This week's Computer Weekly examines how the Football Association's IT director is using technology to help improve the prospects for the England national team. Our Buyer's Guide to government IT looks at the future of open source in the public sector and we report from Infosec 2012 on the rising number of cyber attacks. Read the issue now. 

This week’s Computer Weekly asks what chancellor George Osborne's Budget means for the UK IT community and if he can deliver his goal to make Britain "the technology centre of Europe". Also you'll find the final part of our private cloud Buyer's Guide and we examine the options for choosing the right WAN optimisation strategy. 

ITIL is becoming the next big thing in Information Technology. This paper outlines the origin of ITIL, who controls its contents, who are the biggest users, and why you should care. 

Dispel 7 common myths about backup and DR in virtual environments by reading this white paper featuring Eric Siebert, VMware vExpert. 

This one hour webinar will focus on the top 10 things you need to know about Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation 3.0 and why Red Hat is leading the way for virtualisation. 

Check out this E-Brief to learn about recent developments in the tape market that could expand the benefits of tape beyond data protection. Learn about the latest in tape technology, backup and archiving, and discover why (despite what you may have heard) tape is here to stay in today's IT realm. 

Find out more about value management and building value realization practices into every IT project. Discover how using value realization best practices during the lifecycle of your implementation can help you achieve greater value from your IT investments. Learn about the value of ASAP methodology and SAP offerings. 

The first edition of Cloud Computing Review tackles the big questions about cloud computing, such as does the cloud really save you money? Find out about the hidden costs of cloud, as well as what you should pay attention to in cloud contracts. Plus, explore the link between enterprise applications and the cloud through a detailed case study. 

This presentation transcript explores how you can develop a comprehensive cloud security plan and leverage the tools you already have to make your data safe in cloud environments. 

In this video, Lee Dehmer, IT Manager at Gearbulk Inc, speaks about the benefits of virtualization at their organization. He shares his insight on benefits of pooling all their resources, servers, storage and networking, into a single, virtual infrastructure. Watch this video to learn more. 

This week’s Computer Weekly contains an exclusive interview with JP Morgan COO India Gary-Martin about juggling multiple legacy IT systems while keeping the merchant bank compliant. We also look at how near-field communications technology promises to revolutionise consumer spending and we ask whether 2012 could be the year that APM becomes vital? 

<p>View this post to learn about the four types of data abstractions that Windows Azure Storage (WAS) offers for applications developers: blobs, tables, queues, and drives. Then learn about how they are partitioned, the URIs for each, and their scalability targets.</p> 

In the ongoing effort to reach HIPPA Electronic Medical Record (EMR) compliance standards, one of the biggest concerns is security. Download this whitepaper to see how to develop a blanket of security for patients and your reputation through leveraging best practices for automated threat protection!