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Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Making IT sustainability more objective and actionable
Freeform Dynamics 15 Mar 2024I’ve heard a lot of pitches from technology companies on how they can help customers achieve their sustainability goals, and many of these follow a familiar pattern. They start with the global ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written in full by Maurice Kalinowski, product director at Qt - the company is known for its cross-platform application and UI ...
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Green coding - PagerDuty: Mindfulness mechanics, an efficient code system is an 'off' system
13 Mar 2024This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Mandi Walls in her role as DevOps advocate, PagerDuty – the company is known for its platform designed to automate critical ...
CW Developer Network
Green coding - Tricentis: Testing times for suboptimal algorithms & code bloat
12 Mar 2024This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Mav Turner, chief product and strategy officer at Tricentis - a company known for its software testing platform aligned to ...
Coders code, obviously. But in fact (and as we know) as the law of thirds governs a lot of what happens on the command line. That ⅓ 33.3% law of thirds comes down to the fact that a third of ...
The Computer Weekly Developer Network team is off to San Francisco for Upgrade 2024, NTT Research’s Global Research & Innovation Summit, so what can we expect? Since the millennium, some ...
For what might be the fifth time this year, the Computer Weekly Developer Network team is at Appian World, so what can we expect? It’s hard to think about Appian World without remembering the ...
The perfect smartwatch is a good dream to work towards and the Google Pixel Watch 2 is probably a step towards that Nirvana, it’s certainly a leap forward in terms of some of the functionality ...
As already previewed here, Kubecon CloudNativeCon Europe 2024 is staged in Paris on 19-22 March this year. The Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog took an early virtual tour of four companies ...
CW Developer Network
Cloudinary developer lead: When (and when not) to use multi-modal LLMs for visual content
08 Mar 2024This is a guest post by Sanjay Sarathy, VP of developer experience and self-service at Cloudinary, an organisation which helps companies unleash the full potential of their media to create the most ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt gives the magic technology tree a shake
Editor in chief 07 Mar 2024During her ill-fated 2017 general election campaign, prime minister Theresa May told an audience of voters on the BBC that there was no “magic money tree that we can shake to get everything we ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Ryan Mangan, datacentre and cloud evangelist… and founder of Efficient Ether. Efficient Ether is a startup on a mission to ...
Councils around the UK are looking at how to save money as they struggle to keep a tap on inflation and rising costs. Local services are being cut and council taxes are being hiked. None of this is ...
It’s not easy being green, just ask Kermit. But thankfully, we’re a long way past the 1970s and the naysayers who laughed at the then Prince Charles (now our course our gracious King) and his ...
CW Developer Network
Cockroach CEO: Resilience breeds robust scalability for regulated data zones
06 Mar 2024Spencer Kimball knows the City of London. He makes it his business to be in town (typically) at least once a year to meet with the company’s customers in the UK and European financial markets. As ...
CW Developer Network
Progress OpenEdge widens & deepens developer infrastructure services
05 Mar 2024Infrastructure software company Progress has continued to expand, augment, enhance (and perhaps even pare back where needed) the fabric and functions of its Progress OpenEdge flagship application ...
CW Developer Network
Catchpoint aims to elevate Google Cloud resilience with 'Internet stack' APM
04 Mar 2024As we work more prevalently and prolifically on the web, the cloud, the edge and the virtualised abstracted world of ephemeral computing, we want to hear terms like robustness, an absence of ...
Last week there were two questions asked in the House of Commons during Prime Minister’s Questions about the Post Office scandal. How refreshing it is to see this finally becoming a regular part of ...
Cloud security company Sysdig has made note of Falco now reaching graduated project status within the auspices Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Falco was initially developed by Sysdig in ...
NTT Docomo and NEC Corporation have used a presence at this year’s Mobile World Congress conference and exhibition to establish a joint venture company, OREX SAI Co, Ltd. (OREX SAI). The new ...
Workday followed the growing cadre of technology organisations taking the (arguably somewhat progressive) approach to media and analyst relations by hosting a study tour of its Dublin headquarters ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Birmingham: There is a lesson for every CIO
Managing Editor 21 Feb 2024A few years ago, Oracle announced a big win, when it was selected by Birmingham City Council to replace a heavily customised SAP system, which was originally implemented in 1999.Socitm advisory was ...
Ahead in the Clouds
How data centres are preparing for AI and greater tech responsibility
21 Feb 2024In this guest post, Wesley Anastase-Brookes, commercial sales director at colocation company Ark Data Centres, talks about the importance of responding to the surging demand for artificial ...
I was recently talking to my old friend David Terrar who runs the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF). The topic was generative AI and cloud computing, and how the two relate.. When David brought this up, ...
The Computer Weekly Developer Network is off to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe taking place 19-22 March, in Paris, France. With developers joined by IT team leaders and a proportion of C-suite ...
CW Developer Network
Oxford Immune Algorithmics founder: Defining the split between human brains & AI
19 Feb 2024In resonance, response and respect of the Computer Weekly Developer Network’s recent and ongoing coverage of Large Language Models (LLMs) and the related work associated with building generative ...
CW Developer Network
NerdioCon day 2: New mindsets for AI & partner pump for virtual desktop business
15 Feb 2024Nerdio held its NerdioCon software engineering conference and expo this week in Punta Cana for in-person and virtual audiences. Registered attendees for this event included business owners, ...
