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With only a proportion of developers classified as key workers (where their responsibilities perhaps included the operations-side of keeping mission-critical and life-critical systems up and ...

With only a proportion of developers classified as key workers (where their responsibilities perhaps included the operations-side of keeping mission-critical and life-critical systems up and ...

With only a proportion of developers classified as key workers (where their responsibilities perhaps included the operations-side of keeping mission-critical and life-critical systems up and ...

In terms of so-called first world problems, we all have them from time to time. I can’t make spaghetti bolognese tonight as I only have linguine or pappardelle. My Internet access at home is ...

Anyone can be a novice, an amateur or a beginner - the clue is pretty much in the name, right? Then there’s that second tier of accomplishment… let’s call that intermediary, normal (if you’re ...

Quocirca’s “The Amazon Effect” Executive Briefing Report examines the disruptive effect that Amazon has had on a technology sectors such as the Cloud, IoT, Edge Computing and the Smart Connected ...

In this guest post, Amy Fowler, vice president of strategy and solutions at datacentre hardware provider Pure Storage sets out why enterprises should consider adding unified fast file and object ...

The husband and wife who made hundreds of millions selling Bebo to AOL before buying it back for a relative pittance five years later have spent lockdown planning to relaunch the site (again). In a ...

Developers love software application development security provisioning, penetration testing, procedural process management and (software) program protection planning in all its forms. Okay, so ...

Over the next few years the tech industry has a roadmap to overcome the challenges facing quantum computing. This will pave the way to growth in mainstream quantum computing to solve "hard ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network examines the impact of Covid-19 on the software application development community. With only a proportion of developers classified as key workers (where their ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network examines the impact of Covid-19 (Coronavirus) on the software application development community. With only a proportion of developers classified as key workers ...

The Inspect-a-Gadget elves are well-versed in all manner of shiny devices, hard lumps of computing power and even the occasionally frivolous technology gadget (the clue’s in the name, right ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network examines the impact of Covid-19 on the software application development community. With only a proportion of developers classified as key workers (where their ...

Like everybody else, the Inspect-a-Gadget elves have been in lockdown. But, normally, the elves like to get out on the road, attend a few technology conferences and stay in a few cheap motels rooms ...

This is a guest blogpost by Gordon Wilson, CEO, Advanced It would be an understatement to say that Covid-19 has disrupted the way the world does business. How we now operate has to be set in a new ...

The maintainers of Linkerd, a lightweight service mesh have announced the creation of the Linkerd Steering Committee.  As TechTarget reminds us, a service mesh is a dedicated infrastructure layer ...

In recent weeks we’ve looked back at several areas of IT. In many, we concluded that while today may look technically very different from yesterday, that’s just superficial: the underlying ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network examines the impact of Covid-19 on the software application development community. With only a proportion of developers classified as key workers (where their ...

Worldwide VPN downloads reportedly reached 277 million last year, with one reason for the surge being a lockdown-induced appetite to circumvent streaming services’ geo-restrictions. How can anyone ...

Inspect-a-Gadget is of course a real person.  He/she/it is gender-neutral, but the elves that work for Inspect-a-Gadget are very much of this Earth and composed of a pound (or more) of flesh, just ...

Among the uncomfortable truths about the government’s response to the pandemic is the fact that some people have and will continue to play the system. At the time it was introduced, the furlough ...

Software application developers are working hard to adapt to a changing landscape. Software tools are changing, codebases are changing, cloud formats and data integration practices are changing, AI ...

Around this time last year, I was in London to cover off an event on platform migration for Rimo3, which I duly covered in this blog back then. ...

As every good developer knows, when you want to learn more about what a platform or tools provider is bringing through the release pipeline: ignore the news, delete the press releases, don’t look ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network examines the impact of Covid-19 on the software application development community. With only a proportion of developers classified as key workers (where their ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network examines the impact of Covid-19 on the software application development community. With only a proportion of developers classified as key workers (where their ...

