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. 

A review of Managed Print Services (MPS) programmes for SMBs and midmarket organisations. 

The approach to end-of-life compliance that many manufacturers are taking today will not scale with the rapid growth and increased complexity of regulations and industry or supply chain requirements. Read this paper to discover the benefits of best-in-class approaches to environmental management programmes and the systems need to support them. 

Discover this optimized package of software, servers and storage with additional CPU core and memory capacity that can support OLTP, DW or mixed application workloads and creates consolidation economies of scale in the data center. 

While immediate value is achievable through improved data quality and standardization, without well-defined goals for measured improvements to visible business processes the technical morass threatens project success. In this paper, we review some barriers to success of Master Data Management (MDM) programs. 

This brief paper outlines how Cognos FSR automates and streamlines the financial statement reporting (FSR) production process by gathering and connecting information from a variety of sources to construct an application database of all of your data. Learn how to overcome the challenges of scalability, process accuracy, increased workloads and more. 

View this resource center to learn why many organizations are considered packaged services for delivering the software they need to run their mission-critical business processes while focusing limited resources on business outcomes as opposed to software project requirements. 

In this white paper, learn how enterprises must adopt security best practices that bring together both data leak prevention and database security in order to protect data from both internal and external threats while ensuring that the data is available to those who require it. 

View this helpful video to get an introduction to the architecture and data abstraction capabilities of Windows Azure Storage (WAS), a highly scalable and accessible cloud storage service.  

This white paper highlights some of the issues that reduce or increase the effectiveness of customer loyalty programs and suggests a solution that offers tips for building a more loyal customer base. 

Find out on May 31st at 12:30 p.m. EDT how to leverage native PL/SQL support and the SQL compatibility features of the all new IBM DB2 10. The IBM architect for these highly successful features will present the current set of capabilities and recent enhancements. There also will be code level customer examples, customer results and more. 

This paper examines how proven test data management capabilities can help you deliver reliable applications and achieve maximum business value from you application investments. 

<p>Access this e-guide to get advice on data quality concerns in the era of big data. With two conflicting ideologies on the best data strategies, it’s hard to know which best suits your enterprise. Discover how to begin a formal, and successful, data governance program and which of the data quality philosophies best fits your organization.</p>