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No one can deny the tech sector’s level of excitement when something new starts to gain traction. Rather like the car mechanic or builder who urges their customers to buy more expensive components ...

Two laptops or one? One large-screen laptop and a Microsoft Surface? One laptop and Chromebook, or one laptop and an iPad with a keyboard, or just two laptops? Those are the choices I make every ...

This is a guest post written by Jacob Rank in his role as senior director of product management at Appian. Rank manages a team of product managers and a product portfolio that encompasses the work ...

This is a guest blogpost by Steve Neat, general manager, EMEA, Solidatus Perhaps you’ve heard someone mention “data lineage” in a meeting. You might have nodded along while secretly wondering what ...

The dust has yet to settle on the 67-page auditor’s report looking into what went so badly wrong at Birmingham City Council with its enterprise resource planning (ERP) project to replace SAP with ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Jarrod Vawdrey in his capacity as field chief data scientist at Domino Data Lab. Vawdrey writes in full as follows… Small ...

Refurbished tech won’t solve the e-waste epidemic, only better business planning and hardware management will, according to Leo Poggiali, Founder and CEO of IT leasing firm Ooodles, in this guest ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Yaron Vaxman, senior director of deep learning at Cloudinary. Vaxman writes in full as follows… There are many complex, ...

In the realms of IT, it’s difficult to find any instance of a genuinely “unique” product – at least, one that’s unique for the right reasons! Within the security sphere, it’s particularly ...

SUSE used its SUSECON 2025 event this week in Orlando, Florida to explain where its portfolio of enterprise software infrastructure tools and services has expanded and extended to evolve to the ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Jared Peterson, senior vice president of platform engineering, SAS. A seasoned technology professional, Peterson’s full ...

SUSE kicked off its SUSECON 2025 conference this week in Orlando with a keynote introduced by Dominic Laurie in his role as comms director… who handed immediately over to SUSE CEO Dirk-Peter van ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Yuval Illuz, OurCrowd COO & AI and cybersecurity expert. OurCrowd is a global venture investing platform for ...

With the ringtones of Mobile World Congress still ringing in our ears and the prospect of SUSECON 2025 just around the corner, SUSE has detailed its SUSE Edge for Telco 3.2 release  This update ...

In September last year, Computer Weekly sat down with three of the most senior and influential digital leaders in the UK government to discuss the challenges and opportunities ahead under a new ...

This is a guest post by Shomron Jacob, head of applied machine learning & platform at Iterate.ai, whose AI innovation ecosystem enables enterprises to build production-ready applications. ...

Neighbourhood Watch became became by far the UK's largest community support movement during Covid - albeit cover is patchy. Across England and Wales it embraces 9% of household but that ranges from ...

This is a guest post written for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Ameya Deshmukh in his role as head of programmes for Tabnine. Tabnine is an AI software development platform with ...

First, the cloud grew. Then, after a period of widespread adoption that eventually led to mass-market acceptance and a groundswell of platform-level standardisation that took us through the ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Dr Juan Bernabe-Moreno in his capacity as director of IBM Research Europe for the UK & Ireland. Bernabe-Moreno writes ...

Digital disruption continues to reshape the business landscape, impacting how we work and the tools we use. Quocirca's "In the Spotlight Special Edition" series, featuring interviews with leading ...

This is a guest blogpost by David Hogan, vice-president Enterprise, EMEA at NVIDIA. This summer, the Isambard AI supercomputer in Bristol will be fully operational, marking a significant step ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Dom Couldwell in his capacity as head of field engineering EMEA, DataStax. Couldwell writes in full as follows… Building a ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network team is at F5 AppWorld 2025. News emanating from the show that we have not yet covered includes several new solutions and capabilities that the company says ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network team is at AppWorld with F5. As part of the conference’s central newsreel, we learn that the company has announced new additions to the F5 VELOS product line. ...

We often hear of senior tech industry execs drawing an analogy between the tech sector and automotive manufacturing. Basically, if car development followed the same rules as the tech sector, by now ...

F5 kicked off its AppWorld 2025 conference this week in Las Vegas with a keynote introduced and delivered by François Locoh-Donou, president and CEO of F5. Talking about the demands of building ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network by Volodymyr Murzak in his role as solution architect and tech lead at software development company Syndicode. Syndicode is a software ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Raj Datta, vice president, software and AI partnerships at IBM. Datta writes as follows... In 2025, software companies ...

In this guest post, Sarah Draper, general counsel and chief risk officer at colocation giant Telehouse Europe, opens up about the challenges women face in the workplace when fighting to get their ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Alex Perritaz in his role as chief architect at InFlux Technologies. InFlux Technologies is a technology company ...

Consider an organisation that, understandably, wants to ensure its customer data and intellectual property is kept as safe as possible, assessing how to “do AI”. It is easy to assume everyone is ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Adam Lieberman in his role as chief AI officer at Finastra. Finastra is a global financial software company that provides ...

Early experimentation with generative AI (‘GenAI’) through generic cloud services has left many organisations questioning where to go next. While services like ChatGPT or AI features embedded in ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) written by Maxime Vermeir in his role as senior director of AI strategy at ABBYY. Vermeir writes in full as follows... On the ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Peter Schneider in his role as senior product manager at Qt Group. Schneider writes as follows… On the question of whether ...

This is a guest blogpost by Sumeet Arora, chief development officer at ThoughtSpot. The new wave of AI has arrived in the form of agentic AI, and it is already making significant strides in the ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Ian Quackenbos aka Ian Q. Quackenbos leads the AI Innovation & Incubation team (technology & product) at SUSE and ...

This week the European Union (EU) announced a €200bn InvestAI fund, to build out sovereign artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. This follows on from the Trump administration’s $500bn Project ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Tom Firth, co-founder of Cotera.  Cotera is an AI operating system (OS) that unifies support tickets, feedback and product ...

Keen to tighten our grasp on the application delivery landscape (as we always are), the Computer Weekly Developer Network team is off to F5 AppWorld 2025. Staged in the (it has to be said, ...

It’s always interesting to see if a new keyboard option can make a difference to working life. After all, it’s hard to beat what is (arguably) the gold standard in the form of the MX Keys from ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Shahid Ahmed in his role as EVP for Edge Services at NTT Data. Part of the wider NTT conglomerate family, NTT Data ...

This is a guest blogpost by Bobby Blumofe, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Akamai. DeepSeek's recent developments have ignited significant discussion in the AI community. ...

This is a guest blogpost by Paul O’Sullivan, SVP Solution Engineering and Salesforce UKI CTO. Artificial Intelligence has undergone an extraordinary evolution — from predicting trends and ...

The world of your childs smart phone combines the thrills and spills of the circus, fairground, playground, wild west and forest sauvage . It can be a very scary place without you to hold their hand.  

One of my classic mantras of the past, ooh er, 30+ years has been “throwing bandwidth at a problem doesn’t solve the problem”. So, you would think all those decades later that the penny had dropped ...

There are language models and there are language models.  While, at the time of writing at least, there is little talk of medium language models (Ed: give it a month, it’s bound to happen) we ...

Despite fine words the needs of employers and student appear set to come third, behind the requirements of funding and regulatory hierarchies dating back to 1917 and of the Mayoral Combined ...

It’s been a while - hey, there was a pandemic, right - but the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog is getting ready for SUSECON 2025. Since we last made it to SUSECON 2020, quite a bit has ...