IT Best Practices Reports

ESSENTIAL GUIDE: Computer Weekly's CW500 Club heard from IT leaders plotting a roadmap to software-defined everything – this presentation was given by Rob White, executive director of the global database group at Morgan Stanley.

Posted: 14 Oct 2016 | Published: 14 Oct 2016

ESSENTIAL GUIDE: This guide from CEB, a membership group for business leaders, offers research-based advice for CIOs on how to drive the digital strategy in their organisation.

Posted: 11 Oct 2016 | Published: 11 Oct 2016

ESSENTIAL GUIDE: This special report from CEB offers some practical proven solutions to help IT leaders recruit and retain a better balance of employees.

Posted: 10 Oct 2016 | Published: 10 Oct 2016

EGUIDE: Ludo Houdenaert distils a lifetime of experience on managing performance in the IT department into this collection of short, digestible articles, written especially for Computer Weekly.

Posted: 28 Sep 2016 | Published: 28 Sep 2016

RESEARCH CONTENT: The Global Connectivity Index (GCI) 2016 from Huawei measures the progress of 50 nations in investing in and deploying Information and Communications Technology (ICT) to achieve economic digitisation

Posted: 27 Sep 2016 | Published: 28 Sep 2016

EGUIDE: The Middle East is becoming a trailblazer in the use of modern technology to improve business and society.

Posted: 19 Sep 2016 | Published: 19 Sep 2016

EGUIDE: Over 700 UKI IT professionals reveal their salaries and career expectations for 2016/2017

Posted: 14 Sep 2016 | Published: 14 Sep 2016

EBOOK: Core legacy systems inhibit businesses' ability to meet changing customer demands in the digital age. The scale and nature of the problem is such that it needs to be addressed now.

Posted: 31 Aug 2016 | Published: 31 Aug 2016

EGUIDE: Computer Weekly talks to more IT leaders than any other publication, and our reporters gather in-depth insights into the challenges facing CIOs, CTOs and CDOs. This guide offers a collection of our most popular articles for IT leaders,

Posted: 25 Aug 2016 | Published: 25 Aug 2016

EGUIDE: The benefits of using cloud are well-known, but the challenges and barriers enterprises come up against during their move off-premise can be wide, varied and unexpected. Knowing how best to negotiate these issues can help speed up the process of shifting workloads and applications to the cloud immeasurably.

Posted: 17 Aug 2016 | Published: 17 Aug 2016

EGUIDE: 2016 is widely tipped to be the year DevOps goes mainstream, with enterprise IT managers either looking to ramp up or kick-start their efforts in this area, and start realising the benefits it can bring.

Posted: 17 Aug 2016 | Published: 18 Aug 2016

ESSENTIAL GUIDE: IT4IT™ for Managing the Business of IT – A Management Guide, from The Open Group, provides best practice advice and focuses on the data and automated workflows needed to manage IT services in a lean, agile and business-focused way.

Posted: 26 May 2016 | Published: 26 May 2016

EGUIDE: This guide offers a collection of our most popular articles for IT leaders during the first few months of 2016, examining the changing role of CIOs and how to enhance their relationships with their peers across the business.

Posted: 11 Mar 2016 | Published: 11 Mar 2016

EGUIDE: Feedback about a DevOps environment on the back end is as important to its success as automated tools are on the front end. In this expert e-guide, we explore how to make the communication path between DevOps and IT a two-way street. Inside, discover how tools like container management, ChatOps, and more can bridge the gap.

Posted: 07 Oct 2016 | Published: 06 Oct 2016

EGUIDE: As breaches continue in healthcare, it's imperative that CIOs know what best practices and technologies they should be implementing to safeguard their organization. Discover the proven practices that best stave off healthcare cybersecurity vulnerabilities based on advice from four CIOs attending HIMSS 2016.

Posted: 01 Aug 2016 | Published: 28 Jul 2016

EGUIDE: Selling business executives on the value of big data analytics apps is becoming a to-do list item for more IT managers. In this e-guide, we analyze the platforms different companies used to implement Hadoop-based analytics and BI apps. Find out which ones worked for them so you can make a more informed decision about your future in big data.

Posted: 27 Jul 2016 | Published: 25 Jul 2016

EGUIDE: In the following e-guide, learn key business practices that will ensure your company is properly sorting through software licensing complexities. Read on to uncover exclusive insights on how to choose the correct software provider while also managing software costs.

Posted: 08 Jul 2016 | Published: 05 Jul 2016

EGUIDE: In the following e-guide, learn what it takes to drive and exploit new innovation in your business. Read on to uncover two exclusive case studies involving both Facebook and Cambia Health Solutions and their approach to innovation.

Posted: 07 Jul 2016 | Published: 05 Jul 2016

EGUIDE: When it comes to contract negotiations, CIOs hold more sway than they think. Next time you negotiate with suppliers, ensure you get a better price from likes of SAP, IBM, Microsoft and Oracle. Access this expert guide to discover vendor negotiation tips for midmarket CIOs working with these vendors from Forrester Senior Analyst Duncan Jones.

Posted: 29 Jun 2016 | Published: 28 Jun 2016

EGUIDE: Find out how white boxing servers have led to converged infrastructures becoming a hot alternative and why convergence is providing a way to end white boxing. Also, experts share their hands-on experiences of whether or not converged infrastructure products lived up to their hype.

Posted: 10 Feb 2016 | Published: 04 Feb 2016

EGUIDE: What will the data center look like in five years? In this exclusive e-guide, you will get an inside look at the future of the data center, and examine how networking, servers and storage technologies evolve. Access this guide to see an additional article identifying why hybrid system integration is now a core IT service.

Posted: 27 Jan 2016 | Published: 26 Jan 2016

EZINE: In this e-zine, you will learn about several "smart cities" in Australia, such as Parramatta, and discover how these cities integrate new technology into their town planning. Read this issue to also key into why Australia outsourced data centre market is rising.

Posted: 08 Dec 2015 | Published: 08 Dec 2015

WHITE PAPER: What companies need are agile analytics tools that help users get insights, and help IT maximize its bandwidth and abilities to help reach business goals. Answer these 5 key questions to help IT pros and business users leverage data.

Posted: 19 Nov 2015 | Published: 19 Nov 2015

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper dives into the world of composable IT, or the concept of modular, restructurable infrastructure. Access now to see how companies that leverage this mentality are keeping ahead of trends while remaining profitable, and what challenges they are facing.

Posted: 05 Nov 2015 | Published: 05 Nov 2015

RESOURCE: This blog considers cloud databases, and when they are the right fit for your needs. Read now to see what companies are turning to the cloud for their infrastructure, with consideration for competitive differentiation and rapid, responsive scalability.

Posted: 03 Nov 2015 | Published: 03 Nov 2015