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Freeform Dynamics recently caught up with VirtualZ, an often overlooked vendor of connectivity tools that bridge the gap between the mainframe, cloud and on-premise IT platform worlds. The more we ...

In keeping with my end-of-year tablet update, I dovetailed my recent embrace of the Xiaomi Redmi Pad Pro with the chance to get hold of the Xiaomi 14T Pro. Having been using the same smartphone for ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Ken Stott in his role as field CTO at Hasura. Hasura is known for its GraphQL platform which is designed to provide data ...

While managed detection and response (MDR) was always the sole preserve of the security team, its presence as a key practice inside DevSecOps teams means that software application developers are ...

The annual UK and Ireland SAP User Group Connect in Birmingham at the start of December, gave a little insight into the challenges SAP faces. It clearly costs loads of money to support each variant ...

OpenUK, the non-profit organisation representing the UK’s Open Technology sector, confirmed its State of Open Con 2025 will take place on 4th and 5th February 2025 at Convene Sancroft St. Pauls in ...

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) used AWS re:Invent 2024 to announce its next generation of Amazon SageMaker. Amazon SageMaker AI is a fully managed machine learning (ML) service for data scientists ...

Suitably named for his deep-tech expertise and expansive knowledge of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) universe is Swami Sivasubramanian in his role as VP for AI and data at AWS.  Hosting the day two ...

We have entered the age of data engineering. That’s a lie, in truth, we’ve been working with data engineering methodologies, tools and processes since the sixties as we entered the “IBM” PC era and ...

In recent blogs – and in many recent conversations with folks from various echelons and shades of IT – I’ve talked about the need for some bravery among the SI and MSP communities to run with some ...

Among the many news items that surfaced at AWS re: Invent this year were new features in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) that make S3 the first cloud object store with fully-managed ...

MongoDB used its appearance at AWS re: Invent 2024 to tell us that a new cohort of organisations has joined the MongoDB AI Applications Program (MAAP) ecosystem. Now joining MAAP are Capgemini, ...

With reports that Brendan Carr has been appointed by Donald Trump to head up the Federal Communications Commission in the US, there are concerns that this signals greater deregulation. Speaking ...

In a recent article, I covered a discussion I’d previously had with a company called Luzmo that enables SaaS players to more easily build advanced analytics capabilities into their solutions. This ...

NTT R&D Forum 2024 was staged this week in Tokyo and the Computer Weekly Developer Network was on the spot to listen to Shingo Kinoshita's keynote in his capacity as head of research and ...

If there’s one sector of the business world that has benefited most from the emerging artificial intelligence (AI) revolution, it’s market research. Rarely have there been so many surveys ...

NIS2 – have we another “GDPR” on our hands in its own way here? That’s to say, another “does this apply to us?” mentality that led to an almighty scramble at the last minute (and beyond) for ...

The great and the good descended upon Tokyo’s Musashino R&D Center for this year’s NTT R&D Forum keynote presentations this month. The integral Innovation Optical and Wireless Network ...

There are big technology conferences where you get lost in the crowd, perhaps CES and Mobile World Congress would be good examples. Then there are small events - such as those staged by open source ...

Domino Data Lab is a specialist provider of enterprise AI platform technologies. The company has used its “fall” (not a Dominoes game-related pun, it just means autumn in this sense) release and ...

SAS has this month announced the acquisition of Hazy, a synthetic data technology specialist. Upbeat about why this has come about, SAS says that this fruther drives its data innovation vision to ...

Full disclosure, I grew up in East Africa. A portion of my heart and soul will be forever tied to the dry earth, abundant fruit & fish, the golden beaches and the unwavering smiles of the local ...

As anticipated and expected, the news wires at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America positively cackled this week as the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and its guest list of some 800 ...

Dapr, or Distributed Application Runtime, is a portable runtime that makes it easy for any developer to build distributed applications that run across cloud and edge computing environments. ...

