Recent Blog Posts

China’s military exercises in the Taiwan Strait are set to have an immediate effect on global supply chains. China has effectively established an air and sea blockade around Taiwan and the world’s ...

The new found aspirations of politicians of all parties to break out of two decades of stagnation in UK per capita productivity stagnation depend on levelled up access to the digital skills of the ...

In this guest post, Kalliopi Chioti, chief environmental, social and governance (ESG) officer at  Temenos, explains how cloud technologies are helping the financial services sector go green. Banks ...

In the process (as we are) of talking to Logitech on sustainable circular tech economy issues, the company highlighted its latest product launch, which it says fits completely in-line with its very ...

This is a guest post by Stu French, partner for digital and application development at Versent Over the last couple of years, where Covid-induced pressure has mounted on many large organisations to ...

It is all very well aspiring to make your internal combustion engine car company the next Tesla, but these shifts in approach rub against an ingrained culture that fears radical change. Love him or ...

In this guest blog, Chris Darvill, solutions engineering vice president for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at cloud-native API platform provider Kong, sets out why the humble API should not ...

Yes, you read that right. For much of the last couple of decades, it's felt as if everyone has been talking about the impending demise of the mainframe, whilst simultaneously attempting to emulate ...

Current Cybersecurity Careers programmes reach barely 2% of the target audience. It is time to bridge the gap with the mainstream programmes run via the Careers and Enterprise Company with a ...

This is a guest post for Computer Weekly’s ‘circular technology’ series written by Jason Knight in his capacity as co-founder and chief product officer (CPO) at OctoML - a company known for its ...

Harnessing talent today to deliver the evolving skills of the future on the scale needed requires employers to build on the mass-market channels that already exist, like those of the Careers and ...

In this guest post, André Dias, CTO of cloud-native charging infrastructure software provider, Daloop, sets out why worrying about where to charge up your EV is a waste of time Electric vehicles ...

If there’s a term that we can already see listed as a top trend for 2022 by the time the Christmas end-of-year retrospective musings come out, it is self-service. Not quite the same as technology ...

CloudBees has a somewhat different (Ed: you almost said unique) approach to naming its annual industry convention. The company does not actually put its name in front of the show label, so ...

There is little doubt that artificial intelligence and machine learning will revolutionise decision-making. But how these new technologies make decisions is a mystery and the black art that goes on ...

Never afraid to bare a few buttocks in the name of a good clean fight, cloud-based analytics company Sumo Logic has tightened the straps for developers building cloud-native applications. The ...

Progress is a flexible company - the organisation has been through (arguably) more platform-level developments than most enterprise software businesses, but in the contemporary age of cloud, data ...

The Cilium project has reached general availability of Cilium 1.12. Great news, they’re (the Cilium team) excited… and so are we, but what is Cilium? Cilium is widely regarded as a (if not the) ...

As the cost of living crisis continues to see families struggle to afford food and essential utilities, please also spare a thought for multinational media streaming company Netflix, which has lost ...

GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post Ian Lowe, director of industry solutions for EMEA at Okta, discussed the role that identity will play in a digital-first retail future. Even before the ...

GUEST BLOG: In this guest blog post Conor Barr, CPO of retail integration platform Patchworks, discusses whether low or no code could help those low on tech skills to excel in the e-commerce ...

This is a guest post for Computer Weekly’s circular IT series written in full by Tal Lev-Ami, co-founder and CTO of Cloudinary. Cloudinary is known for its cloud-based image and video management ...

GUEST BLOG: The tech industry is notorious for being heavily male, with many blaming the early pipeline for deterring girls from choosing to study tech-based subjects or consider tech careers later ...

Ask most people what RCS stands for, and you’ll probably get a blank look. For Google and the others backing this new mobile messaging standard - whose full name is Rich Communications Services - ...

In this guest post, Guy Armstrong, senior vice president of applications for UK and Ireland at database software giant Oracle, on the importance of enterprises having accurate data to track ...

