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IT risk management

• Hacker Gary McKinnon - Essential Guide

  UK hacker Gary McKinnon has lost his appeal to the European Court of Human and now faces extradition to the US on charges of causing damage to US military systems when hacking into them to seek information on UFOs. Find out more in our essential ...  Continue Reading

• Virtualisation: realising the benefits

  Virtualisation: Realising the benefits

  T departments are being pressured to cut costs, and yet deliver more services faster and better than before....

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• How to manage your software assets

  In May, the Business Software Alliance, the industry's licensing watchdog, launched a six-week blitz to cut the use of illegally copied or counterfeit software across 5,000 businesses in the Manchester area.  Continue Reading

• Microsoft’s guide to IT efficiency for SMBs

  In this series of articles Microsoft UK offers directors of small-to-medium businesses advice and...  Continue Reading

• Case study: Simplifying IT at Nottingham Building Society

  Working with systems integrator Esteem, Nottingham Building Society has re-engineered its entire IT estate to reduce its service overhead and enable its IT team to work more strategically towards long-term goals, employing virtualisation and remote ...  Continue Reading

• IT managers in finance sector trapped

  IT managers in the finance sector ...  Continue Reading

• Identity is no longer a matter of what you know, but who you are

  Protecting your personal information with "what you know" is no longer good enough as it is now easy to find information like a birth date, address or mother's...

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• How UK business broadband is evolving

  Broadband connectivity was supposed to be a revolution in digital communications. In the late 1990s, businesses that wanted high-speed internet access...

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• Securing the desktop and still allowing for flexibility

  Few enterprises could bear a $7.2bn loss caused by a "computer genius" avoiding company policies and controls. But for international bank Société Générale,...

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• Best IT blogs: Full shortlist for Computer Weekly's IT Blog Awards 2008

  Shortlist for Computer Weekly's IT Blog Awards 2008 in full, with links direct to all the shortlisted blogs.  Continue Reading

• Evolution of the internet protocol virtual private network

  Fran Howath, principal analyst, Quocirca Many organisations today operate in complex, distributed environments that encompass multiple branch offices...  Continue Reading

• Chinook helicopter disaster - computer software failure or pilot error?

  Chinook helicopter crash: was it computer software failure or a cause we'll never know? This article gives the background to the Chinook helicopter disaster with links to all the relevant articles published by ComputerWeekly and other useful web ...  Continue Reading

• Efficiency the priority as main players map out datacentre strategies

  Computer Weekly reviews how the main server makers are formulating strategy for the datacentre, and whether any viable alternatives are on the way. Our conclusion: keep an eye on Dell  Continue Reading

• Cranfield seeks key to understanding change management

  How can you maximise the chances that a large-scale IT project will succeed?  Continue Reading

• Credit crunch: the IT expert view

  The credit crunch currently blighting the financial services industry and contributing to the onset of global recession has had a major impact on IT...  Continue Reading