Increased difficulty in protecting data has heightened the need for organizations to simplify compliance and reduce costs by replacing manual, resource-intensive audit processes with automated controls for all their enterprise applications. Read this data sheet to learn how Guardium 7 addresses the entire database security and compliance lifecycle. 

In this week's Computer Weekly: Amazon and Microsoft earn $5bn in public cloud revenue – we ask if public cloud is now ready for the mainstream. Banks face huge challenges replacing legacy IT – but is the short-term nature of CIOs hindering progress? And we look at how user experience can deliver return on investment for IT. Read the issue now. 

In this week's Computer Weekly, Oxfam's CIO talks about how IT supports a global aid operation; we ask if £530m government funding will be enough to roll-out superfast broadband; we examine the security issues around moving to IPv6; plus our analysis of the week’s biggest news stories in IT. Download the latest issue now. 

In this week's Computer Weekly, now the 4G spectrum auction is over, we look at what happens next for the future of mobile networking. Cloud computing promises to save costs – we examine how to ensure a return on investment. And we report from the RSA conference on how big data is helping tackle cyber security threats. Read the issue now. 

In this week's Computer Weekly, we ask if the days of the PC refresh cycle are over, due to declining PC sales, consumer technology and virtualisation. Remote working can be a challenge – but one project manager is doing so on Mount Everest. And we kick-off our latest buyer's guide, looking at infrastructure needs for big data. Read the issue now. 

This case study examines charity organization WWF’s use of Google Apps to deliver a more interactive and collaborative intranet platform for its full staff and partners around the globe. 

In this week's Computer Weekly: M&S CIO Darrell Stein tells us how technology is changing the retailer as it develops its multichannel strategy. Our latest buyer's guide looks at mobile device management. And with many public sector IT workers being laid off through austerity cuts, we find out how to get a private sector job. 

A virtualisation project has allowed the National Trust to reduce its carbon emissions and to drastically cut its IT energy bill. 

This report from Knowledge Peers and Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC), reveals what leaders of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses (SMBs) think of IT – its strategic value, its potential, and the changing way in which it is being used in their organisations. 

Application developers and DBAs looking to migrate databases due to cost concerns, staffing problems, or technology issues should consider this new database compatability layer option to mitigate risk, lower migration cost, and speed the migration process. 

In this case study Think a mutual bank, implemented GoAnywhere software. They chose this product because of the database conversion, the database push, the secure FTP, and the support staff at Linoma. 

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we mark the 10th anniversary of Microsoft’s Bill Gates announcing the Trustworthy Computing initiative, and ask if it has made IT more secure. We look at what Oracle’s latest developments mean for its software users running rivals’ servers, and conclude our Buyer’s Guide to IT consumerisation. Download the issue now. 

Watch this 10 minute video and discover what Oracle compatibility means for your business from a technical, and skills point of view. This video also offers multiple low risk strategies for using Postgres Plus Advanced Server to lower your Oracle costs and utilize the advantages of the most advanced open source database available.