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If tech. companies want to cast off the public perception that they are part of the previous economy’s problems, they could start offering genuinely radical solutions to the pressing problems now ...

The CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google have all spoken to US Congress in a joint video call to face some stern questions, one of which being: “Do you believe that the Chinese government ...

The following post is sponsored by Amazon Web Services The Covid-19 pandemic has had a massive impact on organisations and individuals, with the pressure particularly intense on healthcare ...

GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post Jessica Murphy, co-founder of apparel and footwear retail personalisation platform True Fit, discusses how technology can help bridge the gap between ...

If the experts are to be believed, quantum computers will radically change problem solving. IBM recently held  an event to explore the skills gap that exists between the education system and ...

Open source is driving wearables. The Open Wearables Initiative (OWEAR) is an industry collaboration designed to promote the effective use of high-quality sensor-generated measures of health in ...

Storage can often be a question of ‘snorage’ i.e. it’s not the sexiest slice of the technology layer. Some of the developers inside Nutanix might agree with this twist, but some would probably be ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Brad Robertson of Polyient Games.  Roberton launched Polyient Games, a spinoff of Polyient Labs, his early-stage ...

July has been a busy month for us, a month that is traditionally dotted with enterprise tech events that have since been moved online amid the Covid-19 pandemic. On the sidelines of ...

Lancashire’s Cronkshaw Fold Farm is pimping out its portfolio of goats for video-conference appearances to fund its investment in renewable technology. That’s right, at just a fiver a pop, remote ...

This is a guest blogpost by Rich Pugh, co-founder and chief data scientist, Mango Solutions The things we do not know about Covid-19 seem almost endless. There are no clear answers yet to some of ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Meera Rao in her capacity as senior director of product management for DevOps Solutions at Synopsys - the company is known ...

This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Tad Heppner in his capacity as threat researcher at SophosLabs -- a group that describes itself as a global network of ...

Uncertainty is the new certainty. As lockdowns ease across Europe, IT leaders are surveying the wreckage of their carefully planned pre-pandemic strategies. Nothing is what it was – according to ...

Hands up anyone who expected not just to spend 2020 at home, but to spend much of it on video too. Many of us will have shunned the Lidless Eye of the PC camera before but are now unable to resist ...

The managing director of a Premier League side almost cost their club £1m when their email address was hacked during a transfer negotiation – but who could it be? Our first guess was Richard Arnold ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Steve Bryen in his role as senior developer advocate for UK and Ireland at Amazon Web Services. Among the several key ...

The following post is sponsored by Amazon Web Services As the impact of Covid-19 percolates around the world, students and teachers facing disrupted school semesters are forced to learn and teach ...

This Computer Weekly Developer Network series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development.   As we have initially ...

This Computer Weekly Developer Network series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development.  As we have initially ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Kelly Goetsch in his capacity as president of the MACH Alliance - a group that has come together to promote open tech ...

This is a guest blogpost by James Loft, COO, Rainbird. If 2020 has been anything so far, ‘unpredictable’ is as good a descriptor as any. The financial services sector has suffered disrupted supply ...

Among the arguably higher profile Virtual Private Network (VPN) brands out there this decade (so far) is NordVPN. What not every casual user might now is, this is a technology now built on open ...

This is a guest blogpost by Jason Kingdon, Chairman & CEO of Blue Prism And it's raining RPA [Robotic Process Automation]… IBM's announcement that they are acquiring a Brazilian Robotic Process ...

This series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development.  As we have initially discussed here, with so many new ...

The cloud has many resources, obviously. Among the most widely discussed elements of cloud usage as of 2020 is the more widespread use, deployment, implementation, integration to and adoption of ...

This Computer Weekly Developer Network series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development.   As we have initially ...

As more development teams than ever work remotely, they know better than most just how much the rise of consumer-grade collaboration tools [Zoom, Slack, WhatsApp etc.] is helping to build up ...

This Computer Weekly Developer Network series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development.  As we have initially ...

“You’ve got to wear a face nappy if you want to come in here,” chunters a half-cut Tim Martin as Matt Hancock enters the Lord Moon of the Mall. “Only joking,” he slurs. “Who am I to tell the health ...

There is no double that business leaders will factor in working from home in the calculations they are doing to lower costs as part of their on-going post pandemic recovery plans. The latest IT ...

