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All the signs are there that an AI crash is coming: overinflated claims and dodgy hype, a serious lack of expectation management, fears around privacy, ethics and fairness, over-enthusiastic ...

Neo4j is a graph database & analytics company that says its mission is to help organisations ‘find hidden relationships and patterns’ across billions of data connections. The company recently ...

This is a guest blogpost by Greg Hanson, GVP, platform sales specialist, Informatica. The impact of EU regulations does not stop at the borders of Europe. We saw this with the General Data ...

The technologies which will underpin business computing and the global information society in fifty years time are almost certainly already in the laboratories of today. The way they are packaged ...

Open source content management system (CMS) provider Umbraco has announced its latest major release. Umbraco 12 includes headless functionality to support multi-channel content delivery. As the ...

In my previous blogs I spoke of the delivery-related problems when there are no local PoPs, or the equivalent technology in place to successfully deliver those services, and how this potentially ...

In my previous blog I noted how themes occur seemingly from nowhere, that are common among vendors from different spheres of IT. In this particular case it is various vendors I’m working with who ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Joe Brockmeier in his position as head of community at cloud database company Percona. Known for his love of blogging, ...

This is a guest blogpost by Pierre-Baptiste Béchu, Aircall co-founder and CTPO The SaaS industry is being reshaped by AI. More and more companies are turning to AI to innovate their products, and ...

As more organisations look to navigate the uncharted sea that is ‘enterprise AI’, data management expert, Cloudera has thrown its hat (or should that be oars) into the ring by announcing that its ...

Snowflake used its Snowflake Summit 2023 event in Las Vegas this June to showcase its latest augmentations, extensions and enhancements now featuring across its builder toolset for software ...

It’s worth learning to speak Generation-Z slang, the older segment of this youth cohort is now in its early twenties and could soon be entering management. Is it worrying then to find that almost ...

Known for its love of data engineering, toboggans, polar bears and information-centric application monetisation platforms, the Computer Weekly Developer Network team needed little persuasion to ...

Data quality company Soda has launched SodaGPT, a generative Artificial intelligence (gen-AI) powered tool for data quality. It enables a no-code self-serve approach for users of all backgrounds to ...

The nature of IT means that there are numerous ways to achieve more-or-less the same result.Some options are technically superior; others may be lower cost or simpler to manage. With so much choice ...

Data privacy automation company Integral has announced the company’s first open source project, Robin AI. This is a technology that reviews code changes and provides constructive feedback, helping ...

Project lead: Let’s build some data-centric apps! Developers: Hmm, you sound too keen - and anyway, how screwy is the requirements-gathering process and what crazy requests have we got from the ...

In this guest post, Kumaravel Ramakrishnan, technology director at application management software maker ManageEngine, shares an extract from a recent company report from and ten independent IT ...

Keen to dig below the headlines and find out if the claims are real, the Computer Weekly Developer Network team is off to Snowflake Summit - staged in Las Vegs from June 26-29… and billed as the ...

This is a guest post by Robert Linsdell, managing director for Australia and New Zealand at critical infrastructure company Vertiv We’re living in an ever-evolving digital world, one which is ...

Deciphering the politician soundbites during London Tech Week shows that both the Tories and Labour are headed by party leaders who want to be seen as supporters of artificial intelligence (AI).But ...

This is a guest blogpost by Claus Jepsen, CTO, Unit4 Programming has made more farewells than Frank Sinatra, but the difference being that "Old Blue Eyes" eventually played one final concert, ...

As low-code gets lower (by which we mean higher), we need to track the progress of this potentially game-changing (stay with us, we’ll justify that phrase) technology as it continues to expand and ...

Developers are important. They build us the applications that we use every day and, in many cases, these are apps, functions, services and technology connection points that enable us to live our ...

I always find it interesting when unanticipated themes crop up out of nowhere that are suddenly commonplace between multiple conversations with different vendors, especially vendors that are very ...

Pega used its annual user, customer & partner convention this year to showcase a set of solid extensions, connections and augmentations to its core platform. The working functions encapsulated ...

Brexit gives the UK a unique opportunity to lead on regulatory arbitrage and inter-operability, mixing and matching the best of AI thinking from across geopolitical divides without the need for ...

This a guest blogpost by Gert-Jan Wijman, VP of EMEA, Celigo This decade for UK businesses has been epitomised by crises. First the Covid-19 pandemic, then its aftershocks, and now the inflationary ...

Cloud database platform company Couchbase has broadly extended its Database-as-a-Service Couchbase Capella. Capella is the brightest star in the northern constellation of Auriga - the branding gang ...

This is a guest blogpost by Brian Brockway, Chief Technology Officer at Commvault. The ransomware landscape has evolved significantly in recent years, with cybercriminals employing increasingly ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Jay Harel, VP of Product at Opaque Systems - Opaque is a confidential computing platform that enables secure data sharing, ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Ken Pickering, SVP of engineering at Starburst - a company known for its analytics engine that powers the Data Mesh ...

In this guest post, Doug Ko, director of product marketing at container monitoring software company Sysdig, provides some guidance on what enterprises can do to keep their cloud costs in check ...

In this guest post, Doug Ko, director of product marketing at container monitoring software company Sysdig, provides some guidance on what enterprises can do to keep their cloud costs in check ...

Chatting with a client recently about the importance to a data-driven* organisation of having a good Chief Data Officer, or CDO, we turned to the topic of change management. But halfway through the ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Sethu Meenakshisundaram in his capacity as co-founder of Zluri, a SaaS management platform company that works to help ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Sean Scott in his capacity as chief product officer (CPO) at PagerDuty - the company is known for its Real-Time Operations ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Dale Kim in his capacity as senior director for technical solutions at Hazelcast – the company is known for its  Kim writes ...

We now face the most lethal of situations - secure (if properly used)  technologies in the hands of insecure people. 

Bill Gates defines a platform as something where the economic value to everyone who uses it is greater than its value to the company that created it. It is easy to see how Windows, through the ...

Software systems are surging. The application of generative AI functionalities and capabilities continues apace. The key rationale for the proliferation of this rollout is this technology's ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by David Shannon in his role as head of hyperautomation at SAS UK & Ireland. This article explores the evolution of ...

People make decisions. One piece of research recently ‘suggested’ that people make as many as 35,000 decisions a day - many of which may be made involuntarily of course - and if that’s not too ...

Data management is the lifeblood of applications, obviously, along with the core software application code substrate from which apps are built and developed in the first place, the need to form ...

There is much talk of cybersecurity skills shortages and there are many initiatives. Most do not relate to the skills you most need to help protect your business, your supply chain and your ...

Harness Inc. has announced the availability of Harness Continuous Error Tracking (CET). This is a new module designed to provide developer-first observability for ‘modern applications’, by which ...

KX is one of those companies. It’s one of those companies with 15 offices across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific with a fairly weighty installed base of users - largely in the financial ...

In Field of Dreams, while walking in his cornfield, Kevin Costner’s character hears a whisper: “If you build it, he will come,” which, without giving the plot away, inspires him to build a baseball ...

SAP used its SAP Sapphire user conference this May to detail a wide-ranging partner proliferation programme that includes a number of key developmental technologies. Arguably foremost among its ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Claus Jepsen in his role as CTO of Unit4, an enterprise software company that offers a suite of functionalities spanning ...