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Computer Weekly Editors Blog
The dangers of binary arguments in a complex and relative digital world
Editor in chief 25 Jun 2021In his 1983 book, Modern times: a history of the world from the 1920s to the year 2000, historian Paul Johnson claims the modern world started on 29 May 1919, when astronomers studying a solar ...
Open Source Insider
The ephemeral composable stack - Grafana: dashing aboard for a clearer view
24 Jun 2021Grafana Labs specialises in what it calls ‘open and composable’ operational dashboards. That’s dashboards for viewing virtualized compute stack metrics, logs and traces - not dashboards in any ...
First, we had User eXperience (UX). Then, although it’s a still-nascent notion that’s not widely discussed, we had Developer eXperience (DX). Now, largely due to the nature of the web and the ...
MariaDB Community Server 10.6 has arrived. But, to be honest, version 10.6 doesn’t sound like more than a ‘point release’ not worth worrying too much about, right? The company insists otherwise and ...
It’s a reality – and one that becomes ever clearer, the more you travel and the more folk you meet – that the vast majority of people are actually quite stupid. Without getting all political, ...
CW Developer Network
Harness reigns in code delivery, smart tests & cloud ‘AutoStopping’
22 Jun 2021In fairness to the branding cheese-factor that comes with many company names or product brands, Harness is a sensible moniker for a software delivery platform company. The firm used its developer ...
Not put off by the complex circumlocutions and (many people with an understanding of economics and common sense would argue) calamitous complications and consequences of Brexit, the European ...
The Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) is an open source software foundation that seeks to improve the world’s capacity to deliver software with security and speed. The team has this summer said ...
CW Developer Network
The ephemeral composable stack - Perforce: Shifting to 'assembly culture' with bigger widgets
17 Jun 2021As the Computer Weekly Developer Network embarks upon its editorial analysis series examining the ether (and on-premises synaptic connection points) that now form the ephemeral and inherently ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Mobile operating systems: It's not about VHS versus Betamax
Managing Editor 16 Jun 2021In the 1970s two rival video tape formats battled out for the hearts and minds of consumers. Movies were distributed on either VHS or Betamax. Eventually, VHS won. But today who uses video tapes? ...
Data Matters
Emerging trend expands data science capabilities to more people using AI
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 15 Jun 2021This is a guest blogpost by Andrew Beers, CTO, Tableau. Ideally, every business decision today would be based on a thorough understanding of all relevant data available. But there’s simply too much ...
CW Developer Network
Can modern app platforms take an inside track to outpace technical debt?
15 Jun 2021Information technology systems are like bank accounts. No, you don’t get a free pen and a fancy ‘touchless’ plastic card with your photo in the corner and an animal design of your choice… well, ...
Clouds talk, it’s a fact. More specifically, individual application components, services and data commodities need to exchange information with each other in order to form the DNA of live ...
WITsend
Creating an equal and positive working environment for LGBTQ+ community
Business Editor 14 Jun 2021GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Anthony Smith-Wells, account manager at Advanced, talks about how to create a more inclusive and equitable environment for LGBTQ+ people in the tech ...
In this guest post, Stephen Gilderdale, senior director and head of pre-sales architects UK at Dell Technologies talks enterprises through the principle of building a “cloud multiverse” We stand at ...
How much cloud data management does any single instance or any single organisation’s IT stack actually need? Don’t try and answer that, it’s a trick question. The answer is obviously impossible to ...
Data Matters
Why modern BI is a necessity in a post-pandemic world
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 10 Jun 2021This is a guest blogpost by Jay Heglar, Chief Business Officer, Domo. Contagion rate. Hospitalisation rate. Case fatality rate. We are now seeing the start of a new era where data takes a central ...
Picture the scenario, you’re wandering the halls of the average technology trade show and you casually pick up a small four-port USB-C data hub and sling it into your bag without thinking too much. ...
As we know, Hewlett Packard became HP… and then, once the earth cooled, HP became HP Inc and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). While HP Inc continued to sell ink (pun intended) inside its printer ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Throwback Thursday: The business change agenda
Freeform Dynamics 10 Jun 2021It might come as a shock to some people in marketing to find that business transformation, or "business change" as I prefer to call it, is neither new nor driven solely by digital transformation ...
Apple CEO Tim Cook’s call for his employees to return to their offices at least three times a week by September has been met with a detailed response that effectively tells him, “Nah.” His initial ...
Data Matters
With the National Data Strategy, execution is everything
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 08 Jun 2021This is a guest blogpost by Peter Campbell, Data & AI practice director at Kainos The latest stage in the National Data Strategy – the Government’s response to consultation – shows the UK has a ...
In an open source originated commentary from Red Hat’s Irshad Raihan, director of product marketing, Computer Weekly Open Source Insider welcomes Raihan’s comments on the subject of computational ...
It was somewhere around a decade ago that Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst (now president at IBM as he is) used the composability term as a hook for his keynote. “I want to talk to you about the era of ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
The allure of the log-in-anywhere desktop
Freeform Dynamics 07 Jun 2021We humans are suckers for immediacy. Once we realise it is possible to not to have to wait – and that we have the power to make it happen – then to paraphrase Freddie Mercury, it’s “I want it here, ...
