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class="standfirst">Usage and investment in graph is growing, but doubts remain that graph databases will offer advantages over RDBMSes in the long term. Two experts go head to head about their respective benefits.</div> </div> </a> </article> <article> <a href="/Debates/2022/02/14/private_communications/" class="story_link"> <div class="story_grid_img"> <img class="" alt="" title="" width="150" height="100" src="https://regmedia.co.uk/2016/01/11/encryption.jpg?x=300&y=200&crop=1"> </div> <div class="article_text_elements"> <h4>In the digital age, we should not expect our communications to remain private</h4> <div class="standfirst">We all face the attentions of a range of actors for whom our “privacy” is at best an afterthought. But what privacy actually means in the digital age is hard to define.</div> </div> </a> </article> <article> <a href="/Debates/2021/12/06/software_environment/" class="story_link"> <div class="story_grid_img"> <img class="" alt="" title="" width="150" height="100" src="https://regmedia.co.uk/2016/06/03/bare_knuckle_fight_photo_via_shutterstock.jpg?x=300&y=200&crop=1"> </div> <div class="article_text_elements"> <h4>A unified, agnostic software environment can be achieved</h4> <div class="standfirst">We debate the question: Can the industry ever have a truly open, unified, agnostic software environment in HPC and AI that can span multiple kinds of compute engines?</div> </div> </a> </article> <article> <a href="/Debates/2021/11/29/renting_hardware/" class="story_link"> <div class="story_grid_img"> <img class="" alt="" title="" width="150" height="100" src="https://regmedia.co.uk/2017/02/07/cloud_money_shutterstock.jpg?x=300&y=200&crop=1"> </div> <div class="article_text_elements"> <h4>Renting hardware on a subscription basis is bad for customers</h4> <div class="standfirst">Call it leasing, equipment rental, or hardware as a service, the idea of NOT owning your computing devices has been around for years. But many individuals and corporations have been distinctly ambiguous about the idea, feeling that the benefits tend to flow to the suppliers, and most of all, the financers.</div> </div> </a> </article> </div> <div class="rt-osr"> <article> <a href="/Debates/2021/11/01/pandemic/" class="story_link"> <div class="story_grid_img"> <img class="" alt="" title="" width="150" height="100" src="https://regmedia.co.uk/2016/08/04/nerd_super_hero_photo_via_shutterstock.jpg?x=300&y=200&crop=1"> </div> <div class="article_text_elements"> <h4>The Pandemic improved the status of the IT workers … forever</h4> <div class="standfirst">Whether tech workers saved the world during the pandemic or whether we should thank health workers and researchers is one for another day. But tech workers certainly kept business and the public sector going, helping organisations pivot to online and by allowing employees to work remotely.. But a year on, has the hero effect worn off? Or can they, should they, expect a permanently elevated status?</div> </div> </a> </article> <article> <a href="/Debates/2021/10/11/assumed_consent/" class="story_link"> <div class="story_grid_img"> <img class="" alt="" title="" width="150" height="100" src="https://regmedia.co.uk/2019/01/23/chest_xray.jpg?x=300&y=200&crop=1"> </div> <div class="article_text_elements"> <h4>Assumed consent is the right approach for sharing healthcare patients’ data, beyond their direct care</h4> <div class="standfirst">The debate around the benefits of sharing medical data for the greater good versus individual’s expectations of confidentiality and consent, has become heated to say the least over the last year and a half. But if consent is not just assumed, but informed, do we all stand to benefit? Our contributors serve up their own prescriptions, but you get to decide.</div> </div> </a> </article> <article> <a href="/Debates/2021/09/13/education_divide/" class="story_link"> <div class="story_grid_img"> <img class="" alt="" title="" width="150" height="100" src="https://regmedia.co.uk/2021/09/09/shutterstock_kid_studying.jpg?x=300&y=200&crop=1"> </div> <div class="article_text_elements"> <h4>Technology widens the education divide - Yes or No?</h4> <div class="standfirst">The pandemic has highlighted the increasing importance of technology within education – and shown what happens when policy makers and education authorities get things wrong. But is this just a question of access, or are there other factors we need to consider? Our contributors take to their keyboards to thrash out the issues.</div> </div> </a> </article> <article> <a href="/Debates/2021/06/21/containers_virtual_machines/" class="story_link"> <div class="story_grid_img"> <img class="" alt="" title="" width="150" height="100" src="https://regmedia.co.uk/2021/02/03/security.jpg?x=300&y=200&crop=1"> </div> <div class="article_text_elements"> <h4>Containers will kill virtual machines</h4> <div class="standfirst">Should you migrate your services and applications to containers, or are virtual machines good enough? 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