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This is one of those products that may not immediately make sense. After all, our Apple AirPods come in such a cute little case that snaps shut with a firm metallic zip, why would we need to put a ...
CW Developer Network
Modern development - Thundra: The current (and future) state of serverless
08 Jul 2020This Computer Weekly Developer Network series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development. As we have initially ...
Data Matters
Achieving supply chain resiliency: how to adapt to long-term global disruption
Enterprise Applications Editor 07 Jul 2020This is a guest blogpost by Mark Morley, Director, Strategic Product Marketing, OpenText Disruption to global supply chains, particularly in the manufacturing sector, has taken many different forms ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
The pandemic productivity conundrum
Freeform Dynamics 07 Jul 2020“I’ve never been more productive!” With so many people getting their first experience of working from home, it's a sentiment that we're hearing more than ever. The speaker often credits the ability ...
CW Developer Network
Modern development - Couchbase: Developing 'builds' in the new normal
07 Jul 2020This Computer Weekly Developer Network series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development. As we have initially ...
CW Developer Network
Modern development - Indorse: Building higher-performing engineering teams
07 Jul 2020This Computer Weekly Developer Network series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development. As we have initially ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
It’s time to party! Yet another government digital identity scheme is on the way
Editor in chief 06 Jul 2020On 14 March 2021, we will mark the tenth anniversary of the official approval for the development of a single government-wide digital identity system. Save the date in your diaries. Intended to ...
This Computer Weekly Developer Network series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development. As we have initially ...
Those things are ridiculous. Robot vacuums look like they are far more trouble than they’re worth. I’ll end up tripping over it. These things are for people who just want the latest gadget that ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
GDS 'under duress' - is there a row going on down near Whitechapel?
Editor in chief 03 Jul 2020The Government Digital Service (GDS) has taken its fair share of criticism in recent years – including from Computer Weekly - and much of it justified. But there’s little doubt the team at GDS HQ ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Remote working works - and can herald a post-pandemic social revolution
Editor in chief 03 Jul 2020Amid all the uncertainty and fear of the coronavirus pandemic, within the tech world surely one longstanding myth has been dismissed forever – the idea that remote working and employee productivity ...
This Computer Weekly Developer Network series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development. As we have initially ...
CW Developer Network
Modern development - ASG Technologies: A new generation of (microservices) encapsulation
02 Jul 2020This Computer Weekly Developer Network series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development. As we have initially ...
Eyes on APAC
Keeping organisations in Singapore running during Covid-19
Informa TechTarget 01 Jul 2020The following post is sponsored by Amazon Web Services The onset of Covid-19 and mandatory lockdowns across the globe left organisations with limited time to react. Businesses had to keep ...
Ahead in the Clouds
Cloud staging: A strategy for desktop transformation
Senior Editor, UK 01 Jul 2020In this guest post, Jason E. Smith, vice president of products and solutions at virtual desktop provider Liquidware, makes the case for why enterprises need to embrace cloud staging to make their ...
As the Stop Hate for Profit campaign inspires over 150 major companies and counting to pull their advertising from Facebook, its appeaser-in-chief has slid open his webcam cover and got back to ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Watch out for the mental shocks of ending Covid-19 lockdown
Freeform Dynamics 30 Jun 2020It’s easy to predict many of the pains that are going to hit business as the UK attempts to follow its neighbours in re-opening from lockdown. Businesses face a new and awkward world where social ...
The world runs on data, no news there. The world runs on connected, often unstructured, complex to wrangle, tough to clean, classify and log, hard to lock down and troublesome to monitor data… ...
Open Source Insider
Modern development - GitLab: What is not modern (in software development)
26 Jun 2020This Computer Weekly Developer Network series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development. As we have initially ...
CW Developer Network
Modern development - Cohesity: Defining a new rhythm for the paroxysms of data schism
26 Jun 2020This Computer Weekly Developer Network series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development. As we have initially ...
What’s better than a machine learning platform? Answer: an en-to-end machine learning platform, obviously. What’s better than an end-to-end machine learning platform? Answer: an open source ...
As promised in the previous blog, given the seeming importance of SASE, here’s more definition in terms of what briefings with Cato Networks revealed. If we look at the key areas where SASE and ...
CW Developer Network
Modern development - SUSE CTO: This is not a test, this is real testing
25 Jun 2020This Computer Weekly Developer Network series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development. As we have initially ...
