<p>In this videocast, learn about an application performance management (APM) cloud platform that provides all of the benefits of a full-featured system while also ensuring a quick start up time and low cost.</p> 

Many IT professionals are intrigued by the idea of a private cloud to reduce performance bottlenecks and simplify management. This expert e-guide from SearchCloudComputing.com provides insight into what you need to consider before investing in a private cloud strategy. 

By now you've heard all about what the can cloud offer, but before you jump the gun, you must also consider the risks that this infrastructure model can introduce. This white paper examines a new cloud system that enables a hybrid approach so you can enjoy the cloud without compromise. 

Watch this final part of a four-part series on approaches to hybrid clouds to learn about maintaining quality from leading companies that rapidly incorporating private and public cloud applications into their legacy application portfolios. 

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. 

This article from Gartner offers advice to public sector organisations thinking of deploying cloud computing and assess the progress made by governments in their use of the cloud. 

In this second part of a four-part webcast series on how leading companies are rapidly and successfully incorporating private and public cloud applications into their legacy application portfolio you will learn about prioritizing and executing projects. 

Access this white paper to learn how you can monitor and manage public cloud investments including Infrastructure as a service (IaaS), Platform as a service (PaaS), and Software as a service (SaaS), to validate and optimize service quality. 

This report from Accenture looks at the challenges facing the public sector in offering digital services. 

Cloud computing is one of the latest computer and business industry buzz words. This paper will discuss the definition of cloud computing, the public or external cloud, the private or internal cloud, the evolution of cloud computing and more. 

Cloud computing is a style of computing whose foundation is the delivery of services, software and processing capacity using private or public networks. The focus of cloud computing is the user experience, and the essence is to decouple the delivery of computing services from the underlying technology. Read this paper to find out so much more. 

Dell and VMware have teamed up to integrate the infrastructure needed to implement private cloud computing. Together they have collaboratively developed a broad array of capabilities that administrators can utilize to protect data, streamline management and control costs. Check out this brief white paper to learn more.