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This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Ilkka Turunen in his capacity as field CTO at Sonatype. From development to production and everything in between, Sonatype ...

This is a guest blog post by Sara Portell, VP of User Experience and Rafael Artacho, Product Director, Unit4 How we interact with enterprise software, particularly enterprise resource planning ...

Looking at the latest quarterly earnings filings from the leading server makers shows they are all experiencing a significant boost in sales, thanks to artificial intelligence (AI). HPE CEO, ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Rod Cope in his capacity as CTO at Perforce. A company that has gone through various growth and development stages over the ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by David Colwell in his capacity as VP of AI & Machine Learning (ML) at Tricentis. For any app on any infrastructure, ...

What a difference a week can make. The dust had barely settled on Broadcom’s $69bn acquisition of VMware before Broadcom, much as its critics had predicted, blew it all up in the air again. Like ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Peter Schneider in his capacity as senior product manager at Qt Group. As a company, Qt (pronounced ‘cute’) is known for ...

Open source time-series data monitoring player VictoriaMetrics at least calls itself a ‘player’ in its product statements. In a world where 99%+ of technology vendors baulk at the idea of being ...

Code is noisy. Not usually, because software code in and of itself is a calmly constructed and carefully engineered entity that exists inside our applications and data services to drive the ...

Actian is the data and analytics division of HCLSoftware. HCLSoftware itself is a Texas-headquartered cloud-native company that styles itself as a so-cal;ed ‘solution factory’ for enterprise ...

Could voluntary work on open source projects be a stepping stone to employment? That was one of the intriguing prospects held out at the launch last week of a report with the slightly ominous title ...

If you want to come across as a cloud guru, then you better have a) a respected doctorate qualification, b) a senior data science-related position in a major hyperscaler organisation, or c) a name ...

AWS CEO Adam Selipsky kicked off AWS re:Invent 2023 in Las Vegas this week after the customary '7-am hard rock band tribute act' that you didn't think your ears (or various other parts) were ready ...

It’s a truism that a business is only viable if it can retain and potentially grow its customer base. A company that actually listens to what customers are saying, will try to steer product ...

Remember the early days of cloud computing. All the promises – low-cost, scalable, simple to deploy and manage, secure, be in control of your own data and apps without the OnPrem hassle… All ...

A developer strolls casually into work and gets comfy in their cubicle. Suddenly there’s an update alert on the laptop screen - a new generative Artificial Intelligence (gen-AI) function has been ...

The news that Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware has finally gone through, after more than a year of uncertainty, will have relieved a lot of people. Even more of a relief, though, is that we’re ...

Microsoft partners who applied for a place on the government's soon-to-be launched "SME-friendly" Cloud Compute 2 framework are fuming at the news the software giant has banned them from reselling ...

It’s been one of those weeks where tech makes headlines for all the wrong reasons. (Sadly, the wrong reasons are often the only reasons tech makes national headlines, but anyway…) There was much ...

It’s chic to be geek and not at all absurd to be a nerd. Whether or not Nerdio chose its company name to pay homage to the techies that use its technology and services is hard to say, but what does ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become the new Moore’s Law. Semiconductor manufacturers may strive to double processing power every two years, but that is not what their largest customers actually ...

NTT used its NTT R&D Forum conference and demonstration showcase this year in Tokyo to clarify the company’s vision around All Photonics Network (APN) technology. APN is one of three cores that ...

Part 2: More to think about It’s essential to decide where to run your Private AI - or who you will get to run it for you, in some cases - but that is just the start. Assuming that you also want ...

Part 1: AI hype vs fear and doubt The leakage of proprietary IP and other data has been one of the biggest corporate fears around generative AI since the launch of ChatGPT. Some companies even ...

As previously noted here, the Computer Weekly Developer Network team found themselves in a far-flung location this week.  Not the usual Barcelona, Las Vegas or London conference venue, but NTT’s ...

