Recent Blog Posts
GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post Jill Gates, vice president culture and people, Europe and Asia, at Ensono, talks about the steps that need to be taken to develop good apprenticeships. In ...
Inspect-a-Gadget
Circular IT series - CHG-Meridian: Managing unstoppable (but sustainable) IT consumption
24 Aug 2022This is a guest post for Computer Weekly’s ‘circular tech economy’ series written by Simon Young in his capacity as director and VP of sales for UK & Ireland at technology services company ...
Green Tech
Technology as a catalyst for large-scale reform in the fight against climate change
23 Aug 2022In this guest post, Robin Saluoks, co-founder and CEO of climate tech-focused startup eAgronom,on how technology can help increase food security in the face of climate change. Avocados from Mexico, ...
The Computer Weekly Developer Network sat down (physically In Real Life, virtually and perhaps also metaphysically) to discuss the state of low-code nation with April Schuppel in her role as senior ...
Codefresh is a Continuous Delivery (CD) platform for cloud-native apps. Built on an enterprise distribution of Argo, a declarative continuous delivery tool, Codefresh is trusted by companies like ...
GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post Helen Walker, director of global operations at edtech firm, RM, discusses when gender biases start in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) and ...
The recent Samsung Unpacked event, where the smartphone giant launched two high-end devices, is indicative of an industry that believes the only way to add value is to launch new things. And ...
Green Tech
Going green: How to build a reliable, resilient and responsible digital infrastructure
18 Aug 2022In this guest post, David Watkins, solutions director for West London-based colocation provider, Virtus Data Centres outlines the actions that datacentre operators need to take to avoid accusations ...
Inspect-a-Gadget
Circular IT series - Logitech eco-lead: Designing for sustainability, carbon-neutrality & usability
18 Aug 2022Logitech is known for its peripherals and software. The Swiss-American company makes some of (what would widely be agreed to be) the higher-end and perhaps more durable lines of equipment on the ...
The (possibly, hopefully) post-pandemic push for corporate connections and platform-level integrations moved in the open source database space this month. August 2022 saw everybody’s favourite ...
In this guest post, Julie Kae, executive director and vice president of sustainability and diversity, equality and inclusion (DE&I) at business applications firm Qlik.org, sets out why data has ...
When IT Meets Politics
Getting Britons into work with the skills of the future
Winsafe Ltd 14 Aug 2022Current proposals to use tax incentives or national strategies to break out of stagflation by improving productivity will fail without a new approach to building a political consensus that ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Nader takes on Tesla's autonomous algorithms
Managing Editor 12 Aug 2022Consumer advocate Ralph Nader, whose book, Unsafe at any speed, forced carmakers into fitting seat belts as standard, has his eyes on Tesla. In a post regarding the car company's autonomous ...
In this guest post, Jay Mukhey, global director of environment social and governance (ESG), Purpose & Impact, at fintech Finastra, sets out how the financial services industry is supporting ...
Software application developers have skills. It’s what they do. The job itself is a defined, enviable, professional pursuit that would probably be classed as a white collar job, were any ...
WITsend
How can the UK's High Potential Visa close the digital skills gap
Business Editor 12 Aug 2022GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post Sheila Flavell, COO of FDM Group and president of TechUK, explains how the High Potential Visa can ease the digital skills gap and generate growth With the ...
Eyes on APAC
Tech spend visibility to ease impact of economic uncertainty and inflation
Informa TechTarget 12 Aug 2022This is a guest post by Pete Wilson, vice-president and general manager for customer success at Apptio Asia-Pacific A new fiscal year has only just started, but the technology budgets that were ...
Inspect-a-Gadget
Circular IT series - DevicePilot CEO Pilgrim Beart on greener smarter technology
12 Aug 2022This is a guest post for Computer Weekly’s ‘circular technology economy’ series written by Pilgrim Beart. Now the founder of DevicePilot, a software platform for monitoring, managing and automating ...
Ahead in the Clouds
West London datacentres: What can be done to ease the pressure on the grid?
11 Aug 2022In this guest post, Ian Shearer, managing director for Asia-Pacific and Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at Park Place Technologies, weighs in on what can be done to reduce the impact that ...
In this guest post, Aidan McClean, CEO of online electric vehicle hire firm UFODRIVE, sets out why the UK’s successful ‘Vehicle to Grid’ trials show that increasing electric car ownership can ...
One of the problems with acronym-defined industry “go to’s” in IT, is that they can easily be misconstrued and/or a myriad variations on a theme emerge from the original – thereby confusing the ...
Inspect-a-Gadget
Circular IT series - Vertiv: A datacentre report card, C+ 'could do better'
10 Aug 2022This is a guest post for Computer Weekly’s ‘circular IT economy’ series written by Simon Brady in his capacity as services channel business development manager for EMEA at Vertiv - a company known ...
As companies, applications and AI models handle more and more personal information, governments have responded with new data protection laws. The EU General Data Protection Regulation is mirrored ...
Unashamedly simply calling itself Gadget, the Gadget developer productivity platform company has a new service/feature/product known as Connections. This technology gives software application ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Why computational power is no longer limitless
Managing Editor 04 Aug 2022China’s military exercises in the Taiwan Strait are set to have an immediate effect on global supply chains. China has effectively established an air and sea blockade around Taiwan and the world’s ...
