In this week’s Computer Weekly, we look at the IT challenges facing retailers, as consumers turn increasingly to web and mobile shopping channels. Oracle president Mark Hurd talks about how the supplier intends to simplify IT infrastructures. And new government CIO Andy Nelson discusses how he plans to transform Whitehall IT. Read the issue now. 

This white paper explores the latest virtualization capabilities, and offers recommendations on how to combine virtualization technologies for enterprise deployments. 

More and more organizations are looking to SOA as the basis of their future computer architecture. Recognizing that legacy application design and implementation approaches have led to applications that are costly to operate, hard to change, organizations are hoping that SOA provides a key component of the answer to these problems. 

This article shows how an application grid built on Oracle Fusion Middleware can not only prevent unplanned outages, but it can improve the overall performance of mission critical business applications. 

This week’s Computer Weekly kicks off our Buyer's Guide to private cloud. It also contains our RSA conference coverage of the latest IT security trends and the future for Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing initiative. And we discuss the role of apprenticeships in encouraging more young people to work in IT. 

This week’s Computer Weekly kicks off our Buyer's Guide to data security by looking at the changing role of the IT security chief. We also examine why flexible working is proving so slow to roll out and we talk to the UK's air traffic control operator about its ambitious desktop virtualisation project. 

This brief resource provides 10 reasons why customers use EMC unified storage for deploying virtualized Oracle Environments. 

<p>This technical white paper provides Exadata Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) insight for rapid deployment and efficient operation of Exadata Database Machine, focusing on the areas of: Exadata MAA Architecture, initial deployment, post-deployment Exadata MAA configuration, and Exadata MAA operational best practices.</p> 

While Exalogic is optimized for enterprise Java, Oracle Fusion Middleware, and Oracle‘s Fusion Applications, it is also an outstanding environment for the thousands of third-party and custom Linux and Solaris applications widely deployed today. Read more in this white paper to what Oracle is also doing for your data center. 

The benchmark study described in this whitepaper demonstrates Oracle Complex Event Processing's (CEP's) ability to provide both very high throughput and low latency on a single Exalogic compute node with a use case that is very typical of financial front office applications in capital markets. 

Read this white paper to learn how  the Oracle Optimized Solution for PeopleSoft Human Capital Management, mitigates the risk of deploying HCM solutions while delivering lower total cost of ownership (TCO), increased return on investment (ROI), and improved workforce productivity and performance. 

With the acquisition of Sun, Oracle now provides Oracle Optimized Solutions: a complete applications to disk solution engineered, tested, and certified to work together as a single system. Read this white paper to learn more about Oracle Optimized Solutions and how they can be used to improve Oracle E-Business Suite operations.