Recent Blog Posts
This year, AWS will talk about AI. Like every other vendor on the planet, AWS will of course be explaining how the existing world of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) - and ...
Depending on who you talk to, Rishi Sunak's much-hyped AI Safety Summit was an act of extreme hubris by the UK government, a wasted opportunity, or a historic milestone in the development of ...
Kubecost is a company that specialises in monitoring and optimising Kubernetes spend. That’s FinOps K8s management, but at scale. The organisation has now added cloud cost support to the open ...
Atlassian is known for its DevOps, IT Service Management and work management software. Companies use Atlassian’s Jira Service Management to deliver and scale services and support. The company ...
Data management matters, whether the process involved with locking down its existence are executed in the permafrost (on-premises) or in the frozen mists of the troposphere (cloud) as they circle ...
Open Source Insider
DataStax LangChain integration builds new link to gen-AI for developers
31 Oct 2023The open source Apache Cassandra database of course has given rise to DataStax, the company known for commercially supported services related to the database itself. Now describing itself as the ...
Traditionally, developers are been forced to use different solutions when building for the cloud and edge. Lightbend thinks it can change that standard. The company says its Akka service delivers ...
Data lake analytics platform company Starburst has extended support for Python with PyStarburst and announced a new integration with the open source Python library Ibis, built in collaboration with ...
The Computer Weekly Developer Network team found itself in Bulgaria this week, but why so? With a track record in exemplary mathematics scholars and scientists (Bulgarian mathematicians has its own ...
Progress hosted its DevReach 2023 developer conference programme in Sofia, Bulgaria this month. This event aimed to show off the company’s platform and also showcase key technology partners, who ...
Implementing secure print solutions is an easy way to ensure neither network data nor printed documents fall into the wrong hands. RFID readers and mobile authentication technology solutions help ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Henrik Plate in his capacity as a security researcher at Endor Labs - a company known for its approach to ‘reachability ...
This is a guest post by Krishna Kumar, founder and CEO of Cropin In an era where technological advancements have revolutionised various industries, it is disheartening to witness the persistence of ...
Cilium is a software project. It is also the name of a membrane-bound organelle found on most types of eukaryotic cell, although cilia are absent in bacteria - thank you Wikipedia. The name was ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Where is our National AI strategy heading?
Managing Editor 19 Oct 2023The recent House of Lords Communications Committee expert witness session revealed a somewhat bizarre situation in government relating to our National AI Strategy. By her own admission, Dame Wendy ...
Data scientists loves vector databases, this year more than ever. Why is this so? Because vector databases have the ability to detect and identify relationships in data, so their usage has become ...
The OpenJS Foundation is getting its party hat on - Node.js 21 has arrived. Node.js an asynchronous event-driven JavaScript runtime designed to build scalable network applications. As detailed on ...
Data Matters
Generative AI, one year later: moving beyond the hype
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 16 Oct 2023This is guest blog post by, James Fisher, Chief Strategy Officer, Qlik Almost one year ago, ChatGPT exploded on the scene and quickly took AI mainstream. Since then, an endless number of articles ...
It’s always good to speak to real software engineers inside the actual organisations that they work within; as such, getting away from the formalised staged sessions that make up the annual ...
Ahead in the Clouds
Ofcom cloud report: Where the CMA should focus its probe into AWS and Microsoft
12 Oct 2023In this guest post, Owen Sayers, an enterprise security architect with Secon Solutions, who has 25 years’ experience working within the UK's internet security framework, sets out the areas where he ...
UiPath has announced a new Integration Service Connector (ISC) designed to give users access to Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed service that provides access to foundation models (FMs) via an API to ...
Virtualised cloud services need sharp teeth. That may be why Bobcat is called Bobcat, or there may be some other unknown rationale. The OpenStack community has this month announced the release of ...
Ahead in the Clouds
Six essential skills for system administrators and Infrastructure as Code pros
06 Oct 2023In this guest post, Thomas Chisholm, principal training solutions engineer at Puppet by Perforce, details the six essential skills that Infrastructure-as-Code professionals need in 2023 In the ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Can steel fences halt the march of cyber?
Freeform Dynamics 05 Oct 2023Cyber: for some, it’s a prefix that conjures up images of Dr Who’s silvery cyborg opponents. For others, it’s the equally science-fiction but very different image of Neuromancer-style cyberpunk ...
It’s always important to define the level at which an enterprise software vendor operates. While some tech companies offer a service, some offer a suite, others specialise in an application (or set ...
Data Matters
Transforming industries with an AI-enabled data supply chain
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 04 Oct 2023This is a guest blogpost by Vaibhav Vohra, Chief Product and Technology Officer at ERP provider Epicor Essential industries are going through a period of radical transformation, as businesses that ...
Data Matters
How should your SAP strategy evolve in line with SAP’s evolution?
