This week’s Computer Weekly kicks off our Buyer's Guide to private cloud. It also contains our RSA conference coverage of the latest IT security trends and the future for Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing initiative. And we discuss the role of apprenticeships in encouraging more young people to work in IT. 

The digitisation index from Booz & Co reveals the business leaders and laggards in the digital technology and explains why it is vital to embrace it. 

<p>Many organizations have put off upgrades to Exchange 2010, despite an array of reasons - both well known and less obvious to IT pros - to migrate to this enhanced server version. This white paper describes the salient characteristics of Exchange 2010 and differentiates between three types of deployment models.</p> 

<p>In this eBook you will learn about the efficient, economical ways to address the small business storage issues outlined above without busting the small business budget or hiring an IT department.</p> 

<p>Discover 5 key steps to creating a practical data retention policy and achieving information governance in this essential resource. Find out how smart policies can help you streamline e-discovery processes and ensure that important email documents are preserved.</p> 

In this exclusive FAQ, discover how you can overcome common migration and management challenges to keep your unified communications systems running in peak condition. 

Does your business rely on spreadsheets for performance management? Spreadsheets require labor-intensive manual processes and are highly error-prone. Learn how you can replace or augment your spreadsheets with planning applications that integrate easily with spreadsheets, leveraging the best of your existing investment. 

Access this webcast to learn how Lexmark International, a company with offices in over 170 companies, was able to streamline IT management to improve overall business processes. Discover the importance of 360-degree visibility into all aspects of the business and how modernizing IT management leads to benefits such as higher customer retention. 

In this expert resource, find answers to six of your most pressing compliance and audit questions concerning fixed assets, financial reporting standards, tax filing, and more. 

Applied Oracle Security (Oracle Press, 2010) is the definitive guide to safeguarding Oracle Database 11g written by the security experts in Oracle’s National Security Group. This complementary chapter on auditing covers how to audit database activity efficiently, improve security, address regulatory requirements, and automate compliance reporting. 

<p>This Lab Validation Report uncovers how Asigra Cloud Backup v11 performed in a hands-on evaluation and technical auditing. Read now to uncover how this solution performed in terms of breadth, trust, efficiency, performance and scalable manageability for cloud-based data protection. </p> 

Read this expert guide to ensure your virtual environment is in compliance with PCI DSS 2.0 and avoid common errors made in the auditing process.