Cloud computing software
Cloud computing has been one of the hottest topics for IT managers in recent years, and many organisations are already introducing cloud services into their IT infrastructure. Getting the most from cloud computing software means changing the way you think about software delivery, through platforms such as software as a services (Saas), infrastructure as a service (Iaas) and platform as a service (Paas), not to mention the vital role of virtualisation. We follow the latest trends and examine how organisation are using cloud computing software.
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News
03 Oct 2024
Nutanix courts VMware customers in APAC amid Broadcom concerns
Nutanix is driving double-digit growth across the region by capitalising on the evolving cloud landscape with its hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence offerings, as well as anxieties about the future direction of VMware under Broadcom’s ownership Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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News
30 Sep 2024
Google invests $1bn in Thailand’s cloud future
The five-year investment will bolster Thailand’s digital economy, create more than 10,000 jobs each year and support the country’s cloud-first policy Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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News
01 Apr 2019
Azure Stack HCI: Hyper-converged, but not as Azure as you’d think
Microsoft has re-branded Windows Server Software Defined to put hyper-converged to the fore, but Azure Stack HCI isn’t totally in sync with the Azure Stack on-premise cloud platform Continue Reading
By- Yann Serra, LeMagIT
- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
29 Mar 2019
Commvault adds “tape killer” AWS Glacier Deep Archive cold storage
Backup provider to offer 1-cent-a-gigabyte AWS Glacier Deep Archive as a target in a move that mirrors a trend towards the cloud and away from tape among Commvault customers Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
28 Mar 2019
Swedish companies increasingly using private networks to communicate with ecosystem
Swedish IT leaders are increasingly turning to private networks to communicate with other businesses in their ecosystem Continue Reading
By- Jane Hamrin
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News
27 Mar 2019
Oslo car-free plan builds on micro-mobility trend
Norway’s capital steers away from reliance on cars as political agenda is aided by technological innovation to realise social goals Continue Reading
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News
27 Mar 2019
Salesforce opens AI research outfit in Singapore
Cloud-based software giant Salesforce will train up to 100 postgraduate students over three years in artificial intelligence technology Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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Feature
25 Mar 2019
Storage 101: Object storage in the big three public clouds
We look at the object storage services of the big three cloud providers – Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure Blob and Google Cloud Storage – and how customers can achieve compatibility between them Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Blog Post
24 Mar 2019
Moogsoft CTO Cappelli: hats off to understanding AI understanding
The Computer Weekly Developer Network team spoke this month to Will Cappelli in his role as CTO for EMEA and VP of product strategy at Moogsoft on the subject of just how far we need to understand ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
22 Mar 2019
Infor tunes into (and visualises) high-fidelity self-orchestrated data
Infor builds business cloud software, this much we know. But this is software that is ‘specialised by industry’... a term used to convey its custom-aligned tuning to specific industry use cases ... Continue Reading
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News
20 Mar 2019
Pivot3 to target Azure, Google clouds and enhance AI/ML
Hyper-converged infrastructure maker Pivot3 plans to extend backup for its appliance clusters to additional public clouds and optimise service levels across storage tiers and cache Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
19 Mar 2019
Ctera teams with HPE to put cloud gateways in Simplivity HCI
X Series appliances marry HPE’s hyper-converged hardware with Ctera’s hybrid cloud file server gateway to provide edge compute with storage tiered to the cloud Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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E-Zine
19 Mar 2019
How IT leaders should work with marketing
In this week’s Computer Weekly, we hear expert advice on how IT and marketing chiefs can work together to deliver a high-quality customer experience. We examine how supercomputers are transforming science by processing large-scale data analytics. And we look at one of the key ethical aspects of artificial intelligence (AI) – how to explain the decisions an AI makes. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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Podcast
19 Mar 2019
Podcast: The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload – Episode 8
In this week’s episode of The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast, the team reminisces over 30 years of the World Wide Web, gets the low-down on what happened at this year’s Cloud Expo and digs a little deeper into the user IT implications of Brexit Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Blog Post
18 Mar 2019
Big Switch builds open source network operating system
Big Switch Networks describes itself as the cloud-first networking company. The firm focuses on what public cloud-style networking matched with hybrid cloud consistency. News this month sees the ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
15 Mar 2019
Progress offers low-code-for-pros with Kinvey
Progress puts forward another (arguably weighty) hand in the low-code game this week. The Boston, MA-based application development firm has upped the spec on its Progress Kinvey platform with extra ... Continue Reading
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News
14 Mar 2019
Met Police collaborated with US prosecutors in WikiLeaks investigation
The Metropolitan Police has confirmed it exchanged information on WikiLeaks staff in the UK with the US Department of Justice, which is conducting criminal investigations into the organisation Continue Reading
By- BIll Goodwin & Niels Ladefoged
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E-Zine
