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Commonly in cyber security-related conversations, strategic references to the edge, boundary, endpoint, cloud etc are commonplace as potential areas of vulnerability. However, in several recent ...

It’s all too easy to get so engrained in the world of IT that sometimes you need a reminder that the globe is a large and diverse place; one that isn’t purely digital. Such a reminder came most ...

When an 80 year-old relative asks you how she can use her phone to both pay for shopping and get her supermarket loyalty points, like her friends do, you know that digital wallets are a success. ...

In this guest post, Donovan Justice, a partner within the digital engineering and emerging tech group at EY, sets out why it is time people started paying attention to the carbon emissions ...

This is a guest post for Computer Weekly written by Phil Nash in his role as developer advocate at SonarSource - the company is known for its platform that developers and development teams to write ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Joe Dougherty in his role as product solutions architect at Cisco ThousandEyes ThousandEyes monitors network ...

After an insightful first year in 2021, the Computer Weekly Developer Network team is headed back for second helpings at Qualys QSC 2022. With a solid focus on security issues (obviously, because ...

In this guest post, Justin Griffith, CTO of supply chain software company StayLinked explores how companies can implement open source technologies as a stand-alone business model Solar technology ...

Prometheus defied the gods and stole fire from them to give to humanity. This strand of Greek legend is a powerful thread. Named with the intention of conveying a similar (if not even more ...

It's all about infrastructure. So much so that the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) reached out to the community in advance of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2022 North America held in Detroit, ...

Simply saying hybrid multi-cloud (out loud) is one thing. Creating an operational computing fabric capable of working not just across multiple cloud instances (that’s the easy part, right folks?) ...

In this guest post, Ben Scott, principal at IT service provider Netcompany, sets out his view about how Ofgem needs to react to the UK's on-going energy crisis Regulator and regulation are ...

GUEST BLOG: Bella Grimsey, a student in her second year of computer science A-Level, explains the challenges and pressures of being a lone female in class, and why the tech syllabus needs to change ...

Years ago, I owned a Psion Organiser, which, at the time, was the perfect device for taking notes using thumb typing. The Nokia Communicator 9000 series took the concept a stage further, adding a ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Chuck Herrin in his capability as CTO of Wib, a full lifecycle API security platform that helps companies secure their APIs ...

StormForge is a cloud-native application performance testing and resource optimization company. The company has used the week of KubeCon and CloudNativeCon North America this year to detail its ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Jason Knight in his role as chief product officer at OctoML -- the company is known for its work bringing DevOps agility to ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network’s API series written by Shahar Binyamin, CEO and co-founder at Inigo, a GraphQL security and management platform. Binyamin writes in ...

The artist formerly known as Kanye West has tied a ribbon round his recent package of white supremacist slogans, George Floyd family agitation and anti-Semitic tropes with an agreement to purchase ...

In this guest post, Aidan McClean, CEO and co-founder of online electric vehicle hire firm UFODRIVE, highlights the shortcomings in the UK’s car charging infrastructure The UK’s 2030 ban on the ...

This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Umair Shahid in his role as head of PostgreSQL at Percona -- a company known for its work delivering enterprise-class ...

With Oracle CloudWorld in Las Vegas kicking off, the on-going battle with third party support provider Rimini Street is once again making the news. On October 10th Oracle said it had informed the ...

In what at first glance looked like the inventor of affordable rolled gift wrap finally having enough, Damien Hirst last week began the process of burning those of the 10,000 individual A4 ...

Once simply known as IFS World Conference, the last pre-pandemic gathering from the US and European-headquartered cloud enterprise software company was called ‘For The Challengers’ - a nod of sorts ...

In this guest post, Ciaran Dynes, chief product officer at data integration platform, Matillion, explores the role of cloud data in informing decisions that reduce global impact As the world turns ...

Many organisations are shifting to a ‘less-paper’ environment as they accelerate their digital transformation initiatives. Scanning plays a key role in this transition, enabling companies to ...

As we connect more systems, applications, compute resources and containerised entities to each other through the neural networking connections offered by APIs, there is a clear and present need to ...

This is a contributed piece for the Computer Weekly Developer Network’s API series written by Galeal Zino in his capacity as co-founder and CEO of NetFoundry – the company is the originator and ...

Many moons ago, the tech sector would gel around a big product launch, like the next version of Windows. But in the era of over-the-air (OTA) continuous updates, especially on smartphones, there is ...

In this guest post, Rollo Home, head of product at national mapping agency Ordnance Survey, sets out the opportunities for software developers to get more actively involved in sustainability ...

Hosted by Confluent, Current 2022 is billed as the ‘next generation of Kafka Summit’ and the Computer Weekly Developer Network team is in Austin, Texas for the showdown. As an aide memoir, ...

This is a guest post by Han Chon, managing director for ASEAN at Nutanix There has been much discussion around how technology can be used to accelerate sustainability efforts, from green IT to ...

Hosted by Confluent, Current 2022 is billed as the ‘next generation of Kafka Summit’ and the Computer Weekly Developer Network team is in Austin, Texas for the showdown. As an aide memoir, ...

Dynatrace is of course not just a systems and data observability specialist.  The company quite specifically describes and denotes itself as a ‘software intelligence company’ with a platform ...

This is a contributed piece for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Paul Jones, head of technology UK&I at SAS. SAS is known for its work in data analytics, data management and ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network API series written by Josh Koenig in his role as co-founder and chief strategy officer at Pantheon. Pantheon is a WebOps platform for ...

This is a guest post by Chern-Yue Boey, senior vice-president for Asia-Pacific at SailPoint Southeast Asia has been heralded as the up-and-coming region, and with good reason. Over the past decade, ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network and Open Source Insider team is soon Detroit-bound. Why? Because the city is this year home to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s (CNCF) KubeCon + ...

This couplet of joint analysis pieces is written in full by Quinton Wall in his role as head of developer relations at ThoughtSpot. As a company, ThoughtSpot likes to call itself a modern analytics ...

The last time I sat in the Yerba Buena Theatre near the Moscone Centre in San Francisco at Salesforce’s annual conference Dreamforce, was to hear David Beckham having a fireside chat with the then ...

This couplet of joint analysis pieces is written in full by Quinton Wall in his role as head of developer relations at ThoughtSpot. As a company, ThoughtSpot likes to call itself a modern analytics ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network's API series written in full by Ovais Tariq in role as CEO of Tigris Data -- Tigris is an open source developer data platform for all ...

This is a contributed piece written in full by Olaf van Gorp, technical sales (EMEA) and solutions consultant, Akana at Perforce Software. From this point, van Gorp writes in full as follows... ...

Earlier this year, Ofcom commissioned Analysys Mason to look at the digital value chain. It is this study that sets the scene for a more expansive role at the regulator, as Ofcom looks to stay ...

From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Welcome Charlie and Camilla Dear all, Hope you all had a great weekend and as I always like to say, are ready to get back at IT! LOL ...

This piece is written by Rachel Berry in her capacity as product consultant at eG Innovations, a company known for its cloud-based application performance and IT-Infrastructure monitoring ...

In this guest post, Angela Townsend, director of channel sales at edtech provider SMART Technologies, talks about the impact rising energy prices are having on school IT systems.  The rising cost ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network's API universe series written in full by Matt McLarty in his role as global field CTO & VP, digital transformation Office (DTO), ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Brian Otten in his role as VP of the digital transformation catalysts division at Axway - a company known for its ...

This is a guest post for Computer Weekly's 'circular technology economy' series written by Sammy Zoghlami in his role as SVP EMEA, Nutanix. Given the fact that we know the ongoing energy crisis is ...