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This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Oliver King-Smith, founder and CEO of smartR AI. The company insists that it is committed to developing life-changing ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Mainframes and workload placement: Time for a dose of objectivity?
Freeform Dynamics 16 May 2024When Tony Lock and I interviewed Reg Harbeck, Chief Strategist at Mainframe Analytics Ltd, it was immediately obvious that we had different perspectives on the world. As a self-proclaimed ...
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Green coding - Diagrid: Code efficiency yields 99% drop in CPU usage
16 May 2024This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written in fully by Mark Fussell, co-founder and CEO, Diagrid. A diagrid is a framework of diagonally intersecting metal, concrete, or ...
The Computer Weekly Developer Network and Open Source Insider team are fond of extremely pungent cheese, good bread, the departure lounge at Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG) airport and extreme deep ...
Without data, a company does not exist. This was one of the answers Lotar Schin, AI centre of excellence lead at Hungarian commercial bank, OTP Bank made during a panel discussion at the recent ...
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Green coding - VictoriaMetrics: The efficiency vs complexity trade-off
15 May 2024This is a guest post written for the Computer Weekly Developer Network by Roman Khavronenko in his position as co-founder at VictoriaMetrics, a company known for its time series database technology ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Peter Campbell in his capacity as director of green software at Kainos. Kainos is a Northern Ireland-based digital services ...
Thinking back to the early 2000s (I refuse to call them “the noughties”) it seemed that whatever technology you were talking about, the word “security” always came into the equation. Fast forward ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
From clipboards to smart data capture; how software-defined scanning is changing the game
Freeform Dynamics 13 May 2024When I first heard about 'smart data capture', I couldn't help thinking back to a string of jobs in factories, warehouses and retail stores that helped me to fund my way through university. From my ...
Open Source Insider
Application connectivity for the hybrid cloud: Red Hat Connectivity Link
08 May 2024Red Hat used its annual conference Red Hat Summit 2024 to introduce the developer preview of Red Hat Connectivity Link, a hybrid multi cloud application connectivity technology that is said to ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
The Untapped Potential of Liquid Cooling in Modern Data Centres
Freeform Dynamics 08 May 2024Ever since IBM sold off its x86 business to Lenovo back in 2014, I've been closely watching how the company has transitioned from arguably a commodity player to one that often innovates in ...
At the risk of starting with an Alan Patridge quote. “The Swedish don’t have a bad life when you think about it,” said Partridge. “They get up in the morning, have a bowl of suede, hop into the ...
If there are three z-heavy terms that describe the current shape of functional cloud computing deployments then they might be compartmentalisation, individualisation and customisation in the face ...
Atlassian used its Team ‘24 conference and exhibition to showcase a wide range of enhancements and extensions to its team collaboration, productivity software and service management platform. Held ...
Based in the Holy Land, Tabnine claims to be the originator of the AI coding assistant category. The company has now announced an expanded partnership and integration within the Atlassian platform ...
Jira is entering a new era. As we know from TechTarget, Atlassian Jira is an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tool that provides tools for bug tracking, issue tracking and project ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Datacentres can play a bigger role in grid sustainability
Managing Editor 01 May 2024While improvements in energy efficiency have kept electricity consumption in datacentres in check, according to the International Energy Agency, to reach net zero, emissions must halve by 2030. ...
In this guest post, Lisa Wee, global head of sustainability at IT consultancy AVEVA, outlines the environmental benefits of embracing the circular economy The World Economic Forum has referred to ...
Directly labelling itself as the ‘Internet Resilience Company’, US-headquartered Catchpoint joined the growing band of enterprise technology companies eschewing the traditional conference circuit ...
CW Developer Network
Catchpoint helps Google Cloud customers improve Internet resilience
24 Apr 2024The web is online. It’s such a basic truism that sometimes we don’t question this core technology proposition. Yes, the web is (generally speaking, even when flaky service results) mostly always ...
Open Source Insider
Drop in the ocean? OVHcloud open sources schematics for water-cooled datacentres
24 Apr 2024Euro cloud company OVHcloud is taking part in the 2024 Open Compute Project (OCP) EMEA Regional Summit this month in Lisbon. Drawing upon (pun not necessarily intended) the organisation's some 20 ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
What are you doing to ensure your IT suppliers work for you?
Freeform Dynamics 23 Apr 2024Navigating the Complex IT Supplier Landscape in 2024 It is a truism that IT evolves rapidly, hence it follows that we need to reassess relevant strategies periodically to ensure efficiency. But, as ...
The latest spending forecast data from analyst firm Gartner shows that spending on datacentres is set to increase 10% in 2024. This is largely being driven by hyperscalers riding the generative AI ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Peter Pugh-Jones in his capacity as director of financial services at Confluent. Confluent is a full-scale data streaming ...
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NTT SVP: Optimising 'deployment architectures' for hybrid cloud & edge-apps
19 Apr 2024This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written in full by Rishi Kulkarni in his capacity as SVP cloud services division at NTT Data. In the modern landscape of software ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Taking the next step in mainframe observability
Freeform Dynamics 18 Apr 2024Despite their frequently less visible role, mainframes remain indispensable in supporting the critical operations of many large organisations. With technology advancements over recent years, ...