Data analytics seems to have emerged as a cure-all for the current Conservative government. Indeed, it is being positioned as a critical element in the wider revolution of Whitehall that Dominic ...

Every company is a software company. This central truism pervades throughout every layer of business and, specifically, throughout every layer of the technology industry itself. Even ...

This Computer Weekly Developer Network series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development.  As we have initially ...

This Computer Weekly Developer Network series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development.  As we have initially ...

This Computer Weekly Developer Network series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development.   As we have initially ...

Most of those leaving education at age 18 or 21 this year do not have the technical and practical skills they need to find work at this time of pandemic recession.  To redress this, Government must ...

This is a guest blogpost by Bruno Kurtic, co-founder and vice president of strategy and solutions, Sumo Logic I recently had a conversation with someone who tried to argue that digital ...

Matt Hancock’s latest app assignment has proven more of a head-scratcher than that one he released about himself, and as he dithers and delays at his desk over the release of anything serviceable ...

In this follow-up guest post Paul Finch, CEO of Harlow-based colocation provider Kao Data, sets out how datacentre designs are having to change to accommodate evolving chip densities and ...

Exasol is a curious sounding brand name. It might be usefully applied to a petrochemicals company, a topical suncream, or even perhaps (at a push) some kind of anti-inflammatory medication or ...

This is one of those products that may not immediately make sense. After all, our Apple AirPods come in such a cute little case that snaps shut with a firm metallic zip, why would we need to put a ...

This Computer Weekly Developer Network series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development.  As we have initially ...

This is a guest blogpost by Mark Morley, Director, Strategic Product Marketing, OpenText Disruption to global supply chains, particularly in the manufacturing sector, has taken many different forms ...

“I’ve never been more productive!” With so many people getting their first experience of working from home, it's a sentiment that we're hearing more than ever. The speaker often credits the ability ...

This Computer Weekly Developer Network series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development.   As we have initially ...

This Computer Weekly Developer Network series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development.   As we have initially ...

On 14 March 2021, we will mark the tenth anniversary of the official approval for the development of a single government-wide digital identity system. Save the date in your diaries. Intended to ...

This Computer Weekly Developer Network series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development.   As we have initially ...

Those things are ridiculous. Robot vacuums look like they are far more trouble than they’re worth. I’ll end up tripping over it. These things are for people who just want the latest gadget that ...

The Government Digital Service (GDS) has taken its fair share of criticism in recent years – including from Computer Weekly - and much of it justified. But there’s little doubt the team at GDS HQ ...

Amid all the uncertainty and fear of the coronavirus pandemic, within the tech world surely one longstanding myth has been dismissed forever – the idea that remote working and employee productivity ...

This Computer Weekly Developer Network series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development.  As we have initially ...

This Computer Weekly Developer Network series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development.  As we have initially ...

The following post is sponsored by Amazon Web Services The onset of Covid-19 and mandatory lockdowns across the globe left organisations with limited time to react. Businesses had to keep ...

In this guest post, Jason E. Smith, vice president of products and solutions at virtual desktop provider Liquidware, makes the case for why enterprises need to embrace cloud staging to make their ...

As the Stop Hate for Profit campaign inspires over 150 major companies and counting to pull their advertising from Facebook, its appeaser-in-chief has slid open his webcam cover and got back to ...

It’s easy to predict many of the pains that are going to hit business as the UK attempts to follow its neighbours in re-opening from lockdown. Businesses face a new and awkward world where social ...

The world runs on data, no news there. The world runs on connected, often unstructured, complex to wrangle, tough to clean, classify and log, hard to lock down and troublesome to monitor data… ...

This Computer Weekly Developer Network series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development.  As we have initially ...

This Computer Weekly Developer Network series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development.  As we have initially ...

What’s better than a machine learning platform? Answer: an en-to-end machine learning platform, obviously. What’s better than an end-to-end machine learning platform? Answer: an open source ...

As promised in the previous blog, given the seeming importance of SASE, here’s more definition in terms of what briefings with Cato Networks revealed. If we look at the key areas where SASE and ...

This Computer Weekly Developer Network series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development.   As we have initially ...

A bunch of olfactory obsessives have blasted through their Kickstarter campaign target to start making bottles of fragrance purported to smell like space. Just as Robin Williams once lorded it over ...

