Automation

Pandemic has a silver lining for Brit automation merchant Blue Prism: Revenue up 70% for first half of fiscal 2020

Makes sense while enterprises wrestle with new ways of working

Science24 Jun 2020 |

More automation to suddenly look like a jolly good idea as businesses struggle through coronavirus crisis, say analysts

I, for one, welcome our robot replacements... Wait, no I don't

Science13 May 2020 | 28

Non-human Microsoft Office users get their own special licences

Automated operators can pay up like anyone – or anything – else

Software07 May 2020 | 23

Nutanix issues solid Q3 preview but also yanks mid-term targets

'A new company will emerge from this pandemic' says CEO

On-Prem06 May 2020 | 2

Process miner Celonis pushes out application tools to tighten up how they're used in anger

Better look into how users don't use software the way biz thinks they do

Software30 Apr 2020 | 4

Salt peppered with holes? Automation tool vulnerable to auth bypass: Patch now

'The impact is full remote command execution as root on both master and all minions'

Security30 Apr 2020 | 5

Masters of Puppet say: There's no magical one-size-fits-all answer to doing DevOpsery

Puppetize PDX 2019 Bigwigs on containers, consulting and the path ahead

Devops16 Oct 2019 | 14

If Syria pioneered grain processing by watermill in 350BC, the UK in 2019 can do better... right?

Wrong: Biz committee bemoans lack of automation strategy

Science18 Sep 2019 | 46

Complex automation won't make fleshbags obsolete, not when the end result is this dumb

Column We're messy, expensive, lazy, difficult – and entirely necessary

AI + ML25 Apr 2019 | 81

Software engineer fired, shut out of office for three weeks by machine

HAL 9000 is here – and it's plugged into your HR system

Software22 Jun 2018 | 58

Automation won’t take your job until the next recession threatens it

Economics boffin says we’re just playing with AI now and the payoff is years away

Science07 Jun 2018 | 26

Is automation going to put you out of a job? Probably not, but…

Research You've got to use your time much more wisely if you want to stay employed

Devops25 Apr 2018 |

Don’t fight automation software for control, just turn it off. FAST

Report into fatal air accident shows machines can't be trusted to negotiate a crisis

Science17 Apr 2018 | 118

UK web grocer Ocado takes £500k hit after robo-warehouse tech splurge

£36m sunk on developing proprietary software

On-Prem06 Feb 2018 | 18

No wonder Marvin the robot was miserable: AI will make the rich richer – and the poor poorer

I think you ought to know why I’m feeling very depressed

AI + ML11 Jan 2018 | 71

Is Oomi the all-in-one smart home system we've been waiting for?

Review Maybe. After the bugs are cleaned out...

Personal Tech02 Dec 2017 | 64

Stop worrying and let the machines take our jobs – report

Techies safe, but you may have to endure a robot co-worker

AI + ML08 Nov 2017 | 52

Robot takes the job of sitting on your arse

Poll Ford reveals 'metallic butt' used to test car seats. We're calling it Seat-3-P-O

Bootnotes31 Oct 2017 | 45

Puppet plays puppet master, gobbles up automation firm Distelli

Twisting minds, smashing dreams

Devops21 Sep 2017 | 4

Red Hat speed fiends celebrate automation

One language called Ansible to rule them all

Devops08 Sep 2017 | 22

Retail serfs to vanish, all thanks to automation

Oxford doomsayers sees bleak future for those employed in retail, transport, warehousing, and logistics

Science04 Sep 2017 | 70

Seriously, friends. You suck at driving. Get a computer behind the wheel to save your life

I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't drive like that

Science24 Aug 2017 | 92

Raising minimum wage will raise something else: An army of robots taking away folks' jobs

Low-skill workers are under threat either way, it appears

Science14 Aug 2017 | 151

Robo-surgeons, self-driving cars face similar legal, ethical headaches

Like transportation, medicine is becoming more automated, for better or worse

Science13 Jul 2017 | 8

Working in maintenance? Stop reading, we need you in the server room

You're undervalued, says survey. But you knew this...

