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• iSCSI implementation: How to design, deploy an iSCSI SAN

  When approaching an iSCSI implementation, you'll need to carefully consider product selection, network design, TCP/IP offload, security/encryption and management.  Continue Reading

• VMworld Europe 2010 conference coverage

  Check out all the latest news, award recaps and other resources from VMworld Europe 2010 at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark.  Continue Reading

• The Daily Data Centre repository for October

  October 2010's highlights include the announcement of a new version of Citrix XenServer and the trends in managed hosting and server virtualisation from analysts at Ovum.  Continue Reading

• RSA Conference Europe 2010 coverage

  Get updates on the latest happenings at the RSA Conference Europe 2010 with breaking news stories, and exclusive video and podcasts.  Continue Reading

• Tape encryption lightens backup loads

  Tape encryption leaves processing-heavy encryption tasks until the backup processed has finished and can be the best choice when system scalability is required.  Continue Reading

• Security zone: opinions and insights from experienced professionals

  Information security has become a mainstream concern with well-established governance and compliance, increasing public awareness and more business processes going online. Security is an integral part of every business process. It must be built into...  Continue Reading

• Buyer's Guide to Mobile computing

  Part one of four  Continue Reading

• Buyer’s guide to mobile computing: Microsoft Windows Phone 7

  Part two of four As Microsoft prepares to launch Windows Phone 7, Jenny Williams asks if Microsoft's new mobile operating system will be good for business  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: What are the risks associated with social-media use, and who owns these risks?

  Is social media a security problem? What are the security risks associated with social-media use, and who owns these risks?  Continue Reading

• UK CIOs take on cloud computing

  This four-part series reveals how CIOs in the UK are handling the emerging world of cloud computing.  Continue Reading

• The Social Media Awards 2011 in association with IBM - Nominate now!

  Computer Weekly's search for the best voices in IT is back for its fourth year, brought to you in association with IBM, and the 2011 competition promises to be bigger and better than ever. Nominations are now open.  Continue Reading

• Fluid data management cure for storage headache at Galway University Hospitals

  Galway University Hospitals was suffering through serious storage issues, but implementing a virtualised storage solution from Compellent changed everything.  Continue Reading

• Bird & Bird keeps IT flying high with Neverfail

  The infrastructure manager at international law firm Bird & Bird shares how he avoids downtime with Neverfail.  Continue Reading

• The 360IT show 2010 - News, analysis, opinion and videos

  Computer Weekly is offering its readers live coverage from the biggest IT event of the year, the 360IT show at London’s Earl’s Court.  Continue Reading

• How IT departments can manage DIY technology

  Staff in companies are using low-cost accessible technology to connect their customers and innovate. One in three company employees are doing this already, under the radar.  Continue Reading

• How to measure the value of a green IT infrastructure

  Although 'green' slid down the list of priorities during the recession, it has not disappeared completely thanks to the advent of government-driven green initiatives  Continue Reading

• IT Blog Awards 2010 - Vote for your favourite blogger

  Computer Weekly’s search for the best blogs in IT is back for its third year, and the 2010 competition, brought to you in association with IBM, promises to be bigger and better than ever.  Continue Reading

• IT Blog Awards 2010: Charity challenge

  We’re adding a special category for the IT Blog Awards 2010 to raise funds for a fantastic cause. The ultimate measure of the success of a blog is engagement with its audience – so we want to challenge bloggers and Twitter users to show us how they ...  Continue Reading

• Thin provisioning: How it works and its benefits for storage capacity management

  Thin provisioning: In this podcast we hear how thin provisioning works, its key storage capacity management benefits and pitfalls, and how various vendors' thin provisioning offerings can differ from one another.  Continue Reading

• All the news from VMworld 2010

  If you were stuck in the UK, here's everything you missed in San Francisco at VMware's VMworld 2010.  Continue Reading

• The Daily Data Centre repository for September

  September's editions include IBM abandoning Verne Holding's Icelandic data centre and Novell unveiling SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware.  Continue Reading

