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Everyone in UK tech must hold the new government to account on its digital promises
Editor in chief 06 Dec 2019When Computer Weekly set out to compare and analyse the tech and digital policies in the major political parties’ manifestos for the 2019 General Election, the article extended comfortably to ...
Self-styled continuous intelligence company Sumo Logic has reached beta on two new analytics services that extend its Cloud Flex offering (a credit-based licensing strategy). Interactive ...
Software integration and analytics company Tibco has added Apache Pulsar as a fully supported component in its own messaging brand, TIBCO Messaging. By way of definition and clarification then... ...
Every company is now a software company, this much we already know. But now, every company wants to be a developer company, well… that’s the emerging message from some of industrys newer and more ...
Inspect-a-Gadget has been on the road -- it’s been a busy tech conference season and so all the normal home comforts have had to be forgone for a good part of the autumn period. Upon getting back ...
There wasn’t much fanfare around Amazon Prime’s midweek maiden voyage into Premier League football coverage. We’d have missed the delectable choice of fixtures altogether had we not opened the app ...
Dynatrace is a company that specialises in the monitoring and control of enterprise-scale application performance, the underlying infrastructure layer and the experience of users. It does this at ...
Autumn (or Fall, depending on your level of Americanization) was a busy period… so busy in fact that the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog saw a number of milestone advancements go whizzing ...
CW Developer Network
Cloudinary: video won't kill the web developer star (AI will save the day)
03 Dec 2019We live in a world of data, this much we already know. But in that world of data, some of it is structured well-ordered [database] information, some of it is semi-structured information that falls ...
Open Source Insider
Open Source Sesame: Alibaba Cloud releases ML algorithm platform to Github
02 Dec 2019Ali Baba (Arabic: علي بابا) is a poor woodcutter from the One Thousand And One Nights stories who discovers the secret of a thieves' den, entered with the phrase Open Sesame. Ali Baba, the ...
We live in a world of data analytics and software application development designed to function with ever-increasing levels of intelligence functionality based upon insight derived from analytics ...
The Computer Weekly Open Source Insider team speaks to Todd M Moore in his role as IBM VP ‘opentech’ & developer advocacy (and) CTO for developer ecosystems following the Open Source Summit ...
It’s not uncommon for cloud-first companies to participate in open source communities – after all, they have benefited from the very same open-source technologies that power their businesses. In ...
When IT Meets Politics
Your election choice: Protectionist Stagflation or Radical (Technology enabled) Change
Winsafe Ltd 30 Nov 2019We are promised forests of magic money trees instead of plans to use technology to do more for less ... Meanwhile most on-line health systems are "As user friendly as a cornered rat"
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Looking back at 10 years of UKtech50 - what can we learn?
Editor in chief 29 Nov 2019Every year when Computer Weekly announces its UKtech50 list of the most influential people in UK technology, it’s an opportunity to look at what the names that feature tell us about the latest ...
Networks Generation
Taming Windows As A Service - Making The Incompatible Compatible...
Broadband Testing 28 Nov 2019With so much IT focus on the cloudy landscape, it's easy to forget that what is happening at the desktop is still the touchy-feely point of IT contact for the users themselves. And much of that ...
Elon Musk has explained why the windows of Tesla’s tank-like Cybertruck smashed during a humiliating launch. Chief designer Franz von Holzhausen cut a gleeful figure as he prepared to throw a steel ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Intel delays means Windows 7 support deadline needs extending
Managing Editor 28 Nov 2019In the last few days Hewlett Packard Inc and Dell have posted results, in which their respective chief financial officers have spoken about the issues their businesses face with the supply of Intel ...
Data Matters
Less data, slower? Not with the right integration
Business Applications Editor 27 Nov 2019This is a guest blogpost by Derek Thompson, VP EMEA, Boomi, which is a Dell Technologies business unit. If there’s one thing all organisations today can agree on, it’s that no one is asking for ...