CW Developer Network
NerdioCon day 1: Driving 'outside-in' feature innovation across virtual desktop estates
13 Feb 2024Nerdio held its NerdioCon software engineering conference and expo this week in Punta Cana for both in-person and for virtual audiences. Registered attendees for this event included business ...
The UK Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure (PSTI) Act will come into effect on 29 April 2024. The product security aspect of this act stipulates a new regulatory scheme to make ...
A panel discussion at the recent State Open Con 24 conference has shone a spotlight on the red tape, inefficiency and political moves that prevent opening up data sets to tackle a crisis affecting ...
Networks Generation
New Optimisation Kid On The Block Puts Hybrid Users On The Cloudbrink Of Performance...
Broadband Testing 05 Feb 2024As many of you will know, one of my major focus areas since Stone Age Man (almost) has been network optimisation in its broadest sense. It seems ironic that, in 2024, optimisation is required more ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
It’s Time to Raise the Bar on Observability
Freeform Dynamics 02 Feb 2024Observability has come a long way in the last 30 years – from early service monitoring tools to today’s advanced platforms like Splunk, DataDog, Dynatrace, New Relic and others that ingest massive ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Why government IT needs a better approach to budgeting
Managing Editor 02 Feb 2024Defra minister, Mark Spencer was recently asked to give an update to how the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is coping with its plans to renew ageing IT systems. The ...
CW Developer Network
Dynatrace threads OpenPipeline into analytics & automation platform
01 Feb 2024Dynatrace used its annual user convention in Las Vegas this week to launch OpenPipeline, a new core technology designed to provide a single pipeline to manage petabyte-scale data ingestion into ...
CW Developer Network
Dynatrace Perform 2024: Cloud-native tool consolidation via unified observability
31 Jan 2024Dynatrace Perform has grown. When a company has to move conference locations in order to accommodate a bigger number of attendees, it’s generally a sign of positive growth and expansion. Now very ...
CW Developer Network
CloudBolt Lightning Strike 2024: Why automation has failed FinOps, so far
31 Jan 2024CloudBolt spent some serious time detailing its platform updates, product roadmap, future FinOps vision and wider strategy at its annual gathering of financially focused cloud practitioners this ...
Networks Generation
SASE Evaluation - The Thoughts Of A Founding Father
Broadband Testing 31 Jan 2024Now here’s something a little different. On this ‘ere blog, you are used to hearing my views on the world of networking, comms, security and occasionally wine. You may also have read my recent ...
Had a really interesting conversation the other day with Adrian Bignall, he who is in charge of International Sales at Evoke Technologies. Evoke is a rather large tech consultancy that only ...
CW Developer Network
LLM series - DoiT International: Prompt engineering, not for dummies
26 Jan 2024This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Sascha Heyer in his capacity as senior machine learning (ML) engineer at DoiT International and oversees machine learning ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Job losses may hinder enterprise AI success
Managing Editor 25 Jan 2024A swathe of recent research shows many believe the rollout of artificial intelligence (AI) will result in job losses and industry disruption.In a new blog Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of ...
When IT Meets Politics
Have the landline problems at the heart of the Horizon Scandal been addressed?
Winsafe Ltd 24 Jan 2024Rural sub post offices are still apparently required to use elderly (perhaps aluminium) lines from BT even when full fibre is available from alternative suppliers. This must be addressed if rural ...
We tend to think of Large Language Models (LLMs) in the context of generative AI as perhaps some form of database or as some kind of an extension to new-age information management. But, as Richard ...
Data Matters
Knowledge Management 2.0: have we found a way to make KM work?
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 23 Jan 2024This is a blogpost by Jim Webber, Chief Scientist at Neo4j, on how tech has finally caught up with ideas. To a computer, classifying things in the real world can be a bit of a puzzle. We’ve taught ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Rod Cope in his capacity as chief technology officer at Perforce. Cope writes in full as follows… Generative AI is giving ...
This is a guest post written for the Computer Weekly Developer Network by Shomron Jacob in his position as head of applied Machine Learning and platform at Iterate.ai. Iterate.ai is known as a ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
CIOs will need a new strategy for AI risks and opportunities
Managing Editor 19 Jan 2024The World Economic Forum (WEF) has warned that online misinformation and disinformation, generated by AI, is the top short-term risk facing countries. In its Global Risk report 2024, the WEF stated ...
Networks Generation
The Last Word In Analysing SASE Offerings: Evaluation Advice
Broadband Testing 18 Jan 2024DEFINING A Network Scorecard For Evaluating SASE Cloud Solutions While it could be argued that there are a near-infinite number of variables – and very few constants – that go into defining a SASE ...
The news that another of the big players in global file systems, Hammerspace, has integrated tape access into its data orchestration software should remind us all that tape’s modern incarnations ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Stefan Georgiev in his position as senior product manager at Nerdio. Nerdio is known as a software provider for ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Post Office scandal: A very good start to what comes next
Editor in chief 15 Jan 2024Well, what can we say? Humbly, let’s start with a very big thank you to Little Gem, the TV production company that created Mr Bates vs the Post Office, and to ITV for broadcasting the drama at ...