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Picture the scenario, you’re wandering the halls of the average technology trade show and you casually pick up a small four-port USB-C data hub and sling it into your bag without thinking too much. ...
As we know, Hewlett Packard became HP… and then, once the earth cooled, HP became HP Inc and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). While HP Inc continued to sell ink (pun intended) inside its printer ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Throwback Thursday: The business change agenda
Freeform Dynamics 10 Jun 2021It might come as a shock to some people in marketing to find that business transformation, or "business change" as I prefer to call it, is neither new nor driven solely by digital transformation ...
Apple CEO Tim Cook’s call for his employees to return to their offices at least three times a week by September has been met with a detailed response that effectively tells him, “Nah.” His initial ...
Data Matters
With the National Data Strategy, execution is everything
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 08 Jun 2021This is a guest blogpost by Peter Campbell, Data & AI practice director at Kainos The latest stage in the National Data Strategy – the Government’s response to consultation – shows the UK has a ...
In an open source originated commentary from Red Hat’s Irshad Raihan, director of product marketing, Computer Weekly Open Source Insider welcomes Raihan’s comments on the subject of computational ...
It was somewhere around a decade ago that Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst (now president at IBM as he is) used the composability term as a hook for his keynote. “I want to talk to you about the era of ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
The allure of the log-in-anywhere desktop
Freeform Dynamics 07 Jun 2021We humans are suckers for immediacy. Once we realise it is possible to not to have to wait – and that we have the power to make it happen – then to paraphrase Freddie Mercury, it’s “I want it here, ...
CW Developer Network
Panasas on data architecture - filesystem finesse in the CS Wild West
07 Jun 2021This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Curtis Anderson in his capacity as senior software architect at Panasas -- a company known for its PanFS parallel file ...
CW Developer Network
Panasas on data architecture - haystacks & hammers, choose your poison
06 Jun 2021This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Curtis Anderson in his capacity as senior software architect at Panasas -- a company known for its PanFS parallel file ...
When IT Meets Politics
Towards Joined Up Action on On-line Harms, Fraud and Cybersecurity
Winsafe Ltd 04 Jun 2021We have to join up the debate and put cybersecurity into business, economic and social context. Hence the importance of the Digital Policy Alliance and its groups.
CW Developer Network
Computational Storage - VAST Data: Practical truths for pragmatic file systems
04 Jun 2021In a number of follow-up pieces to the Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) series focusing on Computational Storage, CWDN continues the thread with some extended analysis in this space. The ...
A recent study has put a spotlight on a worrying trend in software development. Open source project maintainers are not being paid for their work. Or, if they do get paid, on average, they can ...
Had an excellent catch-up with Apstra, a company I’ve followed since day one, fascinated by its concept of “intent-based networking”. After all, my IT raison d’etre is to prove that stuff “does ...
In this edition of Tech in APAC, we'll cover some of the top headlines in the region, starting with how a transportation agency in Australia is using machine learning. At the peak of the Covid-19 ...
In a number of follow-up pieces to the Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) series focusing on Computational Storage, CWDN continues the thread with some extended analysis in this space. The ...
In this guest post, Martin Keenan, technical director at IT distributor Avnet Abacus, sets out why hydrogen fuel cells could be on course to replace diesel generators as the datacentre industry’s ...
CW Developer Network
Computational storage: University of Edinburgh - Antonio Barbalace at the CSD coalface
02 Jun 2021In a number of follow-up pieces to the Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) series focusing on Computational Storage, CWDN continues the thread with some extended analysis in this space. The ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
An opportunity to redesign computer architectures
Managing Editor 01 Jun 2021Over the last 70 years business computers have evolved a standard model of computing based around a central processing unit (CPU), main memory (RAM) and data storage. In effect, data is fetched ...
Software runs on data and data is often regarded as the new oil. So it makes sense to put data as close to where it is being processed as possible, in order to reduce latency for performance-hungry ...
Software runs on data and data is often regarded as the new oil. So it makes sense to put data as close to where it is being processed as possible, in order to reduce latency for performance-hungry ...
Data Matters
How graph technology is helping enterprises to harness the complex skill sets of employees
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 27 May 2021This is a guest blogpost by Amy Holder from Neo4j. She examines recent interest in graph databases as the basis for the next wave of human capital management technology. For global HR influencer ...
CW Developer Network
Computational storage: Pure Storage - Segment, sandbox, stream & shape for storage supremacy
27 May 2021Software runs on data and data is often regarded as the new oil. So it makes sense to put data as close to where it is being processed as possible, in order to reduce latency for performance-hungry ...
CW Developer Network
Computational storage series: Prizsm - The conventional-quantum chasm & stifling standardisation
26 May 2021Software runs on data and data is often regarded as the new oil. So it makes sense to put data as close to where it is being processed as possible, in order to reduce latency for performance-hungry ...
The presumption of the machine functioning properly in practice, means that the prosecution can rely on the presumption that a computer was operating reliably at all material times. It needs to be ...
CW Developer Network
Computational storage series: Prizsm - Data disaggregation & ‘likable’ latency
25 May 2021Software runs on data and data is often regarded as the new oil. So it makes sense to put data as close to where it is being processed as possible, in order to reduce latency for performance-hungry ...
