The Robert Half Salary Guide is one of the biggest annual surveys of remuneration and in-work benefits in the UK. This year’s report is of particular interest because the big question on everyone’s lips is, of course, what impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on pay...

Software development is a polyglot industry. If you go by the most often reported figure widely credited to Wikipedia, there are at least 700 functional programming languages out there. Even then, Wikipedia’s criteria excludes ‘dialects’ of BASIC, mark-up languages...

Containers are an increasingly popular feature of enterprise IT architecture because they bring a number of benefits to the table, mostly in terms of application development and deployment. Because of the way they abstract specific functions of an application from...

Code playing a leading role in networking is of course nothing new. Protocols, implemented in a huge variety of programming languages, have been the backbone of the evolution of computer-to-computer communication for decades. The network that changed the world as we...

Shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, a study carried out by data centre equipment supplier Vertiv found that less than a third of data centre operators (29%) felt they were able to meet current demands. Just 11% felt they were in a position to respond to...

Definitions of the Internet of Things (IoT) often focus on connectivity and the fact that it involves adding isolated electronic devices to large-scale networks - hence the ‘internet’ in the name. But whether we’re talking about ‘smart’ heating systems or kitchen...

It can safely be said that any market forecast to be growing at a CAGR of 35% is booming. For Network-as-a-Service (NaaS), the latest cab off the cloud technology rank, that could result in the market touching $100bn in global value by 2026, with every big-name CSP...

It seems you can use software to automate anything these days - including to build software applications. In software development terms, ‘No Code’ means pretty much what it says on the tin - creating software apps without having to code. It’s not that the code is...

The catastrophic fire that destroyed an OVH data centre in Strasbourg, France, is a timely (if unwelcome) reminder of a basic truth about digital operations that is all too easily forgotten in this hi-tech age. Like everything else in this world, technology is subject...

Official figures on the rate of cyber attacks against UK businesses make for sobering reading. In the 12 months to March 2020, 46% of organisations said they had suffered some form of cybersecurity breach. This figure, however, was skewed by the relatively low rate of...

If you were going to bet on what aspects of the working world will ever return to whatever we remember as the pre-COVID ‘normal’, the smart money would be on not very much at all. According to Gartner, the pandemic will even leave its mark on IT infrastructure and...

Robotic Process Automation is one of the great misnomers of technology. Despite the name, there are no ‘robots’ involved - not in the conventional sense, anyway. RPA (as it is generally known) is all about software ‘bots’ taking control of high volume, low-value...