Recent Blog Posts
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Throwback Thursday: Is IT investment handled better now than a decade ago?
Freeform Dynamics 19 Aug 2021People like to think that the way IT works with business has changed dramatically in the past 13 years, but have the important challenges faced back then really been addressed? This week, we look ...
Boston Dynamics’ latest attempt to promote its “most dynamic” humanoid robot, Atlas, has seen the firm release footage showcasing its prowess at parkour. Benjamin Stephens, control lead of the ...
GUEST BLOG: In this guest post, Laurent Homeyer, retail and hospitality industry advisor in EMEA & APJ at Workday, discusses the need for digital skills as physical retail starts to re-open. ...
Chief storytelling officer at Tallinn, Estonia headquartered CybExer Lauri Almann is passionate on the subject of cybersecurity and wants to see a new approach to knowledge at a number of levels. ...
Ahead in the Clouds
Post-pandemic business planning: Choosing the right datacentre partner
16 Aug 2021In this guest post, Darren Watkins, managing director of colocation provider Virtus Data Centres shares his top tips on what enterprises should be looking for in a datacentre partner. Those of us ...
Linode is not afraid to be a bit different, or so it appears. The firm takes an open stance on sensitive issues and even uses a quirky company descriptor. Those not familiar with the Philly ...
There has, of course, been a continuing global pandemic. As the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) contagion took hold and world governments started to implement national and local lockdowns, the technology ...
In the many years I’ve been testing and analysing the security side of IT, one evident point is that the classic forms of attack: identifying common vulnerabilities and Distributed Denial of ...
Open source is all about data, obviously… but we’ve seen these last few months really amplify the notion of data-in-motion. It wasn’t so long ago that Confluent for Kubernetes arrived, a platform ...
Software supply chain automation is a perhaps un-loved sub-genre of the total information technology landscape. But this harsh reality is not so at Maryland-based Sonatype, the company that likes ...
Clearly big tuna fans, Yellowfin is an analytics vendor that combines action-based dashboards, automated discovery and what it likes to call ‘data storytelling’, which is presumably some form of ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
The critical importance and utility of the modern mainframe
Freeform Dynamics 11 Aug 2021IT resilience and security is essential to today's businesses, so dependent are they on their IT systems. For some of those who have been around this industry more than a decade or two, this raises ...
Data Matters
One year on from the UK exams algo fiascos
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 11 Aug 2021Algorithms got themselves a bad name in the summer of 2020. This year’s Scottish Highers and rest of the UK A-Levels results have been algo-free. But not free of their usual class bias: private ...
The Holy Land’s technology sector continues to expand it seems, Tel Aviv-based Spectral is making noise relating to its Preflight tool. The company claims to be a developer-first cyber specialist, ...
There’s that great line uttered by Winona Ryder in the movie of the same name when she says, “Maybe I was just crazy, maybe it was the sixties, maybe I was just a girl, interrupted.” The last comma ...
Data Matters
Why we need a new ethical standard for the development and use of robots
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 09 Aug 2021This is a guest blogpost by Oded Karev, General Manager of NICE Advanced Process Automation In the myth of Daedalus and Icarus, looking to escape from Crete, the latter finds himself with wings, ...
CW Developer Network
The ephemeral stack - Nutanix: solidifying DBaaS & the science of compliance
09 Aug 2021The Computer Weekly Developer Network continues with its series focused on the ‘composable ephemeral computing stack’ with a guest post written by Rob Tribe in his capacity as VP of system ...
The era of control planes has started. That’s what Upbound, the company behind the open source Crossplane project (now donated to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) in full) thinks. Why ...
In 2012, while working at Facebook, Martin Traverso, David Phillips, Dain Sundstrom and Eric Hwang created open source project Presto to replace Apache Hive to attempt to address the problems of ...
A recent conversation with Microsoft revealed a number of questions about where desktop IT could be heading. Logically, it makes sense for Microsoft to use the power of its public cloud to stream ...
In news that perhaps slipped through the cracks in the pre-summer build-up, earlier this year the MACH Alliance has reached the 30 member milestone. For the record, the MACH Alliance presents and ...
In a world where some question the code-share channels of open source communities and the use of components that may (or indeed may not) bring into question their provenance, prowess and ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
The Workday/Amazon saga raises serious questions on HCM
Managing Editor 29 Jul 2021It is too early to say definitively why Amazon decided to stop using Workday, but it is a topic worth a closer look. In 2017 Amazon began to deploy Workday Human Capital Management (HCM). Workday ...
Open Source Insider
Redis explains why data architecture 'crumbles' at AI/ML model inferencing
29 Jul 2021Rolling out Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) is tough. It’s tough because it’s hard to get these projects to production and ultimately deliver the desired results. What’s ...
Open Source Insider
From incubation-to-graduation: CNCF ‘graduates’ Linkerd service mesh
28 Jul 2021The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) tells us that it’s on a mission. That mission is to build not just cloud-native software, that part should be obvious, right? Its self-stated mission is ...
Linux is widely agreed to be key to the onward development of computational storage. As we have noted before, computational storage enables a software and hardware system to offload and alleviate ...
CW Developer Network
The ephemeral composable stack - Synology: Data's 'move' to distributed intelligence
26 Jul 2021Composable IT is increasingly being discussed across the industry, but the adoption and implementation at enterprise level can be challenging even for the best. This is a guest post for the ...
