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. 

No, IBM is not going on the game show circuit, but IBM will make Watson’s full human language understanding deep question and answer system (DeepQA) available to healthcare in the near future for many use cases benefiting providers and payers. 

This buyer case study presents a medical center's deployment and use of NetApp Syncsort Integrated Backup. 

This paper is the second in a two-part series exploring the innovation barrier – the point at which testing can no longer keep pace with development in the equipment manufacturing industry. It examines the innovation barrier’s symptoms – from slowdowns in development to mounting quality issues – and the potential impact on equipment manufacturers. 

This case study demonstrates how Rockford Health was able to provide their care givers with ready access to patient data while safely archiving medical images and protecting them offsite in the event of a disaster. 

<p>Read this white paper to learn how medical manufacturers are using enterprise resource planning (ERP) software to reduce the costs of their operations as well as justify current prices to insurers based on success rates and patient value.</p> 

This case study outlines the Maria Parham Medical Center's selection for its scalability, cost-efficiency and comprehensive management of all aspects of storage, maintenance and data restoration. They now have the peace of mind that all medical images in its PACS are safely archived and easily recoverable. 

Using two of the Intel SS4000-E storage servers mirrored for additional redundancy, Philips has cut about USD 10 thousand off the storage cost for more than one terabyte of data by eliminating the need to buy expensive optical disks. 

This white paper highlights a centralized, efficient and effective risk mitigation solution for the health care industry. Within, discover how to implement the necessary controls to significantly reduce the potential compromise of sensitive patient information. 

This case study explores how one health care facility was able to streamline its patient records management with Iron Mountain. Additionally, they were able to reduce costs while improving patient care with timely access to patient data. 

This E-Guide from SearchHealthIT.com discusses some of the most important considerations for storing medical data in the cloud. 

<p>Download this customer success story to see how Priority Health achieved these business benefits and more!</p> 

If the worldwide health system is not in crisis, it is under intense pressure and cost cutting trends in the light of the global downturn are only set to continue. For most hospitals and medical establishments budget allocations for IT were expected to be smaller in 2009 than in 2008.