CIO
If you think the past five years you spent rebuilding your entire IT stack means you can now relax, think again, says former divisional CTO at Worldpay and IT veteran David Walker.
bruce perens
Open Source may have won, but it has also failed, says Open Source Initiative founder
AI
"Here's where people end up in RAG hell, with a bunch of unfamiliar tools and in many cases immature tools...”
networks
"Enterprises are deploying a mix of technologies for secure remote access, including VPN, ZTNA, SD-WAN and SASE – on average respondents are using 2.3 different solutions, but..."
AI
"The addition of pgvector for the SQL database specialist is also good news for users in sectors like financial services" says technology veteran David Walker.
SLAs
"SLAs are becoming differentiators and, in many cases, the ultimate decider in purchasing decisions..."
Zero Trust
"We are forced to ‘trust’ the Internet – open inbound ports on our firewalls – and then our app server, web server or API server does the final authorization inside our DMZ..."
DevOps
"I’m not convinced that site reliability engineering was ever the responsibility of developers (or DevOps engineers) if you hold strongly to the belief that it’s a distinct role..."
developers
"The significance of code quality goes beyond mere functionality—it reflects the development team's culture and, by extension, the potential for scalability and synergy generation..."
data
If you are in the middle of a transformation exercise, how do you ensure data compatibility while you are switching systems?
Cloud
Former Chief Information Officer David Walker welcomes the new wave of flexible thinking and shares some advice on how to capitalise on this latest trend
AWS
"Unfortunately, the size of an existing EBS volume cannot be decreased. Instead, it is possible to create a smaller volume and move the data using tools such as rsync, at the cost of pausing the system’s write operations during the migration..."