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. 

This exclusive research reveals what IT professionals really think about technology, their employers, and their careers 

In this first session, Wolf introduces principles of virtual infrastructure optimization and covers virtual machine placement optimization and bottleneck identification. 

In this week’s Computer Weekly, Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude talks about releasing government datasets to the public and why open data will drive the next industrial revolution. We also review the latest test version of Windows 8 and see how it shapes up for tablet computers and business users and much more. 

Schulz discusses threats, challenges and new strategies effecting storage and networking performance and capacity. 

This edition of BI Trends and Strategies opens with a piece by Lou Agosta on the need for data warehouses to adapt to new data types, innovation and big data. Alan R. Earls also offers advice for incorporating spreadsheets into your BI programs without problems and Richard Herschel calls for universities to step up their BI and analytics programs. 

Whether it is an inappropriate ‘tweet’, an internetsecurity scandal or a story of the fastest growingcompany in the world, technology, be it for theright or wrong reasons, has become regular frontpagenews.This survey aims to give a snapshot of thetechnology industry from the inside. 

This second part of a three-part course series discusses best practices for installing, configuring and managing VMware vSphere 5 environments. Learn key tips on how to get the most from this advanced technology. 

In this report the Taneja Group will first review the current barriers to wider adoption of VDI, and examine how Dell's EqualLogic PS Series iSCSI SAN arrays can help customers with these problems. They will then validate these claims via benchmark performance tests and interviews, and finally test performance claims under additional scenarios. 

Quantum's solutions allow data de-duplication technology to become part of a complete backup and retention solution set that also includes conventional disk backup, tape, and encryption, all supported with common management tools. 

This Article, intended to provide guidance on those issues, is divided into two parts: The "trigger" and the "legal hold." 

Part two of SearchUnifiedCommunications.com's three-part guide on collaboration products offers expert insight into gathering pertinent information into the technical information necessary to move forward in the process.