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This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Peter Schenider in his role as senior product manager at Qt Group. Schenider writes as follows… On the question of whether ...
Data Matters
Maximising agentic AI’s impact: the importance of a strong data foundation
Enterprise Applications Editor 14 Feb 2025This is a guest blogpost by Sumeet Arora, chief development officer at ThoughtSpot. The new wave of AI has arrived in the form of agentic AI, and it is already making significant strides in the ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Ian Quackenbos aka Ian Q. Quackenbos leads the AI Innovation & Incubation team (technology & product) at SUSE and ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Should the UK spend hundreds of billions on AI?
Managing Editor 14 Feb 2025This week the European Union (EU) announced a €200bn InvestAI fund, to build out sovereign artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. This follows on from the Trump administration’s $500bn Project ...
CW Developer Network
SLM series - Cotera: 10 key SLM facts for software engineers (and businesses)
13 Feb 2025This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Tom Firth, co-founder of Cotera. Cotera is an AI operating system (OS) that unifies support tickets, feedback and product ...
Keen to tighten our grasp on the application delivery landscape (as we always are), the Computer Weekly Developer Network team is off to F5 AppWorld 2025. Staged in the (it has to be said, ...
It’s always interesting to see if a new keyboard option can make a difference to working life. After all, it’s hard to beat what is (arguably) the gold standard in the form of the MX Keys from ...
CW Developer Network
SLM series: NTT DATA - Cost-effective solutions for real-time industrial AI
12 Feb 2025This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Shahid Ahmed in his role as EVP for Edge Services at NTT Data. Part of the wider NTT conglomerate family, NTT Data ...
This is a guest blogpost by Bobby Blumofe, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Akamai. DeepSeek's recent developments have ignited significant discussion in the AI community. ...
This is a guest blogpost by Paul O’Sullivan, SVP Solution Engineering and Salesforce UKI CTO. Artificial Intelligence has undergone an extraordinary evolution — from predicting trends and ...
The world of your childs smart phone combines the thrills and spills of the circus, fairground, playground, wild west and forest sauvage . It can be a very scary place without you to hold their hand.
Networks Generation
"Just throw more bandwidth at it" - Yeah right... Some people never learn!
Broadband Testing 10 Feb 2025One of my classic mantras of the past, ooh er, 30+ years has been “throwing bandwidth at a problem doesn’t solve the problem”. So, you would think all those decades later that the penny had dropped ...
There are language models and there are language models. While, at the time of writing at least, there is little talk of medium language models (Ed: give it a month, it’s bound to happen) we ...
When IT Meets Politics
Will Skills England be allowed to change the course of the Government's inherited policy Titanic?
Winsafe Ltd 07 Feb 2025Despite fine words the needs of employers and student appear set to come third, behind the requirements of funding and regulatory hierarchies dating back to 1917 and of the Mayoral Combined ...
It’s been a while - hey, there was a pandemic, right - but the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog is getting ready for SUSECON 2025. Since we last made it to SUSECON 2020, quite a bit has ...
Building on a 113-year legacy, Sharp Europe is transforming itself into a leading European IT services provider. Strategic acquisitions are playing a key role in this growth which has enabled the ...
Consider the office laptop. It certainly may be used in the office, where its owner, a company employee, requires the best user experience for accessing the software needed to do their work when in ...
CW Developer Network
Data Engineering - Patronus AI: Building robust evaluation frameworks for AI accuracy
06 Feb 2025This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Anand Kannappan, CEO and founder of model adversarial testing platform Patronus AI. Kannappan writes in full as follows... ...
CW Developer Network
Data engineering - Stack Overflow: Building the foundations of AI intelligence
05 Feb 2025This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Jody Bailey, chief product and technology officer at Stack Overflow. Bailey writes in full as follows… The demand for data ...
Santa was good to me this year, I got an Amazfit T-Rex 3 and it was a gift worth waiting for. It’s taken me a while to write this up (I know the yuletide season has passed), but it takes a while to ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
A driving licence in an app is a boost for digital identity - but not for angry suppliers
Editor in chief 04 Feb 2025It’s rare that a digital government development attracts interest from mainstream media, but last month’s announcement of a digital driving licence brought widespread national coverage and a mass ...
Enterprise-grade open source database software and services company Percona has announced the availability of Percona Support for Valkey - a, responsive service offering that promises to maintain ...
As part of the Computer Weekly Developer Network series on data engineering, we have reshaped our story headline format on this occasion. To put real-time data streaming platform company in the ...
This is a guest blogpost by Chintan Patel, CTO, Cisco UK and Ireland. Each year brings the promise of technological advancements that push the boundaries of possibility. As we begin 2025, it’s ...
CW Developer Network
Data Engineering – Persona: Navigating regional compliance & identity laws
30 Jan 2025This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Persona CTO, Charles Yeh. Persona is known for its platform technology designed to provide identity verification, allowing ...
As a grown adult, you really shouldn’t get excited about a hard disk, but I managed to get my hands on a unit that could be the answer to my needs. To be clear, I need to work across about five ...
The largely held belief that Nasa spent millions developing a space pen that could write in zero gravity, while cosmonauts just used a pencil, is a myth. But there are plenty of examples in recent ...
