This week's Computer Weekly examines how the Football Association's IT director is using technology to help improve the prospects for the England national team. Our Buyer's Guide to government IT looks at the future of open source in the public sector and we report from Infosec 2012 on the rising number of cyber attacks. Read the issue now. 

In the cover story of the April 2012 issue of Storage magazine, Lauren Whitehouse outlines best practices for cloud backup integration and the various methods for doing so. Also included in this issue are articles regarding virtual server management, storage for big data, the rising cost of disk drives and more. 

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. 

For every area of your datacenter, Sun Professional Services has created a tailored assessment service. 

This operational costs calculator can show you just how much unreliable data is costing your business. 

Read this informative white paper to learn how a data archiving strategy can, reduce storage costs, improve performance, streamline your system operations, and ensure transparent data access, retrieval, and maintenance. 

A challenge for many organizations is how to balance the cost to protect against threat risks, compliance requirements, and the demand to protect more data for longer periods of time. This white paper explores issues, challenges, and opportunities for protecting data in cloud, virtual, and data storage networks. Read now to learn more. 

This white paper provides a general overview of SAM benefits, and then addresses the specific issues involved in getting SAM up and running in your organization. 

Oracle’s Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server provides a combination of freely available and no-cost virtualization technologies, excellent reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) ratings, very high performance hardware, and significant data center efficiency gains. Continue reading to learn more. 

Despite well-publicised concerns regarding security, compliance and data integration issues, banking institutions have begun embracing cloud computing across the services spectrum. 

Read on to learn what SMBs should consider before implementing virtualization as well as the specific benefits of using Dell hardware with Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization solution. 

The era of capture is in full stride as organizations are capitalizing on today's innovative capture technologies to reduce costs, eliminate paper-based functions and comply with regulatory requirements. But where do you stand on this capture continuum? This paper, outlining the five phases of capture, can help you decide where you need to be. 

To help simplify enterprise desktop management, Dell and VMware have created a flexible, highly scalable desktop virtualization reference architecture based on Dell PowerEdge servers, Dell EqualLogic PS Series iSCSI SAN arrays, and powerful new VMware View 4 technology.