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The Computer Weekly Developer Network went to AeraHUB 25 London this week, a “decision intelligence event” hosted by Aera, an organisation that lays a claim to having developed the very first ...

Jasper might be best known as a semi-precious aggregate of microgranular quartz, a city in Alberta, Canada and as a popular name for a dog. But, outside of stones, dogs and Canadian national park ...

This is a guest blogpost by Matthew Houlihan, senior director of government affairs, Cisco. The UK is racing to transform its public services for the digital age—and rightly so. The potential ...

This is a guest blogpost by Ian Tickle, SVP and GM International at Freshworks. Most IT leaders aren’t looking to be dazzled by the latest AI trends. What they really want is straightforward: ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Jon Collins in his capacity as VP of engagement and field CTO at GigaOm. Collins starts our platform engineering series (as ...

This is a guest blogpost by John Bates, chief executive officer, the SER Group. In it he talks about why artificial intelligence is not the whole answer to handling vast swathes of corporate ...

Vast Data Cisco have expanded their collaborative partnership. The two firms say they are focused on creating a validated AI infrastructure stack that spans compute, networking, storage and ...

DevOps is dead, they say.  The end is nigh for DevOps because platform engineering is about to take over as the “new” way to coordinate software application development and its corresponding ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network followed the FinOps Foundation to San Diego this month for just about the last technology conference before the summer recess, this was FinOps X 2025 and it ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network followed the FinOps Foundation to San Diego this month for just about the last technology conference before the summer recess. This was FinOps X 2025 and it ...

A central part of the news stream at this year’s FinOps X conference in San Diego this week, the FinOps Foundation has detailed version 1.2 of the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS). ...

After an extended sojourn on the road for the US spring/summer technology conference season, the Computer Weekly Developer Network blog is home in London for Aera Technology’s cofe UK gathering. ...

Data infrastructure, networks and new-age computing platform company NTT (not its official definition, but one we feel is validated and the organisation itself would not be unhappy with) has ...

The nonprofit FinOps Foundation has announced news of American Express, Nvidia, AMD, ServiceNow and Snowflake all now joining as new ‘Premier Members’ as part of news related to the FinOps X ...

A new AI-powered development model enables developers to build complex platforms quickly with composable architecture, maintainability and enterprise-grade standards. Bit Cloud has announced Hope ...

The government sees artificial intelligence (AI) as a high octane fuel to boost productivity and drive the economy forward. The Regulatory Innovation Office (RIO) aims to cut bureaucracy to ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Amanda Razani, a technology journalist and podcast host with a strong background in technology media.  As the CWDN team was ...

Microsoft’s annual developer conference is rather like a litmus test, showing the general direction of travel of the software industry. Given the massive footprint of Windows in desktop computing, ...

Red Hat has announced the launch of llm-d, a new open source project designed to address generative AI’s future with inference at scale.  Powered by a native Kubernetes architecture, llm-d features ...

There’s a lot of really way-out product development happening in the monitor space. We’re now at a point in the industry when companies like Mobile Pixels are creating large curved monitors, ...

Red Hat used its annual developer gathering this month to detail a new offering that combines platform engineering tools with enhanced security capabilities. The company says it wants to help ...

Bostonian data platform company Starburst has updated its flagship software services, known as Starburst Enterprise Platform and Starburst Galaxy, with the additional boost that every other ...

A relative calm has settled over the digital identity sector after months of worry and vitriol – for now, at least. Digital ID players have largely welcomed the government’s announcement of the ...

CIQ is the founding support and services partner of Rocky Linux. The company has now come forward with the preview launch of the somewhat laboriously named Rocky Linux from CIQ for AI (RLC-AI). The ...

A new product will establish the graph-based industry standard for secure, orchestrated access to APIs in the age of AI… so says Apollo GraphQL, a graph-based API orchestration company. The ...

Data integration, data quality and data analytics Qlik has brought forward an n expanded set of capabilities in its Qlik Cloud Analytics service. All fuelled with AI (as you would expect), an ...