13 Mar 2019
CW APAC: Buyer's guide to cloud security
When putting data in the cloud, companies must understand how it is protected – and not assume that security is all taken care of. In this buyer's guide, Computer Weekly offers advice on making cloud security choices, looks at how to guard against DDoS attacks, and finds out Amazon's approach to building secure cloud products. Continue Reading
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News
13 Mar 2019
IT Priorities 2019: ASEAN organisations lay digital foundations
Organisations in Southeast Asia are planning to shore up their IT infrastructure to speed up application development and become more customer focused Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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News
12 Mar 2019
IBM’s APAC CEO talks up next chapter of cloud adoption
In the next phase of cloud adoption, enterprises will need to manage multiple cloud environments, as well as data to scale up their use of artificial intelligence technology Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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Blog Post
12 Mar 2019
F5 caps off growth plans with acquisition of Nginx
The privately held Nginx will be acquired for a total enterprise value of approximately £500 million. Nginx points to its open source community as one of the most attractive elements of the ... Continue Reading
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News
11 Mar 2019
Department for Transport kicks off cloud transformation
A major system has been moved to Google Cloud Platform as part of a wider modernisation exercise Continue Reading
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Blog Post
08 Mar 2019
Lumigo offers visual map inside serverless apps
Lumigo, a Tel Aviv based startup, has announced the release of its serverless intelligence platform for developers. Software application developers with an appreciation for the higher (cloudier) ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
07 Mar 2019
Cloud Foundry CTO on the key to DevOps transformation
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Open Source Inside blog written by Chip Childers, CTO of the Cloud Foundry Foundation. Cloud Foundry is an open source project with an open contribution ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
01 Mar 2019
OpsRamp: 4 pillars for IT Ops automation
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Bhanu Singh in his role as SVP of product management and cloud operations at OpsRamp. OpsRamp is a specialist in ... Continue Reading
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News
27 Feb 2019
SME backup products offer diverse routes to the cloud
We take the temperature on cloud-era SME-focused backup products that come as “traditional” software, replication-centric protection environments and hardware appliances Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
26 Feb 2019
Over 100 rural primary schools to get gigabit broadband
Primary schools could become high-speed broadband hubs for rural communities if government plans reach fruition Continue Reading
By- Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA
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Blog Post
25 Feb 2019
Ribbon roots out rampant robocalling
Companies change their ‘descriptor intros’ (not an official term, but it should be) all the time. Ribbon Communications has tuned its message accordingly, given that the firm was only formed in its ... Continue Reading
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News
19 Feb 2019
Pure launches ObjectEngine cloud dedupe, plus inter-rack NVMe
Flash storage pioneer offers flash-to-flash-to-cloud ObjectEngine on-premise and in the cloud while boosting connectivity between datacentre racks with NVMe-over-fabrics Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Blog Post
19 Feb 2019
Rubrik Build open source cloud data management for 'any' contributor
Rubrik has announced Rubrik Build, a new open source community built around the organisation’s own cloud data management platform. The community created is said to be 100% public and 100% open ... Continue Reading
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E-Zine
18 Feb 2019
When is it best to stick with paper?
In this week’s Computer Weekly, sometimes going digital is not necessarily the best thing to do – we weigh the pros and cons of paper versus technology. Our new buyer’s guide examines the challenges of asset management as you move IT infrastructure to the cloud. And we look at the growing role of software developers in the future of networking. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
14 Feb 2019
Bow to your Sensu
As all self-respecting geeks now, it’s important to bow to your sensei. When it comes to open source cloud-native user-centric monitoring, it may soon be important to bow to your Sensu. Sensu Go is ... Continue Reading
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News
12 Feb 2019
Legacy systems holding banks back from meeting demand for instant accounts
Banks are struggling to meet customer demand to open accounts instantly because of legacy IT systems and processes Continue Reading
By- Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA
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E-Zine
07 Feb 2019
CW Benelux: Google helps Dutch schools to teach computer skills
A programme in the Netherlands to help primary schools provide computational thinking and programming, developed with financial support from Google, is well on schedule. Also read about four Russians’ attempted hack into the networks of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Hague, and how Dutch delivery company PostNL is making savings by using robotic technology to automate administrative tasks. Continue Reading
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Feature
07 Feb 2019
Cloud the rising star of storage: Eight years of text analysis
Tracking word frequency in nearly a decade’s worth of storage content shows how cloud has come of age, flash has gone mainstream and how we don’t talk about virtualisation any more Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Blog Post
06 Feb 2019
Intel Nauta: for Deep Learning on Kubernetes
Enterprises are still exploring use cases to augment their business models with Artificial intelligence (AI)... this is a market that is very much still-nascent. Magical analyst house Gartner has ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
05 Feb 2019
Service Mesh: what is it, where are we... and where are we going?