Connect, unify & predict. You can almost smell the cellophane wrapping on the technology conference T-shirts as every vendor worth its salt emblazons its give-aways with phases like this. ...
CW Developer Network
Computational storage series: Evaluator Group - Speculations, expectations & extrapolations
24 May 2021Software runs on data and data is often regarded as the new oil. So it makes sense to put data as close to where it is being processed as possible, in order to reduce latency for performance-hungry ...
Data Matters
Where is the strategy in the National Data Strategy?
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 21 May 2021Who is the presiding genius behind the National Data Strategy? Who is its architect? What are its goals? And what will it have achieved in five years’ time? That the government has responded to the ...
Eyes on APAC
Data ‘observability’ key in keeping pace with software evolution
TechTarget 21 May 2021With software moving to cloud architectures and no longer monolithic, organisations will need to establish intelligent “observability” so they can make better decisions. This is essential to cut ...
Those who are into high-end PC games are generally well-versed in the significance of GPU acceleration. So called AAA games often need the most powerful GPUs available to achieve the best ...
CW Developer Network
Computational storage series: Model9 - The cloud + computational storage sweet spot
20 May 2021Software runs on data and data is often regarded as the new oil. So it makes sense to put data as close to where it is being processed as possible, in order to reduce latency for performance-hungry ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Throwback Thursday: Even data fragmentation has gone virtual
Freeform Dynamics 20 May 2021If there’s one thing that our report Storage Anywhere and Everywhere from eight years ago reminds us, it’s that the risks of uncontrolled data growth are nothing new. As our contribution to the bit ...
CW Developer Network
The abstraction maelstrom: inside the vortex of real cloud planning
20 May 2021This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Dick Morrell, who tweets at @ThatPodcastChap and describes himself as a father, podcaster, a Linux veteran and open source ...
The economy is slowly opening up. Red is red. Green is green and as for amber...that’s red, at least as far as the latest government travel guidance is concerned. Data is going to be absolutely ...
For much of IT history, your options for acquiring IT solutions were pretty limited. It was a choice between a one-off capital charge, combined with annual maintenance fees, and a three year lease ...
When IT Meets Politics
From Talk to Action - Joining up Cyber, Resilience, Fraud and On-line Safety Skills.
Winsafe Ltd 18 May 2021The current pipeline supplies less than half the demand. Most of that demand is not for full-time professionals with technical skills. It is for those with the people skills to manage business risk ...
Software application developers need to know what eBonding is. It could be some form of epoxy resin-based adhesive (that has its own app) to track tackiness and stickiness for those really ...
London-originated but Boston-headquartered cloud native application security company Snyk has acquired FossID, a software composition analysis tool that scans code for open source licenses and ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Of cats and clouds: a lifetime TCO question
Freeform Dynamics 13 May 2021For better or worse, we are a cat household. Various moggies have come and gone over the years. These have mainly originated from shelters or people trying to offload excess kittens arising from ...
Every company wants to be more than a specialist niche technology focus these days i.e. hyperconvegence specialists now want to be known as platform and software suite-level companies, Enterprise ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
A desktop strategy for post pandemic return to work
Managing Editor 11 May 2021Most surveys Computer Weekly receive on remote working during the pandemic assume everyone will be running an office laptop at home. Crouching over a laptop on the kitchen table, or sitting on a ...
Software runs on data and data is often regarded as the new oil. So it makes sense to put data as close to where it is being processed as possible, in order to reduce latency for performance-hungry ...
CW Developer Network
OutSystems: Leapfrog the backlog slog with cloud accelerators for AWS
10 May 2021Cloud is complicated. Yes, cloud computing is generally agreed to be a route to providing compute, storage, analytics and an increasing amount of AI-engine power supplied as-a-Service, plus it ...
Open source database company Percona has said that the pandemic has accelerated database workloads moving to the cloud, but - with this movement - companies are also finding that costs rise… and, ...
When IT Meets Politics
One size does not fit all - current cyber security practice as revealed by the DCMS Breaches Survey
Winsafe Ltd 07 May 2021The report is an excellent snapshot but it also illustrates why most business leaders (large or small) find it so hard to take cyber security seriously until it is put into the context of their own ...
Let’s be honest, the Inspect-a-Gadget elves have huge ears, it’s what makes us elves… but that doesn’t stop us from testing out human earphones, earbuds and (for that matter) earrings are ear ...
Splunk’s new Observability Cloud has launched this month, at a time when observability has become one of the hot/darling/killer (choose your own hype label) terms circulating across the technology ...
This is a guest blogpost by Triveni Gandhi, Senior Data Scientist, Dataiku We like to think of data and numbers as indisputable, but the reality is that every piece of information is a product of ...
CW Developer Network
TIBCO’s new grammar (infra)structure: I iPaaS, You iPaaS, He/She iPaaS, They iPaaS
06 May 2021There are precious few IT trade show and conferences as we stand in the late Spring of 2021, so - as a consequence - there are precious few IT trade show T-shirts to be snaffled. If data ...