In this week’s Computer Weekly, we talk to the British Library about the enormous storage challenges of digitising its printed archive; we examine the state of the UK IT jobs market and the skills that are most in demand by employers; and we look at case studies of the best virtualisation projects. Download the new issue now. 

When today's modern, extended enterprises make the move to standardize on a single business software solution, they often find that very few vendors offer products with the necessary scope and flexibility. Read this paper to discover the required elements of successful, unified business software for the extended enterprise. 

The cost and efficiency benefits of server virtualization are encouraging many organizations to virtualize most, if not their entire data center. Data backup and protection, however, continue to be a challenge in the virtual environment. Learn key questions every CIO should ask to ensure virtual server data protection success. 

In February 2008, CFO Research Services, a unit of CFO Publishing and part of The Economist Group, began a research project with Business Objects, an SAP company, asking senior finance executives to give views on their priorities and challenges around integrating operational and financial planning processes. 

The best practices described by Version Three of the ITIL® represent a de facto standard for IT Service Management and have become very popular in technology organizations over the last several years. This paper will explore each of these challenges, provide real-world examples of each, and present realistic methods for overcoming these challenges. 

This paper takes a more extensive look at the question ‘when, and how, should a project manager address risk?' and provides multiple answers. 

Access this case study to learn how a BlackBerry solution helped the RFDS Western Operations team overcome challenges, and enabled them to provide the state population with the necessary medical support. 

This Article, intended to provide guidance on those issues, is divided into two parts: The "trigger" and the "legal hold." 

The enterprise must be ready to embrace technologies that facilitate the blurring of the boundaries between work and life, in order to maximise the productivity, insight, innovation and collaboration gained from investments in its people, as well as technology itself. 

Project management performance is improving but the environment is increasingly challenging. This final report from the ComputerWeekly Project/Programme Management Survey details the state of the art and offers insights and recommendations for greater project success.