This Computer Weekly buyer’s guide to IT tools shows how you can use software and systems to improve the running of your IT department. 

This expert e-guide explains how social media is causing HR leaders to rethink recruitment and talent management. Also inside, learn how you can effectively cope with the challenges of meting out a global strategy with localized tactics. 

F5 Data Manager helps you understand your file storage environment. This trial version will perform an inventory of your environment and enable you to run detailed reports that analyze which file types are being created, who is creating them, how quickly they age, and which resources they consume. 

This crucial paper examines a storage solution that delegates the heavy lifting of large data transfers to the intelligence of the storage array, reducing the utilization of resources and improving user productivity and efficiency. 

This resource outlines how leveraging the right database driver can enable you to make optimal use of available resources thereby increasing existing processing capacity and enhancing architectural elasticity. Find out how these benefits will help you easily onboard new customers and assimilate volume processing spikes during peak customer usage. 

Uncover how combining geographically distributed data centres into a pool of shared resource can help you achieve a “data centre without walls,” which will help you address workload demand and ensure an optimal service performance across the globe. 

This tech brief presents eight recommendations to help you proactively address the difficulties of access control in a Microsoft-centric environment, and avoid the common pitfalls, risks and costs. 

This exclusive Computer Weekly research reveals how UK IT departments are prioritising their budgets in 2012, which technologies they are investing in, and the impact of cloud computing, mobile and other disruptive technology on their IT strategies. 

Are you certain each person accessing your network resources is who they say they are? In this Quest technical brief, learn how Defender 5 gives you more control over who has access to resources, applications and data – well beyond a simple login name and password. Defender 5. 

Simpana® from CommVault® enables IT to leverage a single solution that integrates backup, archive, replication and storage resource management across physical and virtual servers. Simpana helps IT deal with the challenges associated with critical backup recovery issues within a virtual infrastructure. 

Read this white paper to learn how HP's expertise and technology leadership can help you transform your infrastructure—at your pace—by engineering your IT resources to work better together. 

This expert e-guide counts down five important technology trends that are molding the human resources (HR) space in 2013. Inside, learn how strategic organizations are using these innovations to drive business success. 

This buyer's guide is designed to help you choose the right UTM solution for your organization. It looks at the factors you should consider when evaluating solutions to ensure you have the network protection and functionality you need, both now and as your business evolves.