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Rounding out our analysis of some of the major Linux platform developments seen throughout 2017, let's turn our attention to Canonical and its Ubuntu distro. As we know, in programming, canonical ...

Lego Education, the more serious branch of the Lego enterprise, aims to provide teachers and other education providers with fun ways to engage children with science, technology, engineering and ...

IoT Back to Basics, chapter 3: It’s no surprise that security and governance are important considerations when it comes to the IoT, but quite how incredibly important they are may not be ...

The number of EU citizens coming to the UK is falling even before Brexit has happened because it is quite simple not as good a place to live

In this guest post, Jack Bedell-Pearce, managing director of service provider 4D Data Centres, shares his thoughts on the role colocation can play in helping cryptocurrency miners boost their ...

Splunk startup competitor Logz.io has been rolling out new tools and new projects on the back of its seemingly healthy venture funding injections, which came in last year. The log analysis firm has ...

UK Fintechs are implementing their Brexit plans and it means the UK is losing jobs now could be bypassed for future roles

Mastercard has ‘Priceless’ and American Express has ‘That’ll do nicely’ and ‘Don’t leave home without it’, but what does Visa have? The answer appears to be the (arguably less catchy) ‘It’s ...

In this guest post, Naveen Kumar, vice president of innovation, enterprise software and consumer at global design and engineering company Aricent, makes the case for serverless computing. As far as ...

Many organisations are already some way along their journey to cloud computing. No matter where you are on this journey - whether still thinking about it or well on the way - finding a source of ...

In open source, we trust community - and as such, we might reasonably trust benchmarking studies that have been driven by community groups, in theory at least. ArangoDB open source NoSQL ...

Canonical’s is mixing new potions in its Juju charm store. Juju is Canonical's open source modelling tool for cloud software -- it handles operations designed to deploy, configure, manage, maintain ...

You wouldn’t exactly classify the leaders of the UK tech sector as a bunch of liberal lefties. For all the stereotypes of bearded Shoreditch sandal-wearers that surround much of the nascent startup ...

This is a guest blogpost by Luiz Aguiar, data scientist at GoCompare. We produce a massive amount of data every day. Not only that, our attitudes towards the data we produce are also changing. ...

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, speaking at Recode’s Code Media conference in California, has insisted its macabre problem child Logan Paul hasn’t done enough to be kicked off the platform. The ...

In this guest post, Allan Brearley, cloud practice lead at IT services consultancy ECS and Tesco Bank’s former head of transformation, draws inspiration from a 1989 Kevin Costner movie to advise ...

Software quality tools company SmartBear has now announced support for OpenAPI Specification (OAS) in its AlertSite product. So let’s break that down and think about what it means in terms of the ...

Reviews of organisational security can be viewed in many positive ways, but all too often with trepidation or resignation. The rise of phishing, where spoof, but increasingly credible, messages try ...

This is a guest blogpost by Dave Wells, practice director, data management at Eckerson Group. If there’s one thing the IT industry is exceptionally good at it, it’s proclaiming the death of a ...

As part of a continuing set of analysis posts dedicated to examining major developments across the major (and some lesser) open source Linux distributions, we consider 2017 at open German ...

Fintech companies could be the hardest hit tech firms in the UK if there is no good deal with the EU after Brexit

With more businesses expecting enterprise-grade mobile devices to last longer than the average consumer smartphone replacement cycle, keeping those devices secure is a growing challenge. According ...

As part of a series of analysis posts designed to look at the major (and some slightly lesser) open source distributions and what they have achieved over the last year, let us briefly revisit Red ...

The UK's growing fintech sector could be hit very, very hard by a bad deal or no deal between the EU and UK

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been consistently criticised for its lack of transparency since the controversial Universal Credit programme was launched nearly eight years ago. The ...

Application development and deployment company Progress has come forward with new releases of the Progress Telerik and Progress Kendo UI tools. New capabilities including 'Fluent' design and ...

Singapore Airlines (SIA) has been on roll lately with a slew of announcements that it hopes will cement its position as a leading carrier amid stiff competition from premium rivals and low-cost ...

It’s all too easy to conflate the kind of AI being hyped in the industry at the moment with the science fiction notion of machine sentience. We are still a long way from the latter, though, whether ...

Computer Weekly Open Source Insider continues its analysis and deconstruction of major open source distros this month with a series of personal conversations inside Red Hat. Stormy Peters, senior ...

If there’s one thing that Linux needs to aid its march onwards it is (arguably) more enterprise robustness. Actually, if there’s one thing that Linux needs for enterprise success it’s firms like ...

GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post from CEO of Amicable and everywoman Innovator Award category finalist, Pip Wilson, explains to encourage girls into science, technology, engineering and ...

GUEST BLOG: In this contributed post by everywoman Digital Start Award finalist Saija Mahon, founder and CEO of Mahon Digital Marketing, explains that tech being only for men is the biggest ...

This year’s storage news so far has provided a firm impression of the increasing prominence of the cloud, and in particular of attempts to harness the public cloud and private datacentre in hybrid ...

If you are a Lloyds Banking Group credit card holder that fancies a flutter on cryptocurrencies ,think again it's banned.

When we surveyed several hundred IT professionals on the topic of All-Flash Arrays, one thing that came out was just how broad was the chasm in thinking between those whose organisations already ...

Why did Snowflake Computing call itself Snowflake Computing? Was it because its founders are snowflake generation kids who are incapable of taking a few hard knocks here and there? Um, ah no, it’s ...

The development version of openSUSE Leap 15 has reached its beta phase builds and snapshots are available for testers. As a free and open source (FOSS) operating system, Leap is derived from the ...

There’s a growing body of opinion that the government’s flagship digital identity system, Gov.uk Verify, has now become a major hindrance to the development of the UK’s digital identity ...

Every 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 ...

Microsoft'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

IoT 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 ...

Most 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. ...