Harry Belafonte might have said ‘me say day, me day day-o’ back in the day, but The Linux Foundation say DAOS. The newly launched DAOS Foundation is an initiative aimed at advancing the governance ...

It is surprising how much focus there was on artificial intelligence at the Gartner Symposium in Barcelona. Generative AI is at the top of the Gartner hype cycle and CIOs are keen to understand and ...

Where the international technology conference programme used to stem from Barcelona to Boston and from San Francisco to London to Las Vegas, the global footprint of software engineering development ...

This is a guest blogpost by Jim Webber, Chief Scientist, Neo4j Is the best way to end the LLM hallucination problem to teach it some basic logic? Great as they are, we’re starting to have to deal ...

Qualys kicked off the USA leg of its QSC (Qualys Security Conference) event this week in Orlando’s Swan & Dolphin resort.  While the families with their double-width push-chair (strollers) were ...

This is a guest blogpost by, Evan Kaplan, CEO, InfluxData. Two contrasting forces are driving the AI revolution: generative AI (GenAI), known for its creative prowess, and real-world applications ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Jon Sneyers in his role as senior image researcher at Cloudinary, a company that helps engaging brands around the world ...

This year, AWS will talk about AI. Like every other vendor on the planet, AWS will of course be explaining how the existing world of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) - and ...

Depending on who you talk to, Rishi Sunak's much-hyped AI Safety Summit was an act of extreme hubris by the UK government, a wasted opportunity, or a historic milestone in the development of ...

Kubecost is a company that specialises in monitoring and optimising Kubernetes spend. That’s FinOps K8s management, but at scale. The organisation has now added cloud cost support to the open ...

Atlassian is known for its DevOps, IT Service Management and work management software. Companies use Atlassian’s Jira Service Management to deliver and scale services and support.  The company ...

Data management matters, whether the process involved with locking down its existence are executed in the permafrost (on-premises) or in the frozen mists of the troposphere (cloud) as they circle ...

The open source Apache Cassandra database of course has given rise to DataStax, the company known for commercially supported services related to the database itself. Now describing itself as the ...

Traditionally, developers are been forced to use different solutions when building for the cloud and edge.  Lightbend thinks it can change that standard. The company says its Akka service delivers ...

Data lake analytics platform company Starburst has extended support for Python with PyStarburst and announced a new integration with the open source Python library Ibis, built in collaboration with ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network team found itself in Bulgaria this week, but why so? With a track record in exemplary mathematics scholars and scientists (Bulgarian mathematicians has its own ...

Progress hosted its DevReach 2023 developer conference programme in Sofia, Bulgaria this month. This event aimed to show off the company’s platform and also showcase key technology partners, who ...

Implementing secure print solutions is an easy way to ensure neither network data nor printed documents fall into the wrong hands. RFID readers and mobile authentication technology solutions help ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Henrik Plate in his capacity as a security researcher at Endor Labs - a company known for its approach to ‘reachability ...

This is a guest post by Krishna Kumar, founder and CEO of Cropin In an era where technological advancements have revolutionised various industries, it is disheartening to witness the persistence of ...

Cilium is a software project. It is also the name of a membrane-bound organelle found on most types of eukaryotic cell, although cilia are absent in bacteria - thank you Wikipedia. The name was ...

The recent House of Lords Communications Committee expert witness session revealed a somewhat bizarre situation in government relating to our National AI Strategy. By her own admission, Dame Wendy ...

Data scientists loves vector databases, this year more than ever. Why is this so? Because vector databases have the ability to detect and identify relationships in data, so their usage has become ...

The OpenJS Foundation is getting its party hat on - Node.js 21 has arrived. Node.js an asynchronous event-driven JavaScript runtime designed to build scalable network applications.  As detailed on ...

This is guest blog post by, James Fisher, Chief Strategy Officer, Qlik Almost one year ago, ChatGPT exploded on the scene and quickly took AI mainstream. Since then, an endless number of articles ...