This is a contributed post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Ranga Rajagopalan is his capacity as CTO and co-founder of Avi Networks. Avi Networks is known for its Intelligent ... Continue Reading
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News
04 Feb 2019
Swiss bank moves away from file with Cloudian object storage
PostFinance opts for Cloudian object storage as it migrates 100 million files away from NetApp and builds S3-compatible archives for Hadoop and Apache Spark Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
03 Feb 2019
Alibaba Cloud teams up with SMU on training programme
Alibaba Cloud will equip small and medium-sized enterprises with cloud computing and other technology skills through a partnership with Singapore Management University Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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Blog Post
30 Jan 2019
Nginx: managing monolithic app traffic is an API game
Nginx is the company that likes to be called NGINX, except it’s not… because it’s not an acronym, it’s supposed to say “engine-X”, which is a cool snazzy name, right? Actually, Nginx would only ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
29 Jan 2019
Dynatrace offers 'free for life' developer program
In the world of technology, there’s open source, but it is often open source served up in a somewhat limited or restricted format under an essentially proprietary overhang that leads quite quickly ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
29 Jan 2019
Dynatrace goes for Go (Golang)
Software applications need management, monitoring, testing and continual levels of deep tissue massage to ensure they run as intended and deliver to the user requirements for which they were ... Continue Reading
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Feature
25 Jan 2019
A cloud compliance checklist for the GDPR age
The cloud is supposed to make things simpler, but when it comes to compliance, things can get complex. Here is a look at the essential elements of a cloud compliance strategy Continue Reading
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News
23 Jan 2019
Facebook’s objections to court concerns over privacy more about ‘optics’ than facts
Facebook’s challenge to a High Court ruling that raises serious concerns about data transfers between Europe and the US is more about appearance than facts, lawyers for the Irish Data Protection Commission told Dublin's Supreme Court Continue Reading
By- Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly
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News
23 Jan 2019
Veeam Cloud Tier adds tiered storage for backups in S3 clouds
Virtualisation backup specialist adds tiering of Veeam Availability Suite data to AWS, Azure and S3-compatible clouds, which can now also be used as a repository for its N2WS cloud-native backup Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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E-Zine
17 Jan 2019
CW ASEAN: Dive into microservices
Microservices has become a buzzword linked with digital transformation, but it is no magic bullet for development woes. In this edition of CW ASEAN, we uncover the state of adoption of microservices in ASEAN and what needs to be in place for enterprises to get the most out of the technology. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
11 Jan 2019
What to expect from Dynatrace Perform 2019
The Computer Weekly Developer Network is heading to Las Vegas for the first of the technology industry's 2019 conferences -- and it's Dynatrace Perform 2019. Dynatrace is an Application Performance ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
10 Jan 2019
Are You Fully Automated?
