Recent Blog Posts
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Has the data centre of the future already arrived?
Freeform Dynamics 25 Feb 2021Predicting the future is full of potential pitfalls, but analysts still insist on trying to do it, even when a study of the evidence illustrates how wild some forecasts have proven to be. But back ...
The ENIAC is 75 years old. This complex piece of kit from the 1940s was the world’s first computer. It was commissioned by the US army to calculate missile trajectories. It was officially launched ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Industry concerns over government digital identity plans risk a confusing outcome for users
Editor in chief 23 Feb 2021A flurry of recent activity suggests the government is ramping up its plans for the long-awaited demise of Gov.uk Verify, its failed attempt to produce a digital identity system for online public ...
Twenty years in the making, Lisbon, Portugal-founded OutSystems has (arguably) been working hard to position the breadth of its total technology proposition as rather more than any single low-code ...
Scientists have been using machine learning to pick out the animal kingdom’s prime suspects for the next coronavirus, and we’re sorry to report it spells party over for a number of familiar ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
The consequence of IT failure on a space mission
Managing Editor 17 Feb 2021If everything goes to plan, an HPE edge server, Spaceborne Computer-2, will soon be running on the International Space Station, proving that commodity x86 hardware can be used to run mission ...
GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Rachel McElroy, chief marketing officer for technology solutions and services provider Solutionize Global, explains changing how girls view the tech ...
Nobody can fit a square peg into a round hole, obviously. We can though, perhaps paradoxically, rely on a squarely-named company to provide software-centric solutions for a round, circular, ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
The WFH ‘New Normal’ is nothing of the sort
Freeform Dynamics 15 Feb 2021At least, not yet. The world is still in the very abnormal grip of a pandemic, and even with widespread vaccination we will be defending ourselves against the fear of further outbreaks for months, ...
Microsoft is joining as a founding members of the Rust Foundation. Established as an independent organization to steward the Rust programming language and ecosystem and support Rust’s maintainers ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Effective IT recovery in small/midsize businesses, 10 years on? Maybe tomorrow...
Freeform Dynamics 11 Feb 2021Disaster recovery is important for every business, large or small. But how can small businesses with limited resources protect themselves? Especially as a ‘disaster’ doesn’t have to be caused by a ...
Open Source Insider
Containerisation in the enterprise - a Computer Weekly feature series
11 Feb 2021As businesses continue to modernise their server estate and move towards a cloud-native architecture, the elephant in the room is the monolithic core business application that cannot easily be ...
Data Matters
AI: An intelligence without reasoning! Can we trust it?
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 10 Feb 2021This is a guest blogpost by Dr Jamil El Imad, Chief Scientist at NeuroPro. Alan Turing, a brilliant scientist and mathematician is attributed with being the father of artificial intelligence. He ...
A Texan lawyer has helped the internet through its Handforth Parish Council comedown by donning a sad kitten filter in virtual court. “I believe you have a filter turned on in your video settings,” ...
The finalists for the 2021 FDM everywoman in Technology Awards have been announced prior to the awards ceremony in March 2021 Each year professional women’s network everywoman, in partnership with ...
As promised in a recent blog focusing on Cato Networks’ recent customer survey results - “The 2021 Networking Survey The Future of Enterprise Networking and Security: Are You Ready For The Next ...
Dynatrace has now enhanced its infrastructure monitoring capabilities to analyse logs from Kubernetes and multi-cloud environments, plus, also, the most widely used open source log data ...
With only a proportion of developers classified as key workers (where their responsibilities perhaps included the operations-side of keeping mission-critical and life-critical systems up and ...
CW Developer Network
Programming in the pandemic - Skymind: Thoughts from the AI ecosystem
09 Feb 2021With only a proportion of developers classified as key workers (where their responsibilities perhaps included the operations-side of keeping mission-critical and life-critical systems up and ...
Here’s the thing about Honor keyboards… at first you don’t think you like them; the keypads on these machines are such a light-touch chicklet design and feel that you almost thing there’s not ...
With only a proportion of developers classified as key workers (where their responsibilities perhaps included the operations-side of keeping mission-critical and life-critical systems up and ...
CW Developer Network
Programming in the pandemic - Veracode: Depend on deeper dependencies (on two levels)
08 Feb 2021With only a proportion of developers classified as key workers (where their responsibilities perhaps included the operations-side of keeping mission-critical and life-critical systems up and ...
CW Developer Network
Programming in the pandemic - Coralogix: Don't run with scissors, do run with a runbook
07 Feb 2021With only a proportion of developers classified as key workers (where their responsibilities perhaps included the operations-side of keeping mission-critical and life-critical systems up and ...
CW Developer Network
Programming in the pandemic - Plutora: Don't dream it, value stream it
07 Feb 2021With only a proportion of developers classified as key workers (where their responsibilities perhaps included the operations-side of keeping mission-critical and life-critical systems up and ...
In terms of so-called first world problems, we all have them from time to time. I can’t make spaghetti bolognese tonight as I only have linguine or pappardelle. My Internet access at home is ...
Anyone can be a novice, an amateur or a beginner - the clue is pretty much in the name, right? Then there’s that second tier of accomplishment… let’s call that intermediary, normal (if you’re ...
