This week’s Computer Weekly kicks off our Buyer's Guide to data security by looking at the changing role of the IT security chief. We also examine why flexible working is proving so slow to roll out and we talk to the UK's air traffic control operator about its ambitious desktop virtualisation project. 

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. 

Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are among the biggest challenges for enterprises and their IT organisations to navigate. Conventional leadership and management techniques often are not enough. 

Gartner analysts, William Clark, David W Cearley and Avivah Litan, explain how business can exploit context-aware computing and social media. 

This report from Gartner describes six distinctly different styles of "money-making CIO" that are likely to evolve between 2011 and 2020. 

This tip e-guide from SearchCRM.com features insight from Gartner's 2011 Magic Quadrant for social customer relationship management (CRM). Read this now to learn what challenges are cropping up in CRM, how social media is affecting CRM strategies and what the future of social CRM looks like. 

The demand for greater ecommerce capabilities is growing leading CIOs and IT professionals concerned with choosing the perfect vendor. Through this in-depth vendor analysis by Gartner, uncover the top 6 questions you should ask and the strengths and weaknesses of the top 20 e-commerce vendors. 

Gartner research director, Valdis Filks, offers tips to help businesses get to grips with escalating storage costs. 

Deep inspection network-based intrusion prevention continues to be a due-diligence security control. The near-term future of the intrusion prevention system market will be determined by the pace of innovation of another market: next-generation firewalls. Explore Gartner's evaluation of network IPS that places McAfee in the leaders' quadrant. 

This thought-provoking research report from Gartner is based on thousands of end user interviews and offers a roadmap toward rethinking data protection in ways that maximize value and meet business-critical needs. 

With a potential economic crisis looming in the Eurozone, Gartner offers a checklist of questions that CIOs and CEOs should ask each other. 

How can you adapt your enterprise information management to the lightning-fast pace created by big data, social media and mobile devices? View this presentation to learn why Gartner Research predicts that standardizing on a common and unified information management infrastructure will help organizations outperform their peers by 20% through 2015. 

Read this white paper to learn why Gartner analysts believe cloud computing and event processing will completely change the face of enterprise IT architecture by 2015.