This is a guest post by Jeremy Paton, team engagement and collaboration specialist at Avaya The skills shortage is retaining its vice-like grip on Australia. Businesses across a range of industries ...

Matrix is an open network for decentralised communication. The brand has now surpassed sixty-million users worldwide after experiencing 71% growth in the last 12 months. All Matrix-based apps are ...

With people relying on fast internet access for home working, one would expect the broadband providers would have upped their game in terms of customer support. New data from Ofcom covering ...

In this guest post, Mischa van Kesteren, sustainability officer at HPC systems integrator OCF runs through the wide variety of ways that large-scale computing environments can be made to run more ...

First to note that in these financially – and politically – challenging times, it’s good to see serious investment still in the security area of IT. Let’s face it – we need it more than ever. In ...

Simply cutting taxes will not break the spiral of stagflation without rapid action to improve the productivity of the UK population as a whole, not just those currently in work, by sorting out: ...

The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Keptn as a CNCF incubating project.  Keptn is an event-driven orchestration engine that connects observability with operations in ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly circular economy series attributed to Tillmann Schwabe in his capacity as general manager of everphone - a company known for its online ...

This is a guest blogpost by James Corcoran, SVP Customer Value, KX Generating tangible business value from data in as short a time frame as possible is becoming a strategic priority for businesses ...

There’s a certain breed of user that likes to ‘tool up’ to the highest possible level, even if they’re not always found on the side of a mountain. You know the sort of person… you’ve seen them walk ...

Software application development teams need depth of insight into increasingly complex software to stop breaking applications and code fearlessly. Fearlessly… really? Yes, this is the twist (dare ...

In this guest post, Vivi Cahyadi Himmel, CEO and co-founder at corporate housing provider AltoVita, sets out how technology can help the travel industry go green In the wake of the Covid-19 ...

You know soda, it’s what the Americans call fizzy-pop, Coke/Pepsi (other colas are available) and all manner of carbonated soft drinks. No, not that soda, we mean Soda, the provider of data ...

This is a guest post written for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider authored by Lee Matos in his role as senior support engineering manager at GitLab - an organisation known for its open source ...

This is a guest post in the Computer Weekly ‘Circular IT’ series written by Melar Chen in her role as product marketing manager at HashiCorp - a company known for its modular DevOps infrastructure ...

When Computer Weekly announced the first UKtech50 list of the 50 most influential people in UK technology, back in 2011, just seven women were included. Now, as we publish the 12th annual list, not ...

In this guest post, Bal Garcha, director of customer success for Europe, Middle East, India and Africa, domain name system (DNS) specialist NS1, sets out the role this technology can play in ...

There has been an unexpected party. The rise of low-code/no-code (LC/NC) and the associated disciplines have resonated far more around the boardroom table than expected - perhaps for a surprising ...

In this guest post, Louise Koch, global sustainability strategy and innovation director, at Dell Technologies on the role the IT sector should play in enabling a greener, post-pandemic economy ...

Data and AI company Databricks has announced several contributions to popular data and AI open source projects including Delta Lake, MLflow and Apache Spark.  At the Data + AI Summit, the largest ...

This is a guest post written for Computer Weekly’s series of features dedicated to examining the ‘circular IT economy’ authored by Scott Gnau in his capacity as head of data platforms at ...

Many older laptops die off within about three years of use, especially if you’re a heavy compute user that installs a whole bag of apps and pushes the device in and out of airports once or twice a ...

Developer platform company Helios is making noise. The organisation is comparatively news and it has things to say. Principally, the company highlights the fact that modern cloud apps consist of ...

The UK government’s plans for “levelling up” have, justifiably, come in for criticism. Nice rhetoric, but where’s the delivery? Fair comment. But for the tech community, attempts at digital ...

Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence division of Alibaba Group, has announced the global launch of Energy Expert. Not a person as such (although plenty of the organisation’s staff ...