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This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written in full by Mark Molyneux in his position as EMEA CTO for Cohesity - a firm known for its data management platform ...

More and more of the topics we deal with at Freeform Dynamics now also relate to digital identity. That’s no surprise, of course – digital identity is vital in this online age. We have multiple ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Tejas Gadhia of Zoho. Based in Austin, Texas, Gadhia has held various roles over the yeats spanning sales engineering, ...

This is a guest post by Sascha Giese, SolarWinds Head Geek Highly sought-after skilled workers are increasingly expecting to have the flexibility of hybrid and remote work environments while still ...

IFS used its 2023 media tour programme this year to showcase the charitable work it carries out through the organisation’s own IFS Foundation. Deep in the rural and remote areas of Sri Lanka, IFS ...

In this guest post, Sander De Haas, landscape restoration and innovation expert at grassroots non-governmental organisation Justdiggit, details the role technology is playing in its work to ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Sateesh Seetharamiah is the CEO of Edge Platforms, EdgeVerve Systems Limited. Seetharamiah writes in full below as follows… ...

This is a guest post for the ComputerWeekly Developer Network automation series written in full by Tim Vereecke in his role as principal web performance architect at Akamai Technologies - the ...

The skills plan for meeting the needs of the world greatest Financial Services and Fin Tech Hub outside North America is therefore at heart of the work of the advisory group. 

This is a guest blogpost by Jean de Villiers, Chief Customer Officer, and Michelle MacCarthy, Global Head of Customer Success, Unit4 Customer Success (CS) is a programmatic approach to delighting ...

Here are just a few of the topics that my fellow Freeformers and I have enjoyed researching and writing about in recent years: network security, SD-WAN, digital identity, smart wallets, digital ...

The prospect of paid menopause leave is something that has been frequently discussed in the news this year, with Labour claiming if it wins the next election it will require large firms to have ...

Like all new shiny new things, generative AI offers mere mortals a brief chance to impress friends, colleagues, line managers and customers, with Da Vinci levels of creativity and intelligence. ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Matt Spitz, in his capacity as VP of Engineering at Vanta - the company helps companies scale security practices and ...

Respond by the end of March if you live or work in London and believe that the primary objective of policing is the prevention of time not the meeting of targets as proxies for delivering political ...

Continuing this series of technology platform analyses examining the universe of automation tools and services now being brought to bear across every transept  of the software application ...

Having entered my 39th (gulp!) year in IT, it’s fair to say I’ve had to endure more than my fair share of IT hype and BS. Many are the times at live events I’ve done a tally chart on the number of ...

Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt went for it in a big way in his Budget speech this week. Fewer than 400 words were spoken, barely three minutes completed, before we got to cross off the ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Rob Tribe in his capacity as VP for systems engineering EMEA at Nutanix. As an enterprise cloud organisation with a ...

This is a guest piece for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Anna Belak in her capacity as director of thought leadership at Sysdig - the company is known for its technology that ...

It’s rare to attend an enterprise technology vendor conference that offers the chance to actually touch a product, but that’s what Inspect-A-Gadget found at NTT Upgrade. As the North American leg ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Chris Cooney in his capacity as a developer evangelist for Coralogix - the company is known for its technology that maps ...

Anyone who has dabbled with asking friends and contacts for a VPN recommendation will have probably received a few suggestions. One of those suggestions is to opt for one of the free VPNs.  This is ...

GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Louise Read, founder of SaaS MRKTING, talks about the more positive side of current tech industry layoffs.  May you be cursed with interesting times. So ...

GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Kris Lovejoy, global security and resilience practice leader at Kyndryl talks about the skillsets needed for a career in security. As a business leader ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Peter van der Putten in his role as head of the AI Lab at Pegasystems and also as assistant professor, AI, Leiden ...

This is a guest post written by Rachel Berry in her role as technical product specialist at eG Innovations, a company known for its cloud-based application performance and IT-infrastructure ...

Imagine a highly connected world where information travels at the speed of light, where people can conduct business transactions and work wherever they want. This is the opportunity presented to ...

In this guest post, Karsten Smet, CEO at distribution company ACI Group, examines the parallels between the demise of the UK's home-grown cloud providers and the challenges facing the country's ...

The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) has a membership base, obviously, but joining this cross-industry organisation hosted at the Linux Foundation isn’t just a question of signing up for a ...

Data integration, automation and API-development company Jitterbit has acquired Zudy, a no-code/low-code (NC/LC) application development platform provider. Zudy’s platform, Vinyl, is used by a ...

The Linux Foundation has analysed the state of open source software value to specifically look at the ‘economic value’ of open source. Its work may suggest that companies perceive the greatest ...

Civo is a cloud-native service provider powered only by Kubernetes, a state of being that enables the company (by its own classification) to call itself a pure-play cloud player. The company, in ...

Given support from a critical mass of those employers who are serious about addressing their own skills needs, plus those of their supply chain and customer base, we should be able to use the LSIP ...

Software is automatic. By its very nature, software is an automated and autonomous entity that we establish, develop, build, create and instantiate in order to execute a series of pre-defined ...

If you were to read through the many interviews that Computer Weekly conducts with IT and digital leaders, you would be left with a clear picture of the number one focus for organisations looking ...

Wellbeing is important. So much is this the case that many of us are now looking after not just our diet, our approach to exercise and our wider nutrition levels - we are also looking after our ...

The future of headless technologies, advances in e-commerce and the next generation of software application development builder tools are all part of WP Engine DE{CODE}, an event belonging to ...

It’s time to avoid the ‘coffee shops’ and one or two of Amsterdam’s other famed attractions (there’s no time for canal barge cruises and a visit to the Anne Frank museum) and get over to the ...

The Linux Foundation Europe has now officially formed the OpenWallet Foundation (OWF).  This collaborative effort is designed to develop open source software to support interoperability for a wide ...

For those that enjoy a bit of nostalgia, NTT stands for Nippon Telegraph & Telephone [Corporation] and the organisation - 日本電信電話公社 - has been around since the very early 1950s, when it was ...

Built around open source technologies at its heart, Android TV is now almost a decade old (its precursor, Google TV, first arrived in 2014). A smart TV operating system (OS) for televisions and ...

Last year, during an interview at the reClosure virtual conference, posted on YouTube, James Gosling, the father of the Java programming language, said: “Being a project in Oracle Labs is not a ...

In this guest post, Matt Watts, chief technology evangelist at data storage manufacturer NetApp, sets out the role that cloud can play in cutting enterprise energy bills If data is an ...

This is a guest post by LuLu Shiraz, director of product and service at Vertiv Australia and New Zealand Young women today follow in the footsteps of Australia’s unsung female tech icons. Think of ...

SmartBear has released and API exploration tool that supports REST and event-driven specifications. The promise, or so we’re told, is ‘instant visibility’ for developers into API limitations. The ...

In this guest post, Helen Kelisky, managing director for Google Cloud in the UK and Ireland, sets out several key trends in the world of cloud that she predicts will play out in 2023 Throughout ...

Fauna is a distributed document-relational database delivered as an Application Programming Interface (API), over cloud. A cloud API is now a database? Yes. The database itself aims to increase ...

In this guest post, Chris Pennington, director of energy and sustainability at Iron Mountain Data Centers, on the great strides the server farm industry has taken to “green up” its act over the ...

Looking at the cyclic nature of the PC industry, while it has been the worst year on record for new PC sales, the industry is banking on a bounce back. The PC manufacturers hope that those ...