One common theme with recent product tests and vendor briefings and that is - automation. Not that there's anything new here per se; back in the mid-90s I remember working on an extensive project ... Continue Reading
By- Steve Broadhead, Broadband Testing
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E-Zine
10 Jan 2019
CW Middle East: Bahrain aims to be fintech hub
Bahrain’s government wants to make the country the go-to place in the Middle East for financial technology companies. It hopes to capitalise on its banking know-how to establish an ambitious fintech “ecosystem”. Also read about Dubai’s plans for the Smart Data platform and the UAE Pass, a digital ID and signature, and how Shell is using AI to amplify the human impact of its workforce. Continue Reading
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News
08 Jan 2019
AWS secures cloud hosting role in UK government Crown Marketplace programme
Amazon Web Services’ cloud platform to play key role in how public sector organisations procure common goods and services Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
04 Jan 2019
Norwegian cryptocurrency miners lament proposed loss of energy use-related tax relief
A wide-ranging push by the Norwegian government’s tax collection agency to clamp down on cryptocurrency miners has incurred the wrath of a company planning to build the world’s biggest datacentre Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Feature
31 Dec 2018
Top 10 cloud storage stories of 2018
Top trends in cloud storage in 2018 included key enablers of hybrid- and multi-cloud such as native cloud storage, array makers’ cloud appliances and distributed file systems Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
28 Dec 2018
Top 10 HR technology stories of 2018
Companies are turning to artificial intelligence, robotic automation and chatbots to take the drudgery out of human resource management Continue Reading
By- Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly
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News
28 Dec 2018
Top 10 storage stories of 2018
Key trends in storage in 2018 included hybrid and multicloud storage, container storage, and hyper-converged infrastructure. Meanwhile, flash storage has evolved with NVMe Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Blog Post
24 Dec 2018
Thomas Cook & the Internet of Cockroaches
We all know the Internet of Things (IoT) -- it is the now widely accepted industry term used to describe a network of connected 'intelligent' devices that enjoy a degree on on board analytics and a ... Continue Reading
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News
20 Dec 2018
Microsoft raises cloud prices for Australian enterprise customers
Despite the price hike, Microsoft claims its Azure service remains competitively priced, with opportunities for additional savings Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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Blog Post
18 Dec 2018
AI developer toolset series: Mathworks on deep learning
The Computer Weekly Developer Network is in the engine room, covered in grease and looking for Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools for software application developers to use. This post is part of a ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
17 Dec 2018
Cloud Foundry cloud forecast for 2019
Developers will want to know what’s next with cloud for 2019, obviously. Key among concerns will be the need to engineer new automation services driven by AI -- and (no prizes for guessing), 2019 ... Continue Reading
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E-Zine
13 Dec 2018
CW Europe: Russia banks on electronic payments
A recent study by Sberbank, Russia’s largest state-run lender, shows the country has experienced a cashless payment boom over the past decade. Also read about the attempt by four Russians to break into the networks of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Hague, and why the Estonian government is directly targeting IT professionals in the UK. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
05 Dec 2018
Atlassian Optimizely aim to clean up developer data quality
Atlassian is of course best known (a few would argue loved) for its issue tracking software Jira. Optimizely on the other hand, is known for guess what? The clue was (obviously) in the name -- the ... Continue Reading
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News
04 Dec 2018
NHS email outage caused by ‘internal software issues’
NHSmail system shutdown, which saw staff locked out of their accounts, blamed on “software issues” in supplier Accenture’s internal infrastructure Continue Reading
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04 Dec 2018
The machine that goes IDaaS-Ping!
Ping (the identity defined security company, not the golf club company) has previewed its PingOne for Customers tool for developers The is cloud-based Identity as a Service (IDaaS) software for ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
03 Dec 2018
Why is all the cloud consolidation happening?
We know that 2018 saw a lot of cloud (industry) consolidation. Companies merged, cloud alliances (yes, more of them) formed and platforms became more agnostic (where possible) in order that they ... Continue Reading
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Feature
29 Nov 2018
How to build SME storage using public cloud storage
Small companies can often take advantage of public cloud storage offerings to supplement or replace on-premise infrastructure. We look at key options in file, block and object storage Continue Reading
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Blog Post
28 Nov 2018
Nutanix partner roundup at .Next 2018
Wandering the partner pavilion areas is a pleasant enough distraction at any IT industry trade show. Attendees dart between stands grabbing packets of branding-sponsored jelly beans, T-shirts and ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
28 Nov 2018
Nutanix Xi suite ‘cloud fabric’ edges over to IoT