CW Developer Network
Data engineering - Domino Data Lab: Adapting engineering practices for the AI era
28 Jan 2025This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Jarrod Vawdrey, field chief data scientist at Domino Data Lab. Vawdrey writes in full as follows... In 2023, data ...
The finalists for the 2025 Bupa Everywoman in Technology Awards have been announced prior to the awards ceremony in March. This year is the 15th year the women’s professional network has run its ...
CW Developer Network
Data engineering - Cloudera: Counting the cost of data integration tax
27 Jan 2025This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Wim Stoop, senior director of product marketing at Cloudera. Styled as the ‘hybrid data company’, Cloudera is known for its ...
Looking back at the 1980s, one of the hot items that everyone seemed to want was the Filofax. This glorified leather diary was regarded as the must-have accessory for busy people, or those who ...
Open Source Insider
Qdrant squares up for real-time AI apps with GPU-accelerated vector indexing
23 Jan 2025Qdrant is a high-performance open source vector database company/ The firm this month introduced its platform-independent GPU-accelerated vector indexing feature. This service is said to delivers ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Josh Goldenberg in his role as VP of product at Pryon. Pryon is known for its technology that enables government agencies ...
CW Developer Network
Data engineering - Alteryx: Investing for scale with an eye on value
22 Jan 2025This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Alan Jacobson in his role as chief data & analytics officer at Alteryx. Bata engineering is a crucial aspect of a ...
CW Developer Network
Data engineering - Nutanix: All engineering starts with infrastructure
21 Jan 2025This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by James Sturrock, in his capacity as director of systems engineering for the UK & I region at Nutanix. Nutanix is of ...
CW Developer Network
Data engineering - SAS: The install & rise of the citizen data engineer
20 Jan 2025This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Gordon Robinson in his capacity as senior director of data management at SAS. Robinson writes in full as follows… Over the ...
Data Matters
Get set for interfaces that know what you’re doing before you do
Enterprise Applications Editor 20 Jan 2025This is a guest blogpost by John Bates, CEO of SER Group, a European-based enterprise content management vendor. User interfaces have come a long way from the days of green screens — but the way we ...
CW Developer Network
Data engineering - DataStax: Building the Gen-AI stack, how to plan ahead
20 Jan 2025This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Dom Couldwell, head of field engineering for EMEA at DataStax. Couldwell writes in full as follows… In certain circles - ...
Could 2025 be the year of quantum? Can we think about the next 12-months as a period of solid progression and (not just innovation, but also…) actual tangible developments in quantum computing such ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Spot the difference: National Data Strategy/National Data Library
Managing Editor 16 Jan 2025The Labour government appears to be taking every opportunity to emphasise that it has a plan for growth. This is set against the backdrop of the inauguration of Donald Trump as US president and the ...
CW Developer Network
Data engineering - Percona: Measure twice, implement once, the art of thinking ahead
15 Jan 2025This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Bennie Grant in his role as chief operating officer at Percona. Grant writes in full as follows… The phrase “measure twice, ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
The UK government's AI plan covers all the bases but needs a dose of pragmatism
Editor in chief 15 Jan 2025With the launch of its AI Opportunities Action Plan, few people can complain that the UK government is not taking the potential of artificial intelligence seriously. With 50 recommendations in the ...
CW Developer Network
Data engineering - TetraScience: From lab to enterprise, what scientific data teaches us
14 Jan 2025This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Justin Pront, senior director of Product at TetraScience. TetraScience is known for its Tetra Scientific Data and AI Cloud ...
CW Developer Network
Data engineering - Nooks: Standardising & measuring data to run AI assistants
13 Jan 2025This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Nikhil Cheerla in his role as co-founder & CTO of Nooks, a company that specialises in the creation of an AI sales ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Fear the technologists, not the technology? The rise of the tech baron
Editor in chief 10 Jan 2025News in the international media lately seems strangely dominated by a new phenomenon – more stories are being written about technologists, than technologies. With the impending inauguration of ...
WITsend
Beyond Textbooks: why businesses must invest in grassroots stem initiatives
Business Editor 09 Jan 2025GUEST BLOG: In this contributed post, Sarah-Jayne van Greune, chief operating officer at Payen & ILIXIUM, explains how businesses should be going straight to the source to encourage young, ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Vikram Koka, chief strategy officer at Astronomer. Astronomer is the commercial developer of Apache Airflow, a ...
CW Developer Network
Data engineering - Camunda: Defining data orchestration's role in data engineering
08 Jan 2025This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Daniel Meyer, CTO at Camunda. Camunda is known for its open source platform that automates business processes by helping ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
SAP customer unrest: How did we get here?
Freeform Dynamics 07 Jan 2025When I worked for JD Edwards, then SAP, back in the late 90's, I firmly believed that it was always good practice for customers to stay current with their ERP software. Like all good employees, I ...
CW Developer Network
Data engineering - Jesse Anderson: Recalculating the 'confused' team
07 Jan 2025This is a guest post for the Computer Weeklyu Developer Network written by Jesse Anderson in his role as managing director of the Big Data Institute. In his current position, Anderson mentors ...