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.

E-Zine 02 May 2023
The ethics of military AI

In this week’s Computer Weekly, as the defence sector looks into using artificial intelligence to create autonomous weapons, we examine the risks and ethics of military AI. Amazon Web Services is under fire for not providing vital emissions data to customers – we investigate the issues. And we find out what IT security teams can learn from a year of cyber warfare in Ukraine. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
News 02 May 2023
SAP eyes SMEs in Southeast Asia

SAP debuts the Grow with SAP programme in Southeast Asia to drive adoption of S/4 Hana Cloud among small and medium-sized enterprises Continue Reading

Blog Post 09 May 2023

Out of this world? Nutanix delivers ‘universal’ cloud operating model

Nutanix used its .NEXT conference in Chicago this month to announce Nutanix Central, a cloud-delivered solution that provides a single console for visibility, monitoring and management across ... Continue Reading
News 09 May 2023

OVHcloud aims to bring Glacier-like cloud archive to Europe

OVHcloud makes Cold Archive GA with deep archive storage cheaper than AWS’s offer and all based on IBM 3592 tape hardware spread across four sites with Atempo backup Continue Reading
News 04 May 2023

Age UK calls for physical banking hubs as older people demand face-to-face banking

UK charity calls for banks and government to speed up the introduction of physical banking hubs as research reveals millions of older people don’t bank online Continue Reading
E-Zine 02 May 2023

The ethics of military AI

In this week’s Computer Weekly, as the defence sector looks into using artificial intelligence to create autonomous weapons, we examine the risks and ethics of military AI. Amazon Web Services is under fire for not providing vital emissions data to customers – we investigate the issues. And we find out what IT security teams can learn from a year of cyber warfare in Ukraine. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
News 02 May 2023

SAP eyes SMEs in Southeast Asia

SAP debuts the Grow with SAP programme in Southeast Asia to drive adoption of S/4 Hana Cloud among small and medium-sized enterprises Continue Reading
News 27 Apr 2023

Microsoft fails to get CMA thumbs-up on Activision deal

The UK Competition and Markets Authority has decided that Microsoft‘s proposed $68.7bn acquisition of Activision would damage the cloud gaming market Continue Reading
Blog Post 27 Apr 2023

Auto-tech series - Alibaba Cloud: How cloud automation builds better connections

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Raymond Ma, in his position as General Manager of Europe at Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone ... Continue Reading
News 26 Apr 2023

Police Scotland receive formal notice about cloud system

Scotland’s biometrics watchdog has issued Police Scotland with an information notice over its deployment of a cloud-based digital evidence system, following disclosure of major data protection concerns by Computer Weekly Continue Reading
News 25 Apr 2023

UAE improves healthcare through information technology

Health authorities in the United Arab Emirates are increasing their emphasis on new, smart technologies to modernise healthcare services Continue Reading
Blog Post 25 Apr 2023

Auto-tech series - OctoML: Large Language Model (LLM) automation for developers

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Jason Knight in his capacity as co-founder and VP of Machine Learning at OctoML, a company known for its acceleration ... Continue Reading
News 24 Apr 2023

Amazon Web Services selects 14 startups for space accelerator

The cohort of startups will use AWS and its resources to accelerate the research and development of their technologies and boost their growth Continue Reading
News 21 Apr 2023

UK biometrics watchdog questions police cloud deployments

The UK biometrics commissioner has warned that policing and justice bodies must be able to demonstrate ‘immediately and unequivocally’ that their cloud deployments are lawful Continue Reading
News 18 Apr 2023

Fintechs get more certainty about open banking’s future direction

Fintechs have welcomed the UK open banking regulators recommendations for the future of the sector Continue Reading
Blog Post 18 Apr 2023

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2023: Container no-brainers

It’s time to think about Kubernetes. It’s time… because this month sees the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) host Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023 from April 18-21 2023 in Amsterdam. ... Continue Reading
News 17 Apr 2023

Public cloud adoption set to surge in Australia

New and existing workloads are increasingly being migrated to public cloud, with two-thirds of Australian organisations already running cloud workloads in production in 2022 Continue Reading
News 14 Apr 2023

