This week’s Computer Weekly examines research that suggests CEOs want to invest in IT more than ever, but still see CIOs as technical experts and not business people. We review SQL Server 2012 and ask if Microsoft's database software is catching its competitors as well as concluding our Buyer's Guide to data security. 

CIOs are more confident of securing technology budget increases than at any time in the last five years, according to the CIO Technology Survey 2012. 

Check out this case study to learn how one company saved a whopping $774,000 over a three year period by optimizing storage and backup operations. 

Putting to rest many of the claims that tape has passed its prime, this Clipper Note from The Clipper Group confirms that tape can be an important cost-saving storage technology for long-term archiving of big files in a tiered storage architecture.  

Health care facilities rely on scanning tools for their paper-based health records and medical imaging. Download the free trial of this desktop scanner connectivity solution, offering stable, secure and seamless image acquisition in hosted environments. 

This report from Accenture looks at the challenges facing the public sector in offering digital services. 

In this article, we describe how some key Digital Britain proposals have been implemented in the Digital Economy Act 2010. 

Condé Nast Digital manages the online presence for the content of digital magazines such as Vogue and Wired. Read this brief case study to learn about the application server they looked to when they wanted to improve the performance of their Java infrastructure. 

Companies need to make significant investments in digital skills and technologies if they are to meet the needs of their customers, Booz&Co argues in this report. 

This exclusive video reviews new storage technology that is helping your peers handle their overwhelming amounts of enterprise data. Discover how these solutions can help you combat the challenges and costs of digital storage so you can improve the performance and power of your systems. 

The phrase “augmented reality” was coined by Boeing researcher Tom Caudell in the early 1990s to describe a digital display viewed through a headset  which guided workers through electrical wires in aircraft. The term has since gained currency and is now taken to describe digital information overlaid on the physical world. 

This week’s Computer Weekly contains an exclusive interview with JP Morgan COO India Gary-Martin about juggling multiple legacy IT systems while keeping the merchant bank compliant. We also look at how near-field communications technology promises to revolutionise consumer spending and we ask whether 2012 could be the year that APM becomes vital?