadband Testing 29 Jun 2018IT is often two-faced and never more so than when it comes to the financial health of the industry. Speak to one set and they'll tell you how tight it is, scrapping for every penny of profit, and ...
Who’s your daddy? -- sang the Zombies in their 1967 hit Time Of The Season. Then came Ray Winstone in Scum in 1979, he was certainly the daddy. Fast forward to 2018 and who’s the daddy? Secure ...
Somewhere deep in cyber space, a clutch of the internet’s more eccentric alt-right YouTubers have collaborated to join Ukip for a bit of attention, and the dotty old right-wing Eurosceptics have ...
The last visit to Unified Comms (UC) expo in London reinforced a view that this sector is slightly misnamed. The attempt a few years ago to tack ‘and collaboration’ (UC&C) onto the end seemed ...
What’s better than data analytics? Well, one answer is Marmite mixed with peanut butter and orange marmalade, obviously. MapD Technologies thinks it can go one better. The company’s spin doctors ...
Fintech makes the world go around
Who is right on blockchain Gartner or Deloitte, or even both?
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 26 Jun 2018It is hard to tell the real status of blockchain take up because there is so much background noise
Most of the skills in short supply can be acquired and assessed within days or weeks provided employers and those in their supply chains come together to agree standards and organise co-operation ...
German technologyhaus Software AG has for some time now openly focused on technologies that populate the Internet of Things (IoT). The man steering much of the company’s development in this space ...
Pusher is a developer tools company that makes communication and collaboration APIs for web and mobile applications. The company’s core product is called Channels, developers use it to create ...
There’s applications and application delivery… and then there’s the arguably more upmarket notion of Adaptive Release Orchestration & Continuous Delivery (AROCD - not a real acronym). Placing ...
Software-und System-Entwicklung (or, SUSE, to you and me) has been active this month and opened the box on SUSE CaaS Platform 3. SUSE CaaS is the acronym for the open source operating system ...
Ahead in the Clouds
Why next-generation IaaS is likely to be open source
Senior Editor, UK 22 Jun 2018In this guest post, Chip Childers, CTO of open source platform-as-a-service Cloud Foundry, makes the case for why the future of public cloud and IaaS won't be proprietary. Once upon a time, ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Public scrutiny of IT failures is fundamental to IT success
Editor in chief 22 Jun 2018MPs on the Treasury select committee have been doing everyone in IT a favour lately. Thanks to pressure from their investigations, we’ve had near-unprecedented access to the real stories of what ...
Eyes on APAC
APAC CIO interview: Kwong Yuk Wah, National Trades Union Congress, Singapore
TechTarget 21 Jun 2018As a veteran in Singapore’s IT industry, Kwong Yuk Wah has played a part in major IT initiatives over two decades, starting with the government’s computerisation programme that paved the way for ...
A civil servant has swapped her job at the Department for Education for a stint on ITV’s hit reality show Love Island. Zara McDermott, who had previously been developing government policy on ...
Data Matters
The external workforce: are you realising its full value?
Enterprise Applications Editor 21 Jun 2018This is a guest blogpost by Mikael Lindmark, a senior vice president at SAP Fieldglass As CIOs and other executives across enterprises turn to contractors, freelancers and other external workers to ...
CW Developer Network
Cast analysis: cold war era ‘Thatcher’ apps still rock, Agile more flaky
20 Jun 2018Cast is a company dedicated to the code analysis it performs as its core bread and butter. Not a security company as such, Cast describes itself as a software intelligence specialist How much code ...
Fintech makes the world go around
Fintech takes headlines but Insurtech is a huge opportunity
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 20 Jun 2018Insurtech doesn't have the ring of Fintech but the opportunity to personalise insurance through tech is huge
Instaclustr has announced Kafka-as-a-Service in bid to provide an easier route to the real-time data streaming platform An open source player from the start, the e-dropping Instaclustr specifies ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Enterprise AI: fiction and reality
Freeform Dynamics 18 Jun 2018If you are starting to suspect that the AI hype is overblown, and that it's just the latest term that marketing folk love to add to make their product sound more interesting, you are not alone. ...
Ahead in the Clouds
SaaS vs IaaS vs on-premise: What if moving to the cloud is not the answer?
Senior Editor, UK 18 Jun 2018In this guest post, Richard Blanford, managing director of G-cloud-listed IT services provider Fordway, advises companies to weigh up the pros and cons of using SaaS and IaaS before going all-in on ...
