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Encord is data-centric computer vision company. The firm’s Encord Active is a free open source industry-agnostic (Ed: they mean its works in all verticals, presumably) toolkit that enables machine ...
Aerospike is a real-time data platform company. In an era when real-time data streaming companies are fond of giving away promo t-shirts emblazoned with phrases like - Is Batch Dead? - (spoiler ...
Green Tech
Making renewables safer: How safety technology is powering the clean energy transition
17 Jan 2023In this guest post, Wendy McMillan, sector chief executive for safety, at Halma, outlines how safety technology is powering the clean energy transition. We are undergoing the largest energy ...
Data Matters
Qlik-Talend proposed acquisition indicates marriage broker role for private equity?
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 16 Jan 2023The acquisition of France-based data integration supplier Talend by Sweden-founded data visualisation firm Qlik has to be interesting at an intra-European market level. Non-US IT suppliers are thin ...
Armo is cybersecurity company. The company developed an end-to-end open source Kubernetes security platform known as Kubescape. Kubescape has now been accepted by the Cloud Native Computing ...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is set to become part of the boardroom agenda as organisations look at how they can shave off more from operational costs and work out how they can grow the business ...
APIs are everywhere. As we know, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) - the ‘glue’ bond that works to connect applications to applications… and application components to services, ...
Alibaba’s research arm Damo Academy has recently published a list of top trends that are likely to shape the technology landscape this year. Chief among them is the rise of generative AI, which ...
In this guest post, Boris Manev, head of sustainability and government affairs at IT peripherals manufacturer Epson Europe, sets out why businesses have to get serious about sustainability in 2023 ...
It’s been three years. It’s been three long years (and we all know why) since the Computer Weekly Developer Network team was able to ask: what can we expect from the Dynatrace Perform conference ...
Data intelligence company Alation has launched a partner programme for its Open Connector Framework technology - the aim is to deliver connectivity to new data sources. The new work with partners ...
Based in Tel Aviv, groundcover is a start-up focused on the cloud-native application monitoring domain with eBPF. Built as an extension to BPF (Berkeley Packet Filter), a technology used in certain ...
Green Tech
Why carbon capture and storage technologies represent a new form of greenwashing
10 Jan 2023Polluters’ reliance on carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies, in-place of holistic action and expansion of renewables, is a greenwashed recipe for disaster, argues Aidan McClean, CEO and ...
Anyscale is the company behind Ray, an open source unified compute framework for scaling machine learning or Python workloads Ray was built to make it easy to scale AI and Python workloads — from ...
CW Developer Network
Open Seas: Common file synchronisation issues in today’s hybrid world
04 Jan 2023This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Jason Kent in his capacity as director at Open Seas, a UK-based enterprise IT solutions company specialising in data ...
Okay yes, strictly speaking, we do know that CES Las Vegas is the first technology show of the year… but (of course) it’s largely consumer (the clue is in the name, right?) and not exactly enriched ...
Newly launched and open source, Open Assistant represents the arrival of a ‘ChatGPT replicant’ for the user/developer community. The project’s intention is to create a chat-based large language ...
So, that was 2022. After two years of plague, we’ve now added poverty and war. Feeling optimistic about 2023, anyone? Enjoy those Christmas parties while you can… It feels somewhat churlish - amid ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Dealing with the growing problem of edge and IoT sprawl
Freeform Dynamics 20 Dec 2022Amidst all the hype regarding the massive growth potential for IoT and for edge computing in general, there is an elephant in the room, and that’s edge sprawl. It’s as if the edge evangelists are ...
CW Developer Network
NTT lays groundwork for next cloud developers, conducts open APN PoC
19 Dec 2022NTT Corporation has worked in collaboration with Ciena Corporation, Fujitsu and NEC to conduct a joint Proof of Concept (PoC) showcasing an open APN as defined by the IOWN Global Forum (IOWN GF), ...
GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Ana Cidre, head of International developer relations at Okta, talks about the steps businesses can take right now to start redressing the balance for ...
Here’s the thing about Xiaomi, it’s tough to pronounce and most people seem to opt for the shaw-mee version rather than the jiaow-mee option, the latter being generally agreed to be further away ...
This is a contributed piece for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Alex Walling in his capacity as field CTO at Rapid. RapidAPI by Rapid (the company itself was previously known as ...
This is a guest post by Chrystal Taylor, head geek at SolarWinds As the year comes to a close, discussions about next year’s financials and budgets are rising among business leadership. But with ...
Developer tooling and multi-tenancy specialist solutions for Kubernetes company Loft Labs has donated the open source project DevSpace to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). The CNCF ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
To maximise potential, mainframers must reach out and engage
Freeform Dynamics 14 Dec 2022The team here at Freeform Dynamics has always had immense respect for the mainframe community, without whom big chunks of most developed economies would grind to a halt. That said, we sometimes ...