• Own nothing – control everything: five patterns for securing data on devices you don’t own

  The enterprise security perimeter is quickly dissolving. Everything from company financials and source-code e-mails to unstructured documents and other forms of knowledge are circling outside the enterprise firewall on non-IT-controlled devices.  Continue Reading

• Data storage security: What it is and the key components of a storage security strategy

  Data storage security covers everything from legal compliance through preparation for e-discovery requests to access control and physical security of storage. Find out the key elements of a storage security strategy.  Continue Reading

• Safety first: How to monitor staff legally

  The subject of monitoring employees goes to the heart of the human rights question – the balancing of one person's rights against another's  Continue Reading

• Data centre strategies: Optimising IT infrastructures

  When optimising performance across application and service delivery platforms, especially with virtualisation involved, make sure you have the best data centre strategies in place.  Continue Reading

• Stereoscopic 3D animation: Shrek and How to train your dragon

  Already cutting a fiery swath through the box office, DreamWorks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon provides an object lesson in just how far stereoscopic 3D animated films have progressed.  Continue Reading

• Buyer's Guide to infrastructure: Three steps to IT reorganisation

  After a year of seeing deep cuts to infrastructure and operations (I&O) budgets, businesses are returning to a growth agenda. Most I&O executives say this is routine. As the vice-president of infrastructure at a large manufacturer summed it up: "I&O...  Continue Reading

• Buyers guide to IT infrastructure

  Best practice in datacentre design dictates that as much IT infrastructure as possible should be virtualised. Doing so improves agility, allowing the IT department to flex resources up and down to meet the demands of the business.  Continue Reading

• Handle conflict situations effectively with pointers from CIOs

  Conflict is essential for growth, so it’s said. We caught with many a leading CIO to learn how you can handle conflict at the workplace.  Continue Reading

• New Royal District Nursing Service CIO considers iPad, Android tablet

  Jodie Rugless, newly-appointed CIO of Melbourne-based Royal District Nursing Service (RDNS), is considering a move away from Windows Mobile and into Android-powered or iPad tablet computers as part of her plans to tele-health, e-health and mobile ...  Continue Reading

• Special report: IT education at GCSE and A-level

  Today's GCSE results confirmed the education system is failing to train young people for a future career in IT.  Continue Reading

• Parade College adpots UTM for network security

  Parade College has replaced a Blue Reef security solution wiht Watchguard's unified threat management products.  Continue Reading

• Adobe Creative Suite 5: an overview

  Adobe’s Creative Suite 5 is vast: 15 core applications covering web design, Flash design and development, print design and publishing, and video production. The previous release was Creative Suite 4 in September 2008. Has Adobe done enough to ...  Continue Reading

• Employee security training for Data Protection Act compliance

  Data Protection Act compliance can be difficult to manage, but if employees have no awareness of how to handle sensitive information, it becomes impossible. In this excerpt from Data Protection Compliance in the UK -- A Pocket Guide, learn ...  Continue Reading

• Video: What's new in Adobe Creative Suite 5

  Creative Suite 5 comes with a new application called Flash Catalyst, 64-bit versions of Premiere Pro, After Effects and Photoshop, and hundreds of new or improved features in each application. Acrobat 9.0 is the same version as in CS4.  Continue Reading

• Video: Designing and developing with Flash in CS5

  Adobe’s Creative Suite 5 is vast: 15 core applications covering web design, Flash design and development, print design and publishing, and video production. The previous release was Creative Suite 4 in September 2008. Tim Anderson takes a look at ...  Continue Reading

• The data centre boom: Finding the right site just got serious

  Our expert poses some basic, but important, tests of potential data centre sites, including location, connectivity and power, that companies should be aware of.  Continue Reading

• Interview: David Thomlinson, UK managing director at Accenture

  David Thomlinson, Accenture's UK managing director is in a confident mood. With the recession over, he is seeing business spending money on IT again, and Accenture reporting encouraging financial results.  Continue Reading

