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This is a guest blogpost by Paul O’Sullivan, SVP Solution Engineering and Salesforce UKI CTO. Artificial Intelligence has undergone an extraordinary evolution — from predicting trends and ...

The world of your childs smart phone combines the thrills and spills of the circus, fairground, playground, wild west and forest sauvage . It can be a very scary place without you to hold their hand.  

One of my classic mantras of the past, ooh er, 30+ years has been “throwing bandwidth at a problem doesn’t solve the problem”. So, you would think all those decades later that the penny had dropped ...

There are language models and there are language models.  While, at the time of writing at least, there is little talk of medium language models (Ed: give it a month, it’s bound to happen) we ...

Despite fine words the needs of employers and student appear set to come third, behind the requirements of funding and regulatory hierarchies dating back to 1917 and of the Mayoral Combined ...

It’s been a while - hey, there was a pandemic, right - but the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog is getting ready for SUSECON 2025. Since we last made it to SUSECON 2020, quite a bit has ...

Building on a 113-year legacy, Sharp Europe is transforming itself into a leading European IT services provider. Strategic acquisitions are playing a key role in this growth which has enabled the ...

Consider the office laptop. It certainly may be used in the office, where its owner, a company employee, requires the best user experience for accessing the software needed to do their work when in ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Anand Kannappan, CEO and founder of model adversarial testing platform Patronus AI. Kannappan writes in full as follows... ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Jody Bailey, chief product and technology officer at Stack Overflow. Bailey writes in full as follows… The demand for data ...

Santa was good to me this year, I got an Amazfit T-Rex 3 and it was a gift worth waiting for. It’s taken me a while to write this up (I know the yuletide season has passed), but it takes a while to ...

It’s rare that a digital government development attracts interest from mainstream media, but last month’s announcement of a digital driving licence brought widespread national coverage and a mass ...

Enterprise-grade open source database software and services company Percona has announced the availability of Percona Support for Valkey - a, responsive service offering that promises to maintain ...

As part of the Computer Weekly Developer Network series on data engineering, we have reshaped our story headline format on this occasion. To put real-time data streaming platform company in the ...

This is a guest blogpost by Chintan Patel, CTO, Cisco UK and Ireland. Each year brings the promise of technological advancements that push the boundaries of possibility. As we begin 2025, it’s ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Persona CTO, Charles Yeh. Persona is known for its platform technology designed to provide identity verification, allowing ...

As a grown adult, you really shouldn’t get excited about a hard disk, but I managed to get my hands on a unit that could be the answer to my needs.  To be clear, I need to work across about five ...

The largely held belief that Nasa spent millions developing a space pen that could write in zero gravity, while cosmonauts just used a pencil, is a myth. But there are plenty of examples in recent ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Jarrod Vawdrey, field chief data scientist at Domino Data Lab. Vawdrey writes in full as follows... In 2023, data ...

The finalists for the 2025 Bupa Everywoman in Technology Awards have been announced prior to the awards ceremony in March. This year is the 15th year the women’s professional network has run its ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Wim Stoop, senior director of product marketing at Cloudera. Styled as the ‘hybrid data company’, Cloudera is known for its ...

Looking back at the 1980s, one of the hot items that everyone seemed to want was the Filofax. This glorified leather diary was regarded as the must-have accessory for busy people, or those who ...

Qdrant is a high-performance open source vector database company/ The firm this month introduced its platform-independent GPU-accelerated vector indexing feature. This service is said to delivers ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Josh Goldenberg in his role as VP of product at Pryon. Pryon is known for its technology that enables government agencies ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Alan Jacobson in his role as chief data & analytics officer at Alteryx. Bata engineering is a crucial aspect of a ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by James Sturrock, in his capacity as director of systems engineering for the UK & I region at Nutanix. Nutanix is of ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Gordon Robinson in his capacity as senior director of data management at SAS. Robinson writes in full as follows… Over the ...

This is a guest blogpost by John Bates, CEO of SER Group, a European-based enterprise content management vendor. User interfaces have come a long way from the days of green screens — but the way we ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Dom Couldwell, head of field engineering for EMEA at DataStax. Couldwell writes in full as follows… In certain circles - ...

Could 2025 be the year of quantum? Can we think about the next 12-months as a period of solid progression and (not just innovation, but also…) actual tangible developments in quantum computing such ...

The Labour government appears to be taking every opportunity to emphasise that it has a plan for growth. This is set against the backdrop of the inauguration of Donald Trump as US president and the ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Bennie Grant in his role as chief operating officer at Percona. Grant writes in full as follows… The phrase “measure twice, ...

With the launch of its AI Opportunities Action Plan, few people can complain that the UK government is not taking the potential of artificial intelligence seriously. With 50 recommendations in the ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Justin Pront, senior director of Product at TetraScience. TetraScience is known for its Tetra Scientific Data and AI Cloud ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Nikhil Cheerla in his role as co-founder & CTO of Nooks, a company that specialises in the creation of an AI sales ...

News in the international media lately seems strangely dominated by a new phenomenon – more stories are being written about technologists, than technologies. With the impending inauguration of ...

GUEST BLOG: In this contributed post, Sarah-Jayne van Greune, chief operating officer at Payen & ILIXIUM, explains how businesses should be going straight to the source to encourage young, ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Vikram Koka, chief strategy officer at Astronomer. Astronomer is the commercial developer of Apache Airflow, a ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Daniel Meyer, CTO at Camunda. Camunda is known for its open source platform that automates business processes by helping ...

When I worked for JD Edwards, then SAP, back in the late 90's, I firmly believed that it was always good practice for customers to stay current with their ERP software. Like all good employees, I ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weeklyu Developer Network written by Jesse Anderson in his role as managing director of the Big Data Institute. In his current position, Anderson mentors ...

In this guest post, Jim Cassens, CEO of DevOps automation tools provider Perforce, sets out how DevOps can help enterprises get to grips with their increasingly complex IT infrastructure estates ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Iccha Sethi in her role as VP of engineering at Vanta. Vanta is known for its trust management platform that helps ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Cei Sanderson in his role as vice president of product at Bango. Bango has developed purchase behavior technology that ...

Neighbours by chance, working together by choice: the relaunch of Neighbourhood Watch in Lambeth. Approximately 6% of the 20 million households in England and Wales are signed up to Neighbourhood ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Subbiah Sundaram, senior vice president of products at data protection platform company HYCU, Inc. Subbiah spearheads ...

If 2023 was the year when generative AI burst onto the scene, 2024 has been one of experimentation and reality-checking. And nowhere is this more evident than in how UK CIOs have been responding to ...

In 2025, the print industry will be shaped by ongoing vendor consolidation, declining print volumes, and changing customer demands. Quocirca expects to see new entrants and diversification from ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Bogdan Raduta in his role as head of research for FlowX.ai, a company that specialises in the creation of a developer ...

The news that Google researchers have demonstrated quantum technology that can scale exponentially, without incurring massive error overheads, is seen by many as a breakthrough in this emerging ...