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With the opening of the new Elizabeth Line there was always going to be questions about value for money. At a cost of £25bn, will it deliver value, 13 years after the project to build it began? The ...

The climate crisis is already here – and electric mobility is a vital piece of the puzzle; but too rarely discussed is the need for better software to manage electric vehicles, says Aidan McClean, ...

Platform: that’s the key word that sprung to mind after attending Kubecon-CloudNativeCon Europe 2022, hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) in Valencia last week. As in, Kubernetes ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Timothy Gilboy in his capacity as co-founder & COO of Sourcery – a company known for work focused on refactoring ...

Provider of The One DevOps Platform GitLab Inc has announced the launch of its next major iteration, GitLab 15, starting with its first release version, 15.0, bringing forward new DevOps ...

This is a guest post by Yvette Lejins, resident CISO at Proofpoint Asia-Pacific and Japan The role of the CISO (chief information security officer) has become increasingly important as more ...

This is a guest post for Computer Weekly in our 'circular IT economy' series written David Watkins in his capacity as solutions director at VIRTUS Data Centres -- a company known for its green ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Thijs Waanders in his capacity as director of consulting at Cognigy -- the company is known for its Cognigy.AI product, ...

Berlin, according to David Bowie, is the greatest cultural extravaganza one can imagine - it’s a city brimming with art, music, architecture, history and, of course, enlightenment. The Thin White ...

In his 18 May speech to the CBI this week, Rishi Sunak, Chancellor of the Exchequer, urged British businesses to “invest more, train more and innovate more” in return for tax cuts in the autumn ...

This is a guest blogpost by Jim Webber,  Chief Scientist at graph database provider Neo4j. It discusses Knowledge Graph-based digital twin technology for better supply chain management. What links ...

An exhibition at the UK City of Culture festival in Coventry has this month been offering attendees the chance to see the city through the eyes of one of its late-1980s clubbers, via the ...

In this guest post, Priyanka Roy, enterprise evangelist at IT operations and service management software maker ManageEngine talks about the steps enterprises and their employees can take to help ...

Any efforts to improve energy efficiency and cut waste should be applauded. But for every good outcomes, the IT industry seems to take several steps backwards, in its ability to promote energy ...

GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Craig Abbott, head of accessibility for DWP, explains the pros and cons of the current guidelines around web accessibility, and shares what companies need ...

GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Jim Bowers, security architect at TBI, discusses how tech firms can hold on to skilled IT talent in the wake of the Great Resignation.  The tech shortage ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network attended Percona Live 2022 in Austin, Texas from May 16-18. Percona is company known as a provider of enterprise-class support, consulting, managed services, ...

Listening to OpenUK CEO Amanda Brock speaking at Percona Live 2022, the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider team noted the following thoughts from her keynote… “If you were wondering what a nice ...

In this guest post, Robin Saluoks, co-founder and CEO of climate tech-focused startup eAgronom, sets out how Web3 applications are helping the agriculture sector green up its act. Technological ...

It doesn’t snow too often in Las Vegas - and when it does, it’s usually on top of nearby Mount Charleston, sitting up majestically at some 12,000 feet as it does. Looking for ice particles at a ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network gets high-brow on low-code and no-code (LC/NC) technologies in an analysis series designed to uncover some of the nuances and particularities of this approach ...

This is a guest blogpost by Ian Wahlers, Chief Operations Officer SAP UK & Ireland Last month, Unipart, a long-standing customer of SAP announced it is joining the RISE with SAP programme, ...

Amidst increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks and a constantly shifting threat landscape, cyber security partnerships across the private and public sector are essential in tackling these threats. ...

In this guest post, Diana Rose, head of environmental, social and governance (ESG) research at ESG data analysis firm, Insig AI, sets out how artificial intelligence technology can assess whether ...

Many of you reading this will be familiar with the experience of having to bite your lip as you watch your organisation pursue a ‘cloud first’ agenda in an almost religious manner.  You know that ...

