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The recent House of Lords Communications Committee expert witness session revealed a somewhat bizarre situation in government relating to our National AI Strategy. By her own admission, Dame Wendy ...

Data scientists loves vector databases, this year more than ever. Why is this so? Because vector databases have the ability to detect and identify relationships in data, so their usage has become ...

The OpenJS Foundation is getting its party hat on - Node.js 21 has arrived. Node.js an asynchronous event-driven JavaScript runtime designed to build scalable network applications.  As detailed on ...

This is guest blog post by, James Fisher, Chief Strategy Officer, Qlik Almost one year ago, ChatGPT exploded on the scene and quickly took AI mainstream. Since then, an endless number of articles ...

It’s always good to speak to real software engineers inside the actual organisations that they work within; as such, getting away from the formalised staged sessions that make up the annual ...

In this guest post, Owen Sayers, an enterprise security architect with Secon Solutions, who has 25 years’ experience working within the UK's internet security framework, sets out the areas where he ...

UiPath has announced a new Integration Service Connector (ISC) designed to give users access to Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed service that provides access to foundation models (FMs) via an API to ...

Virtualised cloud services need sharp teeth. That may be why Bobcat is called Bobcat, or there may be some other unknown rationale. The OpenStack community has this month announced the release of ...

In this guest post, Thomas Chisholm, principal training solutions engineer at Puppet by Perforce, details the six essential skills that Infrastructure-as-Code professionals need in 2023  In the ...

Cyber: for some, it’s a prefix that conjures up images of Dr Who’s silvery cyborg opponents. For others, it’s the equally science-fiction but very different image of Neuromancer-style cyberpunk ...

It’s always important to define the level at which an enterprise software vendor operates. While some tech companies offer a service, some offer a suite, others specialise in an application (or set ...

This is a guest blogpost by Vaibhav Vohra, Chief Product and Technology Officer at ERP provider Epicor Essential industries are going through a period of radical transformation, as businesses that ...

This is a guest blogpost by Luiz Mariotto, group vice president, SAP Product Management, Rimini Street. In it he suggests three questions IT leaders should ask about their SAP roadmaps to help ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network team is off (virtually) to HashiConf Global. While our presence may be abstracted via cyberspace, the event is also of course staged in person between 10-12 ...

Workday staged the US leg of its annual user and partner conference series this September in San Francisco and the Computer Weekly Developer Network team was there to slot in its puncard and report ...

When Larry Ellison gave his keynote speech at Oracle Cloud World in Las Vegas last week, it would not have been shocking if he had expressed some scepticism about the hype generated by Generative ...

Confluent hosted day two of Current 2023 ‘next generation of Kafka Summit’ in San Jose, California this week. The Computer Weekly Open Source Insider team were in residence and ready to download - ...

Confluent welcomed a group of its key partners to Current 2023 in San Jose this September.  With names including AWS, RedHat, IBM, Google Cloud and Microsoft, other sponsors spanned from Redpanda ...

Data streaming company staged the Current 2023 conference and exhibition this month in the heart of Silicon Valley in San Jose. Keen to explain how its platform has expanded its core ...

This is a guest post by Accenture's Arnab Chakraborty, global lead of responsible AI, and Senthil Ramani, head of data and AI The far-reaching capabilities of generative AI have shown AI’s first ...

One day, all-powerful quantum computers will be used by rogue states and powerful crime syndicates to render all secure communications on the internet obsolete. Governments and major organisations ...

The Linux Foundation has made note of its Camara (stylised as CAMARA officially) project now having graduated to a funded model. The news was shared onsite during the opening keynote at Open Source ...

As part of the Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit 2023, the foundation has announced the formation of the Unified Acceleration (UXL) Foundation. This is a cross-industry group committed to ...

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has conducted a survey (the team modestly called it a microsurvey of just 135 contributors, but size is not important and small is beautiful, right?) to ...

If you're knee-deep in the world of SAP and data management, you almost certainly know the pain of dirty data. It's inaccurate, inconsistent, and a real headache when you're trying to make ...

The US Congress has invited tech industry leaders to the US’ first AI Insight forum. In a tweet discussing the event, which he attended, Bill Gates said: “The potential of AI is limitless—but we ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Manu Raj in his capacity as senior director for enterprise data, analytics & AI/data science at PagerDuty. Pager Duty ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Mark Chaffey, CEO of hackajob - a tech careers marketplace that aims to put power back in the hands of those working in ...

turn the corporate priority from data breach notification to enabling staff and customers to report attempts at impersonation, whether or not there is evidence of an actual breach.  Such a change ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Jean-Baptiste Grandvallet, EMEA SE manager for strategic accounts at Cohesity. Grandvallet writes in full as follows... ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Christian Helmus in his capacity as product manager for cloud services at GTT - a company known for its managed network and ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by James Sturrock in his role as director of systems engineering at Nutanix. Sturrock writes in full as follows… In the modern ...

In this guest post, Danny Quinn, managing director of datacentre services provider DataVita, assesses the environmental impact of artificial intelligence from a server farm perspective The ...

Civo used the Europe leg of its Navigate user conference series to showcase a number of announcements and platform developments. CEO and serial entrepreneur Mark Boost took the stage in London’s ...

This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider written by Alex Merced in his capacity as developer advocate (and data lakehouse evangelist) at Dremio - as explained here the Dremio ...

This is a guest blogpost by Triveni Gandhi, Responsible AI Lead, Dataiku Large Language Models (LLMs) including ChatGPT have seemingly moved from hype, to hot seat, to hazard. In the midst of the ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Siim Kibus, engineering manager at Pipedrive - a company known for its sales and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) ...

Looking at the August bank holiday disruption caused by an air traffic control technical issue at Nats, there are a number of immediate take-aways that CIOs should ponder.There are reports that ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Andy Fernandez in his capacity as director of product management at Hycu Inc - a company known for its Data Protection ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by William Collins in his capacity as principal cloud architect at Alkira - a company known for its ‘connect everything’ cloud ...

Nicola Byrne, the National Data Guardian, published a blogpost on the Gov.uk site on 24 August that seems to suggest Palantir should be excluded from the technology involved in the NHS Federated ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Chris Hodson in his role as CSO at Cyberhaven - the company is known for its technology that detects and protects company ...

Ultimately the best enforcer is an informed and demanding customer base. We should be careful not to create an additional hurdle just for AI.  Data that is under copyright,  personal data or state ...

VMware says it wants to put developers first. The firm known as the cloud infrastructure enabler that any reasonable person might expect to rank network engineers, sysadmins, operations specialists ...

With all the recent press coverage, it's not surprising to see IT vendors clamouring to message around their AI creds. In a survey by Freeform Dynamics and the CIO WaterCooler, a bunch of IT ...

VMware kicked off VMware Explore (the event previously known as VMworld) with a full-blown keynote as expected. The Computer Weekly Developer Network team attended this event and this piece is ...

VMware kicked off VMware Explore (the conference formerly known as VMworld) with a full ‘day zero’ of activities, booth exhibits, breakouts and training-focused tracks designed to showcase its ...

Nutanix touches many clouds. Indeed, the company’s self-style tagline is the hybrid multi-cloud computing company. If its public, private on-premises, edge-based, mobile-centric and/or hybrid in ...

A British cloud computing company you say? With a specialism in Kubernetes platform development and the drive to create what the company like to call a wider Kubernetes ecosystem, really? Well yes, ...

What was VMworld is now (as of 2022 and onwards) known as VMware Explore and the Computer Weekly Developer Network team has its multi–cloud bags packed ready to attend the show. Held at The ...