The new found aspirations of politicians of all parties to break out of two decades of stagnation in UK per capita productivity stagnation depend on levelled up access to the digital skills of the ...
In this guest post, Kalliopi Chioti, chief environmental, social and governance (ESG) officer at Temenos, explains how cloud technologies are helping the financial services sector go green. Banks ...
In the process (as we are) of talking to Logitech on sustainable circular tech economy issues, the company highlighted its latest product launch, which it says fits completely in-line with its very ...
Eyes on APAC
Three common digital transformation mistakes and how to avoid them
Informa TechTarget 29 Jul 2022This is a guest post by Stu French, partner for digital and application development at Versent Over the last couple of years, where Covid-induced pressure has mounted on many large organisations to ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Two tribes: software companies and carmakers
Managing Editor 28 Jul 2022It is all very well aspiring to make your internal combustion engine car company the next Tesla, but these shifts in approach rub against an ingrained culture that fears radical change. Love him or ...
In this guest blog, Chris Darvill, solutions engineering vice president for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at cloud-native API platform provider Kong, sets out why the humble API should not ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Has the cloud caught up with the mainframe?
Freeform Dynamics 28 Jul 2022Yes, you read that right. For much of the last couple of decades, it's felt as if everyone has been talking about the impending demise of the mainframe, whilst simultaneously attempting to emulate ...
Current Cybersecurity Careers programmes reach barely 2% of the target audience. It is time to bridge the gap with the mainstream programmes run via the Careers and Enterprise Company with a ...
This is a guest post for Computer Weekly’s ‘circular technology’ series written by Jason Knight in his capacity as co-founder and chief product officer (CPO) at OctoML - a company known for its ...
When IT Meets Politics
Getting Britain back to work with the Skills of the Future - using Cyber as an example.
Winsafe Ltd 26 Jul 2022Harnessing talent today to deliver the evolving skills of the future on the scale needed requires employers to build on the mass-market channels that already exist, like those of the Careers and ...
In this guest post, André Dias, CTO of cloud-native charging infrastructure software provider, Daloop, sets out why worrying about where to charge up your EV is a waste of time Electric vehicles ...
If there’s a term that we can already see listed as a top trend for 2022 by the time the Christmas end-of-year retrospective musings come out, it is self-service. Not quite the same as technology ...
CloudBees has a somewhat different (Ed: you almost said unique) approach to naming its annual industry convention. The company does not actually put its name in front of the show label, so ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Pro-business AI regulations need to be global
Managing Editor 22 Jul 2022There is little doubt that artificial intelligence and machine learning will revolutionise decision-making. But how these new technologies make decisions is a mystery and the black art that goes on ...
Never afraid to bare a few buttocks in the name of a good clean fight, cloud-based analytics company Sumo Logic has tightened the straps for developers building cloud-native applications. The ...
Progress is a flexible company - the organisation has been through (arguably) more platform-level developments than most enterprise software businesses, but in the contemporary age of cloud, data ...
The Cilium project has reached general availability of Cilium 1.12. Great news, they’re (the Cilium team) excited… and so are we, but what is Cilium? Cilium is widely regarded as a (if not the) ...
As the cost of living crisis continues to see families struggle to afford food and essential utilities, please also spare a thought for multinational media streaming company Netflix, which has lost ...
Taking stock of retail tech
Why digital identity is central to the future of retail
Business Editor 20 Jul 2022GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post Ian Lowe, director of industry solutions for EMEA at Okta, discussed the role that identity will play in a digital-first retail future. Even before the ...
Taking stock of retail tech
Can ‘low code, no code’ close the commerce skills gap?
Business Editor 20 Jul 2022GUEST BLOG: In this guest blog post Conor Barr, CPO of retail integration platform Patchworks, discusses whether low or no code could help those low on tech skills to excel in the e-commerce ...
Inspect-a-Gadget
Circular IT series - Cloudinary: Small changes to cut bandwidth lead to big CO2 savings
20 Jul 2022This is a guest post for Computer Weekly’s circular IT series written in full by Tal Lev-Ami, co-founder and CTO of Cloudinary. Cloudinary is known for its cloud-based image and video management ...
GUEST BLOG: The tech industry is notorious for being heavily male, with many blaming the early pipeline for deterring girls from choosing to study tech-based subjects or consider tech careers later ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
What's up with Google's plan to supplant SMS and drive mobile e-commerce?
Freeform Dynamics 19 Jul 2022Ask most people what RCS stands for, and you’ll probably get a blank look. For Google and the others backing this new mobile messaging standard - whose full name is Rich Communications Services - ...
In this guest post, Guy Armstrong, senior vice president of applications for UK and Ireland at database software giant Oracle, on the importance of enterprises having accurate data to track ...
Eyes on APAC
Skills shortage demands Aussie CEOs address productivity
Informa TechTarget 19 Jul 2022This is a guest post by Jeremy Paton, team engagement and collaboration specialist at Avaya The skills shortage is retaining its vice-like grip on Australia. Businesses across a range of industries ...