Nutanix used its ‘Next’ 2018 conference and exhibition series this week in Europe to detail the scope of its Xi Cloud Services offering. This is a suite of cloud computing functions specifically ... Continue Reading
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News
27 Nov 2018
Oslo: A hub for the social startup scene
The Norwegian capital is thriving from a unique combination of business agility, a cultural receptiveness to technology, and a social desire to do good Continue Reading
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News
27 Nov 2018
Data volumes set to hit 175ZB with a tectonic shift to the cloud
There will be more data in the public cloud than enterprise datacentres or consumer devices by 2025 as data shifts location, according to a study by IDC and Seagate Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
26 Nov 2018
Unprecedented actions by Commons committee augur badly for Facebook
House of Commons’ serjeant-at-arms effectively arrested the CEO of a US software company and frogmarched him to Parliament, where he was told he would be imprisoned if he failed to hand over papers on Facebook Continue Reading
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22 Nov 2018
Yo Red Hat -- OpenStack Platform 14 based on Rocky
Red Hat appears to be continuing with its normal course of business (and product roll out programme) under the ownership of its new IBM parent -- the firm’s OpenStack Platform 14 has been launched ... Continue Reading
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News
21 Nov 2018
NetApp and Pure show strong results on flash storage and cloud
NetApp records healthy year-on-year revenue increase with flash showing out well, while Pure Storage sees incredible earnings for its flash products over 12 months Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
20 Nov 2018
Survey: Data very fragmented, and that’s a worry for most
Cohesity-sponsored survey finds most organisations store multiple copies of secondary data and worry about the cost and the effect on their competitiveness Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
19 Nov 2018
Standard Life and Aberdeen Asset Management turn to Workday to complete merger
Standard Life Aberdeen, created in August 2017 when two of Scotland’s largest financial services companies merged, is transferring 3,000 former Standard Life staff to Aberdeen Asset Management’s Workday HR system as it integrates the two businesses Continue Reading
By- Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly
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News
19 Nov 2018
Pure Storage makes big hybrid push with Cloud Data Services
Flash storage pioneer makes a big deal of its object storage architecture as it launches Pure capacity in the AWS cloud, plus replication to the cloud for on-premise hardware Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
19 Nov 2018
Top IT predictions in APAC in 2019
Edge computing, data management and microservices will play a bigger role in the Asia-Pacific region in 2019 as enterprises reshape their technology architectures to become ‘digitally determined’ organisations Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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News
14 Nov 2018
Rubrik adds Oracle, NoSQL and SAP Hana data protection
Scale-out backup appliance maker has already ticked most physical and virtual support boxes and is now filling out the details with enterprise application support Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
14 Nov 2018
NetSuite finds sweet spot in Asia
With a fast-growing economy and government programmes to drive digital transformation, Asia is proving to be fertile ground for the cloud ERP pioneer Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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News
12 Nov 2018
Agfa’s move to cloud HR paves the way for healthcare IT spin-off
Agfa-Gevaert is moving HR systems from 40 countries into the cloud as the company prepares to turn its health IT operations into a standalone business Continue Reading
By- Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly
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Blog Post
06 Nov 2018
Mesosphere ups automation for ‘on-demand data science’
Multi-cloud automation company Mesosphere has now come forward with Mesosphere Kubernetes Engine (MKE), Mesosphere DC/OS 1.12 and the public beta of Mesosphere Jupyter Service (MJS). Mesosphere ... Continue Reading
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News
06 Nov 2018
Smart Dubai platform is the backbone of the city's transformation
Aisha bin Bishr, director general at Smart Dubai Office, talks about the Smart Data platform and soon-to-be-unveiled UAE Pass, a digital ID and signature which is being touted as one of the foundations a city needs to transform Continue Reading
By- Edward Banda
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Opinion
06 Nov 2018
Introducing ‘focus and leverage’ – the value algorithm of the internet era
Anyone pitching a business idea or designing a new service needs to understand the economics of mature internet technology Continue Reading
By- Mark Thompson, Exeter Business School and DIGITLab
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Blog Post
06 Nov 2018
IBM and Red Hat: Inspired or desperate? And a difficult journey ahead
IBM’s proposed $34 billion purchase of Red Hat looks like a good idea for both sides. But is the proposed coming together borne of inspiration, or desperation? In other words, were the two ... Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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E-Zine
06 Nov 2018
Post Office IT system goes on trial
In this week’s Computer Weekly, 10 years after we revealed concerns over the Post Office’s Horizon accounting system, affected subpostmasters finally get their day in court. We look at how businesses are turning to wearable technology to help employees stay healthy. And we analyse the key players and products in the market for object storage. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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News
01 Nov 2018
The IBM and Red Hat mega-merger: Who stands to benefit most?
