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. 

The partnership with SAP gives VMware the opportunity to address an additional large segment of the enterprise market, and enables SAP to sell its products on the industry-leading virtualization platform. 

Quantum's Encryption Key Manager (Q-EKM) is an Enterprise proven, easy-to-use solution for managing encryption keys across multiple Quantum libraries. 

Social content is now as much a part of businesses today as their employees. Managing it is essential to your success. How organizations go about this varies. This paper offers a clearer understanding of the benefits of social business systems. Discover how best to govern your social content to exploit it for the maximum long-term benefit. 

Despite the fact that BYOD and BYOPC can reduce costs, add IT flexibility, and keep employees happy, they are not without issues. Check out this E-Book from SearchConsumerization.com to learn the promises and pitfalls of BYOD and BYOPC and discover how to successfully embrace them in your organization. 

In the first of SearchUnifiedCommunications.com’s three-part guide on selecting collaboration products, this document takes a look at the business and technology issues associated with them and provides expert guidance on the benefits you can reap by taking advantage of the various types of collaboration solutions. 

<p>This is the third piece in SearchSecurity.com's three-part guide on antimalware products. This expert asset, written by security researcher Mike Rothman, takes a deep dive into the requirements that should seal the deal in terms of final considerations when purchasing an antimalware solution.</p> 

Virtualization is one of the hottest topics in enterprise computing today, with advocates promoting benefits including improved business efficiency, cost savings, and mission-critical data and application protection. This series examines some of the implications of virtualization on small and medium-sized businesses. 

<p>This report examines the business benefits Unified Communications (UC) can bring to your business and how your extended internal stakeholders – and your budget – can benefit from a broader UC strategy.</p> 

<p>The widespread adoption of unified communications (UC) only proves its importance to the workplace. In this resource, uncover the benefits of and case for adding visual communications and video to your UC strategy.</p> 

This paper examines how your organization can benefit from the new version of SharePoint. Whether you are an end-user who wants faster queries and easier editing options; or an administrator who wants leverage when working with developers, an upgrade to the new version of SharePoint will definitely reap dividends. 

Even with rising energy costs, learn how some organizations are benefiting from IT energy reductions of up to 40%. This podcast features IBM vice president, Steve Sams discussing the latest challenges and solutions for IT managers and CIOs around "greening" the data center.  

In this videocast, learn how virtualization can benefit your disaster recovery and high availability strategy. Discover the differences between physical and virtual environments and learn about architectural considerations to support virtualization.