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It’s been a good week for "reinventing networking" conversations. And not before time – I mean, look at all the changes we’ve seen in IT in the past decade, from data types and scale thereof, ...

The news that the Linux Foundation has removed Russian software developers from the Linux kernel maintainers mailing list is something that is sending shockwaves through the LInux community. While ...

Microsoft is ushering in a new era of secure printing with the biggest change to the Windows print stack in more than 20 years. On 1 October 2024, Microsoft launched Windows Protected Print Mode ...

AI code assistant company Tabnine has come forward with its Code Review Agent. This software validation agent is said to produce quality secure code by using and enforcing a team’s best practices ...

Not a cyber security alert story per se, application security company GitGuardian has detailed its “Voice of Practitioners 2024” report with a note to highlight the current state of application ...

What's a technology alert in late 2024 without a smattering of AI in it? It's a trick question, obviously i.e. there are no tech industry update this year that fail to make mention of AI at some ...

I’ve talked a lot about SASE in this ‘ere blog, including the SASE Network Scorecard I developed earlier in the year. For those who didn’t see that, here’s an example of one vendor completing it: ...

Enterprise automation and AI company UiPath used its UiPath Forward + TechEd convention this week to detail some ‘day two’ event deep dives on building in the new agentic AI workflow space. ...

UiPath used its UiPath Forward + TechEd 2024 conference this week to explain where the enterprise automation and AI company that we all know for its Robotic Process Automation (RPA) goes next… and, ...

This is a generic model for a local "community safety partnership" building based on guidance for, and practical experience with and Safer Neighbourhood Panels, Neighbourhood Watch Groups, Patient ...

This is the draft guidance page on Reporting for Community Safety Partnership Clusters  in London. Please send comments on errors and omissions to me for forwarding. Similarly please make contact ...

This is the draft guidance page for Community Safety Partnership Clusters  in London. Please send comments on errors and omissions to me for forwarding. Similarly please make contact if you would ...

GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post, Sheila Flavell, chief operating officer, at FDM Group highlights some of the ways companies can work towards closing the tech sector's gender pay gap.  ...

Getting married and moving home are said to be among the most stressful things people experience. There are plenty more, but a particularly frustrating experience not on that list is attempting to ...

IFS used its annual user convention to up the ante on practitioner touchpoints and functionality in relation to Copperleaf, the asset investment planning company it acquired earlier this year. A ...

Enterprise cloud and self-styled ‘Industrial AI’ company IFS used its annual customer, partner, user & practitioner event this month to detail its latest work in cloud sustainability ...

IFS CEO Mark Moffat kicked off IFS Unleashed 2024 in Orlando this week with a promise to explain how his firm is bringing ‘IFS Industrial AI’ to assets, workflows, people & services. “We’re not ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written in full by Manish Kapur, senior director for product & Solutions at Sonar. Sonar specialises in AI-generated or written by ...

Open source cloud computing platform and company Civo recently delivered a new private cloud service. But so what, right? Well, yes, but FlexCore (as the service is called) is said to be built on a ...

Enterprise automation and AI company UiPath takes its annual user symposium back to Las Vegas this month and we’ll be drilling into the news stream to work out the next phase in accelerated ...

Normally a more backroom, back-office, base layer, kernel-centric organisation in our eyes (if not in the view of 99.9% of software application development professionals), Red Hat has put an ...

“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. ...