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When IT Meets Politics
The policies of the Candidates for PM depend on improving skills to deliver productivity.
Winsafe Ltd 14 Jul 2022Simply cutting taxes will not break the spiral of stagflation without rapid action to improve the productivity of the UK population as a whole, not just those currently in work, by sorting out: ...
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Keptn as a CNCF incubating project. Keptn is an event-driven orchestration engine that connects observability with operations in ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly circular economy series attributed to Tillmann Schwabe in his capacity as general manager of everphone - a company known for its online ...
Data Matters
Driving real-time value from a data management fabric
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 13 Jul 2022This is a guest blogpost by James Corcoran, SVP Customer Value, KX Generating tangible business value from data in as short a time frame as possible is becoming a strategic priority for businesses ...
There’s a certain breed of user that likes to ‘tool up’ to the highest possible level, even if they’re not always found on the side of a mountain. You know the sort of person… you’ve seen them walk ...
CW Developer Network
Beyond build breakers: CodeLogic's binary scanning & runtime analysis combo
13 Jul 2022Software application development teams need depth of insight into increasingly complex software to stop breaking applications and code fearlessly. Fearlessly… really? Yes, this is the twist (dare ...
Green Tech
How corporate travel tech firms are helping businesses achieve their net-zero goals
12 Jul 2022In this guest post, Vivi Cahyadi Himmel, CEO and co-founder at corporate housing provider AltoVita, sets out how technology can help the travel industry go green In the wake of the Covid-19 ...
You know soda, it’s what the Americans call fizzy-pop, Coke/Pepsi (other colas are available) and all manner of carbonated soft drinks. No, not that soda, we mean Soda, the provider of data ...
Open Source Insider
GitLab support engineering: innovating hidden multipliers for circular economy groupthink
11 Jul 2022This is a guest post written for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider authored by Lee Matos in his role as senior support engineering manager at GitLab - an organisation known for its open source ...
This is a guest post in the Computer Weekly ‘Circular IT’ series written by Melar Chen in her role as product marketing manager at HashiCorp - a company known for its modular DevOps infrastructure ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
UKtech50 2022: You can see these tech leaders, now be like them when it comes to diversity
Editor in chief 07 Jul 2022When Computer Weekly announced the first UKtech50 list of the 50 most influential people in UK technology, back in 2011, just seven women were included. Now, as we publish the 12th annual list, not ...
In this guest post, Bal Garcha, director of customer success for Europe, Middle East, India and Africa, domain name system (DNS) specialist NS1, sets out the role this technology can play in ...
There has been an unexpected party. The rise of low-code/no-code (LC/NC) and the associated disciplines have resonated far more around the boardroom table than expected - perhaps for a surprising ...
In this guest post, Louise Koch, global sustainability strategy and innovation director, at Dell Technologies on the role the IT sector should play in enabling a greener, post-pandemic economy ...
Data and AI company Databricks has announced several contributions to popular data and AI open source projects including Delta Lake, MLflow and Apache Spark. At the Data + AI Summit, the largest ...
Inspect-a-Gadget
Circular IT series - InterSystems: Peak performance via tight feedback loops
05 Jul 2022This is a guest post written for Computer Weekly’s series of features dedicated to examining the ‘circular IT economy’ authored by Scott Gnau in his capacity as head of data platforms at ...
Many older laptops die off within about three years of use, especially if you’re a heavy compute user that installs a whole bag of apps and pushes the device in and out of airports once or twice a ...
Developer platform company Helios is making noise. The organisation is comparatively news and it has things to say. Principally, the company highlights the fact that modern cloud apps consist of ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Digital levelling up must be a priority for the tech community
Editor in chief 01 Jul 2022The UK government’s plans for “levelling up” have, justifiably, come in for criticism. Nice rhetoric, but where’s the delivery? Fair comment. But for the tech community, attempts at digital ...
Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence division of Alibaba Group, has announced the global launch of Energy Expert. Not a person as such (although plenty of the organisation’s staff ...
Green Tech
How open source supply chain technology collaboration can help fight climate change
30 Jun 2022In this guest post, Justin Griffith, CTO of supply chain software company StayLinked illustrates how open source technologies can be both environmentally friendly and profitable Open source ...
Nobody likes donkey work. This is clearly true, the poor old donkey, mule & jackass often gets his/her name applied to the so-called 'grunt work' that goes on inside organisations where the ...
CW Developer Network
Salesforce expands MuleSoft automation integration to any system (or workflow)
29 Jun 2022MuleSoft Connect New York City 2022 saw plenty of news emanate from the company. Now residing under the Salesforce parental umbrella after its acquisition, which was completed back in 2018. ...
People don’t like the poor cockroach. Although they’re widely despised, generally spurned and definitely a very unpleasant addition to a bathroom, shower, bed or couch once you’re on vacation ...
In this guest post, James Petter, vice president and general manager international at storage hardware suppler Pure Storage sets out what tech hardware manufacturers should be doing to green up ...
Back in the early days of business computing, operators accessed the back-end system - such as a mainframe or minicomputer - via a green screen terminal. Terminals were disposable devices. No one ...