• VDI: Venturing toward a virtual world

  A virtualised desktop infrastructure requires solid management capabilities, including understanding capacity planning, and choosing the correct platform, host hardware, and shared storage for your business needs.  Continue Reading

• Case Study: Globe Telecom - Gaining marketing agility with smart promotions

  Globe Telecom needed to reach a new level of agility in the creation and management of promotional service offerings.  Continue Reading

• Virtualised infrastructures in the data centre

  An industry expert discusses the key to a successful management strategy within a virtual infrastructure, including automation and holistic adoption.  Continue Reading

• Storage solution providers: Their pros and cons, and how to manage them

  Storage solution providers can be vital in implementing and supporting storage systems through sickness and health. But be careful how you choose a potential storage reseller partner.  Continue Reading

• Dealing with data storage resellers: Top 10 tips

  Data storage resellers can range from box shifters to vendor-specific accredited partners. These top 10 tips will help you get what you need from the storage reseller relationship.  Continue Reading

• Storage resellers: Trust is the key

  Storage resellers must be trustworthy, knowledgeable, well connected to vendors and possess accreditation. Analyst Andrew Buss addresses the key questions to consider when working with a storage reseller.  Continue Reading

• Plan ahead and sweat your virtual assets

  Firms looking to decrease hardware demands by virtualising should keep a close eye on server growth, costs and workload flows across virtual machines, according to our expert.  Continue Reading

• Managing virtual environments: Common myths dispelled

  Our expert helps to dispel some common virtualisation misconceptions, including the idea that virtualisation guarantees improved performance.  Continue Reading

• How to minimise cloud computing lock-in risks

  An IT service provider shares tips on why it's wise to spread your cloud services across more than one provider, and how not to get stung by hidden costs.  Continue Reading

• Scotmid readies for expansion by consolidating with an IBM solution

  As one of Scotland’s leading retailers,the Scottish Midland Co-operativeSociety, or Scotmid, has roots that go back almost a century and a half.  Continue Reading

• Murray Goulburn solves growth and flexibility challenges with IBM

  Farmers’ co-operative Murray Goulburn wanted to introduce faster and more reliable business reporting across its nine manufacturing sites in Australia.  Continue Reading

• Baylor College of Medicine finds an IBM Power Systems solution

  By consolidating their legacy servers onto three Power servers and successfully virtualizing a range of critical applications, Baylor was able to reduce their data center footprint from eight racks to three.  Continue Reading

• IT leaders start to question cloud interoperability

  As security issues around cloud-based systems begin to be addressed, concerns around how to make applications talk to each other have begun to move to the front of CIOs' minds, according to research.  Continue Reading

• WAN optimization and disaster recovery

  WAN optimization offers a perfect fit with disaster recovery by squeezing more bandwidth from links between primary and secondary data centres.  Continue Reading

• The end of the physical server is nigh

  After virtualising non-critical business data, the next step away from physical servers is tackling greater risks to produce higher rewards, according to our expert.  Continue Reading

• Analyzing cloud computing's past and future

  The credit crunch, broadband penetration and the maturation of Web-based services have all contributed to cloud's increased adoption levels. But where will the cloud go from here?  Continue Reading

• IT is now a boardroom issue, says Fujitsu’s Gilbert

  In the kind of deals we are talking about here, the chief executive is heavily involved in the procurement, and expects to see and hear how it will contribute to his plan or strategy. Especially if it's linked to a merger or a disaggregation, IT is ...  Continue Reading

• Improving business resilience and continuity planning through virtualisation

  An IT service provider explains why well-planned best practices and the increased efficiencies of virtualisation technologies make it so easy to plan ahead for a disaster.  Continue Reading

• The Daily Data Centre repository for August

  August's editions include an enterprise stamp of approval for Citrix's XenDesktop, UK energy policy driving away data centres and Dell's new HPC release.  Continue Reading

• Virtualisation management: Quick win, quick fall if you fail to plan ahead

  For some companies, going too fast from the testing phase of virtualisation to live production could be dangerous, according to an IT service provider.  Continue Reading

• Case Study: How to lower IT support for non-core systems

  IT departments often spend a significant amount of time looking after non-core IT equipment. Is there a better way? Jenny Williams investigates how to reduce the time spent on maintaining meeting-room technology.  Continue Reading

• Essential CIO guide for turning to consultancy

  A career in consulting may seem attractive to IT leaders who have been made redundant or are looking for a new challenge, but there are many factors to consider before taking the plunge.  Continue Reading

• RAID rebuilds: How do RAID rebuilds work and which is fastest?