CW Developer Network
Panasas on data architecture - filesystem finesse in the CS Wild West
07 Jun 2021This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Curtis Anderson in his capacity as senior software architect at Panasas -- a company known for its PanFS parallel file ...
CW Developer Network
Panasas on data architecture - haystacks & hammers, choose your poison
06 Jun 2021This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Curtis Anderson in his capacity as senior software architect at Panasas -- a company known for its PanFS parallel file ...
When IT Meets Politics
Towards Joined Up Action on On-line Harms, Fraud and Cybersecurity
Winsafe Ltd 04 Jun 2021We have to join up the debate and put cybersecurity into business, economic and social context. Hence the importance of the Digital Policy Alliance and its groups.
CW Developer Network
Computational Storage - VAST Data: Practical truths for pragmatic file systems
04 Jun 2021In a number of follow-up pieces to the Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) series focusing on Computational Storage, CWDN continues the thread with some extended analysis in this space. The ...
A recent study has put a spotlight on a worrying trend in software development. Open source project maintainers are not being paid for their work. Or, if they do get paid, on average, they can ...
Had an excellent catch-up with Apstra, a company I’ve followed since day one, fascinated by its concept of “intent-based networking”. After all, my IT raison d’etre is to prove that stuff “does ...
In this edition of Tech in APAC, we'll cover some of the top headlines in the region, starting with how a transportation agency in Australia is using machine learning. At the peak of the Covid-19 ...
In a number of follow-up pieces to the Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) series focusing on Computational Storage, CWDN continues the thread with some extended analysis in this space. The ...
In this guest post, Martin Keenan, technical director at IT distributor Avnet Abacus, sets out why hydrogen fuel cells could be on course to replace diesel generators as the datacentre industry’s ...
CW Developer Network
Computational storage: University of Edinburgh - Antonio Barbalace at the CSD coalface
02 Jun 2021In a number of follow-up pieces to the Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) series focusing on Computational Storage, CWDN continues the thread with some extended analysis in this space. The ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
An opportunity to redesign computer architectures
Managing Editor 01 Jun 2021Over the last 70 years business computers have evolved a standard model of computing based around a central processing unit (CPU), main memory (RAM) and data storage. In effect, data is fetched ...
Software runs on data and data is often regarded as the new oil. So it makes sense to put data as close to where it is being processed as possible, in order to reduce latency for performance-hungry ...
Software runs on data and data is often regarded as the new oil. So it makes sense to put data as close to where it is being processed as possible, in order to reduce latency for performance-hungry ...
Data Matters
How graph technology is helping enterprises to harness the complex skill sets of employees
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 27 May 2021This is a guest blogpost by Amy Holder from Neo4j. She examines recent interest in graph databases as the basis for the next wave of human capital management technology. For global HR influencer ...
CW Developer Network
Computational storage: Pure Storage - Segment, sandbox, stream & shape for storage supremacy
27 May 2021Software runs on data and data is often regarded as the new oil. So it makes sense to put data as close to where it is being processed as possible, in order to reduce latency for performance-hungry ...
CW Developer Network
Computational storage series: Prizsm - The conventional-quantum chasm & stifling standardisation
26 May 2021Software runs on data and data is often regarded as the new oil. So it makes sense to put data as close to where it is being processed as possible, in order to reduce latency for performance-hungry ...
The presumption of the machine functioning properly in practice, means that the prosecution can rely on the presumption that a computer was operating reliably at all material times. It needs to be ...
CW Developer Network
Computational storage series: Prizsm - Data disaggregation & ‘likable’ latency
25 May 2021Software runs on data and data is often regarded as the new oil. So it makes sense to put data as close to where it is being processed as possible, in order to reduce latency for performance-hungry ...
Connect, unify & predict. You can almost smell the cellophane wrapping on the technology conference T-shirts as every vendor worth its salt emblazons its give-aways with phases like this. ...
CW Developer Network
Computational storage series: Evaluator Group - Speculations, expectations & extrapolations
24 May 2021Software runs on data and data is often regarded as the new oil. So it makes sense to put data as close to where it is being processed as possible, in order to reduce latency for performance-hungry ...
Data Matters
Where is the strategy in the National Data Strategy?
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 21 May 2021Who is the presiding genius behind the National Data Strategy? Who is its architect? What are its goals? And what will it have achieved in five years’ time? That the government has responded to the ...
Eyes on APAC
Data ‘observability’ key in keeping pace with software evolution
TechTarget 21 May 2021With software moving to cloud architectures and no longer monolithic, organisations will need to establish intelligent “observability” so they can make better decisions. This is essential to cut ...
Those who are into high-end PC games are generally well-versed in the significance of GPU acceleration. So called AAA games often need the most powerful GPUs available to achieve the best ...
CW Developer Network
Computational storage series: Model9 - The cloud + computational storage sweet spot
20 May 2021Software runs on data and data is often regarded as the new oil. So it makes sense to put data as close to where it is being processed as possible, in order to reduce latency for performance-hungry ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Throwback Thursday: Even data fragmentation has gone virtual
Freeform Dynamics 20 May 2021If there’s one thing that our report Storage Anywhere and Everywhere from eight years ago reminds us, it’s that the risks of uncontrolled data growth are nothing new. As our contribution to the bit ...