Rising security breaches cost UK billions over the last 12 months as cyber attacks reached record levels, according to the 2012 Information Security Breaches survey. 

Public sector organisations are experiencing increasing levels of economic crime, including cybercrime, and are particularly at risk from being defrauded by their own employees and their suppliers, according to findings from PwC’s latest Global Economic Crime Survey. 

This research from management consultants, Xantus, shows that while there is still a lack of clarity and a reluctance to fully commit to the cloud, there is a general acceptance from CIOs of the benefits and a growing commitment to develop those benefits. 

<p>The same improvements that increase software performance create new security risks that IT pros must contend with. This white paper takes a closer look at the nature of software complexity and describes tactics you can implement to minimize it.</p> 

<p>In this videocast, learn about an application performance management (APM) cloud platform that provides all of the benefits of a full-featured system while also ensuring a quick start up time and low cost.</p> 

For organizations that want to leverage the benefits of cloud while ensuring the availability of critical business applications, public cloud may not be the most reliable solution. Discover how organizations can take advantage of mature networking technologies to prepare data centers for virtualization and private cloud with VCS Ethernet fabric. 

Although the majority of computing today falls within the traditional and virtualized models, private clouds will grow to be the largest component in the portfolio over the next three to five years. Read on to learn the benefits that the private cloud model offers, plus learn about Dell’s next generation architecture for the cloud. 

<p>IT leaders and business stakeholders are uniting to push forth cloud computing initiatives. Though key concerns remain, the future for the cloud looks brighter than ever. Access this white paper to explore the latest cloud trends and adoption rates.</p> 

<p>Many firms are now planning to run mission critical workloads on public cloud, according to this research from Forrester and BMC.</p> 

View this webcast to hear how security intelligence - delivered via next-generation SIEM and log management technology - provides the visibility needed to detect anomalies inside and outside your organization. 

Cloud computing is a style of computing whose foundation is the delivery of services, software and processing capacity using private or public networks. The focus of cloud computing is the user experience, and the essence is to decouple the delivery of computing services from the underlying technology. Read this paper to find out so much more. 

In the cover story of the April 2012 issue of Storage magazine, Lauren Whitehouse outlines best practices for cloud backup integration and the various methods for doing so. Also included in this issue are articles regarding virtual server management, storage for big data, the rising cost of disk drives and more. 

Cloud computing is making its way into the public sector, enabling significant cost-savings and providing the tools to enhance communication, monitoring and security. Take a look at this videocast for an in-depth look at the use of the cloud in the public sector and learn about four basic models you can leverage for successful cloud adoption.