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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 ...
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Enterprise AR redux: Will Apple succeed where Microsoft floundered?
Freeform Dynamics 08 Aug 2024When 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 ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Cloud Storage Revisited: What has the last decade taught us?
Freeform Dynamics 06 Aug 2024It 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 ...
Networks Generation
Forget "Let's Look At What You Could Have Won" - Let's Look At What You CAN Win!
Broadband Testing 06 Aug 2024Well, 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 ...
CW Developer Network
Green coding - Anodot: FinOps on a mission to tackle cloud emissions
06 Aug 2024FinOps 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 ...
CW Developer Network
Nerdio & Kyndryl co-create to 'tailor' a finer cut of virtual desktop
05 Aug 2024Nerdio 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 ...
Generative and conversational AI platform company Kore has announced GALE (Generative AI and LLM Platform for Enterprises). This is a technology used to build generative AI (GenAI) applications ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Generative AI in analytics: Enhancing the user experience without overreach
Freeform Dynamics 01 Aug 2024As scepticism creeps more and more into the generative AI discussion, I’ve been trying to gain a clearer view of where real value lies, particularly for tools used directly by end users. I was ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Government needs to meet with the IT users, implementors and managers to deliver its policy aims
Editor in chief 01 Aug 2024The new Labour administration started its time in government with an Olympian sprint before Parliament broke for the summer recess. Among its many new policies and programmes, we’ve seen a ...
Hazelcast has made sure it keeps its platform progression evolving in line with current major trends and now introduced vector search. As TechTarget reminds us, vector search (sometimes referred to ...
News emanating out of the tech start-up haven that is the modern Holy Land this month sees Backslash Security, drive its ‘deep reachability analysis’ AppSec technology forward with a service known ...
The Overture Maps Foundation is described as a “collaborative effort” to enable current and next-generation interoperable open map services and products. The organisation has now announced the ...
Open Source Insider
Snowflake goes massive on Meta LLM for open source inference difference
24 Jul 2024Snowflake says it will now host the Llama 3.1 collection of multilingual open source large language models (LLMs) in Snowflake Cortex AI for developers to build AI applications. The Data Cloud ...
The bug that impacted 8.5m PCs last week was, says, CrowdStrike due to an update it refers to as “Rapid Response Content”, which is delivered as a “template instance”. This is data stored in a ...
The Computer Weekly Developer Network sat down this month with Mark Molyneux, EMEA CTO at Cohesity to examine the methodologies, principles and practices that underpin a more proactive ...
Hybrid data, analytics and AI platform company Cloudera has upped its ‘Observability Premium’ service. This toolset is designed to simplify and automate platform administration. The premium tier ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Generative AI tooling: Is the user the weakest link?
Freeform Dynamics 18 Jul 2024One of the challenges I've had with generative AI is figuring out where the real value lies, particularly in relation to tools used directly by end users. This isn't me questioning the value of ...
The Computer Weekly Developer Network team is off to IFS Unleashed, held in Orlando, Florida from 14-18 October 2024. Held at the Orlando World Center Marriot, the company says that IFS Unleashed ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
IT Sustainability: Passive vs Active Gains
Freeform Dynamics 16 Jul 2024In the 20 odd years that I’ve been following developments in ‘Green IT’, the industry narrative hasn’t changed that much. Once you establish that the Earth is hotting up and becoming more polluted, ...
CW Developer Network
Atlassian details developer 'happiness' quotient, workflows should work better
16 Jul 2024Atlassian CTO Rajeev Rajan kicked off his firm’s developer experience analysis this year by saying that software development teams are, of course, dealing with more complexity than ever. Why is ...
Which Linux should I use? More specifically, developers using enterprise Linux in fast-moving compute and analytics environments will want to know which version of major distros from Red Hat, SuSE, ...
Aiming to provide a lower cost and open source alternative to VMware, that optimises performance and automates workload distribution, “strategic infrastructure” company Mirantis has released ...
Having worked in both operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) environments for years, I've observed the lines between these worlds becoming increasingly blurred. It's a trend ...
This week sees the move to general availability for vector search for Amazon MemoryDB. Amazon MemoryDB is an in-memory database service that is compatible with the open source Redis data store. ...
Data security and management company Cohesity is following (if not leading) the infrastructure efficiency efforts being seen across the wider technology industry with recent work focused on ...
Curiously named o9 has pushed forward the software application development components and tools used in its Digital Brain platform by incorporating generative AI-powered Large Language Model (LLM) ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Dear Prime Minister Starmer, here's how technology can help you transform the UK for the better
Editor in chief 08 Jul 2024Dear Prime Minister Starmer, Look, I know you have a horrendous in-tray to work through in your new job. The previous incumbent(s) made quite a mess of things. But you – like your predecessors – ...
There is a long shopping list of policies the incoming government needs to execute to drive the UK forward over the next five years. And while it may not seem like a high priority, getting the IT ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Canon comes out of the closet on information management
Freeform Dynamics 03 Jul 2024When I received an invitation to attend another Canon industry analyst event, I was in two minds about whether I should accept. While previous gatherings have been interesting, and the high-end ...
There’s a big question in AI. Okay, there are many big questions in artificial intelligence: which large language model (LLM) should an IT team use, which AI models need to be integrated together ...
Networks Generation
Whatever you do, don't press the big red button...
Broadband Testing 02 Jul 2024I’m not sure if anyone has figures to hand (or the desire to find out) exactly how many cyber security vendors there are out there, but some rough stats suggest that there are verging on 6,000 in ...
It was a pleasure to catch up t’other day with Rik “rock star” Ferguson, the former Trend Micro legend who is these days hanging out with Forescout as the company’s VP of Security Intelligence, ...
Cloud application monitoring and security platform company Datadog has detailed platform developments which see it produce what it calls a ‘unified experience’ between the Datadog Agent and ...
Cloud is still changing, profoundly in many areas. Our initial (perhaps muted) reaction to the notion of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) was quickly and exponentially expanded as we suddenly got used ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by James Sturrock in his role as director of systems engineering for hybrid multi-cloud computing company Nutanix. Stressing ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Mainframe skills; time to flip the telescope around?
Freeform Dynamics 25 Jun 2024The more I learn about the world of mainframes, the more I find myself drawn to it. When I started investigating the topic of mainframe skills in particular, it was on the premise that ...
Tabnine helps development teams of every size use AI to accelerate software development. As an AI coding assistant technology, Tabnine has now announced Anthropic’s Claude 3 model is now available ...
Cloud spending shows no signs of slowing down, clearly. As organisations continue to accelerate cloud adoption (and move towards increasingly cloud-native deployment scenarios in many cases), ...
Data governance is already with us. As TechTarget industry editor Craig Steadman reminds us here, “Data governance is the process of managing the availability, usability, integrity and security of ...
If Q1 of this year for me was the season of “newbies” – speaking to, and working with, new vendor clients, then Q2 has definitely been the season of “catch-ups”. The essence of “catch-ups” is the ...