Alibaba Cloud unveils cheaper cloud options, new language model

Alibaba has introduced cheaper instances of its compute and storage services in China and is jumping on the generative AI bandwagon with its Tongyi Qianwen language model Continue Reading
News 13 Apr 2023

How Agoda is shaping up to be a technology powerhouse

Agoda’s CTO Idan Zalzberg explains why the online travel agency with a massive technology footprint prefers to run things in-house and not rely too much on public cloud services Continue Reading
News 10 Apr 2023

How India’s Cropin is tapping the groundswell in agritech

Cropin, one of the first movers in agriculture technology, has built an industry cloud platform that is now used by the likes of PepsiCo to maximise crop yields Continue Reading
News 05 Apr 2023

Nordic app-based bank offloads its peer-to-peer lending business

Danish fintech Lunar has sold its peer-to-peer lending business to Sweden’s SaveLend Continue Reading
News 05 Apr 2023

Scottish police tech piloted despite major data protection issues

Scottish policing bodies are pressing ahead with a data sharing pilot despite data protection issues around the use of US cloud providers, placing sensitive personal data of tens of thousands of people at risk Continue Reading
News 05 Apr 2023

Oracle to open second cloud region in Singapore

The move comes less than two years after Oracle opened its first cloud region in Singapore which is already supporting over 1,000 customers across Southeast Asia Continue Reading
Blog Post 03 Apr 2023

Auto-tech series: Zoho - practical uses of automation in low-code

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Tejas Gadhia of Zoho. Based in Austin, Texas, Gadhia has held various roles over the yeats spanning sales engineering, ... Continue Reading
News 30 Mar 2023

Naver Cloud teams up with Korean tourism body

The South Korean hyperscaler has teamed up with the Korea Tourism Organisation to improve visitor experience using its cloud capabilities Continue Reading
Blog Post 27 Mar 2023

Auto-tech series - EdgeVerve: Shattering systemically sluggish software silos

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Sateesh Seetharamiah is the CEO of Edge Platforms, EdgeVerve Systems Limited. Seetharamiah writes in full below as follows… ... Continue Reading
News 27 Mar 2023

Most Singapore organisations operate distributed IT infrastructure

More than two-thirds of organisations in Singapore use a mix of private and public clouds as well as on-premise and hosted datacentres, even as they face challenges with data management and complexity Continue Reading
News 22 Mar 2023

Why Veeam thinks ransomware warranty payouts are unlikely

Veeam Data Platform v12 offers a financial guarantee to customers that can’t restore after ransomware attacks, but the backup supplier is convinced it won’t be making many payouts Continue Reading
News 22 Mar 2023

OVHcloud opens India datacentre

The French cloud service provider has opened its first datacentre in India that will provide Indian businesses with access to local compute and storage capabilities Continue Reading
Blog Post 20 Mar 2023

Auto-tech series: HashiCorp - Automation & the multiverse of machine madness

Continuing this series of technology platform analyses examining the universe of automation tools and services now being brought to bear across every transept of the software application ... Continue Reading
Blog Post 20 Mar 2023

Half A Rack In Half A Day: Building A Private Cloud

Having entered my 39th (gulp!) year in IT, it’s fair to say I’ve had to endure more than my fair share of IT hype and BS. Many are the times at live events I’ve done a tally chart on the number of ... Continue Reading
Blog Post 15 Mar 2023

Auto-tech series: Sysdig - Automation for developers, move (securely) faster

This is a guest piece for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Anna Belak in her capacity as director of thought leadership at Sysdig - the company is known for its technology that ... Continue Reading
News 13 Mar 2023

Liverpool Football Club signs Wasabi in on-premise-to-cloud storage transition

Liverpool Football Club has transitioned from lead-footed on-premise infrastructure to Wasabi cloud storage that’s well-suited to its video production and distribution requirements Continue Reading
Podcast 10 Mar 2023

Podcast: Why DBaaS and what problems does it solve?

