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IFS used its annual IFS World Conference user and customer event this year to launch product updates to its SaaS-based fleet and line planning solutions for the commercial aviation industry. While ...

Banks will increasingly rely on suppliers to help them out when IT disasters strike because they simply don't have enough in-house IT experts after years of cuts.

In this guest post, Pavan Belagatti, a DevOps influencer working at automation software provider Shippable, shares his top five tips for securing senior management buy-in for your team’s agile ...

Is the use of Agile and Devops partly to blame fir the increasing number of IT failures at banks on recent years and is there anther way?

For some time, my office PC had suffered from multimedia niggles. Some were relatively minor, such as Facebook and Twitter videos failing to play, but others were more problematic. For example, ...

Banks are taking their brand names off the high street and might increasingly do so for services they offer to ecommerce companies

The "scandal" concerning the "Windrush Generation" appears to be collateral damage from the failure to agree coherent policies for sharing public sector identities and personal information after ...

Where will the next Silicon Valley developer hub spring up? The Saudis and the Emiratis are hoping that their (respective) year-2020 and -2030 'vision' programmes will help develop the next ...

One of machine learning’s most well-known use cases is fraud detection, an area that has drawn the attention of a growing number of technology suppliers looking to develop the best algorithms and ...

Kanye West’s recent Twitter meltdown, in which he professed his love for Donald Trump, has seen many fans turn on him, but our interest lies more with his denunciation of Microsoft Excel. The ...

Innovation and innovative people are spread evenly around the globe. But there is more of an uneven challenge to bring products and services successfully to market. Many times this is due to a lack ...

If customers don't want to suffer glitches in their banking service they should ask about complexities of a bank's IT systems before selecting where to out their money

The only real surprise about TSB’s IT disaster this week is that people are still surprised when a retail bank has IT problems. There are few organisations with a more complex and difficult ...

TIBCO extends its open source credentials this month with commercial support and services for Apache Kafka as part of the firm’s branded Messaging product line. Apache Kafka is a distributed open ...

French object storage specialist Scality recently raised $60m of funding, but what will that money go towards? The company – most well-known for its RING object storage product – is in the middle ...

More details of RBS's digital bank revealed

Human error to blame for problems at Ulster bank but a computer was involved

Low-code business process company Appian has detailed its current updates and future road ahead as part of its annual Appian World user and customer conference. Essential a mostly graphical visual ...

Low-code software application development company Appian held its annual user conference and exhibition this week in Will Smith’s favourite holiday hangout, Miami Beach Florida. Appian founder ...

Low-code software application development company Appian holds its annual user conference and exhibition this week in Will Smith's favourite holiday hangout, Miami Beach Florida. First to the table ...

TSB customers have experiienced serious proiblems as the bank migrates to its new core banking platform

The House of Lords report on AI and UK economy and society came out this week, with the guardedly bullish title: “AI in the UK: ready, willing and able?” The question mark is moot. I think a strong ...

It’s a truism that IT essentially reinvents itself every decade or so. In some ways this can be rightly seen as a cynical way to repackage the same old tosh and sell it again to confused.com IT ...

One thing that is also clearly understood is that, even with an outsourced, “in the Ether” service, such as a public/private cloud, the EMEA market – with its geo-cultural fragmentation – is a very ...

The Windrush scandal has revealed many disturbing things about government policy that have nothing to do with IT. But the issues raised amply demonstrate the importance of technology considerations ...

Cloud communications software company Twilio has announced Twilio Programmable Wireless. This is programmable cellular communications software that offers APIs to power web-connected Internet of ...

Timed to coincide with the RSA security conference, Microsoft has announced Azure Sphere, a new solution for creating highly-secured, Internet-connected microcontroller devices. But there's a bit ...

At Huawei’s annual analyst summit in Shenzhen this week, the Chinese technology giant unveiled its predictions about what the future holds from a technology perspective in its Global Industry ...

A decade ago storage journalists were quite keen on a new technology around at the time. That was MAID – Massive Array of Idle Disks – which were basically disk-based backup target devices with ...

What the cloud computing industry needs is an increasing number of platforms, right? Okay perhaps not, platform plays are already many and multifarious in their nature and the formally defined ...

Fintech is being deployed by traditional banks as they fight to reduce their cost bases as challengers win customers at a lower cost

Cloud security firm Qualys, like every vendor today, is pushing the automation mantra. The company’s Web Application Scanning (WAS) 6.0 now supports Swagger version 2.0 to allow developers to ...

Consumers are set to become much more aware of the privacy settings on the websites they use

Hive Connected Home products are great and the support is outstanding, but they will crash... or at least ours did and here's what we hope is an interesting analysis in terms of trying to work out ...

Developers need to know more about workflow automation, it appears. As analyst ‘thumb in the air’ pontificating predictions have ‘suggested’, the workflow automation market is expected to reach ...

Pishing is when you get fed plenty of booze and then start mouthing-off, reveal a few secrets, passwords and PIN

The farming industry is arguably one of the last frontiers in digital transformation efforts, but not so in Australia, which has one of the biggest agriculture sectors in the world. Since 2013, ...

The British Army marches on its stomach, fights for king, queen, god and country, upholds itself as a bastion of exemplary standards and is never afraid to say ‘stop it, that’s silly’ if things get ...

Tim Berners-Lee is rightly famous as the originator of HTTP, a fundamental of the World Wide Web as we know it. But according to some, HTTP is old hat. It has helped create a web full of dead ...

Red Hat changes its tagline from time to time, but this year the firm appears to happy being labelled as 'the world's leading provider of open source solutions' -- perhaps, with Microsoft and so ...

It’s the week of the 2018 London Book Fair at Olympia, and the worrying news has reached Downtime that our jobs are indeed under threat from the rise of the robots, with the publication of the ...

As cybercrime becomes ever more widespread and the actors involved diversify, targeted organisations must become more sophisticated and timely in their ability to detect and respond.

In this guest post, Craig Stewart, vice president of product management at cloud integration provider SnapLogic, spells out why the more traditional transport operators need to take a leaf out of ...

What will happen to London's high streets when robots replace the people that buy all the flat whites?

There’s DevOps and there’s DevSecOps -- heck, come to think of it there’s even DevLoBDOps (Developer Line of Business Database Operations). Of all the DevOps subsets, Microsoft SQL Server tools ...

This is a guest blogpost by Jim Conning, Managing Director of Royal Mail Data Services (RMDS). The forthcoming 25 May implementation date for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is ...

Social media platforms will face increasingly stringent regulations which might limit their scope as governments clamp down on data abuse

Google has attempted to shine a light on Application Performance Management (APM) technologies built in what the company calls ‘a developer-first mindset’ to monitor and tune the performance of ...

On April 6th at the launch of the Apprenticeships Anthology Sir Gerry Berragan, the Chief Executive of the Institute for Apprenticeships outlined progress over the past year and updated his 10 ...

I met Mike Bracken, the first leader of the Government Digital Service (GDS), in 2011, not long after he had started the job, for an off-the-record briefing about his ambitious plans to overhaul IT ...