Virtualization and cloud computing offer greater business agility and cost efficiency, but they also introduce new security obstacles. View this paper to explore an approach that helps to tackle this challenge and gain virtualization and cloud benefits by using new network architectures and tightly integrated security models. 

This essential resource outlines 12 steps to a secure and managable Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) program. Find out how you can leverage the advantages of IT consumerization while mitigating the risks. 

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. 

Public cloud storage services enable users to easily share and store data, but they also introduce new security challenges that often clash with exiting IT policies. In this webcast, learn how IT managers can help their users manage access to the public cloud without placing your data or business at risk.  

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

Information protection needs to cover all data, from word processing documents to datawithin databases and executable code. It covers enterprise and personal data and is not justconfined to protecting entertainment media, which tends to be generically referred to as“Digital Rights Management” (DRM). 

In this article, we describe how some key Digital Britain proposals have been implemented in the Digital Economy Act 2010. 

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. 

Companies need to make significant investments in digital skills and technologies if they are to meet the needs of their customers, Booz&Co argues in this report. 

Condé Nast Digital manages the online presence for the content of digital magazines such as Vogue and Wired. Read this brief case study to learn about the application server they looked to when they wanted to improve the performance of their Java infrastructure. 

This exclusive video reviews new storage technology that is helping your peers handle their overwhelming amounts of enterprise data. Discover how these solutions can help you combat the challenges and costs of digital storage so you can improve the performance and power of your systems. 

The phrase “augmented reality” was coined by Boeing researcher Tom Caudell in the early 1990s to describe a digital display viewed through a headset  which guided workers through electrical wires in aircraft. The term has since gained currency and is now taken to describe digital information overlaid on the physical world. 

This IDC white paper breaks down everything big data - learn exactly how big data is defined, and how to utilize big data technologies in order to create long-term organizational and economic value. This white paper also explores what types of organizations can benefit most from big data technologies - read on for more.