Recent Blog Posts
Never afraid to bare a few buttocks in the name of a good clean fight, cloud-based analytics company Sumo Logic has tightened the straps for developers building cloud-native applications. The ...
Progress is a flexible company - the organisation has been through (arguably) more platform-level developments than most enterprise software businesses, but in the contemporary age of cloud, data ...
The Cilium project has reached general availability of Cilium 1.12. Great news, they’re (the Cilium team) excited… and so are we, but what is Cilium? Cilium is widely regarded as a (if not the) ...
As the cost of living crisis continues to see families struggle to afford food and essential utilities, please also spare a thought for multinational media streaming company Netflix, which has lost ...
Taking stock of retail tech
Why digital identity is central to the future of retail
Business Editor 20 Jul 2022GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post Ian Lowe, director of industry solutions for EMEA at Okta, discussed the role that identity will play in a digital-first retail future. Even before the ...
Taking stock of retail tech
Can ‘low code, no code’ close the commerce skills gap?
Business Editor 20 Jul 2022GUEST BLOG: In this guest blog post Conor Barr, CPO of retail integration platform Patchworks, discusses whether low or no code could help those low on tech skills to excel in the e-commerce ...
Inspect-a-Gadget
Circular IT series - Cloudinary: Small changes to cut bandwidth lead to big CO2 savings
20 Jul 2022This is a guest post for Computer Weekly’s circular IT series written in full by Tal Lev-Ami, co-founder and CTO of Cloudinary. Cloudinary is known for its cloud-based image and video management ...
GUEST BLOG: The tech industry is notorious for being heavily male, with many blaming the early pipeline for deterring girls from choosing to study tech-based subjects or consider tech careers later ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
What's up with Google's plan to supplant SMS and drive mobile e-commerce?
Freeform Dynamics 19 Jul 2022Ask most people what RCS stands for, and you’ll probably get a blank look. For Google and the others backing this new mobile messaging standard - whose full name is Rich Communications Services - ...
In this guest post, Guy Armstrong, senior vice president of applications for UK and Ireland at database software giant Oracle, on the importance of enterprises having accurate data to track ...
This is a guest post by Jeremy Paton, team engagement and collaboration specialist at Avaya The skills shortage is retaining its vice-like grip on Australia. Businesses across a range of industries ...
Open Source Insider
The Matrix Interoperated: Element fuses growth in open source messaging protocol
18 Jul 2022Matrix is an open network for decentralised communication. The brand has now surpassed sixty-million users worldwide after experiencing 71% growth in the last 12 months. All Matrix-based apps are ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Broadband Customer Experience: Twenty-eight minutes of life lost
Managing Editor 15 Jul 2022With people relying on fast internet access for home working, one would expect the broadband providers would have upped their game in terms of customer support. New data from Ofcom covering ...
In this guest post, Mischa van Kesteren, sustainability officer at HPC systems integrator OCF runs through the wide variety of ways that large-scale computing environments can be made to run more ...
First to note that in these financially – and politically – challenging times, it’s good to see serious investment still in the security area of IT. Let’s face it – we need it more than ever. In ...
When IT Meets Politics
The policies of the Candidates for PM depend on improving skills to deliver productivity.
Winsafe Ltd 14 Jul 2022Simply cutting taxes will not break the spiral of stagflation without rapid action to improve the productivity of the UK population as a whole, not just those currently in work, by sorting out: ...
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Keptn as a CNCF incubating project. Keptn is an event-driven orchestration engine that connects observability with operations in ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly circular economy series attributed to Tillmann Schwabe in his capacity as general manager of everphone - a company known for its online ...
Data Matters
Driving real-time value from a data management fabric
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 13 Jul 2022This is a guest blogpost by James Corcoran, SVP Customer Value, KX Generating tangible business value from data in as short a time frame as possible is becoming a strategic priority for businesses ...
There’s a certain breed of user that likes to ‘tool up’ to the highest possible level, even if they’re not always found on the side of a mountain. You know the sort of person… you’ve seen them walk ...
CW Developer Network
Beyond build breakers: CodeLogic's binary scanning & runtime analysis combo
13 Jul 2022Software application development teams need depth of insight into increasingly complex software to stop breaking applications and code fearlessly. Fearlessly… really? Yes, this is the twist (dare ...
Green Tech
How corporate travel tech firms are helping businesses achieve their net-zero goals
12 Jul 2022In this guest post, Vivi Cahyadi Himmel, CEO and co-founder at corporate housing provider AltoVita, sets out how technology can help the travel industry go green In the wake of the Covid-19 ...
You know soda, it’s what the Americans call fizzy-pop, Coke/Pepsi (other colas are available) and all manner of carbonated soft drinks. No, not that soda, we mean Soda, the provider of data ...
Open Source Insider
GitLab support engineering: innovating hidden multipliers for circular economy groupthink
11 Jul 2022This is a guest post written for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider authored by Lee Matos in his role as senior support engineering manager at GitLab - an organisation known for its open source ...
