Essential Guides
TechTarget editors have curated a collection of “essential” articles on key IT topics. These articles have been packaged into guides which offer our readers comprehensive, problem solving content to help inform and guide their research.
- Consumption-based, pay-for-what-you-use IT as a service
- Black Hat 2018 conference coverage
- Cyberthreats, cyber vulnerabilities, and how to fight back
- How to craft an application security strategy that's airtight
- How to attack DDoS threats with a solid defense plan
- How to deal with Identity and access management systems
- How to select the best DBMS software: A buyer's guide
- RSA 2017: Special conference coverage
- The latest from Black Hat USA 2025
- Cisco Live 2025 conference coverage and analysis
- RSAC Conference 2025
- SolarWinds breach news center
- 5G explained: A deep dive into the features and facts
- GDPR, AI intensify privacy and data protection compliance demands
- Latest news from the Black Hat 2019 conference
- How to improve network visibility and regain control
- Everything you need to know about multi-cloud security
- An 802.11ax survival guide: Expectations for the Wi-Fi standard
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A guide to threat management
This is a CIOs guide to threat management. Continue Reading
Essential guide to laptop, desktop PC and mobile device strategy
A guide to the latest technologies and best practice in enterprise IT strategy for laptops, desktop PCs and mobile Continue Reading
Essential guide to application modernisation
Tools and technologies are emerging that help IT leaders to modernise existing applications and maintain their investment in legacy systems Continue Reading
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LEAP tech conference promises expansive insights, opportunity
The LEAP 2025 conference promises insights on the future of tech from key trailblazers. Check this guide regularly for the essential news and post-conference assessments. Continue Reading
Healthcare cybersecurity risks and management
Healthcare institutions are rich in what cybercriminals want: sensitive data like PII and financial information. Learn the danger and what an effective strategy must include. Continue Reading
Essential Guide: Data Analytics in Healthcare
In the healthcare industry, a large amount of data is already being collected to generate insights on emerging conditions and to improve patient care. Yet, like other industries, the healthcare sector continues to grapple with issues such as data ... Continue Reading
Essential Guide: State of 5G in APAC
In this Essential Guide, we examine the state of 5G rollouts in Asia-Pacific, how organisations are leveraging 5G and what is being done by telcos to address enterprise use cases of 5G Continue Reading
Information security in 2022 – managing constant change
It’s been an unprecedented couple of years for everyone – but a particularly frantic one for cyber security leaders. The pandemic led to a huge rise in remote working, with all the extra risks involved in putting users outside the corporate ... Continue Reading
APAC women in cyber security
In this Essential Guide, we examine the state of women representation in cyber security in APAC, the challenges that women face in the field, and what can be done to reduce the gender gap in cyber security. Continue Reading
Essential Guide: How APAC firms can ride out the pandemic
In this Essential Guide, we examine the impact of Covid-19 on Asia-Pacific businesses, how they have responded and important lessons that can be learned as they ready themselves for the post-pandemic world. Continue Reading
Essential guide to operation-centric security
To stay ahead of cyber attackers, IT security teams need to take an operation-centric approach, to offer a real-time picture of activity across their estate. Continue Reading
Essential Guide: Digital transformation in the public sector
Digital technologies and best practices are transforming the public sector across Europe - we look at some of the examples and the lessons being learned Continue Reading
Essential Guide: Technology readiness for the Covid-19 coronavirus crisis
The global Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic requires an important response from enterprise IT departments - in this guide, we examine the key considerations for IT leaders Continue Reading
Essential guide to cloud management
A well-implemented cloud management strategy allows users to maintain control over public, private and hybrid clouds Continue Reading
Essential guide to data breaches, the dark web and the hidden data economy
In this guide, we look at the aftermath of a data breach - what do cyber criminals use that stolen data for, and what can companies do to avoid becoming a victim? Continue Reading
Using green computing for improving energy efficiency guide
Green computing is no longer just a white-wash expression, as government schemes like the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) scheme, the Climate Change Agreement (CCA) or the European Union Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS), are encouraging companies ... Continue Reading
Guide to LUN configuration and virtualisation
LUN storage configuration has long been a cornerstone of storage management. The LUN – a chunk of storage created from RAID partitions on a SAN – presents a logical volume of capacity to an individual server. That’s still relevant today in the era... Continue Reading
LTFS tape NAS: What it is and how to build it
In storage, cost is everything. So, imagine a storage medium with the frugal cost profile of tape and access times of NAS. Well, it already exists. Since 2010 the Linear Tape File System (LTFS) has allowed access to tapes as if they are spinning ... Continue Reading
Essential guide to disaster recovery and business continuity
Everything you need to know about business continuity and disaster recovery, planning and prevention. Continue Reading
- The AI hype bubble might parallel the dot-com era bust
The current AI hype era resembles the dot-com bubble era in some ways, but there are significant differences as well.
- How a CIO guides agentic AI with structured governance
Rimini Street's CIO explains how he deployed agentic AI for research and service -- and how an AI steering committee governs ...
- 5 pillars of an agentic AI strategy
Agentic AI is forcing CIOs to rethink IT strategy. Success depends on identifying key use cases, assessing data readiness, ...
- MLSecOps: Bridging security and AI development processes
MLSecOps ensures AI security by automating controls, fostering collaboration and addressing vulnerabilities early in the ...
- How to evaluate NGFW products to strengthen cybersecurity
Next-generation firewalls are critical tools in today's evolving threat landscape. Learn how to evaluate and select an NGFW that ...
- CISO's guide to demonstrating cyber resilience
Elevating cybersecurity to a state of resilience requires a security team to adapt and strengthen defenses. The result should be ...
- 5G fixed wireless access use cases continue to grow
FWA delivers wireless broadband internet to remote regions, temporary setups and other locations not suitable for wired ...
- How to optimize DNS for reliable business operations
The internet would be different today without DNS anchoring digital communications. Companies can take some basic steps to ensure...
- Cisco G300 AI network chip, AgenticOps parry Broadcom, HPE
Cisco's entrée into 102.4 Tbps silicon boasts in-place programmability and new AgenticOps features as enterprise AI ...
- Will data centers become obsolete?
Many organizations want to simplify or scale down their data centers -- but they won't disappear. Admins can examine as-a-service...
- How to decommission a data center: A step-by-step guide
Follow this step-by-step guide on decommissioning a data center, covering planning, inventory management, data security, and ...
- Smart data centers: Grid-friendly partners to power networks
Smart data centers reduce costs and enhance grid stability, enabling operators to evolve from passive consumers to active ...
- Data and AI governance must team up for AI to succeed
AI applications won't produce reliable results -- and could create compliance and business ethics risks -- without strong data ...
- How to secure sensitive data when offboarding employees
Establish a multi-phased approach that turns a risky situation into a managed process with several departments working in ...
- Streaming specialist Redpanda adds governance to AI suite
New Agentic Data Plane features enable users to create a governance layer for agents and could help the vendor differentiate ...