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One thing that is also clearly understood is that, even with an outsourced, “in the Ether” service, such as a public/private cloud, the EMEA market – with its geo-cultural fragmentation – is a very ...

What the cloud computing industry needs is an increasing number of platforms, right? Okay perhaps not, platform plays are already many and multifarious in their nature and the formally defined ...

The farming industry is arguably one of the last frontiers in digital transformation efforts, but not so in Australia, which has one of the biggest agriculture sectors in the world. Since 2013, ...

Google has attempted to shine a light on Application Performance Management (APM) technologies built in what the company calls ‘a developer-first mindset’ to monitor and tune the performance of ...

Open source at its heart and essentially a web server technology, Nginx (pronounced: engine X) is the company that would like to have its name capitalised in the media but can’t, because it’s not ...

This is a short but punchy guest post written for the Computer Weekly Developer Network by Mike Kail in his capacity as CTO of Cybric. Described as a continuous application security platform, ...

Microsoft makes Windows, but Microsoft isn’t really as focused on Windows these days as it is on its Azure cloud platform and new extensions that emanate into the world of Artificial Intelligence ...

Cloud computing is great news, apart from one thing. The option to now build complex heterogeneous cloud environments gives us a massively expanded choice of deployment options to bring ...

We appear to be learning, on a daily basis, that you don’t just ‘throw applications over the wall’ to into deployment, into the hands of operations. Yes, we’d had the DevOps ‘revolution’ (spoiler ...

When you want cloud, you just turn it on (or off), right? That’s the beauty of the eminently controllable datacentre-driven services-centric cloud computing model of application processing and ...

Director at IBM Research Arvind Krishna opened IBM’s Think 2018 conference in Las Vegas this week by introducing the firm’s ‘5 in 5’ presentation. Delivered as an almost TED Talk style opener, this ...

This is the age of women in technology and male appreciate of feminism and the drive for equality (although of course the first computer programmer was indeed a woman), so should we be using the ...

Automation is driving software application development architectures, but its shape, form and process is rarely defined with any clarity. In real terms, we might explain automation’s application ...

German softwarehaus SAP has pointed to a changing set of models which could (and for many arguably should) change the way software is bought. In the world of composable cloud-based componentised ...

Canonical’s is mixing new potions in its Juju charm store. Juju is Canonical's open source modelling tool for cloud software -- it handles operations designed to deploy, configure, manage, maintain ...

This year’s storage news so far has provided a firm impression of the increasing prominence of the cloud, and in particular of attempts to harness the public cloud and private datacentre in hybrid ...

Why did Snowflake Computing call itself Snowflake Computing? Was it because its founders are snowflake generation kids who are incapable of taking a few hard knocks here and there? Um, ah no, it’s ...

Microsoft's revenues are up, but compared to its biggest competitors -- Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook -- its mindshare and perceived market relevance are down. Satya Nadella's Microsoft is ...

Red Hat has been out shopping. The enterprise focused open source platform company has bought CoreOS, a specialist technology player known for its Kubernetes and container-native solutions. ...

Describing itself as a machine data analytics company, Sumo Logic is aiming to put a new CAPS C into a technology market already used to Continuous Integration, Testing, Deployment and Delivery. ...

There has been an undeniable popularisation of so-called 'low-code' programming platforms. This is a strain of technology designed to provide automated blocks of functionality that can be brought ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network wants to know what’s next for software engineers, that much you already know. In that regard then, we want to know how developer-programmers should be thinking ...

Named after the South American waterfall, but with the ‘creative’ use of a lower case first letter, iguazio is a data platform company specialising in continuous analytics and event ...

This is Q&A session with Carlos Sanchez in his capacity as engineer at CloudBees, a provider of continuous delivery and integration software services. The company's open source continuous ...

Has the role of 'identity developer' now been formalised? Perhaps not, identity and user authentication controls will probably fall at the feet of specialist security developers and systems ...

This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Lars Herrmann in his capacity as general manager for integrated solutions and container strategy at Red Hat. Herrmann states ...

Cloud-native machine data analytics platform company Sumo Logic has rolled out a unified logs and metrics solution designed to improve the 'customer experience' of applications running on ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Barry Devlin, founder and principal of 9Sight Consulting. Devlin believes that data warehouse developers (Ed - is that ...

This is a contributed article for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Druva's Dave Packer in his role as VP of products and alliances marketing at the company. Druva is a data ...

The is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Lior Abraham in his role as founder of Interana. Interana is a specialist in interactive behavioural analytics software for ...