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Your PC is rooted and jailbroken: deal with it!
Freeform Dynamics 18 Jun 2018One of the defining characteristics of the modern digital workplace is a Windows PC on every desk and a smartphone in every pocket. The ability to centrally discover, provision, deploy, update, and ...
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European Parliament heads for showdown with US over Privacy Shield
Computer Weekly 18 Jun 2018By Kevin Cahill The Justice Committee of the European Parliament has set the scene for a major showdown with the US over data transfers between the EU and the US by setting a Sept 1st deadline for ...
CW Developer Network
Can Hitachi Vantara build 'ecosystem, stack, platform' universe with enough granular clout?
18 Jun 2018Hitachi Vantara continues its development in the post-HDS post-Pentaho post- ‘the other bit’ (okay we know it was Hitachi Insight Group) amalgam that has seen the company now build its current ...
Data Matters
Can good data approaches help uncover bad data social manipulation?
Enterprise Applications Editor 15 Jun 2018Software definitely helped cause the pernicious problem of fake news – but could also ameliorate it, says data expert Emil Eifrem, in a guest blogpost. Time was it was the tabloid newspapers that ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
The next moves by DCMS on data and digital identity must lay foundations for UK's digital economy
Editor in chief 15 Jun 2018Matt Hancock, the secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport (DCMS), is not everyone’s cup of tea – especially when that cup is Matt Hancock branded. But regardless of whether you’re ...
CW Developer Network
LzLabs: source code dependency dragged down mainframe rehosting, until now
15 Jun 2018This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Mark Cresswell in his capacity as CEO of LzLabs. LzLabs develops what it calls its Software Defined Mainframe (SDM) package ...
This is a guest blog by Claudia Imhoff, CEO Intelligent Solutions and founder, Boulder BI Brain Trust Like any new initiative, there are both challenges and benefits to weigh when deciding whether ...
Open Source Insider
The ‘problems’ with machine learning, Databricks MLflow to the rescue?
14 Jun 2018Databricks announced a new open source project called MLflow for open source machine learning at the Spark Summit this month. The company exists to focus on cloud-based big data processing using ...
Fans of Cirque du Soleil’s highly-anticipated Toruk – The First Flight were encouraged to whip out their smartphones during the performance in Singapore recently – with full blessings from the ...
This week, we suppose we’re meant to have some kind of sideways take on Downtime icon Elon Musk selling flamethrowers to his lamewad fans, but documenting this man’s hijinks is starting to become ...
Quocirca Insights
Fixing the future of Fax - more important than you might have thought?
Timefort 13 Jun 2018There is a term which crops up a lot in the technology sector - ‘legacy’. Occasionally, especially when talking to very long-established companies, the term ‘heritage’ occurs. It is useful ...
TigerGraph has brought forward a free Developer Edition of its graph analytics platform for lifetime non-commercial use. But, please, what is graph analytics? As defined nicely here by Hitachi ...
Machine data log file analytics specialist Splunk has added an extra dose of incident management capability into its stack with the acquisition of VictorOps. The Colorado headquartered VictorOps ...
Arguably, open source is not an alternative to commercial software. Rather, it is a way to create software collaboratively, and at a global scale. Active contributors in the open source community ...
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European Court hearing into EU-US data transfer system will not happen for at least 18 months
Computer Weekly 08 Jun 2018By Kevin Cahill The European Court of Justice may not have a hearing into crucial questions about the legality of the EU-US data transfer system for at least 18 months according to a spokesperson ...
The Full Spectrum
The hunt is on for a new BT CEO, but who would fill Gavin Patterson's shoes?
Security Editor 08 Jun 2018Facing negative PR all around after announcing a strategic realignment that is to see 13,000 employees made redundant and the closure of its central London HQ after over 100 years, even the good ...
In this guest post, Darren Watkins, managing director at colocation provider VIRTUS Data Centres, on how to help organisations take back control over their big data. When the story broke in March ...
One app mentioned at Zendesk’s customer experience conference this month was Replika, an AI friend that on first impression seems barely an improvement on grandparent’s crumpet Eliza from 1964. ...
It has been a busy week at SAP Sapphire, the conference is staged in association with the independent ASUG (Americas SAP User Group). Along with partner news, there were core platform shifts (news ...