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GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Yaara Letz, partner consulting engineer at Tyk, explains why women in tech need to carve out their own career path rather than wait for diversity and ...

"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward man": regardless of whether you think God likes them or is pleased with their views on: Brexit, Climate Change, How to manage the ...

It’s winter in Northern Europe, so we’re cold. But, despite the cold, the Inspect-a-Gadget team still needs to keep connected and stay online on the move. So then... coats, hats, scarves and gloves ...

The man behind State Snaps, a set of social media pages with over a million followers, has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for getting his cousin to try to steal a domain name at gunpoint. In ...

In 2004, Computer Weekly received a letter from Alan Bates, a former subpostmaster in Craig-y-Don, a coastal suburb of Llandudno in north Wales. It’s that long ago that the letter arrived ...

The shortage of Intel processors is having a knock-on effect on IT’s ability to upgrade whatever legacy Windows 7 PCs still remain in the organisation onto new Windows 10 hardware. At the time of ...

Cloud-native infrastructure company Fairwinds recently launched a SaaS product for DevOps teams so that they can manage multiple Kubernetes clusters. The almost-eponymously named called Fairwinds ...

Official estimates suggest 65,000 people made the trek out to Las Vegas this year for the 2019 Amazon Web Services (AWS) Re:Invent user and developer conference, and among them were five tech-savvy ...

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 Neil Avery, lead ...

The Linux Foundation’s promotion and hosting of Delta Lake is an interesting development. Delta Lake (wait for it… the clue is in the name) is a project focusing on improving the reliability and ...

Open source security and license compliance management company WhiteSource has brought dependency update company Renovate into its stable. All of Renovate’s current commercial offerings will now be ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Jack Zampolin in his capacity as director of product at Tendermint Inc. Tendermint is the company behind the eponymously ...

When 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 ...

We 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 ...

Ali 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 ...

We 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"

Every 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 ...

With 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 ...

In 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 ...

This 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’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. ...

TrueLayer 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 ...

No 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 ...

Has 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 ...

Why 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 ...

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 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 ...

Cross 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 ...

So, 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 ...

The 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 ...

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 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. ...

Wagestream 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 ...

During 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 ...

There’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, ...

In 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 ...

The 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 ...

UK 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 ...

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 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 ...

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 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 ...

But 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, ...

Product 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 ...

Evaluating 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 ...

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 David Archer, sales engineer ...

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 Mark Pidgeon, vice president ...

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 Marco Rottigni, chief ...

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 Paul Farrington in his ...

Open banking specialist fintech will offer its APIs through payments giant Visa

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 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 ...

Object 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 ...

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 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 ...

For 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 ...

This 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 ...