The idea behind DevOps is that it brings together development and IT operations – the Dev and the Ops – to make it easier to create and deploy software. Platform engineering builds on this with a team made up of product managers and engineers, creating and maintaining the shared infrastructure needed by developers.Tech analyst Gartner…
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A few days after the Epic Games’ EU developer account ban, Apple reinstated it amid pressure from European Union regulators. Previously, the Cupertino firm had banned one Epic Games developer account due to the company’s CEO calling Apple’s compliance with the Digital Markets Act “hot garbage,” “horror show,” and a “devious new instance of Malicious…
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A tweak to how the IR35 tax avoidance legislation works means that from 6 April 2024, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) can no longer be accused of over-collecting tax from non-IR35 compliant public and private sector organisations. The change means that when HMRC calculates how much tax is owed by a public or private sector…
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Oracle’s plans to strengthen its artificial intelligence (AI) offerings could just be one of many such announcements to come in the enterprise application space, but the database application suite giant has, in fact, been working on adding artificial intelligence across its stack for some time. In September 2023, it announced its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Generative…
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Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) will provide technology services to over five million pension policies over the next 15 years, after life insurance and pensions giant Aviva contracted the IT services giant to support its UK business. The Indian IT services giant’s UK-regulated subsidiary, Diligenta, which specialises in the provision of business process outsourcing services for…
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The concept of working ‘on any device from anywhere’ is not new, but the Covid-19 pandemic brought the security challenges of remote working into sharp focus. For many enterprises the immediate issue was enabling a suddenly home-based workforce (many of whom had no previous experience of working away from the immediate office environment) to stay…
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Will flash kill spinning disk in the next five years? One notable storage player believes so, but plenty of voices argue there is life in the hard disk drive (HDD) yet. Meanwhile, quad-level cell (QLC) flash went mainstream with benefits in cost and capacity. Toyota suffered an outage for 36 hours at 14 car plants.…
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Over the course of 2023, there has been a concerted effort by the UK government and law enforcement to push more digital offerings into policing, including hyperscale public cloud infrastructure, various facial-recognition technologies and integrated record management systems. However, Computer Weekly’s coverage reflects the contentious nature of many of these deployments, which are often plagued…
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The rapid pace of digital transformation has increased operational efficiency and enhanced the customer experience – but it has also created a nightmare for CISOs. From mobile devices scattered across the globe, laptops accessing sensitive data from coffee shop Wi-Fi, to a myriad of IoT devices, the exponential increase in endpoints has greatly expanded the attack…
Decoding zero trust in endpoint security: A practical guide for CISOs Read More »
The democratisation of application development brings numerous benefits, including increased innovation and rapid deployment. As this trend becomes more prevalent, it has sparked debates about its security implications, especially for citizen developers or business technologists. The technology has inherent safeguards developed into the software used by citizen developers to ensure the highest level of security…
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