We’re all holding out for a hero, right? Especially in the world of open source cloud-native software application development and data science i.e. we need leaders, mavericks and people willing to ...

In this guest post, Sarju Raja, country manager at AvePoint UK, sets out the steps enterprises can take to ensure their investments in artificial intelligence technologies pay off. We're at the ...

For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, it might appear to be the season of autumn approaching winter but, for me, it’s been very much the vaulting, or vawlting season. Note – this has nothing ...

Database DevOps company Redgate has put new machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities in its test data management and database monitoring technologies. With an emphasis on ...

Widely-liked open source group OpenUK this week detailed more of its State of Open: The UK In 2024 analysis. As the non-profit organisation representing the UK’s open technology sector, OpenUK says ...

As it’s Christmas (well, nearly) and I updated my Android mini tablet option last year with around this time, I decided that it was time to “go large” and get something more powerful, with a bigger ...

Developer and quality assurance teams today are looking to drive meaningful and measurable improvements to the test coverage of their applications, while driving significant productivity gains. ...

The annual gathering of IT chiefs in Barcelona for the Gartner Symposium is a place to share ideas and attend sessions where the analyst firm pitches a new concept. This time it is the idea of the ...

After Donald Trump’s first presidential election victory in 2016, I wrote about how the technology sector had contributed to and enabled the controversial reality TV star’s political ascent – you ...

The is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Richard Hatherall in his position as founder and chief executive of Appercept Limited. Appercept is known for its AWS SDK ...

As the planet gets smaller, access to internationally hosted software application development and data science events appears to also gravitate around a tighter and more accessible orbit. Excuse ...

KubeCon and Cloud Native Con Americas 2024 runs this month with the usual fanfare and (some would say fight) for share of voice over and above the central messages emanating from the Cloud Native ...

Real-time identity security company has released a suite of three open-source tools to help security teams in firm up their detection capabilities. The company’s threat research arm known as “P0 ...

DataStax has detailed new work which sees it announce the enhancement of its GitHub Copilot extension with its AI Platform-as-a-Service (AI PaaS) offering. The extension claims to make it easier ...

PostgreSQL database platform company Timescale has expanded its PostgreSQL AI toolset with the launch of pgai Vectorizer. This is an open source (cloud hosted) software offering that promises to ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written in full by Philip Rathle, CTO, Neo4j.. Neo4J offers developer services to power applications with knowledge graphs, backed by ...

It’s been a good week for "reinventing networking" conversations. And not before time – I mean, look at all the changes we’ve seen in IT in the past decade, from data types and scale thereof, ...

The news that the Linux Foundation has removed Russian software developers from the Linux kernel maintainers mailing list is something that is sending shockwaves through the LInux community. While ...

Microsoft is ushering in a new era of secure printing with the biggest change to the Windows print stack in more than 20 years. On 1 October 2024, Microsoft launched Windows Protected Print Mode ...

AI code assistant company Tabnine has come forward with its Code Review Agent. This software validation agent is said to produce quality secure code by using and enforcing a team’s best practices ...

Not a cyber security alert story per se, application security company GitGuardian has detailed its “Voice of Practitioners 2024” report with a note to highlight the current state of application ...

What's a technology alert in late 2024 without a smattering of AI in it? It's a trick question, obviously i.e. there are no tech industry update this year that fail to make mention of AI at some ...

I’ve talked a lot about SASE in this ‘ere blog, including the SASE Network Scorecard I developed earlier in the year. For those who didn’t see that, here’s an example of one vendor completing it: ...

Enterprise automation and AI company UiPath used its UiPath Forward + TechEd convention this week to detail some ‘day two’ event deep dives on building in the new agentic AI workflow space. ...

UiPath used its UiPath Forward + TechEd 2024 conference this week to explain where the enterprise automation and AI company that we all know for its Robotic Process Automation (RPA) goes next… and, ...

This is a generic model for a local "community safety partnership" building based on guidance for, and practical experience with and Safer Neighbourhood Panels, Neighbourhood Watch Groups, Patient ...