On-Prem27 Jun 2017 | 10

Cisco to reveal 'Starship' ride to cloudy server automation heaven

Borg plans 'AI-assisted operations in IT', but first we get new HCI boxen for ROBO

On-Prem22 Jun 2017 | 2

Your job might be automated within 120 years, AI experts reckon

Even AI researcher jobs at risk by the year 2105

AI + ML26 May 2017 | 52

Google cloud glitch hits at Beer O'Clock Friday, fix coming Monday

POLL Cloud SQL backups being 'forced' instead of automated for 60 hours or more

SaaS22 May 2017 | 10

Hyperscale data centres win between their ears, not on the racks

Operating at scale is easy. Changing culture to accept and cope with failure is harder

On-Prem18 May 2017 | 10

Robot lands a 737 by hand, on a dare from DARPA

Building a bot for the co-pilot's seat may be cheaper than adding automation software

AI + ML17 May 2017 | 106

Fraud detection system with 93% failure rate gets IT companies sued

The architects of Michigan's maligned MiDAS system called to court

Software08 Mar 2017 | 44

Routine jobs vanishing and it's all technology's fault? Hold it there, sport

We're being encouraged to do different work and not everyone can keep up, study shows

Devops04 Jan 2017 | 55

‘Artificial Intelligence’ was 2016's fake news

Putting the 'AI' into FAIL

AI + ML02 Jan 2017 | 132

The sharks of AI will attack expensive and scarce workers faster than they eat drivers

Your career is now a game of musical chairs: you need to be ready when the song stops

On-Prem14 Nov 2016 | 95

Microsoft's IFTTT competitor goes live for suits & sysadmins alike

Workflow and automation tool needs no coding skills, can run from your smartmobe

Software01 Nov 2016 | 7

Bloody robots! 860k public sector jobs to be automated by 2030, say researchers

Yeah yeah. Humanity is unnecessary. We're sick of experts shoving it in our faces

AI + ML25 Oct 2016 | 42

Third of Donald Trump's debate deplorables are mindless automatons

Twitter bots make a lot of noise but thankfully can't vote in elections

Legal19 Oct 2016 | 49

Sharing your work cubicle with robots may not be such a bad thing

New report by Forrester shows AI will create jobs in the future

AI + ML28 Jun 2016 | 24

Ansible adds .1 to Ansible 2.0, de-betas networking

Also covers MS and Docker bases

Devops27 May 2016 |

Jenkins 2.0, where the devil have you been?

Automation platform finally gets full upgrade after ten years...

Devops26 Apr 2016 | 10

Puppet snags COO, ties up partners, and renames itself

Pledges to bring edgy tech to the mainstream

Devops07 Apr 2016 | 2

Data centre inventory tools have come around again? Yup, they have

BMC blames automation for new round of 'bet you've got rogue servers somewhere' anxiety

Software25 Feb 2016 | 3

Ansible charges into network automation with Cisco, Juniper

But where's Huawei?

Devops18 Feb 2016 | 3

Terrified robots will take middle class jobs? Look in a mirror

Andrew at Large Reg man gives talk on displacement anxiety

Legal18 Feb 2016 | 90

Automic grasps plug-in, reaches for OpenStack

Enterprise ops people best placed to float clouds for devs

Devops11 Feb 2016 |

Chef reviews internal update plans after 'degradation incident'

Automation vendor manually fixes Hosted Chef problem

Devops01 Feb 2016 | 4

Puppet Labs guards cash pile, gets chilly over IPO plans

Will boost head count, keep ear to the ground on acquisitions...

Devops20 Jan 2016 | 1

Serving up IT on a silver platter, also known as ITSM

Would you like that email account and Office installation a la carte?

On-Prem15 Jan 2016 | 15

Aircraft now so automated pilots have forgotten how to fly

US Inspector General makes flying nerve-racking again

Bootnotes15 Jan 2016 | 161

Ansible dumps Van Halen product names for Led Zeppelin references

Will v2.0 incompatibilities leave users dazed and confused?

Devops12 Jan 2016 | 7

Jenkins issues code of conduct to keep rowdy automation fans in line

Trolling, harassment frowned up. Passing port to the right is OK

Devops08 Jan 2016 | 16

It's automation as usual for VMware after cash Dell-uge

Virtzilla issues new version of vRealize Automation at VMworld Europe

Devops14 Oct 2015 |

The future of IT is – to deliver automation. Discuss

Sysadmin blog Adapt or die, says Trevor Pott

On-Prem01 Sep 2015 | 33

Prognosticator, for one, welcomes our new robot work colleagues

Kill all humans? Take our jobs? No, they just want to work with us

Bootnotes25 Aug 2015 | 20

Win the business services race with run-book automation

Stay ahead of demand

On-Prem26 Jun 2015 |

In search of an easier life: Do IT converged systems fit the bill?

Automation for the Common (Sysadmin) People

On-Prem25 Jun 2015 | 1