Quocirca Insights
The big disconnect: Print and digital in the future workplace
Quocirca 26 Nov 2019Quocirca’s Global Print 2025 second edition report reveals a significant gap between office workers and IT decision makers in their expectations of the future converged print and digital workplace. ...
Fintech makes the world go around
Tandem and TrueLayer partnership shows how fintech can support fintech
Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 26 Nov 2019TrueLayer and Tandem partnership demostrates the power of collaborative ecosystems
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network in our Continuous Integration (CI) & Continuous Delivery (CD) series. This contribution is written by Meera Rao in her capacity as ...
When IT Meets Politics
Labour breaks an emerging consensus on Broadband Policy?
Winsafe Ltd 24 Nov 2019No one size fits all needs. Every smart community (let alone "City") will probably need at least one Internet Exchange to handle local inter-operability. The UK as a whole will probably need more ...
Fintech makes the world go around
Has Amazon dropped its plan for a bank account?
Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 21 Nov 2019Has Amazon decided against launching a bank account?
“You dressed up party lines as a fact-check service. That is dystopian,” Emily Maitlis told Conservative Party chairman James Cleverly on the BBC’s Newsnight after the leadership debate. But like a ...
Unified endpoint management and security platform company Tanium has come forward with a set of platform and portfolio enhancements that it says are focused on reinforcing fundamental needs in ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Are your message threads tight or Slack?
Freeform Dynamics 20 Nov 2019Why doesn’t Slack want us to use threaded replies to messages? At least, that’s the impression I come away with from having used at least five Slacks, some for business collaboration and others for ...
CW Developer Network
CI/CD series – MuleSoft: An API-led approach to continuous integration
19 Nov 2019This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network in our Continuous Integration (CI) & Continuous Delivery (CD) series. This contribution is written by Paul Crerand in his capacity ...
The Computer Weekly Developer Network team found itself 'down south' in Nashville, Tennessee this week for Tanium CONVERGE 2019. Now in its fourth year, the event has gained some critical mass and ...
We know that the software application development (Dev) function has been struggling for some years to overcome its previous disconnects with the operations (Ops) function. The coming together of ...
In this guest post, Chris Roberts, head of datacentre and cloud at Goonhilly Earth Station, wonders if enterprises are ready to tap into the business opportunities the explosion in data generated ...
Fintech makes the world go around
Azimo opens doors at Brexit-proof Dutch arm
Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 19 Nov 2019Cross border payments fintech Azimo has opened the doors to its European headquarters in Amsterdam
By Stuart Kennedy Grappling with legacy systems to being fixated on project completion and budget rather than outcomes are some of the common challenges and pitfalls that software development teams ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Labour's broadband plan won't work - but let's have a national debate to find a plan that does
Editor in chief 15 Nov 2019So, the Labour Party wants free full-fibre broadband for all, and to nationalise Openreach. Cue bedlam on social media as the telecoms industry slams the proposals and the Conservatives scream, ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network in our Continuous Integration (CI) & Continuous Delivery (CD) series. This post is written by Jitendra Thethi, AVP of Technology ...
Tableau has been acquired by Salesforce, but you wouldn’t know it if you attended the organisation’s annual data-developer conference this month. Why wouldn’t you know it? Because the firm is ...
What are the chances of deepfakes poisoning the integrity of the UK’s current General Election? Probably a lot higher now a think tank has created clips of the two frontrunners endorsing each other ...
When IT Meets Politics
Has ISOC sold .Org for 30 pieces of silver? - Update 15th November
Winsafe Ltd 14 Nov 2019The Internet Society has sold the Public Interest Registry (.Org) to a purpose built Venture Capital firm whose domain name was itself registered by an advisor to the Chinese organised World ...
Poorer areas of India and Ethiopia need access to clean water, civil engineering infrastructure development to improve sanitation as well as hygiene supplies and medicine. They need all of those ...