In this guest post, Spencer Lamb, vice president of Harlow-based colocation firm Kao Data, sets out why legacy datacentres may struggle to accommodate the growing demand for HPC workloads The ...

One of Donald Trump’s last acts as US president was to pardon Anthony Levandowski, a former Google engineer who faced 18 months for being caught with his fingers in the intellectual till. Citing ...

If you’re going to ask a customer a question, ask them a proper one! You can’t get much bigger than looking at the future of enterprise networking and security, but that’s what a recent survey by ...

Just in case you spent 2020 on a different planet, the world has been living through an unimaginable pandemic in the shape of the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) contagion. As well the tragic loss of life ...

You might still have a Hitachi television at home or perhaps even a briefcase-style retro radio from the 1980s… but these days the company wants to be thought of in broader terms. The company’s ...

For a lot of people, the first reaction experienced when exposed to the term ‘hyperautomation’ is the groaning sense of marketingspeak overload. It’s almost as if the marcoms people get a sense of ...

Previously, in this blog space we looked at cloud application acceleration and how it might finally kill off the wounded beast that never dies that is MPLS, and how SASE can be an underlying ...

As every good software engineer knows, not all clouds are equal. Where some instances are optimised for compute processing, some are tuned for analytics, specific Input/Output (I/O) prowess, ...

Camera-envy used to be that ‘thing’ that long-lens-toting tourists would exhibit when parading around beauty spots, well-known tourist locations and perhaps even Disneyland. That time has passed. ...

As our contribution to the bit of fun that is Throwback Thursday, we're taking a regular stroll in the Freeform Dynamics archives.  “Continuous innovation and real-time steering are needed in the ...

There are some things that require a permanent internet connection. One cannot listen to internet radio, watch YouTube or take part in a video conference, without a permanent, live, high-quality ...

As a rule of thumb, we wish only misery and ruin on Bitcoin investors for daring to make the phenomenon sound any more sophisticated than a Bet365 advert. But our maniacal propensity for ...

If you want Post-It Notes, go to 3M. If you want independent MongoDB software tools with incremental security and management layers, go to 3T. That’s the message from the Berlin-based softwarehaus, ...

In September 2019, the then civil service chief executive John Manzoni told Computer Weekly that the new digital leader he wanted to recruit for the UK government would “have to be very wise, very ...

Red Kubes is a provider of a turn-key out-of-the-box (Ed: enough hyphens already!) Kubernetes-based container platform product. The company has now open sourced the Otomi Container Platform ...

Let’s take a quick dip into Open Data Lakes Analytics. But before we do, we need to cross off some names and definitions. This story starts with Ahana, a self-styled ‘self-service’ analytics ...

Take a deep breath… Oracle’s eponymously named Oracle MySQL Database Service with integrated MySQL Analytics Engine is a mouthful. Why did the company use such extended language to name one of its ...

As everybody knows, there’s no hot dogs, pretzels or pork roast without mustard. Microservices, it has been suggested, also need a solid relish (and a bun backbone), without which they fail to be ...

The New Year is traditionally a time for reflections as well as resolutions. With Throwback Thursday we are happy to offer you both, as we look back to June 2008, when Freeform Dynamics published a ...

Mainframes need love too, it’s not all public cloud out there - plus, anyway, some mainframe resources are used to further deepen the density of many cloud services in the first place. Despite the ...

Brian Clough once said that if he was given a magic wand and wanted to improve the standard of UK life overnight, he would have Rupert Murdoch removed from this planet. For 12 hours on Tuesday 5 ...

First, we had WanOp, then we had “son of WanOp” AKA SD-WAN (and its much misunderstood – mainly by vendors – sibling, SDN) and then the cloud came along and, well, clouded the scenario somewhat. If ...

With the UK now in the third coronavirus lockdown, organisations are again leaning on IT departments to ensure remote working can continue. It has been nine months since the UK first went into ...