IT Infrastructure Reports

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

EZINE: It's been 50 years since Computer Weekly's launch on 22 September 1966. To mark this achievement, we have compiled a special edition of the magazine to reflect on how much the British technology industry has contributed over that time.

Posted: 21 Sep 2016 | Published: 22 Sep 2016

ESSENTIAL GUIDE: Debate continues to rage within the enterprise about the long-term benefits of adopting a hybrid cloud method of IT consumption. This Essential Guide shows everything the enterprise needs to know.

Posted: 20 Sep 2016 | Published: 20 Sep 2016

EBOOK: To celebrate Computer Weekly's 50th anniversary, the National Museum of Computing, which holds the print archives of the magazine, has scanned the first issue of Computer Weekly. We have made this available to download.

Posted: 09 Sep 2016 | Published: 09 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

ESSENTIAL GUIDE: Author and IT consultant, Terry Critchley, looks at potential solutions to the apparent skills crisis facing the IT industry, in this special guide for Computer Weekly.

Posted: 26 Aug 2016 | Published: 26 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

EGUIDE: Access this guide to examine the importance of leveraging tools like autoclassification and predictive coding for effective information governance. Additionally, you will discover approaches that improve ROI beyond just e-discovery.

Posted: 30 Sep 2016 | Published: 28 Sep 2016

EBOOK: There's a fair bit of mystery about just how containerization affects an IT infrastructure. Container deployment will likely require system admins to reconsider their data center's capacity-management plans. Access this e-guide to unravel that mystery and understand the exact impact containerization will have on your data center.

Posted: 29 Sep 2016 | Published: 29 Sep 2016

EGUIDE: Cloud-based disaster recovery has emerged as an affordable, flexible method for providing application availability following a disaster event. This e-guide provides insight into cloud DR including strengths, issues, different model types, and more.

Posted: 23 Sep 2016 | Published: 22 Sep 2016

EGUIDE: Memory manufacturers are getting creative for high performance. High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) and Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) module could appear in the next generation of servers. This exclusive e-guide details each new memory type and how they're shaking up performance expectations.

Posted: 22 Sep 2016 | Published: 20 Sep 2016

EGUIDE: This expert eGuide predicts upcoming data center changes as well as which trends to pay close attention to and how they can benefit your enterprise. Also, gain insight on some of the challenges that these new trends can present, and ways to overcome them.

Posted: 21 Sep 2016 | Published: 20 Sep 2016

EZINE: The stand-alone server market finds itself overmatched by a variety of converged systems that might just be more equipped to handle today's infrastructure. This Modern Infrastructure e-zine details the impact of converged systems on the server market and explores motivation behind a multicloud strategy, basics of immutable infrastructure, and more.

Posted: 20 Sep 2016 | Published: 20 Sep 2016

EGUIDE: For enterprises that are leery of private or public cloud, hosted private cloud services – also known as a managed cloud – may be a better option. This exclusive e-guide details what differentiates a managed cloud platform from other cloud options and explores services offered by managed clouds.

Posted: 15 Sep 2016 | Published: 13 Sep 2016

EGUIDE: Don't let deploying Azure cloud apps be a confusing process. This exclusive e-guide details the differences between the classic Azure cloud app deployment and the newer Resource Manager deployment to help you compare and determine the one that works for you.

Posted: 07 Sep 2016 | Published: 06 Sep 2016

EGUIDE: New business initiatives either succeed or fail based on the quality of their IT implementation plan. In this exclusive guide, IT executives with experience introducing and managing new applications, services, and business initiatives, share an IT implementation strategy to help you deploy business initiatives.

Posted: 07 Sep 2016 | Published: 02 Sep 2016

EGUIDE: Moving a virtual data center from one physical location to another is a big undertaking, and without a well-thought-out data migration plan, you are sure to run into issues. This e-guide details tips and tricks to developing a step-by-step migration plan and highlights how automation can help your approach.

Posted: 07 Sep 2016 | Published: 06 Sep 2016

EGUIDE: For companies looking for a cost-efficient way to manage data center assets, outsourcing to a hybrid cloud computing service may be a good idea. Access this eGuide to learn about the three most common cloud computing services – infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and software as a service (SaaS).

Posted: 02 Sep 2016 | Published: 18 Aug 2016

EBOOK: To achieve continuous delivery, organizations can now incorporate DevOps into a cloud strategy. Access this handbook to get an overview of strategies for establishing a DevOps model and how DevOps differs from the traditional processes of application development.

Posted: 01 Sep 2016 | Published: 01 Sep 2016

EGUIDE: From power distribution outlets to available network connectivity, server deployment can be an arduous process. Explore ten considerations that should be factored into every rack-and-stack server deployment checklist and learn the differences between converged infrastructures and disaggregated servers.

Posted: 29 Aug 2016 | Published: 25 Aug 2016

EGUIDE: To successfully support enterprise mobility, IT admins need to change the way they think about mobile data access, security, and more. This e-guide details four things to keep in mind as your enterprise embraces this mobile world.

Posted: 17 Aug 2016 | Published: 16 Aug 2016

EGUIDE: Security is the number one concern for enterprise IT when it comes to public cloud. In this exclusive e-guide, explore five tips to determine the security tools and strategies that will work best for you.

Posted: 16 Aug 2016 | Published: 11 Aug 2016

EGUIDE: For a mobile project to take off, both senior and junior IT staff must be invited to the table. Team members at every level can add to the mobile app development and delivery process. This e-guide highlights a few important questions to ask when determining how to assign IT staff to certain mobile projects.

Posted: 16 Aug 2016 | Published: 11 Aug 2016

EGUIDE: Cloud projects are 4x more successful when "inside-out" and "outside-in" models are used in combination rather than separately. One way to unite these 2 models is through a hybrid cloud. However, it's important to consider potential security risks of this model as well as 5 key areas that your hybrid cloud management strategy should address.

Posted: 08 Aug 2016 | Published: 04 Aug 2016