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It is highly unlikely any country facing US tariffs will want to curb the ability of their citizens and businesses to buy software and IT services from US firms. Yet the current tariffs affecting ...

This is a guest blogpost by Phil Abbott, Director at ABS Limited. Businesses often struggle with data overload. They have mountains of information stored in their ERP systems, from transaction ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Peter Bailis in his position as VP of engineering at Google Cloud. Bailis' full original title for this piece is -- Beyond ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network went to Kubecon + CloudNativeCon London this week and had a chance to sit down with Tobi Knaup in his role as VP for and general manager for cloud-native ...

Wednesday 2 April sees the latest meeting of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on digital identity. It’s more exciting than it sounds – honest! APPGs have no power or governmental role – ...

One of the big problems with deploying a software as a service (SaaS) product across an entire organisation is that once it is widely used, swapping it out becomes an extremely costly exercise. In ...

Atlassian typically hosts one of the first technology conferences of the Spring season… and this year is no different.  The team collaboration and productivity software platform company hosts its ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network by Nikhil Cheerla in his role as founder & CTO of AI assistants for sales organisations company, Nooks. Cheerla writes in full as ...

I’ve been using an Acer Chromebook 11 C732LT Celeron 1.1 GHz with 32GB since I came across it on sale in a department store in the USA while on a trip to attend a technology conference. On sale for ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Rami Luisto, PhD, the healthcare AI lead data scientist at Digital Workforce. Luisto writes in full as follows... Large ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Rowan O'Donoghue, chief strategy officer and co-founder at Origina. O'Donoghue writes in full as follows ... In 1962, NASA ...

As someone who has never been comfortable with enabling payment on my smartphone, I’ve watched the increasing presence of people “tapping” their iPhones or Android devices in bars, restaurants and ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network is off to Qlik Connect 2025, held in Orlando from May 13-15, 2025. But how do you pronounce Qlik, what is Qlik as a platform, what has the company been rolling ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Dominik Tomicevic, CEO of Memgraph The original title in full for this piece is: From Better Reasoning to Faster QFS, An ...

AI is everywhere… and it’s in the Honor (stylised as HONOR) Magic7 Pro smartphone. At first take, I hadn’t been positively “looking for” AI services on my smartphone and at no point was I say ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) written by Chris Mahl in his role as CEO at Pryon. Pryon is an enterprise knowledge management platform designed to simplify ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Ivo Patty, lead data engineer at digital transformation specialist organisation Qodea. Patty writes in full as follows... ...

No one can deny the tech sector’s level of excitement when something new starts to gain traction. Rather like the car mechanic or builder who urges their customers to buy more expensive components ...

Two laptops or one? One large-screen laptop and a Microsoft Surface? One laptop and Chromebook, or one laptop and an iPad with a keyboard, or just two laptops? Those are the choices I make every ...

This is a guest post written by Jacob Rank in his role as senior director of product management at Appian. Rank manages a team of product managers and a product portfolio that encompasses the work ...

This is a guest blogpost by Steve Neat, general manager, EMEA, Solidatus Perhaps you’ve heard someone mention “data lineage” in a meeting. You might have nodded along while secretly wondering what ...

The dust has yet to settle on the 67-page auditor’s report looking into what went so badly wrong at Birmingham City Council with its enterprise resource planning (ERP) project to replace SAP with ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Jarrod Vawdrey in his capacity as field chief data scientist at Domino Data Lab. Vawdrey writes in full as follows… Small ...

Refurbished tech won’t solve the e-waste epidemic, only better business planning and hardware management will, according to Leo Poggiali, Founder and CEO of IT leasing firm Ooodles, in this guest ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Yaron Vaxman, senior director of deep learning at Cloudinary. Vaxman writes in full as follows… There are many complex, ...

In the realms of IT, it’s difficult to find any instance of a genuinely “unique” product – at least, one that’s unique for the right reasons! Within the security sphere, it’s particularly ...

SUSE used its SUSECON 2025 event this week in Orlando, Florida to explain where its portfolio of enterprise software infrastructure tools and services has expanded and extended to evolve to the ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Jared Peterson, senior vice president of platform engineering, SAS. A seasoned technology professional, Peterson’s full ...

SUSE kicked off its SUSECON 2025 conference this week in Orlando with a keynote introduced by Dominic Laurie in his role as comms director… who handed immediately over to SUSE CEO Dirk-Peter van ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Yuval Illuz, OurCrowd COO & AI and cybersecurity expert. OurCrowd is a global venture investing platform for ...

With the ringtones of Mobile World Congress still ringing in our ears and the prospect of SUSECON 2025 just around the corner, SUSE has detailed its SUSE Edge for Telco 3.2 release  This update ...

In September last year, Computer Weekly sat down with three of the most senior and influential digital leaders in the UK government to discuss the challenges and opportunities ahead under a new ...

This is a guest post by Shomron Jacob, head of applied machine learning & platform at Iterate.ai, whose AI innovation ecosystem enables enterprises to build production-ready applications. ...

Neighbourhood Watch became became by far the UK's largest community support movement during Covid - albeit cover is patchy. Across England and Wales it embraces 9% of household but that ranges from ...

This is a guest post written for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Ameya Deshmukh in his role as head of programmes for Tabnine. Tabnine is an AI software development platform with ...

First, the cloud grew. Then, after a period of widespread adoption that eventually led to mass-market acceptance and a groundswell of platform-level standardisation that took us through the ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Dr Juan Bernabe-Moreno in his capacity as director of IBM Research Europe for the UK & Ireland. Bernabe-Moreno writes ...

Digital disruption continues to reshape the business landscape, impacting how we work and the tools we use. Quocirca's "In the Spotlight Special Edition" series, featuring interviews with leading ...

This is a guest blogpost by David Hogan, vice-president Enterprise, EMEA at NVIDIA. This summer, the Isambard AI supercomputer in Bristol will be fully operational, marking a significant step ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Dom Couldwell in his capacity as head of field engineering EMEA, DataStax. Couldwell writes in full as follows… Building a ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network team is at F5 AppWorld 2025. News emanating from the show that we have not yet covered includes several new solutions and capabilities that the company says ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network team is at AppWorld with F5. As part of the conference’s central newsreel, we learn that the company has announced new additions to the F5 VELOS product line. ...

We often hear of senior tech industry execs drawing an analogy between the tech sector and automotive manufacturing. Basically, if car development followed the same rules as the tech sector, by now ...

F5 kicked off its AppWorld 2025 conference this week in Las Vegas with a keynote introduced and delivered by François Locoh-Donou, president and CEO of F5. Talking about the demands of building ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network by Volodymyr Murzak in his role as solution architect and tech lead at software development company Syndicode. Syndicode is a software ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Raj Datta, vice president, software and AI partnerships at IBM. Datta writes as follows... In 2025, software companies ...

In this guest post, Sarah Draper, general counsel and chief risk officer at colocation giant Telehouse Europe, opens up about the challenges women face in the workplace when fighting to get their ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Alex Perritaz in his role as chief architect at InFlux Technologies. InFlux Technologies is a technology company ...

Consider an organisation that, understandably, wants to ensure its customer data and intellectual property is kept as safe as possible, assessing how to “do AI”. It is easy to assume everyone is ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Adam Lieberman in his role as chief AI officer at Finastra. Finastra is a global financial software company that provides ...