This is a guest post in the Computer Weekly ‘Circular IT’ series written by Melar Chen in her role as product marketing manager at HashiCorp - a company known for its modular DevOps infrastructure ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
UKtech50 2022: You can see these tech leaders, now be like them when it comes to diversity
Editor in chief 07 Jul 2022When Computer Weekly announced the first UKtech50 list of the 50 most influential people in UK technology, back in 2011, just seven women were included. Now, as we publish the 12th annual list, not ...
In this guest post, Bal Garcha, director of customer success for Europe, Middle East, India and Africa, domain name system (DNS) specialist NS1, sets out the role this technology can play in ...
There has been an unexpected party. The rise of low-code/no-code (LC/NC) and the associated disciplines have resonated far more around the boardroom table than expected - perhaps for a surprising ...
In this guest post, Louise Koch, global sustainability strategy and innovation director, at Dell Technologies on the role the IT sector should play in enabling a greener, post-pandemic economy ...
Data and AI company Databricks has announced several contributions to popular data and AI open source projects including Delta Lake, MLflow and Apache Spark. At the Data + AI Summit, the largest ...
Inspect-a-Gadget
Circular IT series - InterSystems: Peak performance via tight feedback loops
05 Jul 2022This is a guest post written for Computer Weekly’s series of features dedicated to examining the ‘circular IT economy’ authored by Scott Gnau in his capacity as head of data platforms at ...
Many older laptops die off within about three years of use, especially if you’re a heavy compute user that installs a whole bag of apps and pushes the device in and out of airports once or twice a ...
Developer platform company Helios is making noise. The organisation is comparatively news and it has things to say. Principally, the company highlights the fact that modern cloud apps consist of ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Digital levelling up must be a priority for the tech community
Editor in chief 01 Jul 2022The UK government’s plans for “levelling up” have, justifiably, come in for criticism. Nice rhetoric, but where’s the delivery? Fair comment. But for the tech community, attempts at digital ...
Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence division of Alibaba Group, has announced the global launch of Energy Expert. Not a person as such (although plenty of the organisation’s staff ...
Green Tech
How open source supply chain technology collaboration can help fight climate change
30 Jun 2022In this guest post, Justin Griffith, CTO of supply chain software company StayLinked illustrates how open source technologies can be both environmentally friendly and profitable Open source ...
Nobody likes donkey work. This is clearly true, the poor old donkey, mule & jackass often gets his/her name applied to the so-called 'grunt work' that goes on inside organisations where the ...
CW Developer Network
Salesforce expands MuleSoft automation integration to any system (or workflow)
29 Jun 2022MuleSoft Connect New York City 2022 saw plenty of news emanate from the company. Now residing under the Salesforce parental umbrella after its acquisition, which was completed back in 2018. ...
People don’t like the poor cockroach. Although they’re widely despised, generally spurned and definitely a very unpleasant addition to a bathroom, shower, bed or couch once you’re on vacation ...
In this guest post, James Petter, vice president and general manager international at storage hardware suppler Pure Storage sets out what tech hardware manufacturers should be doing to green up ...
Back in the early days of business computing, operators accessed the back-end system - such as a mainframe or minicomputer - via a green screen terminal. Terminals were disposable devices. No one ...
You know Zoom, we all do. But Zoom is not just Zoom, Zoom is Zoom Video Communications, Inc. The company has now launched the Zoom Apps SDK for developers. The Software Development Kit (SDK) ...
In this guest post, Justin Keeble, managing director for global sustainability at public cloud giant Google Cloud, sets out why - in the current technology landscape - companies should not be ...
This is a guest post written for the Computer Weekly Developer Network by Rob Tribe in his capacity as VP System Engineering EMEA, Nutanix. This analysis is intended to remind us of a core reality ...
The question is not hard. Why did nobody ever start a software application development business for coders to work with code and just go ahead and call it Coder? The answer is even easier, someone ...
In the post-pandemic world (okay yes, we know infections are still happening and many of us continue to be sensible with facemasks in public places like supermarkets and on planes etc.), people are ...
For as long as embarrassingly crude iterations of the AI chatbot have existed, we’ve yearned for someone to come along and get it right. We should have known that as soon as that happened, the ...
CW Developer Network
Snowflake cybersecurity workload: less congestion for data ingestion
15 Jun 2022As part of the core news feed stemming from Snowflake Summit 2022, we learned that the firm that calls itself the Data Cloud company has announced the launch of a new Cybersecurity workload for ...
In this guest post, Gary Brotman, CEO of automotive-focused machine learning company Secondmind, sets out why current AI methods are not meeting the challenge of supporting the transition to EV. In ...
IFS likes to personalise its annual technology conferences with a one-off label that denotes where the firm is on its progression and evolution path, both internally, with regards to its platform ...