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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 ...
The cover up began to conceal the impossibility of delivering what was agreed with Number 10 in December 1998 ... but ... who was responsible and was the added encouragement of unethical conduct ...
CW Developer Network
LLM series - Stack Overflow: Winning wars with data quality & responsible AI
12 Jan 2024This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Prashanth Chandrasekar, CEO, of Stack Overflow. Chandrasekar writes in full as follows… Data is the lifeblood that fuels ...
We might think of Volvo Group as a car manufacturer that adheres to enough robust build standards capable of standing up to a Swedish winter - and we still should - but we should also now think of ...
OpenUK has shared its fourth New Year’s Honours List for 2024, celebrating what it calls the ‘social influencers of open source’ in the UK. Known well at Computer Weekly, OpenUK is a not-for-profit ...
Keen to make sure we get back up to speed with everything that’s happening in Nevada this month, the Computer Weekly Developer Network is headed back to Las Vegas for Dynatrace Perform. The event ...
CW Developer Network
LLM series - Workday: How LLM ecosystems can prevent model collapse
09 Jan 2024This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Clare Hickie in her role as EMEA CTO at Workday. Hickie says that ‘model collapse’ is a very real issue that must be ...
This is a guest post by Geoffrey Coley, regional chief technology officer for Asia-Pacific at Veritas Technologies The pace at which the cyber threat landscape is evolving with the use of malicious ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Zuzanna Stamirowska, co-founder and CEO at Pathway. Pathway bills itself as the ultimate data processing framework for the ...
Straight into Q1 conference season, we dive into a somewhat different type of industry gathering at NerdioCon 2024. Nerdio is of course a software provider for organisations that want to manage and ...
This is a conversation cum-new-analysis with Casey Ellis in his role as founder and chief strategy officer at Bugcrowd for the Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN). The Bugcrowd Security ...
This is a contributed blog by Vijay Raghavendra in his capacity as CTO of SymphonyAI in line with the Computer Weekly Developer Network’s series discussing software engineering work in the Large ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
What does “Investment in Generative AI” actually mean?
Freeform Dynamics 05 Jan 2024I’ve found myself in a number of conversations recently where the discussion has turned to the speed at which organisations are investing in generative AI. More and more, however, I find myself ...
Data Matters
Unit4 predictions for 2024: pervasive ERP, conversational UX breakthroughs
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 04 Jan 2024This is a guest blogpost by Claus Jepsen, Chief Product and Technology Officer, Unit4 2024 is going to be an important year for the enterprise technology sector as various factors influence ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Trey Doig in his position as co-founder and CEO at conversational intelligence company Pathlight. Keen to address the fact ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Jeff Schwartzentruber in his capacity as senior Machine Learning (ML) scientist at eSentire. Schwartzentruber is part of ...
This is part 2 of a discussion recorded for the Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) with Andrea Mirabile in his position as global director of AI research at Zebra Technologies - part 1 is ...
This is a discussion recorded for the Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) with Andrea Mirabile in his position as global director of AI research at Zebra Technologies. With over 10 years as an ...
When IT Meets Politics
Could Data Analytics and AI be used to reset the Election Agenda around Policies that will work?
Winsafe Ltd 31 Dec 2023could short-order training for Officials and Policy Advisors in the use of Data Analytics and AI to transform policy formation and implementation, beginning with citizen-facing services like the ...
CW Developer Network
LLM series - Chainguard: Why developer 'trust' in AI images matters (a lot)
30 Dec 2023This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Dan Lorenc, CEO and co-founder at software supply chain security company, Chainguard. As a man who co-created the open ...
When IT Meets Politics
2024: Putting Cyber Resilience into Social, Political, Business and Budget context.
Winsafe Ltd 29 Dec 2023On-line Safety, Safeguarding, Security, Counter-fraud and Resilience matter to voters and business. Cyber does not ... until they become victims ... Online crime is, however, now the world’s third ...
When IT Meets Politics
Will 2024 be the year AI begins to transform Education, Recruitment, Training from cradle to dotage?
Winsafe Ltd 29 Dec 2023Those looking at policies to avoid the UK being left behind as a bureaucratically planned Cannery Row, need to identify, publicise and build on what is already happening around the world (as well ...
Data Matters
Predicted tech trends driving the world of work in 2024
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 20 Dec 2023This is a guest blogpost by Paul O’Sullivan, UKI CTO and SVP Solution Engineering, Salesforce. The only constant in technology is change and the next revolution is upon us - Artificial ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Why laptops and other edge devices are being AI-enabled
Freeform Dynamics 20 Dec 2023Why do we need dedicated AI engines in laptops, and especially in the ultrathin laptops that AMD, Qualcomm and Intel are all targeting with their latest processors? What's the motivation behind ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Why Intel has joined the race for the AI-enabled laptop
Freeform Dynamics 19 Dec 2023A new AI battlefield is opening up, not among all the GPU ‘farms’ in data centres around the world, but out at the network edge and in particular on the laptop. This explains why Intel has invested ...
