Enterprise software development has seen several revolutions, which began with the big bang waterfall approach of project delivery and progressed to agile methodologies. Then came the “shift-left” mantra, whereby developers were given greater and greater responsibility to deliver their code into a production environment, leading to DevOps. These changes in approach have been needed to…
Developers often adopt generative AI (GenAI) because it helps them to code faster, yet the tooling has potential to expose organisations to unaccounted for risks – especially if use is unauthorised or best practice ignored. “With GenAI, we see both amazing results and stunningly stupid results for the same dev team, and that tells us…
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Microsoft has issued fixes for a total of five new zero-day vulnerabilities out of a grand total of just over 70 addressable common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) on the fifth Patch Tuesday of 2025 – over 80 when third-party issues are accounted for. In numerical order, this month’s zero days are as follows: CVE-2025-30400, an…
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During a discussion at the recent KubeCon + Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Europe 2025 event in London, panel members discussed one of the big criticisms of modern software development: why is code deployment still fraught with problems? Shifting left, where developers take on more responsibility for putting their code into production appears to have…
The United States’ national metrology institute, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), is to cease providing updates to tens of thousands of older common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) held within its National Vulnerability Database (NVD). In an announcement posted last week, the standards body said that every CVE with a published date prior…
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More than 900 people attended the Nutanix Next Tour event in London in February. For Nutanix, many were not existing customers – the majority were customer prospects, and the ongoing concerns about VMware now being owned by Broadcom means that many people – including many attendees – are looking for alternatives. The completion of VMware’s…
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Nationwide Building Society is drawing on HPE’s private cloud capabilities to help deliver on the next phase of its multi-year hybrid cloud strategy. The company, which has more than 17 million customers in the UK and employs 18,000 people, is in midst of a hybrid cloud-focused digital transformation project, geared towards improving the online experience…
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It’s almost become a cliché to say that data is the lifeblood of the modern enterprise. However, Claire Thompson, group chief data and analytics officer (CDAO) at financial services firm L&G, says data has always been crucial to big firms. What’s changed during the past few years, particularly in her sector, is a recognition of…
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Over half of IT leaders polled by Coleman Parker in a global survey for Dynatrace believe their technology stacks will grow in complexity. In a survey of 1,300 chief information officers, chief technology officers (CTOs) and other senior technology leaders involved in IT operations and DevOps management in large enterprises, 88% say the complexity of…
BMC’s annual mainframe survey has found that businesses continue to grow mainframe workloads. In 2016, 43% of organisations said the mainframe was attracting and growing new workloads; for 2023, this figure has risen to 63%. Almost all of the 800 IT and business executives who took part in the survey (84%), said they had a…
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