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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 ...

Straight into Q1 conference season, we dive into a somewhat different type of industry gathering at NerdioCon 2024. Nerdio is of course a software provider for organisations that want to manage and ...

This is a conversation cum-new-analysis with Casey Ellis in his role as founder and chief strategy officer at Bugcrowd for the Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN). The Bugcrowd Security ...

This is a contributed blog by Vijay Raghavendra in his capacity as CTO of SymphonyAI in line with the Computer Weekly Developer Network’s series discussing software engineering work in the Large ...

I’ve found myself in a number of conversations recently where the discussion has turned to the speed at which organisations are investing in generative AI. More and more, however, I find myself ...

This is a guest blogpost by Claus Jepsen, Chief Product and Technology Officer, Unit4 2024 is going to be an important year for the enterprise technology sector as various factors influence ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Trey Doig in his position as co-founder and CEO at conversational intelligence company Pathlight.  Keen to address the fact ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Jeff Schwartzentruber in his capacity as senior Machine Learning (ML) scientist at eSentire. Schwartzentruber is part of ...

This is part 2 of a discussion recorded for the Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) with Andrea Mirabile in his position as global director of AI research at Zebra Technologies - part 1 is ...

This is a discussion recorded for the Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) with Andrea Mirabile in his position as global director of AI research at Zebra Technologies. With over 10 years as an ...

could short-order training for Officials and Policy Advisors in the use of Data Analytics and AI to transform policy formation and implementation, beginning with citizen-facing services like the ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Dan Lorenc, CEO and co-founder at software supply chain security company, Chainguard.  As a man who co-created the open ...

On-line Safety, Safeguarding, Security, Counter-fraud and Resilience matter to voters and business. Cyber does not ... until they become victims ... Online crime is, however, now the world’s third ...