We talk to Tobias Ternström of Nutanix about how the enterprise landscape has seen thousands of databases from multiple vendors mushroom and how database as a service can help manage that complexity Continue Reading
Blog Post 08 Mar 2023

OpenSSF welcomes member ‘commitments’

The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) has a membership base, obviously, but joining this cross-industry organisation hosted at the Linux Foundation isn’t just a question of signing up for a ... Continue Reading
News 07 Mar 2023

APAC IT leaders bullish on tech spending

Over half of respondents in this year’s IT Priorities study have bigger IT budgets as they continue to make strategic investments in cyber security, cloud and automation, among other areas Continue Reading
News 06 Mar 2023

How to get mainframe modernisation right

Around a third of mainframe modernisation efforts fail, but that doesn’t need to be the case if organisations can harness the best of mainframe and distributed architectures, according to Rocket Software Continue Reading
Feature 06 Mar 2023

The race to net zero: Six ways to slash IT infrastructure emissions

Strategies aimed at successfully cutting climate risk can appear to be stymieing business sustainability. How can the industry remain productive? Continue Reading
Blog Post 04 Mar 2023

Civo creates ultra-high performance Kubernetes on Intel SGX

Civo is a cloud-native service provider powered only by Kubernetes, a state of being that enables the company (by its own classification) to call itself a pure-play cloud player. The company, in ... Continue Reading
Blog Post 02 Mar 2023

WP Engine DE{CODE}: the future is (headless) open source

The future of headless technologies, advances in e-commerce and the next generation of software application development builder tools are all part of WP Engine DE{CODE}, an event belonging to ... Continue Reading
Blog Post 27 Feb 2023

What to expect from NTT Research ‘Upgrade’ 2023

For those that enjoy a bit of nostalgia, NTT stands for Nippon Telegraph & Telephone [Corporation] and the organisation - 日本電信電話公社 - has been around since the very early 1950s, when it was ... Continue Reading
News 27 Feb 2023

How Dell is future-proofing its business

Dell Technologies is building a more resilient supply chain, investing in growth areas like edge and multicloud, and responding to shifts in consumption models to position itself for long-term growth Continue Reading
Blog Post 23 Feb 2023

API limitation evasion with SwaggerHub Explore analysis tool

SmartBear has released and API exploration tool that supports REST and event-driven specifications. The promise, or so we’re told, is ‘instant visibility’ for developers into API limitations. The ... Continue Reading
News 20 Feb 2023

App-based Zopa bank buys BNPL fintech

App-based Zopa bank is adding a buy now, pay layer platform to its technology stack through its first acquisition Continue Reading
Blog Post 16 Feb 2023

Dynatrace Perform: A session with developer advocate Kelsey Hightower

Dynatrace ended its Perform 2023 conference this week in Las Vegas with a set of additional keynotes designed to leave attendees with some additional thoughts on how the company’s technology is ... Continue Reading
Blog Post 16 Feb 2023

Dynatrace delivers low-code no-code AutomationEngine

Software intelligence company Dynatrace has launched AutomationEngine, a new element of its higher-level Dynatrace platform technology proposition. This service features what is described as an ... Continue Reading
Blog Post 15 Feb 2023

Dynatrace Perform keynote day #1: an observability automation vision defined

Software intelligence company Dynatrace used its annual ‘Perform’ software application development and data engineer user, customer and partner event this February to detail its company vision and ... Continue Reading
News 15 Feb 2023

UK saw fintech investment collapse in 2022, but is still a world leader

Fintech investment in the UK sees steep drop, but the country was still a top destination for capital Continue Reading
Blog Post 14 Feb 2023

The AI resource challenge: It’s infrastructure & compute, not data scarcity

Where would you look for a 2023 state of AI infrastructure analysis, if you really needed one? The answer should be obvious, of course, it’s Tel Aviv in the Holy Land. A study by Israeli AI ... Continue Reading
News 14 Feb 2023

Payment tech provider opens Finnish tech hub

Nordic payment tech supplier opens a hub in the Finnish city of Espoo to access expertise Continue Reading
News 13 Feb 2023

