In Depth

Database software

Storage 101: Structured data and its storage needs

Structured data is declining as a proportion of all data but its importance to business applications and its organised nature make its storage requirements very specific Continue Reading
Silicon Valley startups home in on pressing value from data

A slew of California-based startup and early-stage data analytics companies are promising CIOs better ways to get value from their investments in databases and analytics Continue Reading
How the Met Office is handling a deluge of data

‘Lazy’ open source tools are helping the UK weather forecasting service open up unprecedented volumes of data to all Continue Reading
Blockchain starts to prove its value outside of finance

Technology behind bitcoin is being adopted in supply chains, power networks and even to support independent musicians Continue Reading
Australia a hotbed for data analytics

Market for technologies that help organisations make sense of vast volumes of data is hotting up Down Under Continue Reading

Brexit might benefit genomics big data analytics research

Genomics, an IT-dependent area of medical science research, could yet benefit from Brexit by lower barriers to data acquisition Continue Reading
Big data projects need business input and careful management

Big data projects need to be managed. Ocado and Graydon have been figuring out how Continue Reading
A Good American: Surveillance, 9/11 and the NSA

Computer Weekly sat down to watch Friedrich Moser's documentary about the NSA whistleblower Bill Binney - A Good American Continue Reading
Master data management gains ground in UK public sector

Local authorities and NHS organisations in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland are making slow but sure progress with master data management technology to gain a single view of the citizen Continue Reading
Apache Spark grows in popularity as Hadoop-based data lakes fill up

Apache Spark is growing in popularity and finding real-time use across Europe, including in online betting and on railways, and with Hadoop Continue Reading
Hadoop starts to trumpet way through UK public sector

Big data technology Hadoop is starting to appear in patches of the UK public sector, including GCHQ, HMRC, the Home Office and the NHS Continue Reading

CW@50: Spreadsheets and ERP – 50 years of software coding business

Business software has been a rich field for IT professionals over the past five decades, and we are on the cusp of a new era of customers rolling their own for competitive advantage Continue Reading
NoSQL database technology finds use cases, but still minority sport

From managing water meter data, through Bitcoin and video data, to web publishing, NoSQL database technology is finding real use cases. But it's likely to be stuck at 10% of the market for some time Continue Reading
NoSQL offerings from Microsoft and Oracle

Cloud and big data applications have led to a new wave of NoSQL data stores. We look at what Microsoft and Oracle have to offer Continue Reading
For IBM, the answer is Watson. But what is the question?

IBM is promoting its Watson natural language processing analytics technology as it tries to move its core business beyond technologies that it pioneered, but which have become commoditised. Will it fly? Continue Reading