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The Computer Weekly Developer Network team is off (virtually) to HashiConf Global. While our presence may be abstracted via cyberspace, the event is also of course staged in person between 10-12 ...

Workday staged the US leg of its annual user and partner conference series this September in San Francisco and the Computer Weekly Developer Network team was there to slot in its puncard and report ...

When Larry Ellison gave his keynote speech at Oracle Cloud World in Las Vegas last week, it would not have been shocking if he had expressed some scepticism about the hype generated by Generative ...

Confluent hosted day two of Current 2023 ‘next generation of Kafka Summit’ in San Jose, California this week. The Computer Weekly Open Source Insider team were in residence and ready to download - ...

Confluent welcomed a group of its key partners to Current 2023 in San Jose this September.  With names including AWS, RedHat, IBM, Google Cloud and Microsoft, other sponsors spanned from Redpanda ...

Data streaming company staged the Current 2023 conference and exhibition this month in the heart of Silicon Valley in San Jose. Keen to explain how its platform has expanded its core ...

This is a guest post by Accenture's Arnab Chakraborty, global lead of responsible AI, and Senthil Ramani, head of data and AI The far-reaching capabilities of generative AI have shown AI’s first ...

One day, all-powerful quantum computers will be used by rogue states and powerful crime syndicates to render all secure communications on the internet obsolete. Governments and major organisations ...

The Linux Foundation has made note of its Camara (stylised as CAMARA officially) project now having graduated to a funded model. The news was shared onsite during the opening keynote at Open Source ...

As part of the Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit 2023, the foundation has announced the formation of the Unified Acceleration (UXL) Foundation. This is a cross-industry group committed to ...

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has conducted a survey (the team modestly called it a microsurvey of just 135 contributors, but size is not important and small is beautiful, right?) to ...

If you're knee-deep in the world of SAP and data management, you almost certainly know the pain of dirty data. It's inaccurate, inconsistent, and a real headache when you're trying to make ...

The US Congress has invited tech industry leaders to the US’ first AI Insight forum. In a tweet discussing the event, which he attended, Bill Gates said: “The potential of AI is limitless—but we ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Manu Raj in his capacity as senior director for enterprise data, analytics & AI/data science at PagerDuty. Pager Duty ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Mark Chaffey, CEO of hackajob - a tech careers marketplace that aims to put power back in the hands of those working in ...

turn the corporate priority from data breach notification to enabling staff and customers to report attempts at impersonation, whether or not there is evidence of an actual breach.  Such a change ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Jean-Baptiste Grandvallet, EMEA SE manager for strategic accounts at Cohesity. Grandvallet writes in full as follows... ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Christian Helmus in his capacity as product manager for cloud services at GTT - a company known for its managed network and ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by James Sturrock in his role as director of systems engineering at Nutanix. Sturrock writes in full as follows… In the modern ...

In this guest post, Danny Quinn, managing director of datacentre services provider DataVita, assesses the environmental impact of artificial intelligence from a server farm perspective The ...

Civo used the Europe leg of its Navigate user conference series to showcase a number of announcements and platform developments. CEO and serial entrepreneur Mark Boost took the stage in London’s ...

This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Alex Merced in his capacity as developer advocate (and data lakehouse evangelist) at Dremio - as explained here the Dremio ...

This is a guest blogpost by Triveni Gandhi, Responsible AI Lead, Dataiku Large Language Models (LLMs) including ChatGPT have seemingly moved from hype, to hot seat, to hazard. In the midst of the ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Siim Kibus, engineering manager at Pipedrive - a company known for its sales and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) ...

Looking at the August bank holiday disruption caused by an air traffic control technical issue at Nats, there are a number of immediate take-aways that CIOs should ponder.There are reports that ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Andy Fernandez in his capacity as director of product management at Hycu Inc - a company known for its Data Protection ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by William Collins in his capacity as principal cloud architect at Alkira - a company known for its ‘connect everything’ cloud ...

Nicola Byrne, the National Data Guardian, published a blogpost on the Gov.uk site on 24 August that seems to suggest Palantir should be excluded from the technology involved in the NHS Federated ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Chris Hodson in his role as CSO at Cyberhaven - the company is known for its technology that detects and protects company ...

Ultimately the best enforcer is an informed and demanding customer base. We should be careful not to create an additional hurdle just for AI.  Data that is under copyright,  personal data or state ...

VMware says it wants to put developers first. The firm known as the cloud infrastructure enabler that any reasonable person might expect to rank network engineers, sysadmins, operations specialists ...

With all the recent press coverage, it's not surprising to see IT vendors clamouring to message around their AI creds. In a survey by Freeform Dynamics and the CIO WaterCooler, a bunch of IT ...

VMware kicked off VMware Explore (the event previously known as VMworld) with a full-blown keynote as expected. The Computer Weekly Developer Network team attended this event and this piece is ...

VMware kicked off VMware Explore (the conference formerly known as VMworld) with a full ‘day zero’ of activities, booth exhibits, breakouts and training-focused tracks designed to showcase its ...

Nutanix touches many clouds. Indeed, the company’s self-style tagline is the hybrid multi-cloud computing company. If its public, private on-premises, edge-based, mobile-centric and/or hybrid in ...

A British cloud computing company you say? With a specialism in Kubernetes platform development and the drive to create what the company like to call a wider Kubernetes ecosystem, really? Well yes, ...

What was VMworld is now (as of 2022 and onwards) known as VMware Explore and the Computer Weekly Developer Network team has its multi–cloud bags packed ready to attend the show. Held at The ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network team is headed to UiPath Forward VI, which is the sixth iteration of this event if you happen to struggle with Roman Numerals. Having been tracking all things ...

This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Cesar Saavedra, developer evangelist at GitLab. Saavedra write in full as follows… GitOps and its context  I want to talk ...

This is a guest post by Pete Wilson, general manager for Asia-Pacific at Apptio, based in Sydney. We’ve started a new financial year with uncertainty among the only certainties in business. ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Brian Elmi in his role as VP of Product at Drata - the company is known for its technology that works to automate an ...

Just for a (welcome) change, the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider team is not off to San Francisco, Las Vegas, Barcelona, Boston or London’s glittering ExCeL centre, this time it’s Bilbao. The ...

Data streaming company Confluent has billowed new functionalities upwards into its Confluent Cloud platform.  The new capabilities are designed to provide confidence that data is trustworthy and ...

Among those businesses that do not outsource incident management, 4 in 10 (41%) are not very or not at all confidence that they would be able to deal with a cyber security breach or attack compared ...

In this guest post, David Gammie, CTO at iomart, sets out the role that smaller cloud provider can play in leading the way on green issues in the datacentre market It’s no secret that datacentre ...

Hosted by Confluent, Current 2023 is all about data streaming. Respectfully not even putting its company name in the title of the event to show deference and honour to the open source mantra that ...

As large language models become embedded in enterprise software, CIOs will likely face a brick wall of resistance from internal stakeholders concerned about sharing confidential data and data ...

By their very datacentre-based web-linked existence and their essentially abstracted virtualised shape and circumference, all applications that are deployed and run in cloud environments or are ...

Not in Las Vegas, not in Barcelona, not in San Francisco, Paris, London or Munich, this year the Computer Weekly Developer Network team is headed to Sofia, Bulgaria for Progress DevReach 2023. ...

While some organisations regard  IT as purely an operational expense, those that have embarked on digitisation initiatives see software as a strategic asset.Those organisations further along on the ...