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Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
‘Traditional’ is not a dirty word
Freeform Dynamics 03 May 2022Sometimes ‘new’ and ‘disruptive’ really doesn’t make sense As an industry analyst, I take a lot of briefings from IT vendors and service providers. Most of these begin with a spokesperson framing ...
CW Developer Network
The low-no-code series - Mulesoft: Fusion team profusion vs. shadow IT confusion
02 May 2022The Computer Weekly Developer Network gets high-brow on low-code and no-code (LC/NC) technologies in an analysis series designed to uncover some of the nuances and particularities of this approach ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Jason Knight in his capacity as co-founder & CPO of OctoML – a company known for its platform and solutions that ...
CW Developer Network
Why developers need to engineer-in FIDO two factor authentication now
29 Apr 2022This is a contributed piece for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Jason Kent in his role as director at Open Seas, a UK-based enterprise IT solutions company specialising in data ...
Data Matters
Running on empty: why it’s finally time to optimise commercial road transport
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 29 Apr 2022This is a guest blogpost by Wenjia Tang, head of data, DigiHaul. The recent driver shortage has shone a light on the importance of the supply chain industry in terms of keeping the cogs of industry ...
This is a guest post by Chris Kelly, senior vice-president of datacentre solutions at Dell Asia-Pacific and Japan Organisations across the globe are rapidly embracing sustainability goals and ...
Appian played out day 2 of its Appian World user, partner and customer convention this year with the kind of presentations that we would normally expect to feature in a second-day keynote. Not to ...
Matt Calkins, CEO of Appian, kicked off proceedings at Appian World 2022 by sharing his vision for empowering organisations and elevating people through his company's mission to democratise ...
Appian has announced #lowcode4all, a programme focused on providing access to low-code education and certification to drive career advancement and opportunity for the next generation of low-code ...
IT leaders are facing a perfect storm as everyone ramps up the return to office work. Over the last two years, people have grown accustomed to Zoom, Teams and other unified communications services ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Did HMRC really 'lock taxpayers out' from their online accounts?
Editor in chief 26 Apr 2022Did HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) really “lock taxpayers out” from their online accounts, as The Guardian has claimed? It’s a situation that arose from a predictable and – according to HMRC – ...
Data Matters
From code to cloud: securing your software supply chain starts with cloud observability
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 25 Apr 2022This is a guest blogpost by Ash Kulkarni, CEO of Elastic. As organisations increasingly move their infrastructure, applications, and services to the cloud, managing information, maintaining ...
Taking stock of retail tech
How the e-commerce boom is transforming store tech
Business Editor 25 Apr 2022GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, VP of strategy at Aptos, Nikki Baird, explains the ways in which e-commerce is transforming in-store tech and disrupting point of sale (POS). Here are ...
Green Tech
Earth Day 2022: Why the people, the planet and technology must join forces to tackle climate change
22 Apr 2022In this guest post to mark Earth Day 2022, Yann Lechelle, CEO of French cloud provider Scaleway, sets out why tackling climate change requires a three-pronged approach. With each passing day, the ...
We need cryptographic keys, but who is going to manage them? How do you make an obscure topic like cryptographic key management interesting? And can you then persuade people to move this security ...
Green Tech
Eradicating e-waste: Why the UK’s right to repair laws are in urgent need of an upgrade
21 Apr 2022In this guest post, Katy Medlock, UK general manager at online refurbished devices marketplace Back Market, sets out why the UK’s right to repair legislation is in desperate need of a refresh to ...
Proposed Highway Code updates have paved the way for it being legal to watch TV while using self-driving cars. “The Highway Code has been updated a number of times in recent years to reflect the ...
When IT Meets Politics
Building consensus round skills and employment policies that work
Winsafe Ltd 16 Apr 2022successful implementation ... requires that ministers instruct their officials to give priority to actions that involve co-operation across departmental boundaries and to listen to employers and ...
Green Tech
How open source technology collaboration can help in the fight against climate change
14 Apr 2022In this guest post, the founder and executive director of non-profit open source-championing body LF Energy, Dr. Shuli Goodman, talks about how technology collaboration is needed to tackle climate ...
The Easter break and springtime gives everyone a chance to reflect, looking forward to holidays, spending time with the family and indulging in good food and retail therapy. Traditionally, with ...
CW Developer Network
The low-no-code series - Directus: Skip spaghetti solutions, sort the special sauce at source
13 Apr 2022The Computer Weekly Developer Network gets high-brow on low-code and no-code (LC/NC) technologies in an analysis series designed to uncover some of the nuances and particularities of this approach ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Citrix and Microsoft: who’s really leading the transformation agenda?
Freeform Dynamics 12 Apr 2022Citrix loves Microsoft and Microsoft loves Citrix - OK, maybe I’m exaggerating to make a point, but that’s the gist of the official lines you get from both companies. But looking in from the ...
The Computer Weekly Developer Network team are extremely fond of the Wild West and the Rocky Mountains, but ideally only when we can get our hands on self-service data science tools for data ...
Taking stock of retail tech
As Inflation Rages On, Retailers Turn to AI and Dynamic Pricing
Business Editor 11 Apr 2022GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Matt Pavich, senior director of retail innovation, Revionics, talks about how AI-driven dynamic pricing decisions can assist in a retailer’s ability to ...
