<p>To enjoy the flexibility and resource savings of a private cloud, you need to know where to begin with building one. In this issue of <em>Cloud Development Digest, </em>find best practices and expert recommendations for implementing a private cloud.</p> 

While businesses are seeing the value of becoming more open through social collaboration, there is a tightening of regulations impacting corporate governance and, subsequently, IT governance. 

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. 

<p>Read this white paper to learn what’s making the task of quality assurance in testing environments difficult and what you can do to overcome it. Discover an approach that enables developers and testers to easily configure a test environment from existing components in order to meet a specific test requirement.</p> 

USA Technologies sought a solution that offered better QA and testing to meet the expanding demand of transactions at its 48,000 point-of-sale, cashless micro-transaction machines. This paper outlines the solution it chose and how it offers an automated software load and elevated performance testing. Read this to learn more about its benefits. 

HP Fortify on Demand is a SaaS testing solution that enables organisations to test the security of software quickly, accurately, affordably and without any software to install or manage. View this paper to get a look into how this automated on-demand service works, explore use cases, and determine if this approach is right for you. 

<p>Read this white paper to learn about a mobile software development kit that can help you improve the text recognition and conversion capabilities of your mobile applications.</p> 

We live in an app driven world where any given industry grow more dependent on them each year. Read this paper and learn how your organization can deliver apps faster and at lower cost by managing application demand, development and delivery as an end to end business process. 

This insightful on-demand webcast discusses web application performance monitoring, offering hints and tips for improving end-user response times from Forrester Research analyst Jean-Pierre Garbani. 

SiriusDecisions has commissioned a new research study to examine the efficacy of demand creation - from the point of view of prospects and customers you are spending millions of dollars to communicate with. Read this executive summary of our Demand Creation webinar to find out which tactics are viewed most favorably in b-to-b marketplace. 

This webcast introduces five key imperatives for ALM and discusses how they can be used to ensure success for ALM in a collaborative environment. If you have ever worked on a software development project and wondered how you can eliminate those endless project replans, this webcast is for you. 

<p>Read this white paper to learn how a process-based approach to managing application demand can finally help IT service organizations give their user base what they want—more revenue, more market share, and more customers.</p>