As the IT conference season heads into peak season, the CEOs of the top tech firms have used these large global gatherings as a platform to speak out on racism. In his keynote kicking off the HPE ...

Nation state threat actors, Sapphire and telecoms politics have little in common, yet those are the developments that we've been covering over the past few weeks. For those of you who have missed ...

In the post-pandemic, post-Brexit world, businesses of all sorts face a range of new challenges – and many will be wondering if AI-based automation could help them win through. From adding more ...

This Computer Weekly Developer Network series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development.   As we have initially ...

From drug design to supply chains, predictive algorithms built using yesterday’s data no longer work in our strange new world. Here’s how to build new ones quickly. Finding and testing new drugs, ...

This series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development.  As we have initially discussed here, with so many new ...

This series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development. As we have initially discussed here, with so many new ...

This series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development.  As we have initially discussed here, with so many new ...

To the surprise of nobody, the government has reversed its plans for the NHS contact-tracing app, switching from its initial centralised model to the decentralised version supported by Google and ...

This series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development.  As we have initially discussed here, with so many new ...

“NHS” is the UK’s most trusted brand. Until recently it was one of the least protected/secure. There have been significant improvements but, as a result of Covid, impersonating the NHS now comes ...

This series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development.  As we have initially discussed here, with so many new ...

Open source at the core, but not yet open in the public sense… arguably the tech industry’s most prominent enterprise Apache Cassandra company DataStax has been cooking it up over the Covid-19 ...

This series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development.  As we have initially discussed here, with so many new ...

For all the impacts the likes of COVID-19 and technological advance have on IT, there are two immovable staples that we can rely on: Gartner to keep on introducing new acronyms to create new magic ...

In this week's Ask the Expert segment, Romain Bottier, senior solutions architect for high performance computing and artificial intelligence (AI) at Dell Technologies South Asia, advises ...

This series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development.  As we have initially discussed here, with so many new ...

Snyk (pronounced ‘snick’ or ‘sneak’) was founded in the Holy Land (Tel-Aviv), but now has offices in London and North America. The company was formed in response to the interconnected nature of ...

This series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development.  As we have initially discussed here, with so many new ...

This series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development.  As we have initially discussed here, with so many new ...

This series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development.  As we have initially discussed here, with so many new ...

This series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development.  As we have initially discussed here, with so many new ...

Microsoft’s move to replace MSN.com’s human editors with artificial intelligence has resulted in the software misidentifying one woman of colour for another – before regurgitating other outlets’ ...

One of the only technology companies to have managed to stage its annual developer/customer/user-fast successfully in 2020 before the onset of Covid-19 by virtue of staging its convention in ...

As we know, Kubernetes is an open source technology for container management across hybrid cloud environments. Initially created by Google  (and subsequently open sourced and managed under the ...

As the Government Digital Service (GDS) prepares for the winding down of its Gov.uk Verify service, its future plans for digital identity are becoming a little clearer. In recent weeks, GDS has ...

This is a guest blogpost by Marc Linster, SVP, EnterpriseDB Open Source, Free and Open Source Software, Code Available, GNU General Public License (GPL), Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), ...

Open source database company Percona has been on the (virtual) road these past few weeks, hosting its web-based Percona Live 2020 conference (in obvious need due to the Covid-19 pandemic) and ...

The coronavirus pandemic has become a catalyst, accelerating radical change to how organisations operate. The economic recovery from the lockdown is forcing some to push through changes that they ...

When you need a (computing) cluster in an instant, who would you call? Perhaps this was the thought process behind the marketing folk at Instaclustr when they decided to give the organization its ...

The Covid-19 lockdown has led to an explosion of fraud and abuse, both on-line and in the "real" world.  Before Test and Trace is fully operational it is already being spoofed .  The problems are ...

I’m on a mission, or a quest, call it what you will. This personal pursuit is simple, yet it’s not… I need the ultimate travel work device. As a technology journalist (COVID-19 Coronavirus ...

In this month's Ask the Expert segment, Serkan Cetin, technical director at One Identity in Asia-Pacific and Japan, offers advice on the technical and ethical considerations of biometric security ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Volterra CEO and founder Ankur Singla -- Volterra provides a distributed cloud platform to deploy, connect, secure and ...

Restaurants in the Netherlands have been easing themselves back into business with the help of robotic waiting staff, going some way to repair the profession’s reputation after China’s automated ...