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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

In this week's Computer Weekly, we take an in-depth look at HP's strategic shake-up, and ask what it means for the supplier's customers and the UK IT industry as a whole. We also discuss a major research study into why IT projects go wrong, and start our latest Buyer's Guide, about business intelligence. Download the new 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. 

This week’s Computer Weekly examines research that suggests CEOs want to invest in IT more than ever, but still see CIOs as technical experts and not business people. We review SQL Server 2012 and ask if Microsoft's database software is catching its competitors as well as concluding our Buyer's Guide to data security. 

This white paper discusses the procedures for upgrading your Oracle database,— particularly focusing on using Oracle’s real-time data integration software, Oracle GoldenGate— along with the results of such upgrades. 

This week’s Computer Weekly, investigates the costs of government IT, asking whether taxpayers are getting value for money from the 8,000 IT staff employed by Whitehall. We also examine how IT leaders are preparing for the growth of bring-your-own-device policies and the mobile security implications. 

An organization's unstructured and semi-structured information is not typically a good fit for relational databases. And it also adds to the data integration workload- and challenges- for IT managers and staff. Access this guide for insight and practical advice on managing integration projects involving large amounts of data- specifically big data. 

How information is managed is more important than 'big data', say analysts Clive Longbottom and Rob Bamforth. 

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.