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This 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 ...

Databricks 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 ...

There 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 ...

By 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 ...

Facing 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 ...

SAP used its ASUG (Americas SAP User Group) Sapphire Now conference held in Orlando, Florida this year to detail a number of ‘telling’ partner initiatives that could suggest new directions of focus ...

SAP staged a press 'breakfast with mimosas' session at the ASUG SAP Sapphire conference and exhibition in Orlando, Florida this year. For the uninitiated, a 'mimosa' is what would normally be ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) talks to Viktor Farcic in his his role as senior consultant at CloudBees in line with a mini-series of posts related to the rise of what we have called ...

SAP has formed plans to work with Accenture, Capgemini and Deloitte with the specific aim of increasing customer adoption of the SAP S/4HANA Cloud in (even more specifically) the process ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network talks to John Pocknell is his role as senior product manager at Quest in line with a mini-series of posts related to the rise of what we have called the ...

SAP has used the ASUG (Americas SAP User Group) convention in Orlando to attempt to further justify the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in modern Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) deployments. ...

Like - I suspect - many people, I spend far too large a percentage of my one and only life on various 'net conferences, using a variety of platforms. Most of them are truly loathsome. So it was ...

In this contributed blog post, Simon Jones, innovation director at Black Pepper, discusses how closing the tech skills gap can contribute towards closing the gender pay gap. Nearly fifty years ...

I recently caught up with Gary Turner, co-founder and managing of director of Xero. I was interested in meeting him as Xero has a reputation as the company that broke all the rules of ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network talks to Nathan Baranowski, director at ‘business, technology and change’ consultancy ojo solutions in line with a mini-series of posts related to the rise of ...

The BBC has started blowing its own vuvuzela about all the new technology it will be using to supplement the upcoming World Cup, including a virtual reality lounge to watch games in on its ...

Amid the growing arms race between the US and China to dominate the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence (AI), it is industry players and markets that will really drive adoption of the ...

But what do people mean when they talk about cloud storage – and do they really know what it can do these days? Not so long ago, once you got beyond Dropbox, for most professional users cloud ...

Those who attacked my analysis because it undermined all they held dear (from “the examination treadmill” to the “PhD rat race”) have successfully resisted change to Government academic funding and ...

More than three-quarters of UK organisations are experiencing challenges in recruiting people with digital skills, according to research from Deloitte. It’s a shocking figure, but is anyone really ...

People that use online gaming platforms might be being sized up for a job or even by security services

Education and training policy must better distinguish between core educational and academic skills (which rarely change over time) and vocational and technology skills (where traditional methods ...

Progress has (logically enough) filled its week with a bushel of product announcements to coincide with its NEXT 2018 conference, which was staged this month in Boston, Massachusetts. Among the ...

Alliteratively named Robotic Process Automation (RPA) player Automation Anywhere has opened its bot store to developers. Touting the availability of cognitive IQ bot technologies, the ‘let’s use a ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network talks to Ben Newton in his role as director for operations analytics marketing at Sumo Logic in line with a mini-series of posts related to the rise of what we ...

Progress staged its NEXT 2018 conference in Boston, Massachusetts this May 2018 with a specifically upfront developer focus in almost all of its product updates. A company that has reinvented ...

Computer Weekly Open Source Insider talks to Patrick McFadin in his role as vice president for developer relations at DataStax. DataStax is a distributed cloud database built on Apache Cassandra – ...

Progress has announced the release of NativeScript 4.0, an open source framework for delivering cross-platform, native iOS and Android apps. NativeScript apps are built using JavaScript, or by ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network spoke this month to Eric Mizell in his role as VP of solution engineering at OverOps. OverOps is California and Tel Aviv headquartered software analytics that ...

Progress staged its ‘Next 2018’ conference and exhibition programme this week in a blustery Boston, Massachusetts. The event was designed to showcase the ‘current version and iteration’ not just of ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network talks to Aricent’s AVP of technology and innovation Shamik Mishra in line with a mini-series of posts related to the rise of what we have called the ‘holistic’ ...

Nobody’s been able to get in contact with Downtime’s marketing manager since our discovery of a GDPR-themed Spotify playlist back in March, but his driving licence was found by the Royal Thai ...

By now, many consumers in Asia and elsewhere would have received at least a couple of e-mails from merchants asking for consent to continue receiving marketing messages under Europe’s General Data ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network is running a mini-series of posts related to the rise of what we have called the 'holistic' application. Not perhaps a formally defined technology industry ...

Every time a robot does something that humans deem to be suspicious, a debate is sparked about when artificially intelligent beings will take over the world. There have been more than enough films ...

In this guest post, Sheila Flavell, COO of FDM Group discusses the problems faced by women in the Stem industries. The gender pay gap reporting process has left many companies facing difficult ...

Enterprise identity firm Okta used its Oktane 2018 conference and exhibition to release a number of new products and explain what it means by the term 'contextual' access management in relation to ...

Okta's technology is used by developers to put a pre-architected layer of authentication into software applications used on traditional desktop, web or mobile environments. As a result of the above ...

The BBC cover of a report from the Environment Agency warning of serious water shortages by 2050 while sufficient to supply 20 million consumers is being wasted prompted an attack of déjà vu. ...

In this contributed blog post, Russ Shaw, founder of Tech London Advocates & Global Tech Advocates explains that the UK's tech ecosystem has the potential to be the best in the world, as long ...

Alfresco Software has updated its open source process automation, content management and information governance software. The immodestly named Alfresco Insight Engine creates dashboard-style ...