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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 ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
An industry-wide agreement is needed to identify AI-generated content
Managing Editor 19 Jun 2024With the UK general election coming on July 4th, there is very real concern that this election and others around the world are being influenced by artificial intelligence-powered (AI) content ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Mitigating AI Risks: 5 Essential Steps for Secure Adoption
Freeform Dynamics 19 Jun 2024Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are finding their way into industries worldwide as organisations look to leverage these technologies to drive innovation, efficiency, and ...
IFS is increasing the heat in the smelting and ore-extraction processes needed to forge its ‘industrial AI software’ technology proposition. Keen to cast a stronger, more ductile but still ...
Data streaming company Confluent likes to talk about, well, data streaming mainly. In something of an effort to validate its position in the data streaming market, the company’s 2024 Data Streaming ...
When IT Meets Politics
Midsomer Murders: the Broadband Killings - time for a remake
Winsafe Ltd 17 Jun 2024The choice between cheap ubiquitous broadband today (with overhead spaghetti between cottages and femtos on every pole) and expensive, limited access, underground connectivity tomorrow had set ...
CW Developer Network
Green coding - Nord: Software lifecyles should now detail greenhouse gas emissions
16 Jun 2024Nord has detailed its annual impact report for 2023 with a first-ever calculation of greenhouse gas emissions, social initiatives and wider details related to a state-of-the-art office opening. The ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
General election 2024: Digital threads run through all parties' manifesto commitments
Editor in chief 14 Jun 2024We’re not yet at the stage where a general election manifesto contains an entire section on digital economy issues, alongside the expected priorities of health, education, defence, housing and so ...
AI will be multifarious, multi-modal, multi-model and multi-tier. This is the promise from the enterprise software industry vendors now vying for share of voice above the cloud-based clamour ...
In this guest post from Cindi Howson, chief data strategy officer at business intelligence software supplier ThoughtSpot, shares her insights on the difference data is making in the fight against ...
Pegasystems aka Pega used its PegaWorld iNspire conference this year to showcase new enhancements and an improved user interface for Pega GenAI Blueprint – its app design-as-a-service tool designed ...
CW Developer Network
Pega CTO: We’re the AI ‘workflow backbone’ on a spine of Google Cloud & AWS
11 Jun 2024Enterprise generative AI choice. It’s not a term we might have even considered thus far i.e. the adoption of artificial intelligence at a decision-making and generative level is still so embryonic ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Breaking Free From Vendor Lock-in with Managed Services
Freeform Dynamics 11 Jun 2024As organisations become more intertwined with their key IT vendors, they may find themselves in a situation known as vendor lock-in. This occurs when an organisation becomes so dependent on a ...
CW Developer Network
Pega CEO Trefler: Avoid the ‘birth of legacy systems’ via workflow automation
10 Jun 2024Pega staged the 2024 iteration/era of its Pega World iNspire user, customer, partner & practitioner conference in Las Vegas this week. The enterprise AI decisioning and workflow automation ...
The use of identity-centric infrastructure access management is set to play a critical role in fortifying the printing environment.
Identity-centric infrastructure access management is set to play a critical role in fortifying the printing environment.
Jitterbit isn’t bitty. The company is a substantial transatlantic technology operation focused on low-code enterprise solutions for integration and application development. The company offers ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
S/4HANA Migration: Is Selective Transformation the Answer?
Freeform Dynamics 05 Jun 2024The last big market survey carried out by Freeform Dynamics on SAP migration was completed back in 2020 and it revealed no real consensus on either the appetite for migration to S/4HANA nor ...
CW Developer Network
Green coding - Cohesity: Less is more, why & how a lean data diet is tastier
05 Jun 2024This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Mark Molyneux in his role as EMEA CTO at data security and data management company Cohesity. Molyneux writes in full as ...
SAP used its SAP Sapphire user, developer, practitioner, customer, partner event this week in Orlando, Florida to showcase its work in open source model development carried out in association with ...
CW Developer Network
Tricentis drives tighter integration & ignites AI to fuel SAP S/4HANA Cloud
04 Jun 2024It’s ‘tough’ to be an SAP partner. Spoiler alert, it’s not actually tough per se, we’re making a point. If it’s tough at all to work in this sphere, it’s because the expansive SAP stack has many ...
CW Developer Network
SAP Sapphire 2024: Building a modification-free clean-core cloud ERP
04 Jun 2024SAP used its SAP Sapphire & ASUG annual conference this week to detail some three dozen product and platform announcements. Drinking from the firehose of enterprise software updates, the ...
When IT Meets Politics
Levelling up Access to Skills and Jobs; Ten Points for your Manifesto
Winsafe Ltd 01 Jun 2024Give priority to the engagement of employers, training providers and recruitment agencies over democratic accountability. Authority for planning and delivery should be devolved to the growth and ...