Hycu aims at universal SaaS backup with R-Cloud

Hycu’s R-Cloud aims to provide an API-driven backup product for any software-as-a-service application for enterprise customers, based on a simple low-code development environment Continue Reading
News 13 Feb 2023

Porsche revs up Formula E team with NetApp hybrid cloud

Porsche’s electric car racing team has to set up on city street courses in short order, and does it with a portable server setup and hybrid cloud storage managed by NetApp GFC Continue Reading
Blog Post 10 Feb 2023

Oh, Canada - Open Infrastructure Summit gathers

No, not there, not this time. Not Las Vegas, not Barcelona, not Orlando, not San Francisco and not even France’s nice Nice or London’s ‘OMG that’s too far away’ fabulous ExCeL convention centre. ... Continue Reading
News 09 Feb 2023

Cost-of-living crisis creates appetite to switch banks

As millions of Brits struggle with their finances, many view tailored financial services as beneficial Continue Reading
Blog Post 07 Feb 2023

Civo makes a PaaS

Containers are a massive element of cloud. We know this core truism underlines much of the way the as-a-Service model of computing, analytics and storage is developing. Positioning itself as the ... Continue Reading
News 07 Feb 2023

TSB pilots pods as branch replacements

TSB joins Barclays in adopting banking pods to ensure customers have access to physical banking services as the number of high street branches declines Continue Reading
Blog Post 03 Feb 2023

What to expect from ThoughtSpot Beyond 2023

Times change. This time last year the Computer Weekly Developer Network team was headed out to Las Vegas for ThoughtSpot Beyond 2022 with a whole set of health and safety advisories to guide us ... Continue Reading
Blog Post 02 Feb 2023

NTT & Palo Alto Networks get sassy on secure SaaS SASE

NTT Ltd. has changed. It’s a long time since the company was known as the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, that name was only used when the organisation was established as a state ... Continue Reading
Blog Post 01 Feb 2023

Sysdig lifts ‘lid’ on container image risks

Sysdig says it’s ‘driving the standard’ for cloud and container security - but how? The company reminds us that it ‘pioneered’ cloud-native runtime threat detection and response by creating Falco ... Continue Reading
News 31 Jan 2023

Digital banking changing the high street forever as banks close branches and open alternatives

Banks are reshaping their channels as customers move to digital services, with physical innovation complementing digital strategies Continue Reading
E-Zine 31 Jan 2023

How the cost-of-living crisis is affecting IT

In this week’s Computer Weekly, with major tech companies announcing thousands of job cuts, we examine what the cost-of-living crisis means for IT leaders and tech professionals. We analyse what you need to consider when reversing systems out of the cloud and back on-premise. And Very Group’s CIO talks about the post-pandemic challenges facing online retailers. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
Feature 25 Jan 2023

Green storage: Savings to be made but tricky to achieve

Storage upgrades can bring energy savings. New hardware, the cloud and as-a-service procurement models all cut costs, but can need careful tweaking to get right Continue Reading
News 24 Jan 2023

AWS opens Melbourne region, to invest $4.5bn by 2037

Amazon Web Services’ new Melbourne cloud region will better serve Australian customers such as ANZ Bank and is expected to benefit over 2,500 full-time jobs in the country Continue Reading
Feature 24 Jan 2023

IT’s shift to the cloud: Veeam’s data protection report in detail

With half of servers in the cloud, most backup and nearly all disaster recovery cloud-centric, the shift to the cloud is significant – but container backup is one area that is yet to settle down Continue Reading
News 23 Jan 2023

NGX: Turkish arrays to challenge US mainstream storage vendors

Ankara-based NGX offers block, file and unified storage with use of cache and RAM to speed access. Software-defined storage, cloud and NVMe-over-fabrics are also coming Continue Reading
News 20 Jan 2023

Veeam survey finds ransomware blocks digital transformation

Annual report shows secular trend to the cloud and increased use of containers, but prevalence of ransomware attacks means digital transformation is hindered Continue Reading
News 20 Jan 2023

Atempo plots course to containerised backup with S3 storage

Containerised modularised backup services will allow integration with third-party systems and backup storage unified onto S3 object storage for cost and analytics purposes Continue Reading
Blog Post 19 Jan 2023