  RAID rebuilds: How do RAID rebuilds work, how can RAID rebuilds be made quicker and what is the fastest RAID-level rebuild time?  Continue Reading

• Cloud conference hears how to boost business and cut costs

  In an era of rapidly constricting budgets, innovation can be a dirty - and expensive - word  Continue Reading

• The cloud: The private sector IT leader’s view

  Paul Forester, IT director at fashion retailer Monsoon Accessorize, is interested in the cloud as the business is expanding globally  Continue Reading

• The cloud: the public sector IT leader’s view

  Paul McDonald, IS strategist at the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, does not think the cloud is being over-hyped  Continue Reading

• The cloud: the academic's view

  Andrew Tuson, Master of Information Leadership course director at City University London, said the cloud can help organisations that need to respond rapidly  Continue Reading

• Case Study: EasyJet flies to the cloud to up e-mail security and down costs

  Budget airline EasyJet has achieved a 35% savings over three years by switching to a cloud-based software-as-a-service e-mail security system.  Continue Reading

• Email archiving services: How they work and how to select a service

  Email archiving services offload key chores for storage admins; but before you go that route, find out about the types of services available, costs and other factors to consider in the selection process.  Continue Reading

• Video: RIM shows off more of Blackberry 6 user interface

  Research in Motion has posted a YouTube video which provides more details of the up and coming Blackberry 6, software release due out later this summer.  Continue Reading

• Video: Nasa joins Microsoft for 3D Mars video

  Microsoft has developed an online three dimensional map of Mars.  Continue Reading

• Fujitsu75: VME upgrades to cloud computing

  Forty years should be old age for an operating system, but the Virtual Machine Environment (VME) is far from being pensioned off, and Fujitsu is investing to develop it further.  Continue Reading

• Fujitsu: Innovation is a constant for 75 years

  Very few computer companies can trace their history back 75 years, as Fujitsu can. And few indeed can show off a legacy that includes the development of some of the key technologies on which computing depends.  Continue Reading

• Fujitsu innovation tackles intractable IT problems

  Computing history is littered with the corpses of solutions overtaken by technology.  Continue Reading

• Buyer's Guide to the Connected Enterprise

  Collaboration is changing.Time to rethink unified comms.  Continue Reading

• Sneaking a smart phone into the enterprise

  Are smart phones connected to the corporate network a good idea?  Continue Reading

• AT&T Williams connects engineers to race with telepresence and real time network

  For the past six years Chris Taylor has been IT manager for the AT&T Williams Formula One team.  Continue Reading

• A guide to social networking in the enterprise

  Social computing is a social structure in which technology puts power in communities, not institutions.  Continue Reading

• How IT departments can prove their value in the wake of increased regulation

  Find out how the Carbon Reduction Commitment can enable an IT department to turn government legislation into cost savings.  Continue Reading

• Tape vs disk backup: Pros and cons of tape backup and disk-based backup

  Tape is an established backup target, but disk prices are falling. Factors to consider when switching from tape to disk-based backup are performance and the overall DR strategy.  Continue Reading

• SSD breathes new life into old PCs

  Solid state discs (SSDs) are set to become the preferred way to achieve high performance and high availability storage in the datacentre and, increasingly, on the desktop.  Continue Reading

• Buyers guide to the connected enterprise: the next decade

  The past decade began with the steady adoption for IP telephony and voice and data convergence. Unified communications appeared a few years later and delivered a framework that supports integrated communications and collaboration applications. This ...  Continue Reading

• CIO Interview: Paul Coby, British Airways, on IT with tight budgets and mergers

  The airline has reinvented its approach to IT investment and is looking at innovative technology to support its future plans, which include the imminent technology merger with Spanish carrier Iberia.  Continue Reading

• Interview with Jeff Russakow from Yahoo!

