In this week's Computer Weekly, we talk to the British Library about the enormous storage challenges of digitising its printed archive; we examine the state of the UK IT jobs market and the skills that are most in demand by employers; and we look at case studies of the best virtualisation projects. Download the new issue now. 

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we talk to the British Library about the enormous storage challenges of digitising its printed archive; we examine the state of the UK IT jobs market and the skills that are most in demand by employers; and we look at case studies of the best virtualisation projects. Download the new issue now. 

What can you, as a buyer do to strengthen your business case for Cloud and keep your company competitive? What are some real-world success stories where companies have applied Cloud to solve specific business challenges? What business risks are clients facing which have influenced Cloud buying decisions? 

If you are thinking of using cloud services brokerage (CSB), then read this case study on Mohawk Fine Papers to learn how they found a service-oriented architecture (SOA)-based backbone to support interoperability between its internal and external tools. 

How did one man manage the entire desktop infrastructure of Lincoln, Massachusetts? A near-constant demand for physical desktop support meant high inefficiency for critical public works. This case study reveals how one IT director moved his town forward to a hardware refresh and Windows 7 migration by leveraging desktop virtualization. 

Check out this brief case study to discover how Kysor, a leading manufacturer of refrigeration solutions, found a file locking solution that was able to meet their document control and management challenges, eliminating version conflicts entirely with real-time use of file detection. 

The major global telcos have led the competitive march from telecoms into cloud computing, and are now widely seen as credible players in cloud computing services including infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS). 

Many trends are defining and shaping the IT landscape which collectively will impact the way future network architectures need to be planned. Real-time networking is one option to be ready for the changes that are here and on the way. 

Access this case study to learn how a hotel developed an application to help coordinates guest requests among employees for addressing things like getting new towels or replacing light bulbs. 

Access this case study to learn how a company deployed WIC Messenger to automatically push an up-to-date list of PINs to each BlackBerry smartphone so users could easily contact each other in the event of a power outage or email service disruption. 

Access this case study to learn how a company used Hosted BlackBerry® services to help monitor, manage and provision the BlackBerry smartphones used internally by its employees. 

Cloud computing uses 91 percent less energy than traditional on-premise applications. Nucleus evaluated Salesforce.com's customer base and found that cloud computing drives more than just significant financial savings: the effective sharing of resources also generates a substantial green benefit.