Encord offers ML toolkit for computer vision apps

Encord is data-centric computer vision company. The firm’s Encord Active is a free open source industry-agnostic (Ed: they mean its works in all verticals, presumably) toolkit that enables machine ... Continue Reading
News 12 Jan 2023

AWS opens first Australian Local Zone in Perth

AWS’s first Local Zone in Australia will bring low-latency performance to companies such as Woodside Energy and Nearmaps Continue Reading
News 11 Jan 2023

SMEs eye moving business to challenger bank

Known for their consumer banking success, challenger banks are now winning over hearts and minds in the small business sector Continue Reading
Blog Post 10 Jan 2023

Kubernetes monitoring cluster map widens workload observability

Based in Tel Aviv, groundcover is a start-up focused on the cloud-native application monitoring domain with eBPF. Built as an extension to BPF (Berkeley Packet Filter), a technology used in certain ... Continue Reading
Blog Post 05 Jan 2023

Anyscale, it’s not a shame about Ray

Anyscale is the company behind Ray, an open source unified compute framework for scaling machine learning or Python workloads Ray was built to make it easy to scale AI and Python workloads — from ... Continue Reading
Feature 05 Jan 2023

Top trends in tech, and retail’s early adopters

Computer Weekly identifies the retail industry’s early adopters of what McKinsey & Co deems the top tech trends Continue Reading
News 05 Jan 2023

How technology is fuelling CommBank’s customer experience

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has built up capabilities in cloud and microservices while empowering engineering teams to solve complex customer problems Continue Reading
News 04 Jan 2023

How Tencent Cloud is cracking ASEAN’s cloud market

The Chinese cloud supplier is playing to its strengths in platform services, media streaming and communications to grow its business in Southeast Asia Continue Reading
Blog Post 03 Jan 2023

What to expect from Civo Navigate 2023

Okay yes, strictly speaking, we do know that CES Las Vegas is the first technology show of the year… but (of course) it’s largely consumer (the clue is in the name, right?) and not exactly enriched ... Continue Reading
Feature 28 Dec 2022

Developed for Big Science in Europe, highly accurate time protocols ensure fair trading in finance

Protocols developed for use at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research are now being used for many other applications, including financial services Continue Reading
News 21 Dec 2022

Top 10 ANZ IT stories of 2022

We recap the top 10 stories in Australia and New Zealand, including the opportunities and challenges that organisations in the region have faced over the past year Continue Reading
News 20 Dec 2022

Top 10 emerging storage trends stories of 2022

There’s a seismic shift to the cloud. In its wake, object storage, unstructured data, analytics, unified file and object, and consumption models of procurement have all been boosted Continue Reading
News 19 Dec 2022

GitHub CEO: Artificial intelligence will not replace developers

Artificial intelligence will enable developers to learn at their own pace and become more productive rather than take over their jobs, says GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke Continue Reading
Blog Post 19 Dec 2022

NTT lays groundwork for next cloud developers, conducts open APN PoC

NTT Corporation has worked in collaboration with Ciena Corporation, Fujitsu and NEC to conduct a joint Proof of Concept (PoC) showcasing an open APN as defined by the IOWN Global Forum (IOWN GF), ... Continue Reading
Feature 19 Dec 2022

Top 10 storage and backup customer stories of 2022

Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 storage and backup customer stories of 2022 Continue Reading
News 15 Dec 2022

Alibaba Cloud to debut blockchain service

The Chinese cloud supplier is readying a blockchain node service to simplify and speed up blockchain technology deployments Continue Reading
Blog Post 15 Dec 2022

Loft Labs donates DevSpace to CNCF

Developer tooling and multi-tenancy specialist solutions for Kubernetes company Loft Labs has donated the open source project DevSpace to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). The CNCF ... Continue Reading
News 14 Dec 2022

How India is moving towards net zero

Home-grown companies and multinational firms are doubling down on sustainability efforts, but more needs to be done to improve datacentre efficiency and avoid greenwashing Continue Reading
News 12 Dec 2022