Quocirca Insights
How can managed print services providers thrive in the Amazon Era?
Quocirca 04 Feb 2021Quocirca’s “The Amazon Effect” Executive Briefing Report examines the disruptive effect that Amazon has had on a technology sectors such as the Cloud, IoT, Edge Computing and the Smart Connected ...
Ahead in the Clouds
Datacentre storage investments: A lesson in future-proofing
Senior Editor, UK 04 Feb 2021In this guest post, Amy Fowler, vice president of strategy and solutions at datacentre hardware provider Pure Storage sets out why enterprises should consider adding unified fast file and object ...
The husband and wife who made hundreds of millions selling Bebo to AOL before buying it back for a relative pittance five years later have spent lockdown planning to relaunch the site (again). In a ...
Developers love software application development security provisioning, penetration testing, procedural process management and (software) program protection planning in all its forms. Okay, so ...
Over the next few years the tech industry has a roadmap to overcome the challenges facing quantum computing. This will pave the way to growth in mainstream quantum computing to solve "hard ...
CW Developer Network
Programming in the pandemic - IBM developer lead: personal insights & professional process
03 Feb 2021The Computer Weekly Developer Network examines the impact of Covid-19 on the software application development community. With only a proportion of developers classified as key workers (where their ...
CW Developer Network
Programming in the pandemic - Perforce: In open source, ‘crowd’ is a positive
03 Feb 2021The Computer Weekly Developer Network examines the impact of Covid-19 (Coronavirus) on the software application development community. With only a proportion of developers classified as key workers ...
The Inspect-a-Gadget elves are well-versed in all manner of shiny devices, hard lumps of computing power and even the occasionally frivolous technology gadget (the clue’s in the name, right ...
CW Developer Network
Programming in the pandemic - Appvia: GitOps-as-a-Watercooler (GaaW)
01 Feb 2021The Computer Weekly Developer Network examines the impact of Covid-19 on the software application development community. With only a proportion of developers classified as key workers (where their ...
Like everybody else, the Inspect-a-Gadget elves have been in lockdown. But, normally, the elves like to get out on the road, attend a few technology conferences and stay in a few cheap motels rooms ...
Data Matters
How to thrive in the post-Covid world – 5 tips for success
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 28 Jan 2021This is a guest blogpost by Gordon Wilson, CEO, Advanced It would be an understatement to say that Covid-19 has disrupted the way the world does business. How we now operate has to be set in a new ...
The maintainers of Linkerd, a lightweight service mesh have announced the creation of the Linkerd Steering Committee. As TechTarget reminds us, a service mesh is a dedicated infrastructure layer ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
10 years on, and HPC is taken for granted
Freeform Dynamics 28 Jan 2021In recent weeks we’ve looked back at several areas of IT. In many, we concluded that while today may look technically very different from yesterday, that’s just superficial: the underlying ...
CW Developer Network
Programming in the pandemic - FocusMe: Do developers need brain control?
28 Jan 2021The Computer Weekly Developer Network examines the impact of Covid-19 on the software application development community. With only a proportion of developers classified as key workers (where their ...
Worldwide VPN downloads reportedly reached 277 million last year, with one reason for the surge being a lockdown-induced appetite to circumvent streaming services’ geo-restrictions. How can anyone ...
Inspect-a-Gadget is of course a real person. He/she/it is gender-neutral, but the elves that work for Inspect-a-Gadget are very much of this Earth and composed of a pound (or more) of flesh, just ...
Among the uncomfortable truths about the government’s response to the pandemic is the fact that some people have and will continue to play the system. At the time it was introduced, the furlough ...
CW Developer Network
OutSystems VP: high-speed application engineering starts with ‘products’
25 Jan 2021Software application developers are working hard to adapt to a changing landscape. Software tools are changing, codebases are changing, cloud formats and data integration practices are changing, AI ...
Networks Generation
Application modernisation cloud platform makes the impossible, possible
Broadband Testing 25 Jan 2021Around this time last year, I was in London to cover off an event on platform migration for Rimo3, which I duly covered in this blog back then. ...
As every good developer knows, when you want to learn more about what a platform or tools provider is bringing through the release pipeline: ignore the news, delete the press releases, don’t look ...
CW Developer Network
Programming in the pandemic - Percona: Clouds gather around the DevOps fallout factor
22 Jan 2021The Computer Weekly Developer Network examines the impact of Covid-19 on the software application development community. With only a proportion of developers classified as key workers (where their ...
CW Developer Network
Programming in the pandemic - Linode: Mapping out a new workflow map
22 Jan 2021The Computer Weekly Developer Network examines the impact of Covid-19 on the software application development community. With only a proportion of developers classified as key workers (where their ...
Ahead in the Clouds
The generation gap: Why legacy datacentres are not a good fit for HPC
Senior Editor, UK 21 Jan 2021In this guest post, Spencer Lamb, vice president of Harlow-based colocation firm Kao Data, sets out why legacy datacentres may struggle to accommodate the growing demand for HPC workloads The ...
One of Donald Trump’s last acts as US president was to pardon Anthony Levandowski, a former Google engineer who faced 18 months for being caught with his fingers in the intellectual till. Citing ...