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Back from my second (16 months apart) Commvault SHIFT event, this time set in the business Disneyland that is London’s Docklands. Historically, within IT, there are eras where very little happens ...

The trouble with agentic AI services is that they become popular. When an agentic (or indeed a predictive or generative) artificial intelligence service lands the right way around in terms of ...

Data streaming specialist Confluent is working to ensure it engages with the need to surface artificial intelligence functions across and through its entire platform of services. The company’s new ...

With Mobile World Congress (next week) creating a huge flurry (well, it’s a firehose really, isn’t it?) of news and activity, it’s not always easy to find a path through the noise. Of potential ...

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 ...

In this guest post, Nick Ewing, managing director of datacentre design consultancy, EfficiencyIT, sets out why modular designs could be key to unlocking the development bottlenecks slowing the pace ...

Chicago is famous for many things. The windy city is known for its particular take on hot dogs, its elevated rapid transit system, its deep-dish pizza (classed by Italians as “well, it’s not ...

The finalists for the 2026 Everywoman in Technology Awards have been announced prior to the awards ceremony in March. For the 16th year on a row, Everywoman has announced more than 80 shortlisted ...

A new “decision-and-execution” has been detailed by Israel-based Tonic Security.  The company’s platform continuously prioritises vulnerabilities and orchestrates remediation to create what its ...

The AWS developer team has blogged to announce new services in Strands Labs, the company’s latest state-of-the-art, experimental approach to agentic development. Strands Labs is a new Strands ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Philippe Omer-Decugis, general manager & SVP of sales at BlackLine. BlackLine is known for its cloud-based software ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network is off to Nashville, Tennessee for ABBYY Ascend 2026 on April 16 this year. Held in Virgin Hotels Nashville (hello Sir Richard), this year’s theme is “Turning ...

The FinOps Foundation says it has extended and updated its mission to reflect the discipline's progression and evolution from reactive cloud cost management to a more proactive focus on technology ...

With the endless AI buzz dominating every technology headline and press release, it’s easy to forget the origins of “computer intelligence”; namely the likes of expert systems, macros and the “A” ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Carly Richmond, developer advocate lead at Elastic. Elastic provides a search-powered platform for enterprise search, ...

I recently published a blog, post-conversation with Albert Estevez Polo (current leader in “Broadband-Testing name of the year 2026” competition) from Zero Networks about the importance of ...

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 ...

Two years after Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware, the fact that organisations are considering leaving VMware is (of course) not news. But, according to cloud cost optimisation company CloudBolt ...

Thoroughly enjoyed a recent conversation with Albert Estevez Polo, Field CTO EMEA, Zero Networks, where we discussed what IS really required for cyber security in 2026 onwards, on the back of some ...

Palo Alto Networks held its Ignite on Tour London 2026 event recently and an element of the organisation’s presentations mentioned the now-released Global Incident Report 2026. It’s an annual study ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Tim Schumacher, co-founder of saas.group and founding general partner at World Fund. Schumacher writes in full as ...

With AI adoption being something of a headache for some of the enterprise software application development teams now tasked with is urgent implementation, those migration migraines are arguably ...

Software application development is code-native, cloud-native… sometimes mobile-native and now AI-native, especially given the fact that code assistants and agentic programming functions have been ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Anita Pandey, vice president of growth at Clockwork. Clockwork is known for its software-driven fabric service designed to ...

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 ...

The Kubernetes community has released the latest version of Cluster API at version number 1.12 and it is described as a "significant update" for developers. A Kubernetes “sub-project” focused on ...

Cloudera has this month developed its expansion to Cloudera AI Inference and Cloudera Data Warehouse with Trino to on-premises environments. The company says this move will empower customers to ...

Oxfordshire-headquartered Salience Labs is hoping to tap into a market that some analysts say could represent as much of a leap in computing power as the emerging field of quantum itself does. The ...

Developers are set for acceleration… the new wave of agentic AI services will, in and of themselves, create a supercharged programming landscape that sees software engineers propelled forward into ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Carter Page in his capacity as EVP of R&D at Astronomer. Astronomer is the company behind Astro, the modern data ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Yannick Chaze, CTO and co-Founder of Sweep. Sweep is a sustainability data platform that helps organisations track carbon ...

Continuing to expand its ‘industrial AI’ mission with real-world in-the-field application services, IFS has detailed the arrival of its IFS Nexus Black Resolve for Utilities. This is a ...

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 ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Suzanna Shamakhyan in her capacity as executive education strategist and partnership architect At Foundation for Armenian ...

Oh no, another overlong (typically US-originated) job title, right? You get an email from the (CAPS used for extra effect) impressive-sounding Senior Vice President of Corporate Product Field Sales ...

SUSE (hereafter Suse) has launched a Cloud Sovereignty Framework Self Assessment.  According to Forrester,  digital and AI sovereignty will drive a private cloud renaissance with doubled ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Efrain Ruh in his capacity as field CTO at Digitate. Digitate provides ignio™, an AI-driven platform that automates ...

In a world where every try-hard company is registering a “domain hack” name in Anguilla and adding .AI to its company moniker, it might be important to think about how newer firms are presenting ...

NTT DATA (hereafter NTT Data) has detailed a multi-year strategic collaboration agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) with the aim of helping enterprises to modernise legacy systems, adopt ...

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 ...

Quirkily-named m3ter offers a platform that processes usage data (metering), performs complex bill calculations (rating) and automates data flows relating to usage and billing around the ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Benjamin Brial, founder of Cycloid. Cycloid provides an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) designed to be sustainable and to ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by David Colwell in his capacity as VP of AI & ML at Tricentis - a company known for its platform that provides automated ...

At the risk of writing in the first person, I have a true story to tell. It was 5.45 am in New York’s JFK airport and I had just jettisoned my “liquids” into the TSA security tray and took out my ...

Organisations need to demonstrate not just how much they are spending to improve their security but that they are spending it effectively. They should report annually to regulators on how their ...

Sharp Europe is marking a new chapter under the unifying theme of ‘One Sharp’. This initiative signals a bold step forward, integrating diverse business lines and digital innovations to position ...

This is a guest post by Yasmin Rajabi, COO at CloudBolt. CloudBolt is known for its FinOps platform skills and its technology platform that works to manage the automating, optimising and governing ...

Rather like cloud computing, simply ‘turning on’ agentic AI services (spoiler alert: there is no actual switch to flip) without a thorough set of provisioning and management controls is not ...

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, ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Soham Mazumdar in his capacity as co‑founder & CEO of WisdomAI. WisdomAI is a data analytics platform that helps ...