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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 ...

If there has been one extraordinarily overused buzz phrase in recent IT years, that phrase has to be AI or Artificial Intelligence, often in tandem with ML or Machine Learning. As a judge on the ...

Berlin-based Hygraph isn’t too busy indulging in the city’s fine doner kebabs (they invented them, remember) to roll out some interesting new technologies in line with its enterprise-grade ...

Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk and Nvidia have worked with the Joint Development Foundation (JDF), an affiliate of the Linux Foundation, to now announce the Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD). Presumably ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Thomas Evans in his role as director of engineering at Kubecost, a solution for Kubernetes cost management. Evans writes in ...

GUEST BLOG: In the contributed blog post, Ian Lowe, head of industry solutions, EMEA at Okta, explains why passwords can cause such an issues for people shopping online, and how technology can help ...

In this guest post, Tom Chisholm, principal training solutions engineer at IT automation software provider Puppet by Perforce, sets out what enterprise IT leaders need to know about ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Joy Cicman Liuzzo in her role as VP of Product Marketing at Stack Overflow. Liuzzo writes in full as follows... Many ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written Deepak Goel, CTO of D2iQ. With many pressures being put on them, DevOps teams simply can’t keep up with the Ops demands. This ...

Technology is not neutral. It is always embedded in social, economic, and political relations built on systematic, structural imbalances of power. Welcome to capitalism. Including the Xi Jinping ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Perry Krug in his capacity as head of developer experience at Couchbase. Krug describes himself as a ‘very’ technical ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Alonso Torres in his role as a software engineer at Kaleidos working on Penpot. Penpot is an open source design-to-code ...

This is a guest blog post by Phillip Sewell, CEO at Predyktable. The high street is finally back in business, with customers flocking back to stores, restaurants and pubs. To fuel and sustain this ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Aparna Lakshmiratan, VP of Product at Snorkel AI - a company known for its technology that equips enterprises to build or ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Peter van der Putten in his position as director of the AI Lab at Pegasystems, a provider of a low-code platform for ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Jordan Lewis in his capacity as senior director for cloud engineering at Cockroach Labs. Lewis writes in full as follows... ...

This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written in full by Karthik Ranganathan, co-founder and CTO, Yugabyte. Yugabyte is known for its distributed SQL database for what the ...

One of the most worrying things that’s coming out of recent research, both ours and other people’s, is just how wildly different attitudes to AI – and especially generative AI – can be between ...

Not a single day goes by without someone, somewhere talking about the pros or cons of artificial intelligence. Earlier this week, Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella, took to the stage at the company’s ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Mikk Mangus in his capacity as engineering manager at Pipedrive - a company known for its sales and Customer Relationship ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Jemiah Sius in his capacity as director of developer relations at New Relic. New Relic is known for its its digital ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Dom Couldwell in his capacity as head of field engineering for EMEA region at data platform company DataStax. DataStax is ...

Well, it might be 2023, a world of geo-dispersed user bases, flexible working hours and networks that can be accessed and managed from anywhere, anytime but… still half the world of IT disappears ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Jennifer Durina in her capacity as director of solutions consulting at Appian. Durina writes in full as follows… It’s clear ...

The London Cyber Resilience Centre is an umbrella for partnerships to deliver support and services for micro-businesses and sole traders at scale and help address the on-line safety, safeguarding, ...

In the realm of IT administration, it's all too easy to get stuck in familiar patterns, treating well-worn routines as unalterable. Asset management is a discipline that often falls prey to this ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Rob Tribe in his role as VP for systems engineering at Nutanix. Tribe writes in full as follows… We think about Developer ...

I travel. There are of course a lot of technology conferences, symposia, study tours and press gatherings to attend around the planet and this particular writer ends up going to a good share of ...

This is a guest blog post by Gert-Jan Wijman, VP of EMEA, Celigo. Computer applications have done wonders for bringing people together. From the early days of chatrooms to the rapid rise of social ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Matt Barker in his role as president of cloud native solutions at Venafi and Steve Judd, chief solutions architect at ...

What are we to assume from the latest developments in the public inquiry into the Post Office scandal? Let’s lay out the facts... The inquiry was this week forced to postpone scheduled hearings ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Rod Cope in his capacity as CTO for Perforce. Cope writes as follows… Developers are still the front line of software ...

Current government policy, from digital inclusion to cyber security is based on allegation, not evidence with regard to the five million microbusinesses and sole traders who account for 30% of the ...

In this guest post, Jack Pearce, CEO of green critical power systems manufacturer Active Power, outlines the risks involved with using battery-based power in datacentres A datacentre ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by John Selvadurai in his position as VP of R&D at Iterate.ai, an AI low-code platform provider. Looking to the past and ...