Back in the autumn of last year, I talked about a vendor – Bugcrowd – that doesn’t simply rely on AI and ML within a microchip, but actually uses real flesh and bone people (AKA ethical hackers) to ...
The Computer Weekly Developer Network gets high-brow on low-code and no-code (LC/NC) technologies in an analysis series designed to uncover some of the nuances and particularities of this approach ...
The Computer Weekly Developer Network gets high-brow on low-code and no-code (LC/NC) technologies in an analysis series designed to uncover some of the nuances and particularities of this approach ...
The Computer Weekly Developer Network gets high-brow on low-code and no-code (LC/NC) technologies in an analysis series designed to uncover some of the nuances and particularities of this approach ...
It’s the 2022 Spring conference season and - lockdowns, cancellations, shifts to virtual, other force majeure disruptions notwithstanding - we need to be able to work remotely for the next few ...
Every few years IBM brings out a new addition to its Z series mainframe family. From the information accompanying the release of the new enterprise system, IBM appears to be touting the new z16 ...
Networks Generation
Scoop: Zero Trust Network Access Becomes Your Flexible Friend!
Broadband Testing 06 Apr 2022In my last blog, I highlighted the ongoing debate within IT security that is zero trust or, to use the full acronym, ZTNA (Zero Trust Network Access) and that – in theory, at least – it is kind of ...
Has there been a more over-used term within IT security over the past few years than “zero trust”? Answers in the virtual black box at the back of the virtual room (in the virtual universe). I ...
CW Developer Network
The low-no-code series – Software AG: Automating-out technical debt
06 Apr 2022The Computer Weekly Developer Network gets high-brow on low-code and no-code (LC/NC) technologies in an analysis series designed to uncover some of the nuances and particularities of this approach ...
Ahead in the Clouds
Why combining datacentre monitoring with computational fluid dynamics tech makes good sense
05 Apr 2022In this guest post, Mark Fenton, product manager at datacentre software visualisation provider Future Facilities, sets out why mixing monitoring and computational fluid dynamics technologies could ...
The Computer Weekly Developer Network gets high-brow on low-code and no-code (LC/NC) technologies in an analysis series designed to uncover some of the nuances and particularities of this approach ...
CW Developer Network
The low-no-code series – argodesign: Don’t (completely) kill off code editors
04 Apr 2022The Computer Weekly Developer Network gets high-brow on low-code and no-code (LC/NC) technologies in an analysis series designed to uncover some of the nuances and particularities of this approach ...
After the painstaking (but staunchly conscientious) switch to virtual that the Appian World conference had to move to in 2020 right at the start of the pandemic, the world has been through two ...
CW Developer Network
The low-no-code series – Appsmith: Let’s move from user-based to usage-based
01 Apr 2022The Computer Weekly Developer Network gets high-brow on low-code and no-code (LC/NC) technologies in an analysis series designed to uncover some of the nuances and particularities of this approach ...
Dyson has ventured into the headphones market the only way that feels right: with a chunky, magnetic, air-purifying face mask upgrade that’s arrived two years too late. “The Dyson Zone purifies the ...
CW Developer Network
The low-no-code series – Contentstack: Making a conscious compromise
31 Mar 2022The Computer Weekly Developer Network gets high-brow on low-code and no-code (LC/NC) technologies in an analysis series designed to uncover some of the nuances and particularities of this approach ...
Percona (arguably) has some spirit. The company has tried really hard to schedule user conventions throughout these first two years of the Covid-19 pandemic; always cancelling when appropriate ...
Data Matters
Data may save lives but does sharing it inevitably vitiate privacy?
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 30 Mar 2022The balance between sharing data for the common good and protecting data to safeguard individual liberty is nowhere more fraught, as a question, than in the field of health data. Under the banner ...
The Computer Weekly Developer Network gets high-brow on low-code and no-code (LC/NC) technologies in an analysis series designed to uncover some of the nuances and particularities of this approach ...
CW Developer Network
The low-no-code series – Daylight Automation: The role of structured data & governance
29 Mar 2022The Computer Weekly Developer Network gets high-brow on low-code and no-code (LC/NC) technologies in an analysis series designed to uncover some of the nuances and particularities of this approach ...
Real-time data company Aerospike Inc. has sharpened its scope this month to now provide two new deployments for the Aerospike Real-time Data Platform. Why has Aerospike done this? It’s all about ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Striking a balance between risk and innovation: Lessons from an autonomous ship
Freeform Dynamics 25 Mar 2022I wasn’t sure what to expect when I turned up for an event at the Historic Dockyards in Portsmouth, UK. The planned star of the show - an unmanned ship called Mayflower 400 - couldn’t actually be ...
In the world of artificial intelligence, there is a tendency to consider the ultimate goal as creating something that humans can interact with in a natural way. Today, smart speakers like Alexa and ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Do you feel trapped by Microsoft?
Freeform Dynamics 24 Mar 2022Thoughts on loosening Redmond’s grip on your business I started thinking about reducing my company’s dependency on Microsoft a few years ago. Contributing factors were frustration with the ...
It’s been over two years since I introduced the Gartner-defined SASE (“sassy”) to my CW readers – in that time the world has changed somewhat, but the requirement for an intensified, integrated ...
Now self-styling itself as the real-time data company, enterprise open source database specialist DataStax has now come forward with its ‘change data capture’ (CDC) function for Astra DB, a new ...