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  • Return of the Luddites

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 07 May 2026
  • Are we 21st century Luddites? As we progress to a world where artificial intelligence (AI) and technological advances lead to major changes in working practices, we can and should draw analogies ...

  • Tech sovereignty in a "special relationship"

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 29 Apr 2026
  • How much investment does the UK need in tech to be in a position where it can limit the impact of geopolitical turmoil and the goings on in the White House? With King Charles having to navigate the ...

  • A modern approach to technical debt reduction

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 16 Apr 2026
  • While it may have been conceived as an elegant way to host microservices, containerisation is seeping into mainstream enterprise IT. When asked about their IT strategy, IT leaders will often say ...

  • IT pros: the path ahead in career development

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 08 Apr 2026
  • If change is the only constant, IT is a sector that has thrived by driving forward change. IT professionals need to adapt, otherwise they get left behind. Employment stability is very volatile, ...

  • Things to consider about Oracle's Agentic Fusion

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 25 Mar 2026
  • Beyond the Oracle Fusion Agentic Applications announcement that coincided with the Oracle AI Tour London event, there is the inevitable question of what it actually does. By default, it seems the ...

  • A simple online login is key to digital government success

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 19 Mar 2026
  • While it’s not perfect, there’s one thing that can be said of Microsoft Azure Active Directory. It basically does what it’s supposed to, providing a relatively straightforward login for enterprise ...

  • They need us to buy their debt-fuelled AI dream

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 05 Mar 2026
  • So it seems Nvidia boss, Jensen Huang is telling financial analysts that datacentre spending will increase 10-fold to 4 trillion within four years. And, those who heard his keynote at the GTC event ...

  • The Q in AI

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 26 Feb 2026
  • What can we learn from the Microsoft AI Tour that was held at London’s ExCel on February 24th? It would seem - at least from the queues - that thousands of people were waiting to get in to hear the ...

  • A questionable partnership

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 18 Feb 2026
  • During numerous presentations given by IT industry executives, amongst the most over-used phrase is “partnership” and specifically, the supposedly “strategic partnership” they have with key ...

  • Legacy IT? No problem

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 11 Feb 2026
  • Maybe it’s time to press the pause button on artificial intelligence (AI). While the industry is dead set on promoting the benefits of multi-agent AI systems, the CIOs in many organisations ...

  • Accountability for AI model misuse

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 05 Feb 2026
  • The public and political backlash over the use of Grok’s AI engine to create explicit photographs, forcing the company’s hand into changing tack, shows just how out of touch the tech giants really ...

  • The role of AI in cybersecurity

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 30 Jan 2026
  • For years, anti-virus tools have used behavioural analysis and machine learning to identify rogue programs and unusual user activity. And as the tools evolved from simple pattern matching machines ...

  • The world needs more plumbers and electricians

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 22 Jan 2026
  • It may not have made the headlines when world leaders and CEOs met at the World Economic Forum at Davos, but the fireside chat between BlackRock CEO Larry Fink and Nvidia president Jensen Huang, ...

  • 2026: Prepare for a year of uncertainty

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 08 Jan 2026
  • What a start to 2026. Deloitte’s 74th quarterly survey of Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) and group finance directors of major companies in the UK revealed that geopolitics and poor UK ...

  • 2025: The year we rode the enterprise AI wave

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 11 Dec 2025
  • With the start of the Christmas festivities and the year coming to a close, the team at Computer Weekly has been looking back on what the last 12 months has meant for corporate IT. What is ...