Sysdig has donated Stratoshark, the company’s open source cloud forensics tool, to the Wireshark Foundation.  This contribution is part of Sysdig’s commitment to the community and building in the ...

Arguably best-known VPN company around right now NordVPN has updated its Linux application. Updates feature the launch of a full graphical user interface (GUI).  For Linux users, this should make ...

This is a guest blogpost by Matthew Roberts, Ansible Platform Lead, EMEA, Red Hat Enterprises are being led to believe that their success with AI hinges on whether they use the largest model (or ...

This is a guest post written by Miguel del Rio Fernandez, senior speech scientist at Rev, a company known for its speech-to-text service for the legal trade and elsewhere. If you were to stop a ...

Nutanix has come forward with the latest version of its Nutanix Enterprise AI (NAI) service. This release is said to add deeper integration with capitalisation-focused GPU company Nvidia AI ...

Wednesday 14 May is set to be an important day in the long, slow, painful evolution of the use of digital identity in the UK. For the first time since the government announced its digital wallet ...

The practice of making deals on golf courses seems to be alive and well. And it is IT leaders and their teams that are having to pick up the pieces following the agreed purchase of unsuitable tech ...

Payment operations platform for Modern Treasury has introduced an AI Platform purpose-built for the demands of enterprise payments.  Built on the company’s ‘PaymentOps’ infrastructure, this AI ...

This is a guest post written by Robbie Jerrom, senior principal technologist for AI, AI BU Red Hat. Jerrom writes in full as follows… In enterprise AI deployments, model size is frequently equated ...

During a fireside chat at LlamaCon 2025, Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg asked Microsoft chief, Satya Nadella about the use of AI for coding. Nadella responded that up to 30% of the code in Microsoft’s ...

This is a guest blogpost by John Bates, CEO of SER Group. A short time ago, I’d have cautiously suggested long-term investment and a shift in UK higher education as keys to regenerating the native ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network is off to Washington DC for Nutanix .NEXT 2025, held from May 7-9, 2025 in the nation’s (the US nation, obviously) capital. As always, the event will feature ...

Qualys has announced updates to its TotalAI service to secure organisations’ MLOps pipelines from development to deployment.  Users will now be able to test their large language models (LLMs), even ...

Business process platform company Appian used its Appian World 2025 conference this week to detail its newly announced agentic AI platform enhancements to help organisations build, deploy and scale ...

It seems like every other – and that’s being conservative – conversation I have in my day job, every other post on the likes of LinkedIn and even on the BBC website is talking about how AI is ...

In the apparent landgrab that appears to currently be fixating the enterprise software industry, everybody wants to tell us how smart they are in terms of applying agentic AI services to ...

Kubernetes we know, UKubernetes (or perhaps it should be uKubernetes) we don’t know so much i.e. the state of the wildly popularised open source container orchestration platform in the UK in terms ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Thomas Levi in his role as senior director of AI and ML at Agiloft. Agiloft is customisable, no-code business process ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network attended the Abbyy AI Summit this week to get the low down on the digital workflow tools for developers in the document management space and beyond. ​Held at ...

SLM Series - Zencoder: Compact models maybe small, but they ARe mighty This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Andrew Filev in his capacity as CEO of Zencoder. ...

Government at loggerheads with industry. Warnings of serious security and data protection problems undermining a vital public service. A burgeoning political campaign seeking greater influence. You ...

GUEST BLOG: In the contributed blog post, Gary Ford, managing director of Men for Inclusion, explains the diversity trends he has seen in the wake of news from the US, as well as how we can tackle ...

Real-time cloud security company Sysdig has released its 2025 Cloud-Native Security & Usage Report.  The company’s annual user analysis provides what it says are insights into real-world cloud ...

I was recently in London recording some podcasts for a Data Centre client, Asanti, and two of the areas we discussed were – surely not – AI and… compliance. It seems to that Asanti’s Co-Lo ...