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Computer Weekly’s Warwick Ashford asked MP and EURIM e-Crime Group Alun Michael how Get Safe Online fits in with other e-crime initiatives and what role business has to play. Get Safe Online is a government-private sector initiative aimed at boosting online security, currently running its fourth annual Get Safe Online Awareness Week.

Get Safe Online, a government-private sector initiative aimed at boosting online security, has launched the fourth annual Get Safe Online Week. Computer Weekly’s Warwick Ashford asked Get Safe Oline’s MD Tony Neate to outline the importance of the initiative for small and medium businesses in the UK and detail the role of businesses with Get Safe Online.

Brian McKenna, Editor of Computer Weekly magazine, introduces the first article in a “Next-generation enterprise IT” series, sponsored by IBM.

In the article “Optimising data centre operations”, Danny Bradbury looks at how data centre managers can optimise operations for maximum efficiency in the context of the downturn.

SAP's controversial decision to roll out Enterprise Support to all customers dominated the general sessions of the SAP UK & Ireland User Group 2008 conference in London. Computer Weekly’s Warwick Ashford spoke to Forrester Research enterprise applications and strategies vice president Ray Wang about this issue. Wang outlines seven areas the business can look at to assess and improve the value delivered by software and maintenance contracts with suppliers. He also discusses how business organisations can improve their bargaining power with suppliers and the role of user groups in getting better value from suppliers and influencing future directions.

Traditionally CIOs are backroom people but as IT becomes crucial to helping companies respond to market changes they need to get out of the glass room. Ian Grant, senior reporter at Computer Weekly, speaks to Tina Nunno, Gartner senior vice president of research, at Gartner's Symposium in Cannes this week, about what's in it for them if they do.

Steve Prentice, Gartner fellow, tells Computer Weekly's Ian Grant how to sort the hyped from the hot in the current crop of online technology, from cloud computing to web 2.0.

Gartner fellow Steve Prentice talks to Computer Weekly's Ian Grant at the Gartner Symposium / IT Xpo in Cannes, November 2008. Steve discusses what to do when times are hard, from where to cut costs, to where to spend.

In this podcast from the Gartner Symposium in Cannes, Gartner analysts Richard Hunter and Hung LeHong discuss how Google could grow to become one of the biggest companies in the world.

Martin Sadler, director of HP Labs, predicts a 20,000 fold increase in processing power within the next 20 years using nanotechnology to build a new generation of super-computing PCs and mobile devices.

ComputerWeekly.com's Warwick Ashford speaks to Art Coviello, executive vice president of EMC and president of EMC’s security division, RSA, at the RSA Europe 2008 conference in London. Topics covered in the interview include: the effects of economic uncertainty on IT security spending; what strategies businesses should adopt in order to maintain high information security despite the tough economic climate; whether EMC and RSA are planning any cost-cutting measures; and how Coviello views the responsibility of IT security suppliers in the war against data loss and cybercrime.