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 04 Oct 2023This is a guest blogpost by Luiz Mariotto, group vice president, SAP Product Management, Rimini Street. In it he suggests three questions IT leaders should ask about their SAP roadmaps to help ...
The Computer Weekly Developer Network team is off (virtually) to HashiConf Global. While our presence may be abstracted via cyberspace, the event is also of course staged in person between 10-12 ...
CW Developer Network
Workday Rising 2023: The rise (and proliferation) of AI in workplace software
28 Sep 2023Workday staged the US leg of its annual user and partner conference series this September in San Francisco and the Computer Weekly Developer Network team was there to slot in its puncard and report ...
When Larry Ellison gave his keynote speech at Oracle Cloud World in Las Vegas last week, it would not have been shocking if he had expressed some scepticism about the hype generated by Generative ...
Confluent hosted day two of Current 2023 ‘next generation of Kafka Summit’ in San Jose, California this week. The Computer Weekly Open Source Insider team were in residence and ready to download - ...
Confluent welcomed a group of its key partners to Current 2023 in San Jose this September. With names including AWS, RedHat, IBM, Google Cloud and Microsoft, other sponsors spanned from Redpanda ...
Open Source Insider
Confluent Current 2023: A journey around the data streaming universe
26 Sep 2023Data streaming company staged the Current 2023 conference and exhibition this month in the heart of Silicon Valley in San Jose. Keen to explain how its platform has expanded its core ...
This is a guest post by Accenture's Arnab Chakraborty, global lead of responsible AI, and Senthil Ramani, head of data and AI The far-reaching capabilities of generative AI have shown AI’s first ...
One day, all-powerful quantum computers will be used by rogue states and powerful crime syndicates to render all secure communications on the internet obsolete. Governments and major organisations ...
The Linux Foundation has made note of its Camara (stylised as CAMARA officially) project now having graduated to a funded model. The news was shared onsite during the opening keynote at Open Source ...
Open Source Insider
Cross-architecture unification: Linux Foundation forms Unified Acceleration (UXL) Foundation
20 Sep 2023As part of the Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit 2023, the foundation has announced the formation of the Unified Acceleration (UXL) Foundation. This is a cross-industry group committed to ...
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has conducted a survey (the team modestly called it a microsurvey of just 135 contributors, but size is not important and small is beautiful, right?) to ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
A straightforward look at SAP master data automation
Freeform Dynamics 15 Sep 2023If you're knee-deep in the world of SAP and data management, you almost certainly know the pain of dirty data. It's inaccurate, inconsistent, and a real headache when you're trying to make ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
US Congress meeting paves way to responsible AI
Managing Editor 14 Sep 2023The US Congress has invited tech industry leaders to the US’ first AI Insight forum. In a tweet discussing the event, which he attended, Bill Gates said: “The potential of AI is limitless—but we ...
CW Developer Network
SaaS series - PagerDuty: Gen AI & automation imperatives shaping cloud connectivity
14 Sep 2023This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Manu Raj in his capacity as senior director for enterprise data, analytics & AI/data science at PagerDuty. Pager Duty ...
CW Developer Network
Hackajob CEO: Why soft skills matter for an enhanced developer experience
13 Sep 2023This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Mark Chaffey, CEO of hackajob - a tech careers marketplace that aims to put power back in the hands of those working in ...
When IT Meets Politics
Is it time for ICO to implement the 2016 Cybersecurity Select Committee recommendations?
Winsafe Ltd 13 Sep 2023turn the corporate priority from data breach notification to enabling staff and customers to report attempts at impersonation, whether or not there is evidence of an actual breach. Such a change ...
CW Developer Network
SaaS series - Cohesity: A tour de force of cloud connectivity communiqués
13 Sep 2023This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Jean-Baptiste Grandvallet, EMEA SE manager for strategic accounts at Cohesity. Grandvallet writes in full as follows... ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Christian Helmus in his capacity as product manager for cloud services at GTT - a company known for its managed network and ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by James Sturrock in his role as director of systems engineering at Nutanix. Sturrock writes in full as follows… In the modern ...
In this guest post, Danny Quinn, managing director of datacentre services provider DataVita, assesses the environmental impact of artificial intelligence from a server farm perspective The ...
Civo used the Europe leg of its Navigate user conference series to showcase a number of announcements and platform developments. CEO and serial entrepreneur Mark Boost took the stage in London’s ...
This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Alex Merced in his capacity as developer advocate (and data lakehouse evangelist) at Dremio - as explained here the Dremio ...
Data Matters
The companies set to win using LLMs are the responsible ones
Senior Analyst, Business Applications 01 Sep 2023This is a guest blogpost by Triveni Gandhi, Responsible AI Lead, Dataiku Large Language Models (LLMs) including ChatGPT have seemingly moved from hype, to hot seat, to hazard. In the midst of the ...