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• Inside Appian's hyperautomation factory: bots, AI & people

  Adrian Bridgwater 16 Dec 2020

Appian is a patient company. Despite the fact that the whole tech industry is falling over itself to tell us that it now offers low-code software automation advantages, the arguably more pure-play ...

• Exasol: data supply chains, green data & data-developer destinies

  Adrian Bridgwater 14 Dec 2020

If not quite a future predictions analysis (we've all had far too many of those by now anyway) market intelligence lead at Exasol Helena Schwenk has spoken to the Computer Weekly Developer Network ...

• Developers, get 'image conscious' for royalty-free image codec JPEG XL

  Adrian Bridgwater 11 Dec 2020

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Dr. Jon Sneyers in his capacity as senior image researcher, Cloudinary. Dr. Sneyers is the co-chair of JPEG XL adhoc ...

• The new Nikkei: Dawex launches Japan Data Exchange (JDEX)

  Adrian Bridgwater 07 Dec 2020

Data is, just in case you hadn’t heard, the new lifeblood of business. It is the new oil, the new commodity, the new key ‘good’ and it is (of course) the lifeblood that drives the applications we ...

• Widening the Amazon: OutSystems partners to broaden its AWS functions 

  Adrian Bridgwater 07 Dec 2020

More than ‘just’ a low-code software company these days, Portugal-founded OutSystems will be 20-years old next year and the company now stands for an application platform designed to provide ...

• Nutanix pledges ‘common cloud model’ for all data

  Adrian Bridgwater 05 Dec 2020

If anyone were in any doubt, the future is cloud. Just to clarify, the future is cloud and the future of cloud is hybrid cloud. For the record, the future is cloud and the future of cloud is hybrid ...

• TIBCO4Good project expansion drives ‘data skills’

  Adrian Bridgwater 03 Dec 2020

Nobody needs to be reminded that 2020 taught us to be kinder, nicer and more caring to people. Many companies have decided to take the chance this year to explain just what they stand for over and ...

• AWS DevOps Guru: the mahatma's machine learning mantra

  Adrian Bridgwater 02 Dec 2020

If Jamie Oliver (other celebrity chefs are available) launched a service named Tastiest Ever Chef, you might not think it that unusual… but it’s a brand naming convention that we don’t often find ...

• The DBA time machine & the future of data

  Adrian Bridgwater 26 Nov 2020

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Rob Tribe, VP of systems engineering for EMEA region at Nutanix. Tribe contends that today, none of us can attend a ...

• Dynatrace traces measured route to PurePath 4 

  Adrian Bridgwater 24 Nov 2020

Software intelligence company Dynatrace enjoys tracing, dynamically, obviously. As such then, the fourth generation of its distributed tracing and code-level analysis technology, PurePath captures, ...

• Nutanix: hyper-converged-hybrid cloud needs ‘near-instant’ infrastructure 

  Adrian Bridgwater 18 Nov 2020

Whenever anyone tells you that technology needs an ever-increasing injection of agility, you would be forgiven for a) possibly starting to yawn - but also b) predominantly thinking about the ...

• Puppet puts on a show for compliance, that’s the way to do it

  Adrian Bridgwater 10 Nov 2020

Nobody ever stops to ask why infrastructure configuration compliance and automation company Puppet, is called Puppet. But of course, it’s obvious, a ‘real world’ puppet’s core infrastructure is ...

• Splunk Observability Suite, the log at the end of the tunnel 

  Adrian Bridgwater 10 Nov 2020

Splunk derives its name from the American term for potholing or caving. Spelunking Spelunkers dive down into the depths of the earth to look for the lower substrate layers that make up our planet. ...

• Promise CEO: The three pillars of decentralised protocol testing

  Adrian Bridgwater 04 Nov 2020

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Taariq Lewis, CEO and founder of  Promise  -- the company delivers onchain credit reputations, for the world, using digital ...

• Couchbase 'edges' upwards with offline-first control

  Adrian Bridgwater 03 Nov 2020

No coach potatoes in residence this month at Couchbase, or so it appears.  The self-styled multi-cloud-to-edge NoSQL database company (yeah, it’s a mouthful) has announced version 2.8 of Couchbase ...