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GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Amy Sharif, head of data science at decision intelligence company Peak, discusses how data science can become a more accessible field for women. Data ...
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Dolby buys Millicast, it sounds better for video streaming developers
07 Feb 2022Dolby Laboratories, Inc, is known for its immortal inclusion in This Is Spinal Tap - the ‘it sounds better in Dobly’ line is further immortalised by the fact that the line is emblazoned across the ...
Networks Generation
Security's Buoyancy Aid - Keeping Your Head Above Murky Cyber Waters With Swimlane
Broadband Testing 07 Feb 2022Towards the end of last year, I spoke about a vendor, Swimlane, who appeared to be getting the concept of automation and orchestration absolutely on the money – and in the area where it is most ...
No doubt big fans of Ghostbusters (Zuul - also known as The Gatekeeper - is a demonic entity from the original film), the Zuul community has announced the release of version 5.0 of its open source ...
The White House has welcomed Swedish audio streaming giant Spotify’s decision to add advisory warnings to any content discussing Covid-19 – namely The Joe Rogan Experience, in light of the recent ...
Among the newer names adding their two-pennyworth to the noise in the low-code space is open source Budibase. Aligned to work in the web software application development space, Budibase (pronounced ...
HP, angry that it had to write down $5 bn on its purchase of Autonomy, has now made a breakthrough in the UK court. The court ruled that HP “substantially succeeded” in its claims against the ...
Code does go ‘stale’, of course. Software application development code (and many of the data reserves, pools, sets, marts, warehouses and lakes) that programmers engineer into the fabric of modern ...
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Infrastructure-as-Code series - Tenable: The joy of enforced immutability
01 Feb 2022The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) continues its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, how ...
Data Matters
Companies need to embrace voice to promote empathy and intentionality at work
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 01 Feb 2022This is a guest blogpost by Oliver Palihes, CEO at Aircall. It seems that, in recent years, messaging and video have become the de facto modes of communication for businesses looking to optimise ...
GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post Steph Cullen, head of manufacturers at IRI and former gold medallist rower for team GB, shares her views on how schools and the fast-moving, consumer goods ...
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Infrastructure-as-Code series - DataStax: Making data services as easy as code
31 Jan 2022The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) continues its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, how ...
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Infrastructure-as-Code series - Shipa: Bridging the IaC–app disconnect
30 Jan 2022The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) continues its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, how ...
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Infrastructure-as-Code series - Red Hat senior architect: Into DevOps version control 2.0
28 Jan 2022The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) continues its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, how ...
People (well, British people, Americans and many others) think that the name Smith is a comparatively dull moniker to be blessed with and that Ferrari speaks of Italian flair and passion. In truth, ...
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Infrastructure-as-Code series - OutSystems: The road to an ‘intentive’ IaC
27 Jan 2022The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) continues its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, how ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
The road less travelled paves the path to stealth disruption
Managing Editor 27 Jan 2022During the recent Ocado Re:Imagined event, the company’s founder and CEO, Tim Steiner, discussed how stealth disruptors were used to invent something he described as “really radical”. Really ...
We recently saw a TikTok of the new guy on Dragons’ Den explaining the virtues of obtaining enough money to own a private jet: to maximise the number of what he refers to as his 500,000 chips – the ...
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Infrastructure-as-Code series - Druva: A clear path to the virtualised app stack
26 Jan 2022The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) continues its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, how ...
Back in the day (and we’re talking when Windows 95 was big news), we used to sit around in software vendor Proof-of-Concept labs looking at what should be physically possible given the current ...
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Infrastructure-as-Code series - CircleCI: Standing on the shoulders of DevOps giants
25 Jan 2022The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) continues its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, how ...
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Infrastructure-as-Code series - HashiCorp: no, it’s not just “the code”
24 Jan 2022The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) continues its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, how ...
Alibaba Cloud growing clout in cloud-based databases was validated this week when it reported that its database revenues grew by over 50% year-over-year. The company’s database product portfolio ...
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Infrastructure-as-Code series - PagerDuty: From the declarative to the imperative
21 Jan 2022The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) continues its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, how ...
Scottish-sounding management consultancy McKinsey has donated Kedro to the Linux Foundation. Build back in 2019, McKinsey launched Kedro as an open source software tool on GitHub for data ...
Open Source Insider
SUSE offers a Neu approach to container security, opens NeuVector codebase
19 Jan 2022SUSE has announced the NeuVector codebase to the open source community on GitHub. The German softwarehaus claims that NeuVector the first truly open source end-to-end [container] security ...
