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CW Developer Network
SLM series - Iterate.ai : Strategic sweet spots for sustainable savviness
05 Mar 2025This 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 ...
CW Developer Network
SLM series - Tabnine: A working combination of SLMs, LLMs (and the case for RAG)
04 Mar 2025This 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 ...
CW Developer Network
Nutanix details infrastructure for streamlined workload portability in era of containerization & AI
04 Mar 2025First, 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 ...
Quocirca Insights
Digital Disruption, the Future of Work, and the Evolving Role of Print
Quocirca 03 Mar 2025Digital 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 ...
Data Matters
Speed and skills are essential for the UK to realise its AI ambitions
Enterprise Applications Editor 28 Feb 2025This 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 ...
CW Developer Network
SLM series - Syndicode: How to use the right (model) tool for the job
25 Feb 2025This 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 ...
CW Developer Network
SLM series - IBM: Open source base models empower data-infused specialised models
24 Feb 2025This 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 ...
Ahead in the Clouds
Challenges faced by women in the datacentre industry and how to overcome them
20 Feb 2025In 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 ...
CW Developer Network
SLM series - InFlux Technologies: It's a question of specialisation, especially
20 Feb 2025This 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 ...
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
The Private AI Infrastructure Imperative: A Practical Perspective
Freeform Dynamics 18 Feb 2025Early 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 ...
Data Matters
Maximising agentic AI’s impact: the importance of a strong data foundation
Enterprise Applications Editor 14 Feb 2025This 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 ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Should the UK spend hundreds of billions on AI?
Managing Editor 14 Feb 2025This 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 ...
CW Developer Network
SLM series - Cotera: 10 key SLM facts for software engineers (and businesses)
13 Feb 2025This 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 ...
CW Developer Network
SLM series: NTT DATA - Cost-effective solutions for real-time industrial AI
12 Feb 2025This 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.
Networks Generation
"Just throw more bandwidth at it" - Yeah right... Some people never learn!
Broadband Testing 10 Feb 2025One 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 ...
When IT Meets Politics
Will Skills England be allowed to change the course of the Government's inherited policy Titanic?
Winsafe Ltd 07 Feb 2025Despite 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 ...
Building on a 113-year legacy, Sharp Europe is transforming itself into a leading European IT services provider. Strategic acquisitions are playing a key role in this growth which has enabled the ...
Consider the office laptop. It certainly may be used in the office, where its owner, a company employee, requires the best user experience for accessing the software needed to do their work when in ...
CW Developer Network
Data Engineering - Patronus AI: Building robust evaluation frameworks for AI accuracy
06 Feb 2025This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Anand Kannappan, CEO and founder of model adversarial testing platform Patronus AI. Kannappan writes in full as follows... ...
CW Developer Network
Data engineering - Stack Overflow: Building the foundations of AI intelligence
05 Feb 2025This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Jody Bailey, chief product and technology officer at Stack Overflow. Bailey writes in full as follows… The demand for data ...
Santa was good to me this year, I got an Amazfit T-Rex 3 and it was a gift worth waiting for. It’s taken me a while to write this up (I know the yuletide season has passed), but it takes a while to ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
A driving licence in an app is a boost for digital identity - but not for angry suppliers
Editor in chief 04 Feb 2025It’s rare that a digital government development attracts interest from mainstream media, but last month’s announcement of a digital driving licence brought widespread national coverage and a mass ...
Enterprise-grade open source database software and services company Percona has announced the availability of Percona Support for Valkey - a, responsive service offering that promises to maintain ...
As part of the Computer Weekly Developer Network series on data engineering, we have reshaped our story headline format on this occasion. To put real-time data streaming platform company in the ...
This is a guest blogpost by Chintan Patel, CTO, Cisco UK and Ireland. Each year brings the promise of technological advancements that push the boundaries of possibility. As we begin 2025, it’s ...
CW Developer Network
Data Engineering – Persona: Navigating regional compliance & identity laws
30 Jan 2025This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Persona CTO, Charles Yeh. Persona is known for its platform technology designed to provide identity verification, allowing ...
As a grown adult, you really shouldn’t get excited about a hard disk, but I managed to get my hands on a unit that could be the answer to my needs. To be clear, I need to work across about five ...
The largely held belief that Nasa spent millions developing a space pen that could write in zero gravity, while cosmonauts just used a pencil, is a myth. But there are plenty of examples in recent ...
CW Developer Network
Data engineering - Domino Data Lab: Adapting engineering practices for the AI era
28 Jan 2025This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Jarrod Vawdrey, field chief data scientist at Domino Data Lab. Vawdrey writes in full as follows... In 2023, data ...
The finalists for the 2025 Bupa Everywoman in Technology Awards have been announced prior to the awards ceremony in March. This year is the 15th year the women’s professional network has run its ...
CW Developer Network
Data engineering - Cloudera: Counting the cost of data integration tax
27 Jan 2025This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Wim Stoop, senior director of product marketing at Cloudera. Styled as the ‘hybrid data company’, Cloudera is known for its ...