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The recent Samsung Unpacked event, where the smartphone giant launched two high-end devices, is indicative of an industry that believes the only way to add value is to launch new things. And ...

In this guest post, David Watkins, solutions director for West London-based colocation provider, Virtus Data Centres outlines the actions that datacentre operators need to take to avoid accusations ...

The (possibly, hopefully) post-pandemic push for corporate connections and platform-level integrations moved in the open source database space this month. August 2022 saw everybody’s favourite ...

In this guest post, Julie Kae, executive director and vice president of sustainability and diversity, equality and inclusion (DE&I) at business applications firm Qlik.org, sets out why data has ...

Current proposals to use tax incentives or national strategies to break out of stagflation by improving productivity will fail without a new approach to building a political consensus that ...

Consumer advocate Ralph Nader, whose book, Unsafe at any speed,  forced carmakers into fitting seat belts as standard, has his eyes on Tesla. In a post regarding the car company's autonomous ...

 In this guest post, Jay Mukhey, global director of environment social and governance (ESG), Purpose & Impact, at fintech Finastra, sets out how the financial services industry is supporting ...

Software application developers have skills.  It’s what they do. The job itself is a defined, enviable, professional pursuit that would probably be classed as a white collar job, were any ...

GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post Sheila Flavell, COO of FDM Group and president of TechUK, explains how the High Potential Visa can ease the digital skills gap and generate growth With the ...

This is a guest post by Pete Wilson, vice-president and general manager for customer success at Apptio Asia-Pacific A new fiscal year has only just started, but the technology budgets that were ...

This is a guest post for Computer Weekly’s ‘circular technology economy’ series written by Pilgrim Beart. Now the founder of DevicePilot, a software platform for monitoring, managing and automating ...

In this guest post, Ian Shearer, managing director for Asia-Pacific and Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at Park Place Technologies, weighs in on what can be done to reduce the impact that ...

In this guest post, Aidan McClean, CEO of online electric vehicle hire firm UFODRIVE, sets out why the UK’s successful ‘Vehicle to Grid’ trials show that increasing electric car ownership can ...

One of the problems with acronym-defined industry “go to’s” in IT, is that they can easily be misconstrued and/or a myriad variations on a theme emerge from the original – thereby confusing the ...

This is a guest post for Computer Weekly’s ‘circular IT economy’ series written by Simon Brady in his capacity as services channel business development manager for EMEA at Vertiv - a company known ...

As companies, applications and AI models handle more and more personal information, governments have responded with new data protection laws. The EU General Data Protection Regulation is mirrored ...

Unashamedly simply calling itself Gadget, the Gadget developer productivity platform company has a new service/feature/product known as Connections. This technology gives software application ...

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 ...