  In the same week that Google revealed plans to launch a system that will allow publishers to charge for content, executive business channel MeetTheBoss.tv sat down with Yahoo's Jeff Russakow, executive vice-president of customer advocacy, to discuss...  Continue Reading

• Desktop virtualization: Storage requirements planning

  Desktop virtualization is gaining traction among users. Learn the benefits of desktop virtualization, and how to implement and deploy desktop virtualization.  Continue Reading

• CIOs help build new IT capability maturity model

  For two long years CIOs have largely succeeded in squeezing cost out of their IT departments. Now, as the economy starts its fitful resurgence, they find themselves pressed to justify their value to the business, and to enable the business to ...  Continue Reading

• CIO interview: BAA checks in IT transformation

  When IT veteran Philip Langsdale joined BAA as chief information officer with a brief of creating a technology strategy to support a £4.8bn capital investment plan, he knew he was not in for a smooth ride.  Continue Reading

• Will you lose profit through the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme?

  Discover these practical steps on how to make the most of the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme, according to a data centre management consultancy.  Continue Reading

• The real value of virtualisation

  Discover how to fully realise the benefits and cost savings of virtualisation, including the importance of maximising energy efficiency and meeting IT project deadlines.  Continue Reading

• Data storage technology brings data center power consumption benefits

  As data center power consumption rises, some IT shops find unexpected benefits in more efficient data storage technology. Find out how two firms saved money on power.  Continue Reading

• Green storage technologies let data centres enable energy-efficient storage

  Learn what is driving green storage initiatives, as well as why technologies like server virtualization, spin down and MAID can bring greater energy efficiency to your data centre.  Continue Reading

• VoIP test drive

  The asymmetric nature of the ubiquitous ADSL broadband technology means that uplink speeds are very limited, causing problems when trying to combine multiple voice calls with concurrent data activity.  Continue Reading

• Making a return on IT security investment

  Computer Weekly invited some of the UK's top information security leaders to a roundtable debate, in association with Oracle, to discuss how to deliver business value in information security.  Continue Reading

• Interview: Top CEOs are too old to tweet, says Forrester Research CEO

  None of the CEOs of the world's biggest firms use social media, according to George Colony, CEO at Forrester Research, who has spent the past few months speaking to the world's top 100 chief executives to find out how much they use social media.  Continue Reading

• Can information security deliver business value?

  Information security remains a perennial priority for IT leaders.  Continue Reading

• Data backup software: A guide to new data backup features

  Data backup software doesn't just do backup anymore. Now features include data deduplication, continuous data protection, data protection management and synthetic backups.  Continue Reading

• Data backup software products: What features are most important?

  When purchasing data backup software products you need to consider your company's needs, support from backup product vendors and if you need a backup reporting add-on.  Continue Reading

• Backup software products evolve as backup process grows in complexity

  Backup software products are evolving to meet user needs stemming from ever-increasing data stores, and greater complexity in virtualised server environments.  Continue Reading

• Case study: FA uses Sharepoint 2010 for fast-track dispute resolution

  The Football Association, the governing body for English football, is using Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 to test drive a fast-track system for resolving disputes when players face allegations of misconduct on the pitch.  Continue Reading

• Buyers guide to cloud computing: realities

  Salesforce.com's recent announcement of its VMforce platform for deploying Java applications is the latest in a long line of announcements from a wide range of IT suppliers of such on-demand (or cloud-based) offerings. IT departments may be confused...  Continue Reading

• PCIe SSD: What it is and how you can use it

  PCIe SSD is a new way of adding the speed of a solid-state drive (SSD) to server and storage devices. What are its benefits, drawbacks and adoption rate?  Continue Reading

• How to outsource your data centre and reduce emissions

  If you outsource your data centre and you're confused about how that impacts the Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme, here are the requirements you need to know.  Continue Reading