Top IT predictions in APAC in 2023

Robotics, cross-cloud data mobility and cyber insurance are some of the key trends that will shape Asia-Pacific’s technology landscape in 2023 Continue Reading
News 07 Dec 2022

Vingroup to run SAP systems on Google Cloud

The Vietnam conglomerate and EV maker is planning to migrate all its SAP systems to Google Cloud in a move that is expected to reap cost savings and improve product quality Continue Reading
Blog Post 06 Dec 2022

Talend: Why ‘healthy data’ in Snowflake matters, really

Partner news is rarely interesting. For the most part, partner announcements roll out a contrived reel of mutual backslapping bonhomie designed to make both companies (or more) feel good about ... Continue Reading
News 05 Dec 2022

How HashiCorp is driving cloud provisioning and management

HashiCorp CEO Dave McJannet talks up how the company is supporting cloud provisioning in a hybrid environment and its investments in Asia-Pacific to capitalise on the region’s growth potential Continue Reading
News 05 Dec 2022

Cohesity doubles down on cyber-defence failings via backup

Datahawk service and Data Security Alliance bring clean data restores, ransomware artefact detection, data vaulting and data audit for a clearer understanding of attack impact Continue Reading
Blog Post 02 Dec 2022

AWS previews AWS Application Composer for serverless

AWS CTO Werner Vogels always delivers a fairly hard core developer-centric keynote with plenty of gusto, often wearing a punk rock era T-shirt. This year's AWS re:Invent 202 saw him announce the ... Continue Reading
News 02 Dec 2022

Communications runs in his blood

Symbio Connect CEO Giorgio Mihaila has spent more than two decades in a career dotted with roles at major communications technology providers Continue Reading
Feature 30 Nov 2022

From capex to opex: Storage procurement options bloom

We look at the growing list of possibilities when it comes to paying for storage infrastructure, ranging from upfront purchases with upgrades to pure pay-as-you-go options Continue Reading
News 28 Nov 2022

Panzura partners with AWS on ransomware counter-measures

Panzura might have slipped beneath the waves, but it’s come back reinvigorated, and now boasts integration with AWS with ransomware protection and Outposts hardware Continue Reading
Blog Post 24 Nov 2022

Dynatrace flags developer burnout, automation awaits

First, cloud happened. Then, the global pandemic ensued and software application developers - particularly those working in environments designed to bring cloud-native functions forward to enable ... Continue Reading
Blog Post 22 Nov 2022

Run:ai goes full-stack hyper-optimised AI on Nvidia DGX

Tech firms spell their names in creative ways. Not content with the dot.something style now common to many, Tel Aviv based compute orchestration for AI workload company Run:ai almost went full ... Continue Reading
Feature 22 Nov 2022

Cloud storage: Key storage specifications

We look at the key specs in cloud storage, including availability – such as five nines – bandwidth, IOPS and latency, capacity and tiering functionality, egress charges and security Continue Reading
News 22 Nov 2022

How Singapore’s OCBC is harnessing open source

OCBC using the OpenShift container platform to modernise its applications, reduce its reliance on proprietary software and deliver new business capabilities Continue Reading
Feature 14 Nov 2022

The next decade in enterprise backup

Backup set to adapt to deliver more security, ransomware protection and flash-speed restores, and deal with the complexity of multi-, hybrid cloud and container-based operations Continue Reading
Blog Post 08 Nov 2022

Snyk's peak technique: from code to cloud & back to code

Developer security firm Snyk (pronounced sneak) has announced its SnykLaunch Fall 2022 release. This iteration includes extensions to the company’s existing Developer Security Platform - so the ... Continue Reading
News 07 Nov 2022

How Globe is driving data analytics with Snowflake

The largest telco in the Philippines has moved its on-premise data warehouse to Snowflake to address scalability challenges and improve customer experience Continue Reading
News 01 Nov 2022

NetApp launches BlueXP as single console across on-prem and cloud

BlueXP gives customers monitoring and control over all NetApp storage on-site and in multiple clouds. Meanwhile, its Ontap OS has added S3 object storage access Continue Reading