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O2 deploys small cells to boost mobile in Cornwall

Equipment upgrade will see customers in St Ives and Newquay benefit from better mobile connectivity after deployment of 13 small cells, with sites now live ahead of the peak summer season
Interview: How PXP shifted off VMware

When a business begins to see less and less value from an incumbent IT provider, especially as its software becomes more expensive, it might be time to switch. Here’s how one company did just that
AI Growth Zones: Everything you need to know

Plans to make the UK an AI superpower imply pervasive use of the technology. Ramping up adoption of AI will require more datacentres to host compute-intensive workloads, which is where the AI Growth Zone strategy comes in
OpenAI closes gap to artificial general intelligence with GPT-5

As OpenAI’s latest large language model delivers smarter AI, experts are wary of the risks GPT-5 poses to human creativity
Government looks at tech to tackle peak electricity demand

Forecasting, AI, smart meters and electrical vehicle batteries are part of an ambitious project to reduce the use of fossil fuels on the UK's energy grid
Black Hat USA: Startup breaks secrets management tools

Researchers at Cyata, an agentic identity specialist that has just emerged from stealth, found 14 CVEs in the widely used CyberArk Conjur and HashiCorp Vault enterprise secrets management platforms

Gartner: What to look for in a customer data platform

The analyst firm identifies data collection, customer profile unification, integrations and segmentation as among the key features of a CDP
M&A data storage integration challenges and how to tackle them

The need for efficiencies after mergers and acquisitions affects all IT operations. But data storage also raises issues around security, privacy and the reuse of data
Building digital resilience in retail

Retail is suffering economically and from hacking attacks. What steps can retailers can take to prevent cyber attacks, supply chain disruptions and migration downtime?

What to expect from UiPath Fusion 2025- CW Developer Network

He calls them “robots” in fact, not software bots, automations or agents per se... UiPath CEO Daniel Dines often talks directly about robotic process automation (RPA) and its intelligent ... Continue Reading
Tiny goes big on developer tools- CW Developer Network

Diminutively-named Tiny Technologies has come forward with enhancements in its rich text editor, TinyMCE. TinyMCE 8 is the latest release of the trusted WYSIWYG editor component that is used by ... Continue Reading
What to expect from o9 Solutions aim10x Americas 2025- CW Developer Network

Summer is over, folks, so it’s time for the European and North American technology conference circuit to get back into gear and the Computer Weekly Developer Network team wants to start things off ... Continue Reading
Platform engineering - Xebia: Why internal engineering precedes external excellence- CW Developer Network

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Kiran Madhunapantula, COO, product & platform engineering at AI-driven automation company Xebia. Madhunapantula writes ... Continue Reading

Diversity Think Tank: Divesting from inclusion; a tech mistake

Even without recent news in the US, diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives were dialled back in UK businesses last year due to tight budgets and economic uncertainty. Is it the end of the DEI push as we know it, or just a momentary blip ...
Diversity Think Tank: Stepping back? DEI in the current climate

Even without recent news in the US, diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives were dialled back in UK businesses last year due to tight budgets and economic uncertainty. Is it the end of the DEI push as we know it, or just a momentary blip ...
How the UK's cloud strategy was hijacked by a hyperscaler duopoly

The UK competition regulator says the cloud market is not working - it's time to take radical steps to reduce the dominance of the two US cloud giants