CW Developer Network
CI/CD series – OverOps: How ‘code quality gates’ optimise the pipeline
13 Nov 2019This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network in our Continuous Integration (CI) & Continuous Delivery (CD) series. This contribution is written by Chen Harel in his role as VP ...
Tableau is known for its specialism in business intelligence, big data analytics and (perhaps most famously) for its interactive data dashboard technologies. But, Tableau still needs partners. ...
Fintech makes the world go around
Wagestream gives staff alternative to payday lenders: Fintech interview 30
Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 13 Nov 2019Wagestream is enabling workers to access their pay in real-time, reducing the need for overdrafts and payday loans
As any dedicated gamer knows, you need to have ‘everything just right’ in order to get the most fully immersive experience out of the challenges you set yourself in console land. Gone are the early ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Calling tech leaders: Should you stay or should you go?
Managing Editor 12 Nov 2019During Gartner’s recent Symposium event in Barcelona, CIOs heard the latest thinking from the analyst firm about where it sees the role of IT leader heading. Each year, CIOs head to the Symposium ...
StorageBuzz
Scale-out NAS bounces back to fight for unstructured data against object storage
Storage Editor 11 Nov 2019There’s a scrap breaking out between object storage and scale-out NAS. The battleground is the market for customers that need to deal with very large amounts of unstructured data. In October, ...
Data Matters
How to get top-level buy-in for “zero-click” intelligence
Business Applications Editor 11 Nov 2019In this guest blog post, Rob Davis, vice president of product management at MicroStrategy, discusses how CIOs can spread the use of data analytics to reach 100% of the enterprise. Enterprise ...
Open Source Insider
NearForm clocks in with hackable open source JavaScript AI smartwatch
10 Nov 2019The Irish county town of Kilkenny is known for its medieval buildings and castle, its rich history of brewing, its distinctive black marble and as the home of White House architect James Hoban. In ...
Fintech makes the world go around
Tandem Bank embarks on international expansion
Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 07 Nov 2019UK chanllenger bank embarks on international expansion in Hong Kong
Microsoft and Alibaba have developed a way to improve collaboration between application developers, operators and infrastructure teams in a new project that could speed up deployment of ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network in our Continuous Integration (CI) & Continuous Delivery (CD) series. This post is written by Siddharth Sinha of Dresma – the ...
CW Developer Network
CI/CD series – Sauce Labs: Soft skills are the key to highly functional pipelines
06 Nov 2019This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network in our Continuous Integration (CI) & Continuous Delivery (CD) series. This contribution is written by Marcus Merrell in his role ...
The Conservatives’ doctored version of Keir Starmer’s Good Morning Britain interview left out our favourite bit: an arms-folded Piers Morgan insisting he’s “absolutely fine” with 26 billionaires ...
ScyllaDB is the firm behind the Scylla NoSQL database claims to be thinking big -- and so, the organisation has used its annual Scylla Summit conference to detail a whole selection box of new ...
CW Developer Network
CI/CD series - PagerDuty: the pipeline is only as good as you build it
05 Nov 2019This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network in our Continuous Integration (CI) & Continuous Delivery (CD) series. This contribution is written by Matty Stratton in his ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Mathew Lodge in his capacity as CEO of Diffblue -- the company is known for its work as it aims to 'revolutionizse' ...
Recent discussions with database company Scylla threw up the term close-to-the-metal, or some simply say close-to-metal. But what does close-to-the-metal mean? The Computer Weekly Developer Network ...
There are databases. Then there are big data databases. Then, then there are super-performance high-speed big data databases. And finally, there are real-time big data databases that run at ...
When IT Meets Politics
Making sense of the current UK Cybersecurity Skills scene
Winsafe Ltd 05 Nov 2019But that is for the future. For the here and now I strongly recommend participation in the DPA cybersecurity skill sub-group in order to make sense of what it happening and ensure that your needs, ...
StorageBuzz
IBM supercharges scale-out NAS with NVMe in Elastic Storage 3000
Storage Editor 04 Nov 2019Product development in storage often feels like a bolting together of existing categories of product. You take one advance from here and mate it with another from over there. Getting the timing ...
