Computer Weekly Buyer's Guide features list 2025
Here is our 2025 schedule of up-and-coming in-depth articles that will cover carefully selected topics to help IT leaders select the right technology for their organisation
Computer Weekly Buyer’s Guides map the IT buying cycle of our readership onto relevant editorial that will inform and educate readers and help them in making the right buying decision.
On a three-week cycle, the publication runs a series of articles focused on a particular category of software/hardware/IT service. Articles appear in the features section of the Computer Weekly ezine, which can be downloaded as a PDF or viewed as an SEO-optimised Buyer’s Guide page on the Computer Weekly website.
The Buyer’s Guide PDF downloads point readers to the online Buyer’s Guide, where they will be able to access all the articles in one place, along with additional content, such as blog posts and related articles.
The editorial team updates the Buyer’s Guide schedule on a quarterly basis to ensure the chosen technologies are topical and to respond to short-term commercial opportunities.
Format of Computer Weekly Buyer’s Guides
Market overview
This is an introduction to the topic covered in the Buyer’s Guide. The article will examine the nature of a given software/hardware/IT services product category, look at where it fits in the business, why users need it and which companies sell products in this category.
Analyst perspective
Here, Computer Weekly invites leading IT analysts to submit relevant research that can help readers narrow down product choices with a shortlist of products they may wish to investigate further.
Case study
At this stage in the buying cycle, the reader has a shortlist and may have given his/her technical people a brief to research the products in more detail, such as by following up customer references from the supplier. Computer Weekly supports this research with an in-depth case study, selected for its uniqueness, which illustrates best practices, technical and business drivers, lessons learnt and future plans of a successful IT project using one of the products shortlisted.
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Buyer’s Guides comprise three separate features, which combine to become a standalone piece of evergreen content that readers can refer back to.
Each part includes a written article, plus relevant background material, as well as exclusive online-only multimedia content and infographics. Here is the schedule for H1 2025:
The changing compliance landscape
Jan 14 to Feb 3
We look at the challenges organisations face in 2025, the emergence of new threats and how new regulations that come into force this year will impact enterprise IT security and corporate governance.
Data engineering
Feb 4 to Feb 24
For years, IT leaders have fine tuned data processing to support business inte;ligence across all the IT systems holding useful corporate information. Unstructured data makes this far more complex, and the ability to process structured and unstructured data uniformly is key to unlocking the full value of the corporate data troves.
Rethinking the route to net-zero
Feb 25 to Mar 17
There is a growing disquiet about how lots of enterprises (and tech firms) are unlikely to meet their net-zero targets. This is partly because AI and other energy-intensive compute services is driving up energy usage.
Datacentre capacity planning
Mar 18 to Apr 7
The growing demands for compute capacity, particularly in the UK, is wildly outstripping supply. What are the alternatives to building net-new datacentres? We look at what the industry is doing to tackle demand.
Getting started with small language models
Apr 8 to May 5
We look at the emergence of AI at the edge and how a new breed of hardware and software powers AI inference applications on any devices.
Networking and AI
May 6 to Jun 9
We look at the development of fast networking to move vast quantities of data to and from AI acceleration hardware. We also explore how AI is changing network operations, enabling capacity planning and providing greater contextual insights for network admins.
Cloud repatriation
Jun 10 to Jun 30
A number of organisations are looking to move some workloads into private clouds and embrace more of a hybrid approach. We explore the business drivers behind these decisions and explore the pros and cons and use cases for cloud repatriation.
