Cloud Computing is easy to deploy, flexible and cost-effective.  As federal agencies continue to outsource data management and operations to third-party cloud providers, their ability to ensure data integrity and privacy is becoming a potential security risk. Read this white paper to learn how you can manage Cloud Computing safely and efficiently. 

This week’s Computer Weekly, we talk exclusively to Tesco CIO Mike McNamara about why the UK's biggest retailer is spending £150m on its online business. And, with the London 2012 Olympics only weeks away; we look at how IT testing is progressing. 

Why Outsource to Russia? How about scalable IT labor resources, low employee turnover, and reasonable prices. Do you need further convincing? The Read this white paper! 

This case study examines how Hartford Hospital outsourced its medical records management without service interruption, ensuring the highest level of patient care while reducing costs. read on to find out how they did it. 

Enterprise resource leader, SAP founded in 1972, is facing the slow death of traditional on-premise ERP. Customers with shrinking IT budgets are opting to outsource more of their core business systems. 

Learn how Procter & Gamble successfully teamed with HP to consolidate accounting and finance operations spread across the enterprise into a single, global organization, yielding cost savings, improved service levels, better accuracy, and more. 

While database security has progressed over the years, it still falls behind the advancement of DBMS, increasing the risk of vulnerabilities and potential for misuse. This resource uncovers five (5) scenarios and the essential best practices to overcome this security gap and help prevent database attacks and insider threats. 

Oracle Database 11g Release 2, the second release of the award winning Oracle Database 11g, provides the foundation for IT professionals to successfully deliver more information with higher quality of service, make more efficient use of their budgets, and reduce the risk of change in data centers. 

Oracle Recovery Manager is the preferred backup solution for Oracle database environments and is engineered to work together with Oracle’s Sun ZFS Storage Appliances to meet today's challenging backup requirements. Advantages of Sun ZFS Storage Appliances include; simplicity, speed, savings, and reduced risk. Read on to learn more. 

Typically, the IT operations team's main focus is on maximizing availability and performance of servers. And many times they ignore the need for security, assuming that added security software will affect performance, leaving servers completely vulnerable. This brief explores the need for IT operations teams to address security and risk management. 

This paper examines the underlying threats to sensitive data with no regular scheduled patches and offers a practical and reasoned method for protecting databases when vendor patches cannot be installed promptly after they are released. 

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.