CW Developer Network
LLM series - Nutanix: Boxed for builders, how to forge & create developer AI tools
19 Dec 2023This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by James Sturrock in his position as director of systems engineering, UK&I at Nutanix. Sturrock writes as follows in full… ...
This is a guest post by Jason Baden, regional vice-president for multicloud application services and security company, F5 A shadow of doubt has been cast over the preparedness of Australian ...
CW Developer Network
LLM series - Snorkel AI: Distillation refines LLMs into smaller (richer) droplets of data science
16 Dec 2023This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Braden Hancock in his capacity as co-founder of Snorkel AI. As a company, Snorkel AI says it is the first ...
Green Tech
The power of partners in tackling the environmental challenges of data storage
15 Dec 2023In this guest post, Miriam Murphy, European CEO of IT services provider NTT, sets out the problem businesses face when trying to “green-up” their data storage estates After another summer of ...
CW Developer Network
LLM series – Qwiet AI: Avoiding 'tab complete' in AI-driven software development
15 Dec 2023This post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network features commentary from Stuart McClure in his capacity as CEO of Qwiet AI. Qwiet AI aims to reduce the noise inherent in the AppSec space and ...
This time last year I was basking in the icy cool, but mercifully dry climate of Berlin, testing SoftIron’ s HyperCloud product in its Berlin labs and very much appreciating the fantastic support ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Tesla and the risk of technological complacency
Managing Editor 14 Dec 2023The recall of the Tesla Autopilot software is an illustration of the risks of human complacency that can occur as more and more of the tasks we’re used to become automated. Years ago, people ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
The Post Office Scandal: When culture ate the law for breakfast
Editor in chief 13 Dec 2023Famously, “culture eats strategy for breakfast,” according to management guru Peter Drucker. What should we make, then, of the culture at the Post Office when it was prosecuting innocent people ...
CW Developer Network
LLM series - BlueFlame AI: Why we need to believe in LLM-agnosticism
10 Dec 2023This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by James Tedman, head of Europe region at BlueFlame AI. BlueFlame AI is known for its AI for alternative investment managers ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Ilkka Turunen in his capacity as field CTO at Sonatype. From development to production and everything in between, Sonatype ...
Data Matters
Embracing AI: understand the end user first
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 07 Dec 2023This is a guest blog post by Sara Portell, VP of User Experience and Rafael Artacho, Product Director, Unit4 How we interact with enterprise software, particularly enterprise resource planning ...
Looking at the latest quarterly earnings filings from the leading server makers shows they are all experiencing a significant boost in sales, thanks to artificial intelligence (AI). HPE CEO, ...
CW Developer Network
LLM series - Perforce: The developer challenge (and advantage) ahead
07 Dec 2023This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Rod Cope in his capacity as CTO at Perforce. A company that has gone through various growth and development stages over the ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by David Colwell in his capacity as VP of AI & Machine Learning (ML) at Tricentis. For any app on any infrastructure, ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Broadcom swings its axe at VMware
Freeform Dynamics 05 Dec 2023What a difference a week can make. The dust had barely settled on Broadcom’s $69bn acquisition of VMware before Broadcom, much as its critics had predicted, blew it all up in the air again. Like ...
CW Developer Network
LLM series - Qt: Don’t automatically 'go large' for code generation; small is beautiful
05 Dec 2023This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Peter Schneider in his capacity as senior product manager at Qt Group. As a company, Qt (pronounced ‘cute’) is known for ...
Open source time-series data monitoring player VictoriaMetrics at least calls itself a ‘player’ in its product statements. In a world where 99%+ of technology vendors baulk at the idea of being ...
Code is noisy. Not usually, because software code in and of itself is a calmly constructed and carefully engineered entity that exists inside our applications and data services to drive the ...
Actian is the data and analytics division of HCLSoftware. HCLSoftware itself is a Texas-headquartered cloud-native company that styles itself as a so-cal;ed ‘solution factory’ for enterprise ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Can contributing to open source get you a job?
Freeform Dynamics 30 Nov 2023Could voluntary work on open source projects be a stepping stone to employment? That was one of the intriguing prospects held out at the launch last week of a report with the slightly ominous title ...
If you want to come across as a cloud guru, then you better have a) a respected doctorate qualification, b) a senior data science-related position in a major hyperscaler organisation, or c) a name ...
AWS CEO Adam Selipsky kicked off AWS re:Invent 2023 in Las Vegas this week after the customary '7-am hard rock band tribute act' that you didn't think your ears (or various other parts) were ready ...
It’s a truism that a business is only viable if it can retain and potentially grow its customer base. A company that actually listens to what customers are saying, will try to steer product ...
Networks Generation
Optimistic Cloud Forecast - IT Managers No Longer Left In The Shade...
Broadband Testing 28 Nov 2023Remember the early days of cloud computing. All the promises – low-cost, scalable, simple to deploy and manage, secure, be in control of your own data and apps without the OnPrem hassle… All ...