Appian World was held this year at the Gaylord Inner Harbor resort in Washington DC from 15-17 April 2024. Starting off proceedings this year as always was Appian CEO Matt Calkins. With more than ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
The mainframe skills crunch; an outsider vs insider perspective
Freeform Dynamics 16 Apr 2024During my career, I’ve worked hands-on with a great many operating systems, programming languages, mainstream database engines and countless generations of different hardware and application ...
Accessibility matters. When users first say Microsoft’s ‘accessibility’ features appear some three decades ago, not everybody knew what was being offered. Stanford University’s history of ...
When IT Meets Politics
Organising the political scrutiny of Digital Manifestos
Winsafe Ltd 15 Apr 2024The first step is to identity those with budgets, resources, expertise and experience, who are interested in working together to identify topics and problems of interest to candidates and voters, ...
News this month sees StarlingX 9.0 offering an open source cloud stack that has been ‘hardened’ by telcos such as Kddi, T-Systems, Verizona and Vodafone/ StarlingX itself is an open source ...
The Computer Weekly Developer Network team packed its bags, put some flowers in its hair... and headed to San Francisco this week for NTT Research’s Upgrade 2024. This two-day event was designed to ...
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NTT Research focused on ‘physics of intelligence’ with Harvard Center for Brain Science
11 Apr 2024Software development platform companies love AI. They have (arguably) always been fairly fond of digital intelligence as it has evolved through various decades and iterations that have taken it ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
VMware changes are hurting users in education
Managing Editor 10 Apr 2024VMware has been officially part of Broadcom since November 2023. On March 14 2024, a hundred days on from the acquisition, CEO Hock Tan wrote a blog post stating: “We overhauled our software ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Mainframe Skills: Challenge or Opportunity?
Freeform Dynamics 09 Apr 2024People in mainframe circles have been talking about skills development and succession planning ever since it was pointed out that the average age of mainframe specialists was pretty high and ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Taking IT Cost Tracking and FinOps to the next level
Freeform Dynamics 08 Apr 2024A CIO I interviewed recently told me candidly: “It's always a bit nerve wracking when you go into a meeting with a set of top-level numbers that look very sound, but inside you're dreading being ...
Amusingly, these days, when the Computer Weekly Developer Network and Open Source Insider team attended Red Hat Summit 2012, some of the event reportage ran with headlines that read ‘Linux comes of ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network by Vishal Ghariwala, senior director and CTO for Asia Pacific region at SuSE. Ghariwala writes in full as follows... When I was a Java ...
Open Source Insider
OpenStack Caracal improves agility & delivers bite as VMware alternative
03 Apr 2024The OpenStack has released Caracal (pronounced:‘keh·ruh·kal’ and named after the medium-sized wild cat native to Africa, the Middle East and Asia) marking the 29th version of this widely deployed ...
Every company is a data company. Now, of course, every company is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) company. Plus, logically every company must now think of itself as a generative AI company. But how ...
CW Developer Network
Green coding - MinIO: An unlikely problem in 'modern' software environments
03 Apr 2024This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Keith Pijanowski in his role as subject matter expert (SME) for Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (AI/ML) at ...
There’s only one problem with Logitech. Spoiler alert, it’s a good problem, but it is an issue. I’ve not found a keyboard or mouse combination to rival it (okay, the PC mouse products from Razer ...
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Green coding - KX: Going green in preparation for the year of the AI agent
02 Apr 2024This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Conor Twomey in his position as head of customer success at KX. KX describes itself as a global leader in vector and ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Varun Mohan in his role as CEO and co-founder at Codeium – the company is known for its platform designed to help ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Dr Leslie Kanthan, CEO and co-founder of TurinTech. TurinTech pledges to help software application developers unlock the ...
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Green coding - Ryan Mangan: The role of energy efficiency in development
22 Mar 2024This is a guest post in the ‘green coding’ story series written by Ryan Mangan, FBCS CITP. Mangan a datacentre and cloud evangelist… and founder of Efficient Ether. Efficient Ether is a startup on ...
Open Source Insider
No slacking at #TeamCloudNative hacking: CNCF CloudNativeHacks hackathon
22 Mar 2024What’s a hard-core cloud-native focused conference without a solid fingers-to-keyboard code challenge? Well, nothing, clearly. Thankfully the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) knows this ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Challenging the traditional boundaries between IAM and UEM
Freeform Dynamics 21 Mar 2024It's always refreshing to engage with vendors who aren't bound by the rigid category definitions that large analyst firms often impose on the market. At Freeform Dynamics, our view is that it's ...
The Computer Weekly Developer Network team found itself in the city of lights this week for the Paris, France-located KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe conference. The Cloud Native Computing ...
Networks Generation
Maybe Einstein Was Wrong with E and MC - Apparently SoftIron = VM Squared...
Broadband Testing 20 Mar 2024Let’s face it, the scenario facing VMware for resellers and customer alike, post-Broadcom acquisition is common knowledge – the future landscape is not as it was. On top of that, it has to be ...