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Algorithms 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 ...

This 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, ...

The 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 ...

It 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 ...

Rolling 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 ...

The 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 ...

Composable 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 ...

This 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 ...

This 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 ...

This 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 ...

Even 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 ...

This 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 ...

This 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 ...

This 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. ...

The 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 ...

The 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 ...

This 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 ...

How 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’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 ...

This 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 ...

This 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 ...

This 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 ...

Last 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 ...

The 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 ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Daniel Warner in his capacity as CEO and co-founder of LGN -- a company known as a developer of artificial perception ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Adam Dossa in his role as chief technology officer at Polymath -- the company is known for its technology that provides a ...

There’s that strange moment when you walk into an enterprise technology ‘show floor’ after the breakfast, keynotes, handshakes (hand sanitiser application) and the point where you grab a free ...

The Hacker Forum is one of the most welcoming, friendly and attractive "support" group for those stuck in their bedrooms, isolated from friends and school during lockdown and bored with home-learning.

MPS providers must build expertise to address the zero-trust requirements of their customers. This means offering and implementing a multi-layered security proposition to protect printing across ...

The whole WFH/ WFA (Work From Home/Anywhere) initiative that was somewhat enforced on the world’s working population as a result of the “P” word, has largely been well received, but a new survey ...

This is a guest blogpost by James Petter, VP International, Pure Storage. All eyes at this year’s UEFA European Football Championship have been on the performances of the players and managers. The ...

This is a guest piece written for the Computer Weekly Developer Network by Bruce Orcutt in his role as senior vice president of Product Marketing at ABBYY -- a company known for its foundations in ...

The past week has seen many businesses complaining that the NHS Covid-19 contact tracing app has started sending out too many self-isolate alerts, leaving them short of staff.  It’s the new jury ...

The fundamentals of data storage are undergoing a significant evolution, and many – if not most – IT administrators won’t even have noticed yet.  Called zoned storage, it’s a shift away from host ...

This is a guest blogpost by Libby Duane Adams, chief advocacy officer at Alteryx. In today’s business environment, data is key to success. With over 2.5 quintillion bytes of data created each day, ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Patrick McFadin, in his role as vice president for developer relations at DataStax. McFadin’s original title for this piece ...