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 white paper looks at the pros and cons of open-source software and helps organizations understand how to build a business case that is based on cost, schedule, performance and risks across the entire program lifecycle not just up-front program inception costs and considerations. 

This paper discusses several key differences between closed and open source software vendor management, providing advice for managing your deployments and investments in open source technologies. 

In this week’s Computer Weekly, Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude talks about releasing government datasets to the public and why open data will drive the next industrial revolution. We also review the latest test version of Windows 8 and see how it shapes up for tablet computers and business users and much more. 

Although business rules management can mean different things to different people in the same organization, this white paper reminds us the important thing to remember is it is about business not technology. Read on to get a greater understanding of the benefits of business rules management software in an open source environment. 

To get a return on virtualization investments, companies must deploy effective automation techniques to simplify the virtualized environment while also allowing a policy-based deployment model. 

Download the Open Group Service Integration Maturity Model (OSIMM). 

This week's edition asks, now that the the G-Cloud store is up and running, will the government's cloudstore transform the market for public sector IT buyers and suppliers? It also examines research that has indicated OS upgrades will attract a significant chunk of investment this year. 

This webcast focuses on the high availability concerns with Apache ActiveMQ open source messaging and Integration Patterns server, provides recommendations for broker/slave vs. network of brokers infrastructure, and walks through some code samples to show how Active MQ approaches high availability concerns. 

This paper from the Open Group reveals how banks can benefit from combining complementary industry frameworks on enterprise architecture. 

<p>Read this white paper to uncover exactly what sets Red Hat JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform apart from other vendors. Gain an in-depth overview of the product and how it has evolved to become a marketplace leader.  Weigh the pros and cons of a Red Hat investment and decide if it's the right move for you.</p> 

The globalization of all industries, the need to decrease application lifecycles and the adoption of agile tools and methods are building momentum and taking on a life of their own. Enterprises of all kinds are realizing that their traditional software development tools and approaches can no longer deliver end-to-end ALM for business agility.