Not that long ago, a software developer’s career path was pretty straightforward, at least in terms of where you would look for work. Software engineers worked for software companies. Simple. At the very least, the idea that, as a software developer, you would be more...

Among the many things that will emerge from our collective experience of the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the positives is the way that it has triggered serious conversations about how and where we work. Particularly in industries like the tech sector, remote working was...

It is almost an act of modern-day sacrilege to say anything that suggests data is fallible. In the increasingly intertwined worlds of business and technology, data rules supreme. For organisations that learn to harvest the rivers of data generated by digitalisation...

The COVID-19 pandemic will be remembered as one of those profound before-and-after era-defining moments that litter history. No doubt we will be spending the next few years unpicking exactly how the world has changed in the wake of it. We’re already getting glimpses...

There was a time when a phrase along the lines of you can’t teach an IT infrastructure pro new tricks would have been apt. There wouldn’t have been much need to try - IT infrastructure, dominated as it was by on-premise servers and other expensive hardware, was a very...

It has become something of a truism to say that the pace of change in technology keeps on accelerating. But knowing that high-speed technological development is now a given doesn’t alter the real-life challenges organisations face in adapting to it. One of the areas...

Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) have been the default in database management for the past three decades at least. If you work in data, you have probably grown up with programmes like Oracle (the first commercially available RDBMS), Microsoft Access and...

As we slowly emerge blinking into the light post-lockdown, there are a lot of mixed feelings about the prospect of returning to the workplace. For some, the prospect of getting out of the house after months of trying to juggle work with childcare feels like an...

IT architecture is a phrase capable of giving many an enterprise CIO and business lead alike the shivers. It’s not hard to understand why - modern enterprise-grade IT systems are both absolutely necessary and highly complex. Despite the fact that no modern...

It is part of the human condition that we often don’t realise our capacity for embracing change and adapting to it until we really have to. The COVID-19 pandemic, by creating a pressing need to keep people apart, has shown us just how much we can do remotely these...

Data centres have transformed the way information technology and communications are organised the world over. Without the development of remote, dedicated facilities for running data storage and processing, there would be no cloud computing. And as use of the...

As with most things in life, it is always the more daring, sophisticated and, dare we say it, glamorous aspects of cybercrime that attract all the headlines. The audacious hacks that steal industrial volumes of personal data from major institutions. The...