Most organisations are uninsurable. They spend large amounts on security products and services technology but they are not doing that which reduces the risk of a successful cyberattack, limits the ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network in our Continuous Integration (CI) & Continuous Delivery (CD) series. This contribution is written by Jeff Keyes, director of ...
CW Developer Network
Nutanix VP: IT evaluation challenges in the subscription transition zone
02 Nov 2019Evaluating IT is complex. As much as the press has something of a love-hate relationship with technology analysts (did somebody say Magic Quadrant?), we do know that enterprise tech market analysis ...
CW Developer Network
CI/CD series - Contrast Security: pipeline tools must be robust, sharp & safe
01 Nov 2019This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network in our Continuous Integration (CI) & Continuous Delivery (CD) series. This contribution is written by David Archer, sales engineer ...
CW Developer Network
CI/CD series - Sumo Logic: the pipelines provide continuous data – are you using it?
01 Nov 2019This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network in our Continuous Integration (CI) & Continuous Delivery (CD) series. This contribution is written by Mark Pidgeon, vice president ...
CW Developer Network
CI/CD series - Qualys: Continuous deployment & security – how to avoid blockages
01 Nov 2019This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network in our Continuous Integration (CI) & Continuous Delivery (CD) series. This contribution is written by Marco Rottigni, chief ...
CW Developer Network
CI/CD series - Veracode: up the code pipeline without going down the rabbit hole
31 Oct 2019This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network in our Continuous Integration (CI) & Continuous Delivery (CD) series. This contribution is written by Paul Farrington in his ...
Fintech makes the world go around
TrueLayer set to expand its services through Visa network
Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 31 Oct 2019Open banking specialist fintech will offer its APIs through payments giant Visa
CW Developer Network
CI/CD series - GitLab: everyone deserves to deploy at high velocity
31 Oct 2019This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network in our Continuous Integration (CI) & Continuous Delivery (CD) series. This contribution is written by Jason Lenny, director of ...
The world of entertainment has come down on Netflix like a ton of bricks for trialling a feature that allows content to be watched at different speeds. We don’t know. Is this really such a big ...
StorageBuzz
Cloudian sees S3 interest and object storage going mainstream
Storage Editor 30 Oct 2019Object storage, based on Amazon’s S3 – pretty much a de facto standard now – is set to go mainstream. That’s the view of Cloudian’s co-founder and CEO Michael Tso. He says it’ll be, “The next NFS”, ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network in our Continuous Integration (CI) & Continuous Delivery (CD) series. This contribution is written by Ido Benmoshe, VP of product ...
This is a guest blogpost by Neo4j’s Amy Hodler. Imagine the possibilities when AI can handle ambiguity, she says. Business and governments are turning to Artificial Intelligence (AI) to automate ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Francis Carden is his capacity as vice president for digital automation and robotics at Pegasystems -- the company is known ...
Product Director for Nice advanced process automation solutions Itay Reiner spoke to the Computer Weekly Developer Network to discuss how Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is used to aid Enterprise ...
CW Developer Network
CI/CD series - Tibco: Continuous self-service intelligence with Kafka DataOps
29 Oct 2019This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network in our Continuous Integration (CI) & Continuous Delivery (CD) series. This contribution is written by Mark Palmer in his capacity ...
Can a corporate piece of software change the culture of an organisation. It happened in 1983 when Mitch Kapor developed Lotus 1-2-3 for the IBM PC, the PC’s first killer application. Aldus ...
Tibco is focused on open source and Agile this month. The integration and analytics specialist has upped the toolset in a group of its products with a key focus on Agile agility for cloud-native ...
The Computer Weekly Developer Network team engulfed itself in process intelligence at Abbyy Content IQ this season at a session delivered by Ryan Raiker, senior product marketing manager and Alex ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
IT employers must recognise benefits of flexible workforce and not hit contractors over IR35 reforms
Editor in chief 25 Oct 2019For any IT professional who has managed to make a living as a contractor for the past 20 years, the acronym IR35 must be like a crucifix held up to a vampire. The tax reforms were considered ...
