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“We expect software to work perfectly,” the CEO of Dyntatrace, Rick McConnell proclaimed at the opening of the company’s European Innovate event in Amsterdam. This should not be an aspiration, but ...

Just got back from a Commvault event in London (where I saw more people in 10 seconds than I do in a month in Devon!) which also gave me the opp to catch-up with old PR mate Ben Ralph. In between ...

Qualys staged the North American sector of its Qualys Security Conference (QSC) practitioner conference this month under the sometimes-foggy skies of an autumnal San Diego.  Gathering the great and ...

The green coding imperative is real and it stems from the ground up (i.e. the command line) and from the cloud down. As we continue to pursue initiatives in this space, it’s worth reflecting upon ...

As the world of enterprise open source solidifies, an increasing number of developments are being laid down to take open platform technologies into more expansive mission-critical and quite frankly ...

When you write about government IT for as long as Computer Weekly has – which is pretty much as long as “government IT” has been a thing – it’s hard not to get a sense of what can most accurately ...

Accelerated software development company WaveMaker has taken the wraps off React Native studio. The technology seeks to make native mobile app building accessible to web developers familiar with ...

The best run DevOps teams in the world choose Perforce, that’s the claim from Perforce. The company makes this claim on the back of product releases that it says help teams achieve speed, quality, ...

In this guest post, Carmen Ene, CEO of BNP Paribas 3 Step IT, talks us through the pitfalls and promise of AI PC technology. USBs were once the go-to solution for storing and transferring data. An ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Philip Rathle in his role as chief technology officer at Neo4j. Neo4J offers developer services to power applications with ...

NetApp used its Insight 2024 conference this week in Las Vegas to announce enhancements to its portfolio of resiliency offerings to strengthen security. NetApp is announcing the general ...

Domino Data Lab used its appearance at NetApp Insight to announce a strategic collaboration designed to help unlock AI power using NetApp’s advanced hybrid file storage technology in Domino. Domino ...

Intelligent data infrastructure company NetApp staged its annual user, practitioner & partner conference this week in Las Vegas.  Attending a “day zero” pre-event session of briefings before ...

StarTree was a partner player at Current, the next-generation of Apache conference, run by data streaming platform company Confluent. StarTree Cloud, powered by Apache Pinot (an open source, ...

With Apache Flink soon to celebrate its 10th anniversary, Ververica, as the original creator of Apache Flink and a real-time data streaming specialist, is set to mark the occasion at Flink Forward ...

As the Labour Party shifts focus from Westminster to Liverpool for its first annual conference in charge of the UK government for 15 years, MPs and members will no doubt take time to reflect on ...

As already detailed here on Computer Weekly, data streaming platform company Confuent used its ‘Current 2024’ conference and exhibition to detail its developer extensions and updates for Apache ...

Data streaming platform and tools specialist Confluent used its flagship developer, data scientist, systems architect and administrator (other software engineering and data science positions are ...

In the UK, kids start off in primary school to prepare them for the two years of secondary school that culminates in the Big Bang GCSE exams. Then, two years later, those that stay on at sixth form ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network plunged into day 2 of the SAS study tour at the company’s North Carolina headquarters to learn about the company from the inside. Day two sessions started with ...

SAS hosted a small group of press and analysts at its Cary, North Carolina headquarters this season, a location that sits adjacent to the Raleigh-Durham US East Coast technology hub. The Computer ...

Known for its technology portfolio spanning AI, data analytics and software toolsets that impact the full modern enterprise IT stack, SAS this year announced expanded capabilities in its SAS Viya ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network is off to Las Vegas for NetApp INSIGHT 2024. With three full days of technical training, keynotes & breakouts and a chance to question the N-powered ...

We need to have an open and honest debate about data, data collection and, just as important, the timely disposal of the information when it is no longer needed.While there are many good reasons ...

