This special eight-page report from Computer Weekly analyses the challenges facing Microsoft, its financial performance, the services it offers, its place in the IT market and its future strategy. 

In this expert podcast, virtualization architect with MTM Technologies Inc. Bill Kleyman explains to how to best utilize the native tools available to you in order to implement an effective DR plan. 

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. 

“Before Autotask, we were spending way too much time billing and invoicing. Now an invoice goes out half an hour after the work was completed.” Richard Fitzgerald, President of 2GEN Pty LTD 

Download the new Oracle Whitepaper, The Information Technology Modernization Challenge: Maintain or Innovate and learn how Oracle Advanced Customer Services experts can help your organization drive massive efficiencies and near-term cost savings into your existing infrastructure. 

<p>Listen to this podcast as industry expert R "Ray" Wang explains what you can do to overcome common sales order management complications, and hear his advice on what technologies can help integrate information from across organizational functions to provide the highest quality data to order management applications.</p> 

DBAs are tasked with trying to supercharge the performance of their databases while minimizing extra costs. This expert e-guide from SearchOracle.com explains in-depth the required software and hardware that can eventually determine database performance. Also gain a holistic approach to infrastructure and database improvements. 

In this podcast you’ll hear insights from BI experts at Dell and Oracle on trends and best practices in the BI market that you can put to use at your organization today! 

In this podcast, industry experts discuss how investment in three critical areas - the applications themselves, tools and technologies to deliver the integration, and pre-built integration accelerators - is integral when tackling the most complex of application integration challenges. 

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 expert e-guide provides best practices for integrating manufacturing procurement with ERP. Learn why you shouldn't assume all your business processes need integrating and review insights on the top ERP vendors in the market today. 

<p>Deploying EHR integrated practice management application can aid in replacing paper charts with electronic medical records and document 100% of patient encounters electronically! Download this case study to learn how Central Eye Consultants did it!</p> 

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.