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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
When IT Meets Politics
Delivering the Skills and Productivity Promises in the Party Manifestos: The Janet and John Strategy
Winsafe Ltd 01 Jun 2024Ensure 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 ...
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Why every politician should study at least some science
Computer Weekly 01 Jun 2024Guest 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 ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
IT transformation fatigue? Time to bust those big bang blues
Freeform Dynamics 29 May 2024As 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, ...
CW Developer Network
Green coding - Keepit: Tapping into code’s potential for greener backup services
28 May 2024This 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 ...
CW Developer Network
Green coding - CloudBolt: Cloud efficiency... beyond dollars, pounds & pennies
25 May 2024This 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 ...
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Observability and Security: Thoughts on the Cisco-Splunk Acquisition
Freeform Dynamics 24 May 2024The 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 ...