Women’s network Everywoman is launching nominations for its 15th Technology Awards, looking to showcase the UK’s leading and upcoming women in the technology sector. In partnership with Bupa, the ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network is zoning in on the Linux Foundation Open Source Summit Europe 2024. The event is held from the 16-18 September in Vienna, Austria. Designed to showcase the ...

Atlassian announced the acquisition of Rewatch, with plans to integrate its AI-powered live meeting support into Loom, its video messaging platform.  The company says this will improve how teams ...

I am always looking for better (smaller) ways to work on a plane.  It’s a life mission and I’ve been through laptops, mini handhelds like the Planet Gemini (wonderful, but keyboard too small), plus ...

It takes a certain reserved assuredness to name your company’s annual convention without using the name of the organisation anywhere in the title, tagline or the trailing promotional materials. ...

Every now and then Computer Weekly asks the question of whether Moore’s Law is still relevant. Gordon Moore presented his vision of how computing would evolve in an article published in April 1965. ...

Open source enterprise-grade solutions platform company SuSE is aiming to shed some light on the issue of securing increasingly complex cloud and edge environments, especially in the era of ...

Enterprise AI platform company Domino Data Lab suggest that we need to rethink some of how we consider the development, management, implementation and extension of generative intelligence functions ...

Open source 'data movement' platform company Airbyte has noted that its PyAirbyte open source Python library (introduced in late February) has helped more than 10,000 AI and data engineers to sync ...

The MIT Center for Information Systems Research (CISR) thinks we should be considering real-time information streams, real-time governance, real-time data platform technologies and real-time ...

Known for its Windows desktop virtualisation capabilities and its tools designed to cost-optimize native Microsoft cloud technologies, Nerdio has now come forward with support for multiple Entra ID ...

Dapr (distributed application runtime) is a self-hosted, open-source project that offers extra functionality to cloud-native applications through ‘building block’ APIs to simplify microservice ...

In this guest post, Anjali Arora, executive vice president of product and development at open source DevOps automation tools provider Perforce, outlines the steps cost-conscious IT leaders can do ...

Imagine if one day in your job, you have to ask someone to find the radio button on  a Windows PC or a Mac that you are supposed to click, because your screen reader is unable to tell you where it ...

Unified streaming data company Redpanda this summer announced the integration of its Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) service with Microsoft Azure… but what exactly does this BYOC term mean? According ...

Agile software application development principles aligned with modern DevOps methodologies are of course central to the way many teams are building cloud-native applications today.  Combined with ...

Instead of establishing a new organisation, Cyberfirst should be restructured to work locally and nationally through the Cyber Security Council and existing mainstream on-line safety, safeguarding ...

When Scandit announced its integration with Apple's Vision Pro mixed reality headset, I experienced a strong sense of déjà vu. This enterprise software provider, known for its smart data capture ...

The ruling against Google in a case of anti-competitive practices, filed by the US Department of Justice, reveals the extent to which Google will attempt to thwart legislators. Court documents show ...

Cloud-native software tools company Aqua Security has made note of  Traceeshark, a plug-in for Wireshark designed to allow software practitioners to investigate security incidents.  Wireshark is an ...

It is clear that cloud storage has become an important component of modern IT infrastructure. Nearly every IT professional is faced with rapidly growing data volumes, and in many instances they are ...

Well, it’s hard to believe it’s that time of year again already – no, not Christmas, though I’m sure The Range already has a wall of Rudolph-related items of no exact definition lined up at the ...

FinOps needs cloud carbon emissions data if it is to function as a cost-effective means of managing IT Ops spend in an eco-friendly manner. Aiming to fulfil this function is Anodot, a cloud cost ...

Nerdio appears to be in an evolutionary cycle of its own making designed to elevate the company above the established base of technology competencies that we already know it for. As we know, Nerdio ...

With the recent CrowdStrike global IT outage incident ringing in our ears, it is perhaps no surprise to hear  Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM) company Catchpoint reinforcing its product line ...

People may choose to upgrade their laptops every couple of years. But they are likely to update their phones more frequently. Each new generation of smartphone provides users with the latest ...