Adrian Bridgwater

Talk of so-called "sea change developments" and "paradigm shifts" has long been rife among the IT media and the web's wider technology commentary channels. Right now we're all talking about cloud, mobile empowerment (let's not forget the Bring Your Own Device tagline here) and virtualized computing resources as we re-align many of the mechanics that drive our collective IT resources. But does all this talk of "new compute models" leave us at risk of forgetting other large-scale departmental changes, which still have to be brought to bear by the CIO? I'm simply talking about security here. The CIO is now also being joined by a CISO (Chief Information Security Officer), although in many cases this turns out to be one and the same person. The CIO's security remit now must encompass absolutely all of the people, processes and technology that impact the day-to-day runn... (more)

A Fistful of Fears: Our Top Five Security Issues

If you work in information technology and you passed through the city of London over the last week it would have been hard not to notice the InfoSec IT security conference being held at the Earl's Court exhibition center. Logically of course, certain themes and trends came out of this event, which (at a macroeconomic level at least) may provide some insight for chief information officers trying to analyse the state of their current security operation as they try to quantify the vulnerabilities that they may be harboring within their firm's operational structure. Whether we are al... (more)

WANdisco uberSVN 12.4 Open ALM Platform Arrives

Apache Subversion commercial services company WANdisco has announced that with the release of uberSVN 12.4, the open ALM platform is now officially out of beta. This week marks another milestone for uberSVN: it has now been twelve months since the Subversion-based platform was first launched. "uberSVN has had a fantastic first year. Not only have we won industry awards and accolades from the IT media, but we've had an overwhelming positive response from the community - all while the product was still in beta," said David Richards, CEO and co-founder, WANdisco. In total, uberSVN ... (more)

What’s So Big About Big Data?

It's almost a strange sounding phrase isn't it? The rise of the term "Big Data" has been popularized to describe those data sets we now juggle with in the new world of cloud computing and massively distributed databases, fueled as they are by the multiplicity of desktop and mobile devices that now interconnect with our global data mountain. The question now is whether companies are having Big Data problems... or whether they are perhaps having Big Data problems, with Big Data. It is widely agreed that the secret to coping with Big Data is analytics. Without analytics, Big Data is... (more)

Community strength blossoms for Raspberry Pi

The Raspberry Pi is almost ready for market and the manufacturers are reportedly taking a healthy number of pre-orders for the ultra-low price single-board computer designed to fuel interest in programming at school level and beyond. Talk on the wires now logically turns to how the machine will work, what will work on it and where it will enjoy technology support from the industry at large. There are already a number of blogs and forums blossoming to fuel discussion around the project and the "hub" for this intercommunication has recently been highlighted by Jamie Ayre, marketin... (more)