When IT Meets Politics
2022: Time to take algorithm-enhanced online abuse seriously
Winsafe Ltd 19 Jan 2022The algorithms used by dominant social media companies have compounded the risks to unsupervised children in their bedrooms by automating the processes predators use to find and groom potential ...
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Infrastructure-as-Code series - Ondat: IaC is the means to a DevOps end
18 Jan 2022The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) continues its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, how ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Why hybrid IT means having a squeezed middle
Managing Editor 13 Jan 2022From a pure sense of logic, cloud computing is the right choice for almost every situation requiring enterprise IT. Hardware can be deployed as and when required, used on-demand and the management ...
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Infrastructure-as-Code series - KPMG UK: IaC's critical role in cybersecurity
13 Jan 2022The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) continues its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, how ...
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Infrastructure-as-Code series - Copado: The ephemeral cow & the stateful cat
12 Jan 2022The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) continues its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, how ...
Data Matters
B2B tech skills as the Cinderella of public policy
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 11 Jan 2022When government ministers or their policy wonks think of technology and the economy, you can virtually guarantee they are thinking of consumer tech companies, mostly from the west coast of the US. ...
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Infrastructure-as-Code series - Kyndryl: Beyond the ‘box’, into workable cloud
11 Jan 2022The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) continues its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, how ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
For 2022, let's get less excited about tech
Editor in chief 10 Jan 2022We all understand and recognise the enormous potential for technology to transform our work, our economy, our culture, our society, our lives. We all know the incredible benefits that lie in store ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Is the commodity server bandwagon running out of steam?
Freeform Dynamics 10 Jan 2022The term “paradigm shift” gets flung about far too much in IT, but we may be at one of those few times that genuinely deserves it. For decades now, specialised hardware devices have been losing ...
Data Matters
Oracle’s Steve Miranda: supply chain analytics changing in response to faster business change
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 10 Jan 2022Covid has shaken the global economy over the past two years in ways it is hard, if not impossible, to grasp – at least while we are still in the thick of it. Adam Tooze’s book Shutdown: how Covid ...
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Infrastructure-as-Code series - Couchbase: new skills, but still not child’s play
10 Jan 2022The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) continues its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, how ...
This is a guest post by David R. Hardoon, managing director of Aboitiz Data Innovation If anything, the past few years have shown that artificial intelligence (AI) is more than just a buzzword. ...
Data Matters
Modern data-driven businesses need to rely on the power of three
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 06 Jan 2022This is a guest blogpost by James Petter, VP International at Pure Storage. How many of us have grown up learning the fable about the three little pigs? Or before then, the three wise men? The ...
The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) continues its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, how ...
Data Matters
How organisations can turn the tide on doomed digital transformation
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 05 Jan 2022This is a guest blogpost by Mat Rule, CEO & Founder of Toca Current approaches to digital transformation are falling short. In fact, only 16% of executives say their company’s digital ...
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Infrastructure-as-Code series - GitLab: Control, efficiency & paths to GitOps
05 Jan 2022The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) continues its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, how ...
When IT Meets Politics
Setting the Skills and Employment Agenda for 2022 and beyond
Winsafe Ltd 29 Dec 2021Education for one career for life is now the exception not the norm for most school-leavers and graduates. The current workforce is on a treadmill of change. This is accelerating faster than most ...
If you’re at all curious about what comes next in enterprise storage devices, you need to know about EDSFF, the Enterprise and Data Centre SSD Form Factor – better known as the “ruler” format. ...
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Infrastructure-as-Code series - BlackSwan: Defining Infrastructure-from-Code (IfC)
21 Dec 2021The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) now starts its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, ...
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Infrastructure-as-Code series - BlackSwan: Configurations, challenges & CDKs
21 Dec 2021The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) now starts its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, ...
Quocirca's Print Industry Trends for 2022 identifies opportunities for print and digital transformation in the hybrid work era.
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Infrastructure-as-Code series: Morrell on Microsoft’s march & maturity
16 Dec 2021The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) now starts its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, ...
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Infrastructure-as-Code series: Practical monitoring in an IaC universe
15 Dec 2021The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) now starts its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Log4Shell: Why aren't we taking the security of the internet seriously?
Managing Editor 15 Dec 2021To be caught out once may be an oversight, and lessons can be learned. But twice over a seven year timespan, shows a laissez faire attitude to the stability of the internet. In 2014, Heartbleed ...