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. 

With a potential economic crisis looming in the Eurozone, Gartner offers a checklist of questions that CIOs and CEOs should ask each other. 

This nine-page Buyer's Guide to Customer Relationsip Management (CRM) analyses the factors CIOs and senior IT professionals will need to consider as they plan their CRM strategies. 

Acronis® vmProtect™ 7 is built specifically for VMware vSphere®, and provides all the features you need in an extremely easy-to-use agentless backup solution that can be deployed in minutes so you can quickly begin backing up your vSphere environment. 

In this white paper, we will look at some of the key changes that will be revealed with the new version of Exchange and how these changes will impact the messaging environment. 

This paper examines how your organization can benefit from the new version of SharePoint. Whether you are an end-user who wants faster queries and easier editing options; or an administrator who wants leverage when working with developers, an upgrade to the new version of SharePoint will definitely reap dividends. 

This Microsoft white paper will discuss in detail ten things you should probably know as you get familiar with the latest version of the Windows client; what's been improved, what to expect and how it differs, if much at all, to Vista. 

This paper explains how with a community-driven development approach, enhancements are driven by a community of users, which means the system constantly improves in the exact way a user requires. Continue reading to learn the power of community-driven product enhancement. 

With each new version of Windows comes a new version of Internet Explorer, and in the case of Windows 7, it’s IE 8 (one of these days all Microsoft’s numeric product names might actually line up). What does the Windows 7 administrator or planner need to know about the new IE? 

In this short webcast, storage expert Brien Posey introduces some of the storage features and changes in Windows Server 8. Watch now to learn more. 

Explore the new and improved features in VMware's vSphere 5, the next version in the ESX and ESXi and vCenter family of products, and the successor to the widely-used vSphere 4. Learn about the top 5 new features in vSphere 5 with step-by-step case studies. 

For company's using Microsoft DFS Replication to mirror file servers across multiple office sites, DFSR lacks distributed file locking to control version conflicts. PeerLock adds file locking to a DFSR mirrored servers. Learn how this trial software can help you by downloading today.