Data, as the saying goes, is the new oil. If a business loses its applications, it may cause some serious headaches in the IT department, but ultimately, it should be able to recover. Lose the ...

Cloud-native is here. Except it’s not, quite i.e. so many enterprises are still working their way through what they hope will be the first (or at least initial stages) of cloud deployment with just ...

Systems need data, organisations need data and, essentially, above all, people need data. But basic truisms aside, systems, organisations and people need data to be created, controlled, managed and ...

GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Sheila Flavell CBE, COO of FDM Group, explains why it's so important to get women into STEM roles, and why now is the time to do so.   Over two years on ...

In this guest post, James Smith, UK managing director of order fulfillment warehouse robot maker AutoStore Systems, explains how automation can bring sustainability benefits to warehouses and ...

This is a contributed piece for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Sune Ensig in his role as chief evangelist at Leapwork. Ensig writes as follows... The need for automation tools has ...

Could its takeover of workspace collaboration specialist Poly turn HP Inc into a truly open and enterprise-grade collaboration giant? It certainly puts all the hardware in place - multimedia ...

This is a contributed piece written for the Computer Weekly Developer Network in follow up to our Low-Code/No-Code (LC/NC) series written by Steve Wood in his role as SVP of product management at ...

A social enterprise and charity in the Scottish Highlands has launched a new service to refurbish unused and unwanted laptops – converting them into affordable, high-quality Chromebooks. ILM ...

Alibaba Group’s global research initiative Alibaba DAMO Academy has made the source code of its latest federated learning platform FederatedScope, a comprehensive platform with easy-to-use ...

The energy and water consumption habits of datacentres often see them painted as the villain in discussions about climate change prevention, but the situation is not quite so cut and dried as that, ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network gets high-brow on low-code and no-code (LC/NC) technologies in an analysis series designed to uncover some of the nuances and particularities of this approach ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network gets high-brow on low-code and no-code (LC/NC) technologies in an analysis series designed to uncover some of the nuances and particularities of this approach ...

Almost nine in ten councils have declared a climate emergency – but when battling against various objectives and pressures, how many have any confidence in what to do next?   In this guest post, ...

Sometimes ‘new’ and ‘disruptive’ really doesn’t make sense As an industry analyst, I take a lot of briefings from IT vendors and service providers. Most of these begin with a spokesperson framing ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network gets high-brow on low-code and no-code (LC/NC) technologies in an analysis series designed to uncover some of the nuances and particularities of this approach ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Jason Knight in his capacity as co-founder & CPO of OctoML – a company known for its platform and solutions that ...

This is a contributed piece for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Jason Kent in his role as director at Open Seas, a UK-based enterprise IT solutions company specialising in data ...

This is a guest blogpost by Wenjia Tang, head of data, DigiHaul. The recent driver shortage has shone a light on the importance of the supply chain industry in terms of keeping the cogs of industry ...

This is a guest post by Chris Kelly, senior vice-president of datacentre solutions at Dell Asia-Pacific and Japan Organisations across the globe are rapidly embracing sustainability goals and ...

Appian played out day 2 of its Appian World user, partner and customer convention this year with the kind of presentations that we would normally expect to feature in a second-day keynote. Not to ...

Matt Calkins, CEO of Appian, kicked off proceedings at Appian World 2022 by sharing his vision for empowering organisations and elevating people through his company's mission to democratise ...

Appian has announced #lowcode4all, a programme focused on providing access to low-code education and certification to drive career advancement and opportunity for the next generation of low-code ...

IT leaders are facing a perfect storm as everyone ramps up the return to office work. Over the last two years, people have grown accustomed to Zoom, Teams and other unified communications services ...

Did HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) really “lock taxpayers out” from their online accounts, as The Guardian has claimed? It’s a situation that arose from a predictable and – according to HMRC – ...