Edward Targett

Ed is a co-founder of The Stack. He previously edited Computer Business Review. He has also covered energy markets. He started his journalism career on local papers. He left school at 15 and has made a living asking "but why?" ever since.

Cloud | Sep 15, 2021

Software supply chain attacks surge 650%

Pre-auth RCE on Azure anyone?

Government | Sep 14, 2021

Cabinet Office "regretfully" kills off ERP procurement plans

"Contract... would not deliver the agreed policy cluster strategy"

Open Source | Sep 14, 2021

One to Watch #6: StreamNative aims to take Pulsar mainstream

Apache Pulsar, Bookeeper's founders raise $23m in a Series A

Featured | Sep 13, 2021

Databricks valued at $38b - but at first its founder couldn't even *give* his software away

"We put it on a few web pages and said: ‘Hey download this!’ No one downloaded it..."

Leadership | Sep 13, 2021

"This has to be a coalition of the motivated" -- techUK urges creation of a national CDO forum

"This has to be a cooaltion of the motivated"

Featured | Sep 13, 2021

Swiss regulators approve SIX's new "digital" SDX exchange - here's why that matters

Use cases to include loan syndication, non-bankable assets.

Leadership | Sep 06, 2021

"It's like a marriage..." SASIG’s Martin Smith MBE on the CISO and the board

"Imagine if boards said 'Oh, I don't really understand money, I'll leave that to the CFO'”

Leadership | Sep 01, 2021

125m users, 15,000 downloads daily: CEO Gary Fry on iText and innovations in pdf

"There’s around 15,000 downloads of our software every day"

Open Source | Sep 01, 2021

Apache Cassandra: Good for gay clusters and rarely on fire, but everything needs a little TLC.

"We went from 60% capacity on our messaging cluster to just under 30% capacity: that's a huge gain"