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As already previewed here, Kubecon CloudNativeCon Europe 2024 is staged in Paris on 19-22 March this year. The Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog took an early virtual tour of four companies ...

This is a guest post by Sanjay Sarathy, VP of developer experience and self-service at Cloudinary, an organisation which helps companies unleash the full potential of their media to create the most ...

During her ill-fated 2017 general election campaign, prime minister Theresa May told an audience of voters on the BBC that there was no “magic money tree that we can shake to get everything we ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Ryan Mangan, datacentre and cloud evangelist… and founder of Efficient Ether. Efficient Ether is a startup on a mission to ...

Councils around the UK are looking at how to save money as they struggle to keep a tap on inflation and rising costs. Local services are being cut and council taxes are being hiked. None of this is ...

It’s not easy being green, just ask Kermit. But thankfully, we’re a long way past the 1970s and the naysayers who laughed at the then Prince Charles (now our course our gracious King) and his ...

Spencer Kimball knows the City of London.  He makes it his business to be in town (typically) at least once a year to meet with the company’s customers in the UK and European financial markets.  As ...

Infrastructure software company Progress has continued to expand, augment, enhance (and perhaps even pare back where needed) the fabric and functions of its Progress OpenEdge flagship application ...

As we work more prevalently and prolifically on the web, the cloud, the edge and the virtualised abstracted world of ephemeral computing, we want to hear terms like robustness, an absence of ...

Last week there were two questions asked in the House of Commons during Prime Minister’s Questions about the Post Office scandal. How refreshing it is to see this finally becoming a regular part of ...

Cloud security company Sysdig has made note of Falco now reaching graduated project status within the auspices Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).  Falco was initially developed by Sysdig in ...

NTT Docomo and NEC Corporation have used a presence at this year’s Mobile World Congress conference and exhibition to establish a joint venture company, OREX SAI Co, Ltd. (OREX SAI). The new ...

Workday followed the growing cadre of technology organisations taking the (arguably somewhat progressive) approach to media and analyst relations by hosting a study tour of its Dublin headquarters ...

A few years ago, Oracle announced a big win, when it was selected by Birmingham City Council to replace a heavily customised SAP system, which was originally implemented in 1999.Socitm advisory was ...

In this guest post, Wesley Anastase-Brookes, commercial sales director at colocation company Ark Data Centres, talks about the importance of responding to the surging demand for artificial ...

I was recently talking to my old friend David Terrar who runs the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF). The topic was generative AI and cloud computing, and how the two relate.. When David brought this up, ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network is off to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe taking place 19-22 March, in Paris, France. With developers joined by IT team leaders and a proportion of C-suite ...

In resonance, response and respect of the Computer Weekly Developer Network’s recent and ongoing coverage of Large Language Models (LLMs) and the related work associated with building generative ...

Nerdio held its NerdioCon software engineering conference and expo this week in Punta Cana for in-person and virtual audiences. Registered attendees for this event included business owners, ...

Nerdio held its NerdioCon software engineering conference and expo this week in Punta Cana for both in-person and for virtual audiences. Registered attendees for this event included business ...

The UK Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure (PSTI) Act will come into effect on 29 April 2024. The product security aspect of this act stipulates a new regulatory scheme to make ...

A panel discussion at the recent State Open Con 24 conference has shone a spotlight on the red tape, inefficiency and political moves that prevent opening up data sets to tackle a crisis affecting ...

As many of you will know, one of my major focus areas since Stone Age Man (almost) has been network optimisation in its broadest sense. It seems ironic that, in 2024, optimisation is required more ...

Observability has come a long way in the last 30 years – from early service monitoring tools to today’s advanced platforms like Splunk, DataDog, Dynatrace, New Relic and others that ingest massive ...

Defra minister, Mark Spencer was recently asked to give an update to how the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is coping with its plans to renew ageing IT systems. The ...

Dynatrace used its annual user convention in Las Vegas this week to launch  OpenPipeline, a new core technology designed to provide a single pipeline to manage petabyte-scale data ingestion into ...

Dynatrace Perform has grown.  When a company has to move conference locations in order to accommodate a bigger number of attendees, it’s generally a sign of positive growth and expansion. Now very ...

CloudBolt spent some serious time detailing its platform updates, product roadmap, future FinOps vision and wider strategy at its annual gathering of financially focused cloud practitioners this ...

Now here’s something a little different. On this ‘ere blog, you are used to hearing my views on the world of networking, comms, security and occasionally wine. You may also have read my recent ...

Had a really interesting conversation the other day with Adrian Bignall, he who is in charge of International Sales at Evoke Technologies. Evoke is a rather large tech consultancy that only ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Sascha Heyer in his capacity as senior machine learning (ML) engineer at DoiT International and oversees machine learning ...

A swathe of recent research shows many believe the rollout of artificial intelligence (AI) will result in job losses and industry disruption.In a new blog Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of ...

Rural sub post offices are still apparently required to use elderly (perhaps aluminium) lines from BT even when full fibre is available from alternative suppliers. This must be addressed if rural ...

We tend to think of Large Language Models (LLMs) in the context of generative AI as perhaps some form of database or as some kind of an extension to new-age information management. But, as Richard ...

This is a blogpost by Jim Webber, Chief Scientist at Neo4j, on how tech has finally caught up with ideas. To a computer, classifying things in the real world can be a bit of a puzzle. We’ve taught ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Rod Cope in his capacity as chief technology officer at Perforce. Cope writes in full as follows… Generative AI is giving ...

This is a guest post written for the Computer Weekly Developer Network by Shomron Jacob in his position as head of applied Machine Learning and platform at Iterate.ai.  Iterate.ai is known as a ...

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has warned that online misinformation and disinformation, generated by AI, is the top short-term risk facing countries. In its Global Risk report 2024, the WEF stated ...

DEFINING A Network Scorecard For Evaluating SASE Cloud Solutions While it could be argued that there are a near-infinite number of variables – and very few constants – that go into defining a SASE ...

The news that another of the big players in global file systems, Hammerspace, has integrated tape access into its data orchestration software should remind us all that tape’s modern incarnations ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Stefan Georgiev in his position as senior product manager at Nerdio. Nerdio is known as a software provider for ...

Well, what can we say? Humbly, let’s start with a very big thank you to Little Gem, the TV production company that created Mr Bates vs the Post Office, and to ITV for broadcasting the drama at ...

The cover up began to conceal the impossibility of delivering what was agreed with Number 10 in December 1998 ... but ... who was responsible and was the added encouragement of unethical conduct ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Prashanth Chandrasekar, CEO, of Stack Overflow. Chandrasekar writes in full as follows… Data is the lifeblood that fuels ...

We might think of Volvo Group as a car manufacturer that adheres to enough robust build standards capable of standing up to a Swedish winter - and we still should - but we should also now think of ...

OpenUK has shared its fourth New Year’s Honours List for 2024, celebrating what it calls the ‘social influencers of open source’ in the UK. Known well at Computer Weekly, OpenUK is a not-for-profit ...

Keen to make sure we get back up to speed with everything that’s happening in Nevada this month, the Computer Weekly Developer Network is headed back to Las Vegas for Dynatrace Perform. The event ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Clare Hickie in her role as EMEA CTO at Workday. Hickie says that ‘model collapse’ is a very real issue that must be ...

This is a guest post by Geoffrey Coley, regional chief technology officer for Asia-Pacific at Veritas Technologies The pace at which the cyber threat landscape is evolving with the use of malicious ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Zuzanna Stamirowska, co-founder and CEO at Pathway. Pathway bills itself as the ultimate data processing framework for the ...