Essential Guides

Essential guide to prefabricated and micro datacentres

IT leaders have more options than ever for developing their datacentre strategy. In this essential guide, we look at the options and examine how organisations are building out their datacentres  Continue Reading

A guide to threat management

This is a CIOs guide to threat management.  Continue Reading

Essential guide: What the EU Data Protection Regulation changes mean to you

This guide lays out what the new European Data Protection Regulation means for European businesses. Find news, features, tips and videos on the European Data Protection Regulation  Continue Reading

Essential guide to laptop, desktop PC and mobile device strategy

A guide to the latest technologies and best practice in enterprise IT strategy for laptops, desktop PCs and mobile  Continue Reading

Essential guide to application modernisation

Tools and technologies are emerging that help IT leaders to modernise existing applications and maintain their investment in legacy systems  Continue Reading

Essential guide to operation-centric security

To stay ahead of cyber attackers, IT security teams need to take an operation-centric approach, to offer a real-time picture of activity across their estate.  Continue Reading

Essential Guide: Digital transformation in the public sector

Digital technologies and best practices are transforming the public sector across Europe - we look at some of the examples and the lessons being learned  Continue Reading

Essential Guide: Technology readiness for the Covid-19 coronavirus crisis

The global Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic requires an important response from enterprise IT departments - in this guide, we examine the key considerations for IT leaders  Continue Reading

Essential guide to cloud management

A well-implemented cloud management strategy allows users to maintain control over public, private and hybrid clouds  Continue Reading

Brexit and the UK technology sector - read our analysis of the implications

The UK's decision to leave the EU has sent shockwaves through the British business community - we look at the potential aftermath for the IT sector  Continue Reading

Essential guide to hybrid cloud workloads

As more enterprises adopt hybrid cloud, we examine the challenges of managing hybrid workloads  Continue Reading

CW@50 - Celebrating 50 years of British technology innovation

Computer Weekly celebrates its 50th anniversary with a major retrospective on the UK's contribution to technology history  Continue Reading

UKtech50 2015: The most influential people in UK IT - read all our coverage

Computer Weekly announced the sixth annual UKtech50, our definitive list of the movers and shakers in UK IT - the CIOs, industry executives, public servants and business leaders driving the role of technology in the UK economy  Continue Reading

Essential guide to desktop virtualisation

Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) has become an increasingly popular option for IT leaders who want mobility, security and ease of management for users  Continue Reading

Essential guide to data breaches, the dark web and the hidden data economy

In this guide, we look at the aftermath of a data breach - what do cyber criminals use that stolen data for, and what can companies do to avoid becoming a victim?  Continue Reading

Essential guide to mobile application platforms

Mobile apps have come to dominate the experience of consumer smartphone users, and that trend is increasingly influencing corporate software development too. Employees on the move want to access key business applications on mobile devices and IT ...  Continue Reading

Essential Guide to dealing with a data breach

In this guide, we look at the best practice in dealing with a data breach. The guide includes examples of companies that have been hit by data breaches and how they have responded, as well as expert advice on how to respond to a data breach or cyber...  Continue Reading

Top 50 Most Influential Women in UK IT 2015

Read all the coverage from the Most Influential Women in UK IT event 2015  Continue Reading

A CIO guide to the service cloud

This is CIOs guide to the service cloud including everything you need to know about using cloud services.  Continue Reading

What you need to know about Converged infrastructure

If you are considering converged infrastructure this guide is for you answering all of your questions and offering tips and advice  Continue Reading

A Guide to Software Defined Networks

Considering a Software Defined Network (SDN)? Find out everything you need to know in this guide.  Continue Reading

Using green computing for improving energy efficiency guide

Green computing is no longer just a white-wash expression, as government schemes like the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) scheme, the Climate Change Agreement (CCA) or the European Union Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS), are encouraging companies ...  Continue Reading

Supplier profile: CA Technologies

In this CA Technologies supplier profile you will find a special nine-page report from Computer Weekly analysing the challenges facing CA Technologies, along with figures about its financial performance, the services it offers, its place in the ...  Continue Reading

A CIOs guide to the Internet of Things (IoT)

A guide to make sense of the Internet to Things (IoT)  Continue Reading

Guide to LUN configuration and virtualisation

LUN storage configuration has long been a cornerstone of storage management. The LUN – a chunk of storage created from RAID partitions on a SAN – presents a logical volume of capacity to an individual server. That’s still relevant today in the era...  Continue Reading

A guide to flash storage

In this guide you’ll find out everything you need to know about flash storage.  Continue Reading

LTFS tape NAS: What it is and how to build it

In storage, cost is everything. So, imagine a storage medium with the frugal cost profile of tape and access times of NAS. Well, it already exists. Since 2010 the Linear Tape File System (LTFS) has allowed access to tapes as if they are spinning ...  Continue Reading

Data centre analysis and business intelligence guide

Business intelligence can be beneficial for analysing internal raw data, such as turnover by department or product, and identify inefficient business processes that can be re-engineered to better suit your business needs. However, you have to ensure...  Continue Reading

Everything you need to know about Windows 8

The much anticipated Microsoft Windows 8 has been released, with its touch-control interface, and single operating system that works on desktops and mobiles. Microsoft has described parts of Windows 8 as the most important redesign, of its ...  Continue Reading

IT services and managed services guide

Deciding on whether to utilise IT services, as part of your business strategy, can be a hard decision to make. Firstly you need to decide whether or not IT services will be right for your business, in the long term, and secondly decide which IT ...  Continue Reading

A guide to business process automation software

Automation software is being used by businesses to reduce the costs associated with completing particular processes. It is a way of reducing labour intensive activities.

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A guide to HR technology

Human Resources technology helps in all areas of a business from recruitment to retirement. HR Technology improves the HR’s ability to use data in a more efficient way. In this HR technology guide you will find news, analysis and downloadable ...  Continue Reading

A guide to application performance management

Focusing on monitoring and managing the performance/availability of applications, this guide offers news articles, tips and advice. This guide includes topics such as the speed of transactions, networking issues, workflow and related tools for ...  Continue Reading

A guide to a digital government: General election 2015

The general election 2015 has been full of nods towards a stronger digital economy, which each of the main parties’ manifestos highlighting how they plan to be a digital government. In this guide find out all the coverage from the general election...  Continue Reading

2014 Royal Holloway infosecurity thesis series

In this guide find all the 2014 thesis submissions from graduates of the master of science course run by the Royal Holloway, University of London, Information Security Group.  Continue Reading

Guide to storage performance and specs

Storage performance can be a minefield. This guide walks you through key aspects of storage performance, from vendor product specs to optimisation of storage for virtual environments.  Continue Reading

Essential guide to disaster recovery and business continuity

Everything you need to know about business continuity and disaster recovery, planning and prevention.  Continue Reading