CW Developer Network
The ephemeral composable stack - YourBase: It depends on dependencies
25 Jul 2021This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Yves Junqueira in his position as CEO at YourBase – a software testing acceleration platform that automates the test ...
CW Developer Network
The composable stack - InterSystems: The software consumption pendulum
24 Jul 2021This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Scott Gnau in his capacity as VP of data platforms at InterSystems - a company known for its software systems and ...
Abbyy didn’t let the summer slowdown ‘silly season’ dampen its news cycle too much, the ‘digital intelligence company’ announced an update for NeoML, its cross-platform open source machine learning ...
Jeff Bezos has taken his rocket ship, New Shepherd, for its first ride. A ragtag team of Bezos, his brother, wee Wally Funk and the teenage son of a Dutch financier left Earth for 10 minutes and 10 ...
CW Developer Network
The ephemeral composable stack - IFS: Move over monoliths, microservices ahead
21 Jul 2021This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Antony Bourne in his role as SVP Industries at IFS -- IFS develops and delivers enterprise software for companies around ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Moving beyond Freedom Day has IT implications
Managing Editor 20 Jul 2021Even though the Delta variant continues to rise in the UK, the Government has stuck to its plans to remove Covid-19 restrictions. In effect, it has passed on responsibility for keeping people safe ...
Data Matters
Will databases be the kingmakers in the cloud wars?
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 20 Jul 2021This is a guest blogpost by Mike Waas, CEO of Datometry The days where Hyperscalers competed primarily for their customers’ compute and storage needs are numbered. Over the past years, enterprises ...
This is a guest blogpost by Shaun McGirr, AI Evangelist, Dataiku As data science and AI become more widely used, two separate avenues of innovation are becoming clear. One avenue, written about and ...
CW Developer Network
The ephemeral composable stack - Hadean: Alignment to a common abstraction
20 Jul 2021This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Aidan Hobson Sayers, technical director at Hadean. Hadean was founded in 2015 with a mission to democratise supercomputing ...
CW Developer Network
The ephemeral composable stack - Couchbase: all board the unified control plane
19 Jul 2021This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written in full by Rahul Pradhan in his role as senior director for product and engineering in the cloud division at Couchbase. ...
When IT Meets Politics
Levelling up Digital Skills and Jobs in the Post-Lockdown Economy
Winsafe Ltd 18 Jul 2021The two most urgent recommendations (with added detail) are to prevent IR35 abuse and fraud (against independent contractors more than by them) and the planned Home Office reversion to paper based ...
GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Julie Perkins, digital workplace director at Lloyds Banking Group, and an everywoman in tech awards 2021 judge, talks about how day to day actions are ...
When IT Meets Politics
The Changing UK Cyberpolicing and Cyberskills scene - an update
Winsafe Ltd 16 Jul 2021The Covid Lockdown unleashed a torrent of employment and skills related fraud, as criminals seize the opportunity to loot the new programmes , as they did to the Individual Learning Accounts after ...
Eyes on APAC
The people factor: ensuring the right balance of tech and talent
TechTarget 16 Jul 2021This is a guest post by Ryan Meyer, APAC managing director of General Assembly Businesses of all kinds and sizes have embraced the notion of digital transformation, especially as the global ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Throwback Thursday: from virtual desktops to Chromebooks and the work-anywhere web
Freeform Dynamics 15 Jul 2021How has desktop virtualisation evolved since 2009, when we reported that “virtualisation is here,” but that it was still “early days for mainstream adoption” on the desktop? As our contribution to ...
Quocirca Insights
Smart Buildings and IoT: Supporting a safe return to the office
Quocirca 15 Jul 2021Quocirca’s Smart Buildings and IoT Study analyses how IoT-enabled smart buildings are presenting new opportunities for managed service providers (MSPs) in the post-pandemic workplace. As more ...
I’ve been making a bit of noise in this bloggy column of mine now about sassy SASE for some time, but it seems I’m not the only one (other than Gartner wot coined the concept). The world of ...
It was going to happen sooner or later. While many regarded Chromebooks as devices merely fit for less intensive computing tasks, they have shown Microsoft and the PC industry a different approach ...
CW Developer Network
The ephemeral stack - commercetools: Why GraphQL is the 'glue' for composability
15 Jul 2021This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Kelly Goetsch in his role as chief product officer at commercetools -- a cloud-based headless commerce platform that ...
CW Developer Network
The ephemeral stack - Coralogix: First composable thinking, THEN composable tech
14 Jul 2021This post is written by Ariel Assaraf in his capacity as CEO at Coralogix -- a stateful streaming analytics platform that produces real-time insights and long-term trend analysis with no reliance ...
CW Developer Network
The composable stack - Veritas: Building an ephemeral-persistent balance
13 Jul 2021This is a guest post by Anthony Cusimano in his role as solutions evangelist at Veritas Technologies -- a company known for its work in cloud storage, backup & recovery services, data ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
What’s your contingency plan for when ‘online’ stops working?
Freeform Dynamics 12 Jul 2021Last week I had the misfortune to spend just over an hour and a half listening to a crackly loop of recorded announcements. They were remarkably dull, even before I’d heard them several dozen ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
UK government set to unveil next steps in digital identity market plan
Editor in chief 12 Jul 2021The next phase of the UK government’s plan to support a market of certified, interoperable digital identity providers is set to kick into gear, with digital infrastructure minister Matt Warman due ...