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Most Local Skills Improvement Plans are expected to be agreed and launched in September when UCAS expands to cover Apprenticeships.   Given that half those who applied to UCAS last year were ...

In this guest post, Amy Czuba, account director at digital product design agency Nexer Digital, sets out why the environmental impact of using cloud and internet-based services needs to be talked ...

No, not there, not this time. Not Las Vegas, not Barcelona, not Orlando, not San Francisco and not even France’s nice Nice or London’s ‘OMG that’s too far away’ fabulous ExCeL convention centre. ...

Any (very) longstanding Computer Weekly readers may be able to cast their minds back to a time when this blog would make a regular call for the UK government to give technology policy a ...

The democratisation of technology paves the way for its evolution, or so say the more upbeat and outspoken evangelists in this space. We might respectfully suggest that this statement is more true ...

Containers are a massive element of cloud. We know this core truism underlines much of the way the as-a-Service model of computing, analytics and storage is developing. Positioning itself as the ...

Ironic, at a time when energy and oil companies are announcing record profits, the issue of energy – or a lack of it – is, or should be, a major concern for IT professionals, but seemngly isn't. ...

Quocirca's list of Cloud Print ISVs to watch in 2023

It would be unfair to criticise any firm for being quieter throughout the last three years of C-19 i.e. after all, many have sought to work on their backend engineering proposition and only come to ...

Times change. This time last year the Computer Weekly Developer Network team was headed out to Las Vegas for ThoughtSpot Beyond 2022 with a whole set of health and safety advisories to guide us ...

Apple’s Q1 2023 filing shows a 5% decline from last year. Meanwhile Amazon reported its operating income decreased to $12.2 bn in 2022, compared with $24.9 bn in 2021. Alphabet, the parent company ...

There are several different routes into technology, each posing their own challenges, yet a lack diversity and skills shortages still persist in the UK’s tech sector. “We guarantee a job to every ...

NTT Ltd. has changed. It’s a long time since the company was known as the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, that name was only used when the organisation was established as a state ...

Sysdig says it’s ‘driving the standard’ for cloud and container security - but how? The company reminds us that it ‘pioneered’ cloud-native runtime threat detection and response by creating Falco ...

Airbyte is the creator of an open source data integration platform. The company has this month announced its Free Connector Programme to provide free use of any data pipeline on Airbyte Cloud that ...

Among the trends that seems to resonate with IT leaders is the need to simplify, consolidate and generally reduce the overall complexity required to run enterprise IT. It is something the major IT ...

This is a guest post by Pete Wilson, general manager at Apptio Asia-Pacific. Although the nation has reopened to internationals and skilled migration slowly resumes, the talent shortage is hurting ...

In this guest post, Donna Lyndsay, head of innovation at the national mapping agency, Ordnance Survey, on the role software developers and data scientists must play in the creation of sustainable ...

We need many types of data… and we need many types of databases. In our always-on world of continuous computing (and continuous integration and continuous deployment) there is (arguably) a more ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written in full by Sandeep Devarkonda in his role as VP of customer success at Hasura.  Hasura is known for its technology designed to ...

The economic downturn is starting to hurt the major tech firms but it is going to be interesting to watch how they react. Any changes they make will have a profound impact on how corporate IT ...

Enterprise software application development uses ‘tools’. Embracing the notion of virtual software-based spanners and wrenches enough to name its company after this reality, Retool describes itself ...

In this guest post, Damien Brophy, vice president for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at business intelligence analytics search software provider, ThoughtSpot, sets out how technology has ...

Encord is data-centric computer vision company. The firm’s Encord Active is a free open source industry-agnostic (Ed: they mean its works in all verticals, presumably) toolkit that enables machine ...

Aerospike is a real-time data platform company. In an era when real-time data streaming companies are fond of giving away promo t-shirts emblazoned with phrases like - Is Batch Dead? - (spoiler ...

