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Ensure that reliable, secure and affordable broadband connectivity is available to all schools and reliable and affordable 4G remote access to lifelong learning and careers advice and support is ...

Guest post: A personal view by physicist Phil Hopkins The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy's “Ark Fleet Ship B” came to mind, last Monday. This was the ship given to all the people who were deemed ...

This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Jeff Szczepanski, former COO of Stack Overflow and Sphere, alongside a team of Stack Overflow alumni.  Szczepanski is now ...

As an industry analyst, you always want your questions answered openly, confidently and convincingly when receiving a briefing from an IT vendor. Unfortunately, however, this doesn't always happen, ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Keepit CTO, Jakob Østergaard. Keepit is known for its SaaS-based backup and recovery services technology platform that ...

This is guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Siva Padisetty, New Relic’s CTO. Padisetty writes in full as follows… Companies don’t have to sacrifice their bottom line to ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written in full by Kyle Campos, chief technology & product officer at CloudBolt Software. The cloud ROI company, CloudBolt ...

A few years ago, ARM-based laptops were the kind of chips that ended up powering low-cost Chromebooks. MediaTek system on a chip devices used to offer a low cost alternative to the more powerful ...

The tech world is now trying to work out exactly what the news of Cisco's acquisition of Splunk signifies, and for good reason. This merger has the significant potential to reshape the ...

The current UK skills system focuses on academic skills, these are important but not at the expense of neglecting the skills needed by the majority of employers and most of the workforce to cope ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network (or CW Developer Network or Green Software Development) by Dr Jon Sneyers, senior image researcher at Cloudinary. Sneyers argues that ...

When former Post Office CEO Paula Vennells began her much-anticipated evidence to the public inquiry into the scandal that unfolded on her watch, she turned to the victims and said how grateful she ...

IT leaders today often find themselves grappling with a perplexing situation. On one hand, they face growing pressure to drive sustainability initiatives and reduce the environmental impact of ...

Nutanix hosted the European leg of its annual conference series this month in the Catalan capital of Barcelona. Nutanix .NEXT 2024 was initially hosted by eminent technology journalist Cristina ...

Nutanix used its .NEXT Europe conference this month to deliver a selection of product, platform and tools updates spanning its stance across the hybrid multi-cloud computing landscape. Among the ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Oliver King-Smith, founder and CEO of smartR AI. The company insists that it is committed to developing life-changing ...

When Tony Lock and I interviewed Reg Harbeck, Chief Strategist at Mainframe Analytics Ltd, it was immediately obvious that we had different perspectives on the world. As a self-proclaimed ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written in fully by Mark Fussell, co-founder and CEO, Diagrid. A diagrid is a framework of diagonally intersecting metal, concrete, or ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network and Open Source Insider team are fond of extremely pungent cheese, good bread, the departure lounge at Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG) airport and extreme deep ...

Without data, a company does not exist. This was one of the answers Lotar Schin, AI centre of excellence lead at Hungarian commercial bank, OTP Bank made during a panel discussion at the recent ...

This is a guest post written for the Computer Weekly Developer Network by Roman Khavronenko in his position as co-founder at VictoriaMetrics, a company known for its time series database technology ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Peter Campbell in his capacity as director of green software at Kainos. Kainos is a Northern Ireland-based digital services ...

Thinking back to the early 2000s (I refuse to call them “the noughties”) it seemed that whatever technology you were talking about, the word “security” always came into the equation. Fast forward ...

When I first heard about 'smart data capture', I couldn't help thinking back to a string of jobs in factories, warehouses and retail stores that helped me to fund my way through university. From my ...

Red Hat used its annual conference Red Hat Summit 2024 to introduce the developer preview of Red Hat Connectivity Link, a hybrid multi cloud application connectivity technology that is said to ...

Ever since IBM sold off its x86 business to Lenovo back in 2014, I've been closely watching how the company has transitioned from arguably a commodity player to one that often innovates in ...

At the risk of starting with an Alan Patridge quote. “The Swedish don’t have a bad life when you think about it,” said Partridge. “They get up in the morning, have a bowl of suede, hop into the ...

If there are three z-heavy terms that describe the current shape of functional cloud computing deployments then they might be compartmentalisation, individualisation and customisation in the face ...

Atlassian used its Team ‘24 conference and exhibition to showcase a wide range of enhancements and extensions to its team collaboration, productivity software and service management platform. Held ...

Based in the Holy Land, Tabnine claims to be the originator of the AI coding assistant category. The company has now announced an expanded partnership and integration within the Atlassian platform ...

Jira is entering a new era. As we know from TechTarget, Atlassian Jira is an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tool that provides tools for bug tracking, issue tracking and project ...

While improvements in energy efficiency have kept electricity consumption in datacentres in check, according to the International Energy Agency, to reach net zero, emissions must halve by 2030. ...

In this guest post, Lisa Wee, global head of sustainability at IT consultancy AVEVA, outlines the environmental benefits of embracing the circular economy The World Economic Forum has referred to ...

Directly labelling itself as the ‘Internet Resilience Company’, US-headquartered Catchpoint joined the growing band of enterprise technology companies eschewing the traditional conference circuit ...

The web is online. It’s such a basic truism that sometimes we don’t question this core technology proposition. Yes, the web is (generally speaking, even when flaky service results) mostly always ...

Euro cloud company OVHcloud is taking part in the 2024 Open Compute Project (OCP) EMEA Regional Summit this month in Lisbon.  Drawing upon (pun not necessarily intended) the organisation's some 20 ...

Navigating the Complex IT Supplier Landscape in 2024 It is a truism that IT evolves rapidly, hence it follows that we need to reassess relevant strategies periodically to ensure efficiency. But, as ...

The latest spending forecast data from analyst firm Gartner shows that spending on datacentres is set to increase 10% in 2024. This is largely being driven by hyperscalers riding the generative AI ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Peter Pugh-Jones in his capacity as director of financial services at Confluent. Confluent is a full-scale data streaming ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written in full by Rishi Kulkarni in his capacity as SVP cloud services division at NTT Data. In the modern landscape of software ...

Despite their frequently less visible role, mainframes remain indispensable in supporting the critical operations of many large organisations. With technology advancements over recent years, ...

Appian World was held this year at the Gaylord Inner Harbor resort in Washington DC from 15-17 April 2024. Starting off proceedings this year as always was Appian CEO Matt Calkins. With more than ...

During my career, I’ve worked hands-on with a great many operating systems, programming languages, mainstream database engines and countless generations of different hardware and application ...

Accessibility matters. When users first say Microsoft’s ‘accessibility’ features appear some three decades ago, not everybody knew what was being offered.  Stanford University’s history of ...

The first step is to identity those with budgets, resources, expertise and experience, who are interested in working together to identify topics and problems of interest to candidates and voters, ...

News this month sees StarlingX 9.0 offering an open source cloud stack that has been ‘hardened’ by telcos such as Kddi, T-Systems, Verizona and Vodafone/ StarlingX itself is an open source ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network team packed its bags, put some flowers in its hair... and headed to San Francisco this week for NTT Research’s Upgrade 2024. This two-day event was designed to ...

Software development platform companies love AI.  They have (arguably) always been fairly fond of digital intelligence as it has evolved through various decades and iterations that have taken it ...

VMware has been officially part of Broadcom since November 2023. On March 14 2024, a hundred days on from the acquisition, CEO Hock Tan wrote a blog post stating: “We overhauled our software ...

People in mainframe circles have been talking about skills development and succession planning ever since it was pointed out that the average age of mainframe specialists was pretty high and ...