You know Zoom, we all do. But Zoom is not just Zoom, Zoom is Zoom Video Communications, Inc. The company has now launched the Zoom Apps SDK for developers. The Software Development Kit (SDK) ...
In this guest post, Justin Keeble, managing director for global sustainability at public cloud giant Google Cloud, sets out why - in the current technology landscape - companies should not be ...
This is a guest post written for the Computer Weekly Developer Network by Rob Tribe in his capacity as VP System Engineering EMEA, Nutanix. This analysis is intended to remind us of a core reality ...
The question is not hard. Why did nobody ever start a software application development business for coders to work with code and just go ahead and call it Coder? The answer is even easier, someone ...
In the post-pandemic world (okay yes, we know infections are still happening and many of us continue to be sensible with facemasks in public places like supermarkets and on planes etc.), people are ...
For as long as embarrassingly crude iterations of the AI chatbot have existed, we’ve yearned for someone to come along and get it right. We should have known that as soon as that happened, the ...
CW Developer Network
Snowflake cybersecurity workload: less congestion for data ingestion
15 Jun 2022As part of the core news feed stemming from Snowflake Summit 2022, we learned that the firm that calls itself the Data Cloud company has announced the launch of a new Cybersecurity workload for ...
In this guest post, Gary Brotman, CEO of automotive-focused machine learning company Secondmind, sets out why current AI methods are not meeting the challenge of supporting the transition to EV. In ...
IFS likes to personalise its annual technology conferences with a one-off label that denotes where the firm is on its progression and evolution path, both internally, with regards to its platform ...
CW Developer Network
Snowflake crystalises transactional & analytical data with Unistore Workload
14 Jun 2022Snowflake used its annual user conference Snowflake Summit 2022 to herald the launch of Unistore. This new workload expands the capabilities of Snowflake and delivers what the firm calls a modern ...
Self-styled ‘data cloud’ company Snowflake used its annual user conference, Snowflake Summit 2022 to table new enhancements that improve programmability for data scientists, data engineers and ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
A breathless week for digital government and government digital
Editor in chief 14 Jun 2022If you have worked in the tech or digital world for less than five years, the past week must have been very exciting for you. First, you would have read about the new digital government strategy ...
Sustainability for the circular IT economy is serious. Equally, gaming and gamification is serious too. Not many firms are straddling the intersection point of these two concerns, but one ...
The Computer Weekly Developer Network team likes pizza, multicultural cosmopolitan societies, crowded urban areas and cloud-centric software integration combined with API management and automation ...
Green Tech
Building a reliable, resilient and responsible digital infrastructure in 2022
10 Jun 2022In this guest post, David Watkins, solutions director for colocation services provider VIRTUS Data Centres, sets out the green challenges facing the datacentre industry In all sectors, going green ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
The challenge of open source in the enterprise is not technical
Managing Editor 10 Jun 2022There is no doubt that open source is the future of software development. But IT leaders trying to instil an open source culture in their organisation may struggle due to business practices ...
Ahead in the Clouds
Grid stability and the risk it poses to the retail sector and its datacentres
09 Jun 2022In this guest post, Simon Brady, services channel business development manager for Europe, Middle East and Africa at datacentre equipment manufacturer Vertiv, outlines the challenges retailers face ...
Open Source Insider
MongoDB World 2022 live show reports: Day #2 - A bigger world for Atlas
08 Jun 2022The Computer Weekly Developer Network & Open Source Insider blog team attended MongoDB World 2022 in New York City this June to file a series of show reports, keynote download sessions, ...
Networks Generation
Using A SASE Platform approach: What Are The Real Cost Benefits?
Broadband Testing 08 Jun 2022Following on from my previous blog - where I talked about the real costs of going down the DIY/product portfolio integration route, rather than opting for a “here’s one they made earlier” solution ...
Open Source Insider
MongoDB World 2022 live show reports: Day #1 - developer productivity
07 Jun 2022The Computer Weekly Developer Network & Open Source Insider blog team attended MongoDB World 2022 in New York City this June to file a series of show reports, keynote download sessions, ...
Networks Generation
Contemporary IT: Off the Shelf Vs Bolt-On Approach? It's a No Brainer!
Broadband Testing 07 Jun 2022We’ve talked before in this ‘ere blog about the options available nowadays in terms of buying into a platform-based approach, versus integrating a portfolio of specialist products and services – or ...
Green Tech
Green coding: A sustainability practice all software engineers should adhere to
07 Jun 2022In this guest post, Dean Clark, chief technology officer at digital transformation consultancy GFT, talks up the environmental benefits of taking a greener, more considered and efficient approach ...
Ransomware gangs begin with their own due diligence - to calculate how much the victim (or insurer) will pay before reporting. They are likely to move on and find a victim who will not report, ...
When IT Meets Politics
Time to act on the DCMS Select Committee 2016 Recommendations
Winsafe Ltd 06 Jun 2022Prepare for when losses from impersonation replace whiplash and PPI as the target income stream of ambulance-chasing lawyers, so that you can rapidly sort the genuine claims from the rest.