In this guest post, Wendy McMillan, sector chief executive for safety, at Halma, outlines how safety technology is powering the clean energy transition. We are undergoing the largest energy ...

The acquisition of France-based data integration supplier Talend by Sweden-founded data visualisation firm Qlik has to be interesting at an intra-European market level. Non-US IT suppliers are thin ...

Armo is cybersecurity company. The company developed an end-to-end open source Kubernetes security platform known as Kubescape. Kubescape has now been accepted by the Cloud Native Computing ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is set to become part of the boardroom agenda as organisations look at how they can shave off more from operational costs and work out how they can grow the business ...

APIs are everywhere. As we know, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) - the ‘glue’ bond that works to connect applications to applications… and application components to services, ...

Alibaba’s research arm Damo Academy has recently published a list of top trends that are likely to shape the technology landscape this year. Chief among them is the rise of generative AI, which ...

In this guest post, Boris Manev, head of sustainability and government affairs at IT peripherals manufacturer Epson Europe, sets out why businesses have to get serious about sustainability in 2023 ...

It’s been three years. It’s been three long years (and we all know why) since the Computer Weekly Developer Network team was able to ask: what can we expect from the Dynatrace Perform conference ...

Data intelligence company Alation has launched a partner programme for its Open Connector Framework technology - the aim is to deliver connectivity to new data sources.  The new work with partners ...

Based in Tel Aviv, groundcover is a start-up focused on the cloud-native application monitoring domain with eBPF. Built as an extension to BPF (Berkeley Packet Filter), a technology used in certain ...

Polluters’ reliance on carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies, in-place of holistic action and expansion of renewables, is a greenwashed recipe for disaster, argues Aidan McClean, CEO and ...

Anyscale is the company behind Ray, an open source unified compute framework for scaling machine learning or Python workloads Ray was built to make it easy to scale AI and Python workloads — from ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Jason Kent in his capacity as director at Open Seas, a UK-based enterprise IT solutions company specialising in data ...

Okay yes, strictly speaking, we do know that CES Las Vegas is the first technology show of the year… but (of course) it’s largely consumer (the clue is in the name, right?) and not exactly enriched ...

Newly launched and open source, Open Assistant represents the arrival of a ‘ChatGPT replicant’ for the user/developer community. The project’s intention is to create a chat-based large language ...

So, that was 2022. After two years of plague, we’ve now added poverty and war. Feeling optimistic about 2023, anyone? Enjoy those Christmas parties while you can… It feels somewhat churlish - amid ...

Amidst all the hype regarding the massive growth potential for IoT and for edge computing in general, there is an elephant in the room, and that’s edge sprawl. It’s as if the edge evangelists are ...

NTT Corporation has worked in collaboration with Ciena Corporation, Fujitsu and NEC to conduct a joint Proof of Concept (PoC) showcasing an open APN as defined by the IOWN Global Forum (IOWN GF), ...

GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Ana Cidre, head of International developer relations at Okta, talks about the steps businesses can take right now to start redressing the balance for ...

Here’s the thing about Xiaomi, it’s tough to pronounce and most people seem to opt for the shaw-mee version rather than the jiaow-mee option, the latter being generally agreed to be further away ...

This is a contributed piece for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Alex Walling in his capacity as field CTO at Rapid. RapidAPI by Rapid (the company itself was previously known as ...

This is a guest post by Chrystal Taylor, head geek at SolarWinds As the year comes to a close, discussions about next year’s financials and budgets  are rising among business leadership. But with ...

Developer tooling and multi-tenancy specialist solutions for Kubernetes company Loft Labs has donated the open source project DevSpace to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). The CNCF ...

The team here at Freeform Dynamics has always had immense respect for the mainframe community, without whom big chunks of most developed economies would grind to a halt. That said, we sometimes ...

This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Tom Bridge in his capacity as principal product manager at JumpCloud - a company known for its identity, access and device ...