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. 

Download the Open Group Service Integration Maturity Model (OSIMM). 

Adding a re-hosting project to outsourcing allows for a further reduction in cost. Watch this 2-minute video about the Cedacri Group’s mainframe modernization experience  to learn about the cost and performance advantages of a re-hosting strategy as well as how to ensure its success. 

This brief white paper outlines the different capabilities and properties of MySQL and Oracle GoldenGate, including real-time data warehousing, real-time reporting, OLTP query offloading and more. 

Find out how 3,637 marketers responded to tough questions about their open, click and conversion rates. Also, find out which tests work best, what's not working, list growth strategies and how email budgets are changing for 2007. Invite your entire team to attend – attendance for this Webcast is free! 

Read this paper to find out why the FAA's System Wide Information Management program selected four open source service-oriented architecture (SOA) components to combine with its other development and management tools to create an enterprise infrastructure that will be deployed between 2010 and 2015 to support NextGen satellite air traffic control. 

As IT budgets continue to slump, you'll need to develop a solid case for the SQL Server upgrade. Inside this e-Book, learn about the features that will get the management buy-in. 

<div> <div> <p>Find out how you can avoid the most common mistakes that Exchange admins make when migrating to Exchange 2010 in this e-guide. Plus, gain tips for how to properly document and plan your migration.</p> </div> </div> 

Discover how you can develop a roadmap for successful cloud migration to ensure that your organization reaps the maximum cloud benefits. This essential resource breaks down a roadmap to cloud in 5 steps, along with strategies for how you can build scalable, open infrastructure for virtualization and cloud-optimized networks. 

Inside, learn how mainframe rehosting can help you operate legacy workloads on lower cost platforms or offload your organization’s processing requirements in order to cap workload growth. Discover the benefits of mainframe rehosting solutions. 

This expert white paper establishes the ultimate IT security goal: the most reliable preventative and detective security system possible with the least amount of capital expenditure. From common sense solutions to revolutionary concepts, instructor James Michael Stewart challenges IT pros to explore his methods of saving money on company security. 

Exponential data growth is challenging today's IT managers to scale their storage capacity while delivering high performance and staying within tight budgets. This paper explains how Oracle can help by offering the first unified storage solution that optimizes performance with HSPs and delivers radical simplification of storage management.