At any large-scale event, whether it’s an independence day parade or a Coldplay concert, chances are you’ll see security personnel using push-to-talk devices or walkie-talkies to coordinate with ...
CW Developer Network
Big Lemon: How developers are helping change student energy consumption
24 Oct 2019This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer network written by Owen Richards, co-founder and head developer of Big Lemon. Big Lemon is a software development agency based in South Wales. ...
Abbyy (or ABBYY if you follow the firm's corporate brand guidelines) kicked of its Content IQ Summit in Nashville, Tennesse this week and the Computer Weekly Developer Network team were there to ...
Liverpool may be flying high at the top of the Premier League table right now, but when they get home after a hard-fought 90 minutes, their fans are the most likely to have had their personal data ...
DataStax offers a commercially supported ‘enterprise-robust’ database built on open source Apache Cassandra. As such, DataStax has told Computer Weekly Open Source Insider that it is actively ...
What’s not to love about log file management and trace analytics? Nothing apparently. Splunk managed to attract what was claimed to be somewhere over 11,000 attendees to Las Vegas for its .conf ...
Splunk has built new functions into its Security Operations Suite to modernize and unify its Security Operations Center (SOC) product. Anchored by the newly launched Splunk Mission Control, the ...
Software used to shut down. Users would boot up applications and wrangle about with their various functions until they had completed the tasks, computations or analyses that they wanted -- and then ...
Splunk has ‘closed funding’ in Zonehaven, a cloud-based analytics application designed to help communities improve evacuations and reduce wildfire risk with data. The funding is the first ...
More Gherkin And IT As A Business Strategy - Back at the Gherkin event, two of the primary vendors who were present for the discussions actually substantiated the previous blog comments about ...
Had another interesting cloudy discussion last week with SIOS – one of ITs better kept secrets, certainly in the UK. Much of that is down to the sensitivity of what it does and who it does it for. ...
Had my first visit to The Gherkin recently at a “mini” Netevents security briefing in London. I can certainly recommend the brioche-bun bacon butties with a view of the London rain from the 38th ...
The Computer Weekly Developer Network team are big fans of business intelligence and big data analytics, interactive data dashboard technologies, data visualisation specialists and companies that ...
Eyes on APAC
5G trials to spice up hotpot experience, improve last-mile connectivity
TechTarget 18 Oct 2019Singapore telco M1 is planning a 5G trial at the latest outlet of Haidilao, a well-known hotpot restaurant in the city-state, in a bid to demonstrate the use of 5G networks in the food and beverage ...
Fintech makes the world go around
The demise of Lehman Brothers sparked Inbotiqa’s flame: Fintech interview 29
Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 17 Oct 2019Following its demise former IT workers at Lehman Brothers used the experience they gained at the bank to create a tech start up
Towo Labs, a Swedish startup aimed at simplifying ‘crypto self-custody’, has announced an investment from Xpring, Ripple’s developer initiative. Xpring is described as an initiative by Ripple that ...
A robot hand has been taught by OpenAI to successfully solve a Rubik’s Cube in an average time of four minutes. “So what?” you ask, being the unbearable Rubik’s Cube expert you are. It’s true, mere ...
Low-code software company Appian has announced the availability of the Appian Robotic Workforce Manager for UiPath, the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) specialist. The software optimises ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Dr. Takis Katsoulakos in his role as managing director for Inlecom Systems. Inlecom Systems is an information learning and ...
Fintech makes the world go around
Financial services firms reveal their fintech status in major study
Emea Content Editor, Computer Weekly 16 Oct 2019Fintech leaders in traditional banks are making significant progress but major challenges remain
UiPath has been shopping, perhaps unsurprisingly. The software automation company specialises in the platform-level development of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) technologies. Having been on a ...