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CRM is, of course, Customer Relationship Management... apart from when it's not. Some days, CRM is CRM (as above)... but, increasingly, CRM is also Cloud Resource Management. This is a software ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) team is fond of craft beer, Mormon temples, clean air and an opportunity to dig into cloud-based enterprise technology learning platforms. That’s lucky ...

Pulsant specialises in managed cloud hosting, colocation and application hosting services. As a core competency, Pulsant works on hybrid (value-added) cloud solutions with a core focus on ...

With its roots and foundations in the open source Apache Cassandra database, Santa Clara headquartered DataStax insists that it likes to keep things open. As such, the company is opening a wider ...

According to wikis, hacker forum discussions and the team itself, Kubernetes is so-named because it translates from (κυβερνήτης in Greek) to governor, helmsman or captain -- and further, ...

Cloud-native infrastructure solutions provider Fairwinds has been shooting the breeze, blowing fresh air, firing up the wind turbines, enjoying the scent of... (Ed -- enough already, we get it, the ...

By goodness and by golly, hasn’t AI already thrown up its own set of buzzphrases? Many of them have come about as a result of the bias that was an inherent part of initial systems development in ...

We’re expanding our blockchain cryptocurrency vocabulary all the time. As such, Loopring may be the next term you add to your technology lexicon. Loopring is an open source and multilateral token ...

The technology industry likes to use the CRM acronym; it is normally used to shorten Customer Relationship Management (CRM) technologies. But CRM now means something else too; in these cloud-native ...

Tibco has made a direct developer play designed to drive recognition of its technologies in areas where programmers are looking to build cloud-native applications. Known for its integration, API ...

There is no formal acronym to celebrate the coming together of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) -- obviously it would be AIRPA if there was -- but the twining (or ...

One of the most interesting things about the recent Open Infrastructure Summit – the new name for the OpenStack users and friends conferences – in Denver was how many people wanted to know if I ...

Cloud-native machine data analytics platform company Sumo Logic has used its time in the ring at DockerCon 2019 to announce support for Docker Enterprise. The company wants to provide joint ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by David Moss in his role as regional director for western Europe at Avi Networks.  Moss writes… One dictionary definition of ...

You can love or hate Google Cloud. Some users have adopted the full suite of online apps, use a gmail address as their mail client of choice and even sign up as regular contributors to Google Maps. ...

The do say… if it’s not broke, don’t fix it. But that mentality doesn’t really cut it in the ‘let’s make everything perfect’ world of the software application developer, right? How frustrating is ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network team spoke this month to Will Cappelli in his role as CTO for EMEA and VP of product strategy at Moogsoft on the subject of just how far we need to understand ...

Infor builds business cloud software, this much we know. But this is software that is ‘specialised by industry’... a term used to convey its custom-aligned tuning to specific industry use cases ...

Big Switch Networks describes itself as the cloud-first networking company. The firm focuses on what public cloud-style networking matched with hybrid cloud consistency. News this month sees the ...

Progress puts forward another (arguably weighty) hand in the low-code game this week. The Boston, MA-based application development firm has upped the spec on its Progress Kinvey platform with extra ...

The privately held Nginx will be acquired for a total enterprise value of approximately £500 million. Nginx points to its open source community as one of the most attractive elements of the ...

Lumigo, a Tel Aviv based startup, has announced the release of its serverless intelligence platform for developers. Software application developers with an appreciation for the higher (cloudier) ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Open Source Inside blog written by Chip Childers, CTO of the Cloud Foundry Foundation. Cloud Foundry is an open source project with an open contribution ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Bhanu Singh in his role as SVP of product management and cloud operations at OpsRamp. OpsRamp is a specialist in ...

Companies change their ‘descriptor intros’ (not an official term, but it should be) all the time. Ribbon Communications has tuned its message accordingly, given that the firm was only formed in its ...

Rubrik has announced Rubrik Build, a new open source community built around the organisation’s own cloud data management platform. The community created is said to be 100% public and 100% open ...

As all self-respecting geeks now, it’s important to bow to your sensei. When it comes to open source cloud-native user-centric monitoring, it may soon be important to bow to your Sensu. Sensu Go is ...

Enterprises are still exploring use cases to augment their business models with Artificial intelligence (AI)... this is a market that is very much still-nascent. Magical analyst house Gartner has ...

This is a contributed post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Ranga Rajagopalan is his capacity as CTO and co-founder of Avi Networks. Avi Networks is known for its Intelligent ...

Nginx is the company that likes to be called NGINX, except it’s not… because it’s not an acronym, it’s supposed to say “engine-X”, which is a cool snazzy name, right? Actually, Nginx would only ...