IBM is in the midst of a multi-year repositioning as it looks to offset the downturn in enterprise demand for its traditional, on-premise offerings by courting enterprise cloud buyers, prompting it to place its biggest bet yet on open source Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
31 Oct 2018
AWS urges enterprises to embrace their heritage when facing down disruption from startups
At this year's AWS Transformation Day, the cloud giant's enterprise strategist, Miriam McLemore, talked about why enterprises should be looking to embrace their heritage and legacy when moving to the cloud Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Blog Post
30 Oct 2018
Microservices no longer a fad, hoverboards still flaky
Microservices you say? An approach to contemporary software application development in which an (often large) application is built as a suite of modular and discrete components or services. Tish ... Continue Reading
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News
30 Oct 2018
How Avanade keeps pace with Microsoft and the market
Systems integrator Avanade has had to adapt to Microsoft’s evolution into an “ecosystem platform” that includes open-source software Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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News
29 Oct 2018
Philips looks to artificial intelligence to train its workforce
Healthcare company is looking to AI, chatbots and learning playlists to help staff learn new skills more quickly as it adapts changing business priorities Continue Reading
By- Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly
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News
25 Oct 2018
Firms will use AI to automate HR processes within two years
Companies are gearing up to automate HR processes with artificial intelligence and machine learning, while at the same time battling with outdated IT systems Continue Reading
By- Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly
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News
24 Oct 2018
SMEs use fintech in fight against online giants, but fears remain
Online SMEs are turning to financial technology to help them make payment processes easy for customers as they try to compete with online giants Continue Reading
By- Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA
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Feature
18 Oct 2018
Google Cloud CTO Brian Stevens on using open source for competitive advantage in the public cloud
Google Cloud CTO Brian Stevens on how the enterprise cloud conversation is changing, and why not all supplier declarations about supporting open source technologies are quite what they seem Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
16 Oct 2018
Hammerspace launches with hybrid cloud-era NAS virtualisation
Startup Hammerspace launches from five-year stealth to make NAS files available anywhere, on-prem and in cloud, with technology that splits metadata and payload for lightweight virtualisation Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Blog Post
15 Oct 2018
Container-native, it’s now ‘a thing’
San Francisco headquartered software analytics company New Relic has acquired Belgian container and microservices monitoring firm CoScale. Neither firm is essentially open source in its core ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
14 Oct 2018
What is optimisation-as-code?
There’s code optimisation, which, obviously, is a process where software application developers focus on an existing code base and work to improve it in terms of its total number of executable ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
12 Oct 2018
No Cloud Over VDI!
Unsurprisingly, whatever the IT genre and whatever the weather, cloud is always on the horizon right now. One of several top meetings I had last week within IP Expo's confines was with Morteza ... Continue Reading
By- Steve Broadhead, Broadband Testing
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E-Zine
11 Oct 2018
CW Middle East: Middle East warms to humanoid robots
Countries in the Middle East are warming to humanoid robotics, robotic process automation and artificial intelligence as these technologies become widely accepted globally. Also in this issue, read why Saudi Arabia has called on London’s fintechs to set up in the country with the promise of government support, and find out how the Gulf Warehousing Company has introduced cloud-based technology to replace paper processes used by its HR department. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
09 Oct 2018
Postman assesses state of the Aye-Pee-Eye (API) nation
Application Programming Interface (API) development company Postman has conducted a state of APIs survey. Well, an API dev tools company would, wouldn’t it? Questioning its 5 million community ... Continue Reading
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News
08 Oct 2018
Ctera to enhance multi-cloud after $30m funding boost
Ctera does “NAS replacement” on object storage in the cloud, but wants its customer on-premises hardware to be smarter to allow tiering of data to multiple private and public clouds Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Feature
08 Oct 2018
Windows Virtual Desktops: Microsoft takes virtual Windows mainstream on Azure
Microsoft is fleshing out its virtual desktop proposition by allowing enterprises to access Windows via its Azure platform, but what does this mean for its competitors? Continue Reading
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Feature
04 Oct 2018
Executive interview: Sebastian Krause, general manager, IBM Cloud Europe
IBM Cloud Europe general manager Sebastian Krause opens up about Big Blue's big bets on hybrid cloud, enterprise IT and why the public cloud market is not one it is interested in playing in Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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Blog Post
03 Oct 2018
Splunk CTO: we will ‘open the aperture’ for data analytics
Machine data intelligence and analytics specialist Splunk has detailed a number of product updates at its annual .conf user and customer conference this month. The self-styled real time operational ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
03 Oct 2018
Splunk ups Industrial IoT Operational Technology (OT) team tools
Real-time operational intelligence specialist Splunk hosted its annual .conf conference in Orlando this October to detail the state of its platform development, showcase customer use cases and dig ... Continue Reading