Open Source Insider
JumpCloud on open source & Mac admin: what projects should you know about?
14 Dec 2022This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Tom Bridge in his capacity as principal product manager at JumpCloud - a company known for its identity, access and device ...
In this guest post, Donovan Justice, partner of digital engineering and emerging tech at EY, sets out why every digital transformation strategy needs to factor in the principles of sustainability ...
When IT Meets Politics
When IT Meets Christmas: The Massacre of the Innocents Updated
Winsafe Ltd 09 Dec 2022But Joseph had installed Anti-Spyware on Mary's phone, after she became pregnant and not by him. So they cashed in their bitcoin, dropped their mobiles down a well and departed for Egypt.
The company that Hitachi built out of the Hitachi Insight Group and its 2018 acquisition of Pentaho is known as Hitachi Vantara. Wile that corporate nametag might trip off the tongue about as ...
Scot McKnealy, the former CEO of Sun Microsystems, once proclaimed that the network is the computer. It is true that without a network, the apps we all rely on to manage our busy lives would be ...
Open source cloud data platform company Aiven has announced a streaming ecosystem for Apache Kafka. The intention is to offer a robust and fully open source real-time data ecosystem with the latest ...
This is a contributed piece for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written in full by Liam Randall in his role as co-creator and maintainer of CNCF wasmCloud and CEO Cosmonic - a company that aims ...
Partner news is rarely interesting. For the most part, partner announcements roll out a contrived reel of mutual backslapping bonhomie designed to make both companies (or more) feel good about ...
TriggerMesh has announced Shaker, an open source AWS EventBridge (serverless event bus service) alternative. Driven by trends such as platform engineering and serverless, platform engineers, ...
France/US-headquartered AI biotech company Owkin is open sourcing the Artificial Intelligence (AI) software behind Melloddy and Substra. Big fans of ‘open science’, Owkin hopes to help ...
In 2023, the office print sector will remain vulnerable to the impact of economic uncertainty, the energy crisis and supply chain disruption. The Great Resignation is turning into the Great Layoff, ...
The car crash that has been unfolding during the Post Office IT scandal inquiry puts a big question mark over trust in IT and whether consultants truly work in our best interest. Thousands of ...
AWS CTO Werner Vogels always delivers a fairly hard core developer-centric keynote with plenty of gusto, often wearing a punk rock era T-shirt. This year's AWS re:Invent 202 saw him announce the ...
While the focus on the Computer Weekly Developer Network is more generally focused on creation, build actions and (the clue is in the name) developing development for software application ...
CW Developer Network
Cohesity at AWS re:Invent 2022 - What happens in cloud, stays in cloud
30 Nov 2022Just to cover off (in technology circles) anyone who happens to live in a cave, under a rock or in case anyone has spent their last few days and weeks on the moon (where we presume Internet access ...
There’s analytics, then, there’s so-called ‘investigative intelligence analytics’, which is (presumably) analytics one louder. This perhaps extended notion of analytics is what Siren does, a ...
Geolocation technology specialist TomTom (TOM2) has told software application developers focused on mapping applications and related services that it will now introduce ‘significantly improved’ ...
Data Matters
Managing the maritime ecosystem with graph technology
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 24 Nov 2022This is a guest blogpost by Ali I. Riaz, CEO of OrbitMI Maritime is one of the most important parts of our global supply chain. Ship owners, ship operators and the entire maritime ecosystem must ...
First, cloud happened. Then, the global pandemic ensued and software application developers - particularly those working in environments designed to bring cloud-native functions forward to enable ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Kin Lane in his role as chief evangelist at Postman, an API platform used by more than 20 million developers and 500,000 ...
Data Matters
Why graph technology is for all our digital futures
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 23 Nov 2022This is a guest blogpost by Neo4j’s Jim Webber, who says graphs are a way of managing complexity that is all around us, so why not work with it directly? As DB Engines has been tracking, graph ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Why we need to address storage to tackle datacentre efficiency
Managing Editor 23 Nov 2022The logical choice for IT leaders is to migrate as many workloads as possible into the public cloud. But, not everything can be moved and if Gartner’s IT spending forecast is anything to go by, ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Does application modernisation mean what you think it means?
Freeform Dynamics 23 Nov 2022Most people in IT probably think they know what application modernisation is. For many it involves application refactoring - rebuilding the app using technologies such as containers and ...
Fauna is a distributed document-relational database company, delivered as a cloud API. The company has this quarter introduced intelligent routing, a service intended to provide developers with a ...