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. 

ITIL is becoming the next big thing in Information Technology. This paper outlines the origin of ITIL, who controls its contents, who are the biggest users, and why you should care. 

Are you going to upgrade to SQL Server 2012? This edition of SQL Server Insider sets out to help you decide whether the investment is worth it or not. Read this edition to learn if several IT pros are going to upgrade and why, how this release will affect the database marketplace and pros and cons of actually upgrading. 

In this webcast, explore your options and learn the truth about ongoing support for Discoverer and migrating to OBI EE. 

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. 

This month’s Information Security Magazine cover story focuses on active strategies for malware resistance and compliance, data protection and incident responses found in VDI approaches. Learn how you can implement three top strategies to ensure your active desktop security isn’t compromised. 

The Security Forum is a membership group of security experts from both the customer and supply sides of industry, government, and academia, who share a common aim to raise confidence levels in IT business operations. 

This brief paper details the need for social network analysis (SNA), new methods for conducting it and why Sybase IQ is well-positioned to aid in the analytical queries needed to perform such analysis. 

<p>In this exclusive E-Guide from SearchUnifiedCommunications.com, learn more about the intelligent network and how telepresence and visual collaboration is changing the modern enterprise. Uncover the extranet and desktop video requirements driving 2012 telepresence trends and how the iPad is changing enterprise video-conferencing strategies.</p> 

As SAP customers plan their BI strategies in the face of support deadlines for BEx tools that are inching closer, many customers are contemplating their next steps with BW. In this e-book, readers will learn the keys to planning a successful SAP data warehousing strategy, and get help deciding what role BW should play in it. 

This research report details the most recent versions and developments surrounding Sybase IQ and offers key findings for which prospective users should be aware. It also delves into the details of its latest release, version 15.4, including its architecture, query performance, indexes, in-database analytics and more. 

This white paper provides an overview of Oracle's capabilities for data warehousing, and discusses the key features and technologies by which Oracle-based business intelligence and data warehouse systems easily integrate information, perform fast queries, scale to very large data volumes and analyze any data. 

In this white paper, learn how to improve your information management, increasing the ability to manage, secure, query, and administer information with high levels of performance. Uncover how Oracle Database 11g Release 2 includes a wide range of capabilities to allow for this intelligent management and analysis.