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The term “paradigm shift” gets flung about far too much in IT, but we may be at one of those few times that genuinely deserves it. For decades now, specialised hardware devices have been losing ...

Covid has shaken the global economy over the past two years in ways it is hard, if not impossible, to grasp – at least while we are still in the thick of it. Adam Tooze’s book Shutdown: how Covid ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) continues its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, how ...

This is a guest post by David R. Hardoon, managing director of Aboitiz Data Innovation    If anything, the past few years have shown that artificial intelligence (AI) is more than just a buzzword. ...

This is a guest blogpost by James Petter, VP International at Pure Storage. How many of us have grown up learning the fable about the three little pigs? Or before then, the three wise men? The ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) continues its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, how ...

This is a guest blogpost by Mat Rule, CEO & Founder of Toca Current approaches to digital transformation are falling short. In fact, only 16% of executives say their company’s digital ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) continues its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, how ...

Education for one career for life is now the exception not the norm for most school-leavers and graduates. The current workforce is on a treadmill of change. This is accelerating faster than most ...

If you’re at all curious about what comes next in enterprise storage devices, you need to know about EDSFF, the Enterprise and Data Centre SSD Form Factor – better known as the “ruler” format. ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) now starts its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) now starts its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, ...

Quocirca's Print Industry Trends for 2022 identifies opportunities for print and digital transformation in the hybrid work era.

The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) now starts its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) now starts its Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) series of technical analysis discussions to uncover what this layer of the global IT fabric really means, ...

To be caught out once may be an oversight, and lessons can be learned. But twice over a seven year timespan, shows a laissez faire attitude to the stability of the internet. In 2014, Heartbleed ...

The open source immudb (immutable database, get it?) tamper-proof database can now serve as the main transactional database for enterprisesm due to its recent bolstering in terms of full ...

Matt Baker once asked David Cameron, “How on earth do you sleep at night?” But for Matt Hancock, a big cup of Horlicks usually sees him spark out by eight o’clock. By nine, he’s stumbling into his ...

As John Lennon and Yoko Ono didn't quite sing, "Give POC a chance!" If you’re one of the many SAP users who’s yet to migrate to S/4HANA, we understand your hesitation. It’s potentially a big ...

This is a guest blogpost by Emil Eifrem, co-founder and CEO at Neo4j. He writes on why he thinks graph technology is emerging as a powerful way to make AI a reality for the enterprise. According to ...

GitHub has unveiled a technology preview. This time, the update is focused on making improvements to searching code on the platform itself. In the shadow of enterprise search now growing to become ...

Last month IBM introduced the next machine on its quantum computing roadmap. Among the significant implications of larger quantum machines is that it will soon be no longer possible to simulate the ...

AWS kept crowd-favourite CTO Dr Werner Vogels’ keynote to the closing day of re:Invent 2021. Wogels took the stage after a personalised ‘Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas’ style video intro. ...

Developers build applications. Developers also build web, embedded, server-side and deeper system-level code streams that all rank as applications. Also, for now, developers build cloud ...

This is a guest post by Graham Pearson, vice-president and general manager for ANZ at Lacework Australians will spend approximately $5.6bn on cyber security alone this year, according to AustCyber, ...

Cloud data backup and recovery as-a-service (Ed: is that DBRaaS?) company Hycu has joined the AWS 2021 partner news throng by announcing a preview of its Protégé for Amazon Web Services (AWS) ...

Seventy years ago Lyons & Co ran the world’s first business computer program, marking the start of business automation. This is a theme of computing that is still very relevant today. The first ...

Covid has already precipitated the biggest challenge to UK education structures since the dissolution of the monasteries and chantries led to the creation of the grammar schools which educated ...

AWS re:Invent 2021 is big… but actually it’s not, this event has about a third of its normal number of attendees with somewhere around 20,000 people on-site, which (in the continuing Covid-19 era) ...

As AWS re:Invent 2021 swings into gear, we’re looking for software application development. More specifically, we’re looking for cloud software application development… and even more specifically ...

An AWS re:Invent partner appearance is a challenge. On the one hand, it’s fantastic exposure at one of the biggest IT events of the annual convention calendar, it’s a chance to be seen among some ...

As someone who first encountered ransomware during the last millennium – thankfully at second-hand – and has been writing about it for almost as long, I sometimes find myself amazed by the high ...

Several years ago, around the time that ransomware attacks started making the front pages of mainstream newspapers, not just in the IT press, I took part in a number of webcasts on the topic. The ...

Computer Weekly recently reported on open source championing not-for-profit OpenUK puts forward plan to reduce the environmental impact of datacentres, with an emphasis on encouraging site and ...

In the Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) model of technology creation, definition and management, there are no cables, wires, widgets and connection plugs. It is sometimes referred to as programmable or ...

Earlier this week the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee took evidence from two experts, who were asked to share their thoughts on regulating artificial intelligence (AI). Among ...

In this guest post, Ryan Oakes, managing director of Accenture’s global public sector practice, on how the pandemic has influenced the pace and shape of public sector cloud adoption. Looking back ...

The current state and progression point of enterprise software has changed the business models of countless industries from banking and food delivery to taxi services. In response, the UK has ...

This is a guest blogpost by Peter Jackson, Chief Data and Analytics Officer at Exasol. The growing mainstream appreciation for quality data and its resulting insights has made the Chief Data ...

People talk a lot about cloud. These days, we’re seeing the discussion move onwards to talk about so-called modern cloud in the form of modern cloud software application development platforms, ...

Branding can be a dangerous thing; name conventions do not always translate. There’s a whole list of these from Bimbo bread to the reason that the Vauxhall Nova (no go) doesn’t work in Spanish… and ...

At Sumo Logic, intelligence is on a continuum… hence the firm’s use of  continuous intelligence as its branding tag of choice. Keen to still push out augmentations and enhancements to its platform ...

Singapore’s National University Hospital (NUH) and Johnson & Johnson (J&J) have jointly opened a 3D printing lab to produce personalised anatomical models for preoperative planning and ...

All this informed my MSc IT Security final dissertation entitled ‘Inclusion, Confusion and Exclusion – is technology making the Vulnerable more Vulnerable?’ I looked at Social, Financial and ...

If there is a central message emanating from this year’s Qualys Security Conference (QSC) in Las Vegas, it is the company’s mission to provide exhaustive tooling designed to shift left in order to ...

In an article for The Guardian newspaper, Ana Catarina Mendes, the parliamentary leader of the Portuguese Socialist party, discussed the “the right to switch off”. As a result of the campaign run ...

Qualys, Inc. staged its QSC 2021 conference in Las Vegas from November 15 to 18 and the Computer Weekly Developer Network was tuned in from the 'get-go' to listen to what the cloud-based IT, ...

The metaverse promises to create an immersive, interactive and shared digital world that brings together mixed reality – augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) – along with 3D holographic ...

Everybody in tech loves an acronym, so let’s have DS OSS GA gRPC API 4 Astra DB. While that’s not actually a term, that set of letters denotes DataStax’s open source software general availability ...

There is no standard classification or even some form of de facto nomenclature system that ranks software tools into an agreed tier system of standard/regular, mid-market intermediate and onward to ...