A bunch of olfactory obsessives have blasted through their Kickstarter campaign target to start making bottles of fragrance purported to smell like space. Just as Robin Williams once lorded it over ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Tech CEOs call for global action against racism
Managing Editor 24 Jun 2020As the IT conference season heads into peak season, the CEOs of the top tech firms have used these large global gatherings as a platform to speak out on racism. In his keynote kicking off the HPE ...
Eyes on APAC
Of nation state threat actors, Sapphire and politics in telecoms
Informa TechTarget 24 Jun 2020Nation state threat actors, Sapphire and telecoms politics have little in common, yet those are the developments that we've been covering over the past few weeks. For those of you who have missed ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Jumping the hurdles to post-pandemic AI automation
Freeform Dynamics 24 Jun 2020In the post-pandemic, post-Brexit world, businesses of all sorts face a range of new challenges – and many will be wondering if AI-based automation could help them win through. From adding more ...
CW Developer Network
Modern development - OutSystems: Low-code’s role on the software evolution curve
22 Jun 2020This Computer Weekly Developer Network series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development. As we have initially ...
This is a guest blogpost by Matt Jones, Lead Analytics Strategist at Tessella. From drug design to supply chains, predictive algorithms built using yesterday’s data no longer work in our strange ...
CW Developer Network
Modern development - GigaOm: The new agility-structure-control balance in DevOps
21 Jun 2020This series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development. As we have initially discussed here, with so many new ...
CW Developer Network
Modern development - Progress: the art (and science) of modern software
19 Jun 2020This series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development. As we have initially discussed here, with so many new ...
CW Developer Network
Modern development - Abbyy: go low (code), go open (source) & go forward
19 Jun 2020This series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development. As we have initially discussed here, with so many new ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Why not collaborate on an international contact-tracing app? (Well, we know why the UK won't...)
Editor in chief 18 Jun 2020To the surprise of nobody, the government has reversed its plans for the NHS contact-tracing app, switching from its initial centralised model to the decentralised version supported by Google and ...
CW Developer Network
Modern development - Sumo Logic: atomized applications demand upfront observability
18 Jun 2020This series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development. As we have initially discussed here, with so many new ...
“NHS” is the UK’s most trusted brand. Until recently it was one of the least protected/secure. There have been significant improvements but, as a result of Covid, impersonating the NHS now comes ...
CW Developer Network
Modern development - Contentful: The joy of programmatic stacked eXperiences
17 Jun 2020This series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development. As we have initially discussed here, with so many new ...
Open source at the core, but not yet open in the public sense… arguably the tech industry’s most prominent enterprise Apache Cassandra company DataStax has been cooking it up over the Covid-19 ...
This series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development. As we have initially discussed here, with so many new ...
For all the impacts the likes of COVID-19 and technological advance have on IT, there are two immovable staples that we can rely on: Gartner to keep on introducing new acronyms to create new magic ...
In this week's Ask the Expert segment, Romain Bottier, senior solutions architect for high performance computing and artificial intelligence (AI) at Dell Technologies South Asia, advises ...
CW Developer Network
Modern development - BrightMinded: A new era for continuous testing
16 Jun 2020This series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development. As we have initially discussed here, with so many new ...
Snyk (pronounced ‘snick’ or ‘sneak’) was founded in the Holy Land (Tel-Aviv), but now has offices in London and North America. The company was formed in response to the interconnected nature of ...
This series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development. As we have initially discussed here, with so many new ...
CW Developer Network
Modern development - Redgate: A contemporary validation for dedicated (database dev models)
15 Jun 2020This series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development. As we have initially discussed here, with so many new ...
This series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development. As we have initially discussed here, with so many new ...
CW Developer Network
Modern development - Hazelcast: a brief history of testing (and our chaos theory future)
12 Jun 2020This series is devoted to examining the leading trends that go towards defining the shape of modern software application development. As we have initially discussed here, with so many new ...
Microsoft’s move to replace MSN.com’s human editors with artificial intelligence has resulted in the software misidentifying one woman of colour for another – before regurgitating other outlets’ ...
One of the only technology companies to have managed to stage its annual developer/customer/user-fast successfully in 2020 before the onset of Covid-19 by virtue of staging its convention in ...
As we know, Kubernetes is an open source technology for container management across hybrid cloud environments. Initially created by Google (and subsequently open sourced and managed under the ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Meet the Identity and Attributes Exchange – GDS’s future for digital identity after Verify
Editor in chief 09 Jun 2020As the Government Digital Service (GDS) prepares for the winding down of its Gov.uk Verify service, its future plans for digital identity are becoming a little clearer. In recent weeks, GDS has ...