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Computer Weekly Buyer’s Guides map the IT buying cycle of our readership onto relevant editorial that will inform and educate readers and help them in making the right buying decision.
On a three-week cycle, the publication runs a series of articles focused on a particular category of software/hardware/IT service. Articles appear in the features section of the Computer Weekly ezine, which can be downloaded as a PDF or viewed as an SEO-optimised Buyer’s Guide page on the Computer Weekly website.
The Buyer’s Guide PDF downloads point readers to the online Buyer’s Guide, where they will be able to access all the articles in one place, along with additional content, such as blog posts and related articles.
The editorial team updates the Buyer’s Guide schedule on a quarterly basis to ensure the chosen technologies are topical and to respond to short-term commercial opportunities.
Market overview
This is an introduction to the topic covered in the Buyer’s Guide. The article will examine the nature of a given software/hardware/IT services product category, look at where it fits in the business, why users need it and which companies sell products in this category.
Analyst perspective
Here, Computer Weekly invites leading IT analysts to submit relevant research that can help readers narrow down product choices with a shortlist of products they may wish to investigate further.
Case study
At this stage in the buying cycle, the reader has a shortlist and may have given his/her technical people a brief to research the products in more detail, such as by following up customer references from the supplier. Computer Weekly supports this research with an in-depth case study, selected for its uniqueness, which illustrates best practices, technical and business drivers, lessons learnt and future plans of a successful IT project using one of the products shortlisted.
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Buyer’s Guides comprise three separate features, which combine to become a standalone piece of evergreen content that readers can refer back to.
Each part includes a written article, plus relevant background material, as well as exclusive online-only multimedia content and infographics. Here is the schedule for H1 2025:
Jan 14 to Feb 3
We look at the challenges organisations face in 2025, the emergence of new threats and how new regulations that come into force this year will impact enterprise IT security and corporate governance.
Feb 4 to Feb 24
For years, IT leaders have fine tuned data processing to support business inte;ligence across all the IT systems holding useful corporate information. Unstructured data makes this far more complex, and the ability to process structured and unstructured data uniformly is key to unlocking the full value of the corporate data troves.
Feb 25 to Mar 17
There is a growing disquiet about how lots of enterprises (and tech firms) are unlikely to meet their net-zero targets. This is partly because AI and other energy-intensive compute services is driving up energy usage.
Mar 18 to Apr 7
The growing demands for compute capacity, particularly in the UK, is wildly outstripping supply. What are the alternatives to building net-new datacentres? We look at what the industry is doing to tackle demand.
Apr 8 to May 5
We look at the emergence of AI at the edge and how a new breed of hardware and software powers AI inference applications on any devices.
May 6 to Jun 9
We look at the development of fast networking to move vast quantities of data to and from AI acceleration hardware. We also explore how AI is changing network operations, enabling capacity planning and providing greater contextual insights for network admins.
Jun 10 to Jun 30
A number of organisations are looking to move some workloads into private clouds and embrace more of a hybrid approach. We explore the business drivers behind these decisions and explore the pros and cons and use cases for cloud repatriation.
Jul 1 to Jul 21
In this series of articles we find out how IT security leaders are working with business and IT chiefs to ensure the guardrails are secure enough to prevent inadvertent data loss and security breaches arising from the use of enterprise AI.
Jul 22 to Aug 18
We look at how customer data management tools and platforms are evolving and how to deploy them effectively to deliver customer insights that empower decision-making.
Aug 19 to Sep 15
Has the “shift-left” movement gone too far? We look at how platform engineering is helping to solve a problem exacerbated by the DevOps movement and the drive towards cloud native architectures.
Sep 16 to Oct 13
A hybrid and multi-cloud setup increases the complexity of managing workloads and keeping corporate IT assets secure. We find out how IT leaders address this challenge. What are the best practices for deploying and managing workloads to avoid costly mistakes?
Oct 14 to Nov 10
With the deadline for the end of support for Windows 10 looming, we look at how the role of the Windows operating system is changing and what this means for your desktop IT strategy.
Nov 11 to Dec 1
This has been the year of agentic AI. With so much industry hype and tech providers pushing it as the next big thing, we look at the reality of agentic AI and find out how the technology is being deployed in the real world.
Dec 2 to Dec 31
In this series of articles we look at the market for self-service developer tools to help software developers deploy the tooling and software development environment they need on-demand, in a scalable and secure manner.
01 Dec 2024