<p>This May edition of <em>IT in Europe</em> explores the growing need for stronger NAC technology in the world of BYOD. Also learn about strategies for enterprise device management, the top European storage priorities, and much more! </p> 

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we look at the IT challenges facing retailers, as consumers turn increasingly to web and mobile shopping channels. Oracle president Mark Hurd talks about how the supplier intends to simplify IT infrastructures. And new government CIO Andy Nelson discusses how he plans to transform Whitehall IT. Read the issue now. 

This week’s Computer Weekly asks what chancellor George Osborne's Budget means for the UK IT community and if he can deliver his goal to make Britain "the technology centre of Europe". Also you'll find the final part of our private cloud Buyer's Guide and we examine the options for choosing the right WAN optimisation strategy. 

This paper provides an introductory overview of some of the enterprise backup options available for Oracle data. 

This independent report from analysts, Nucleus Research offers a critical assessment of Oracle’s Cloud Services. 

Read this white paper to discover how organizations that leverage Noetix software as the foundation for their reporting needs benefit from streamlined access to Oracle application data, as well as reports that continue to run without alteration following an upgrade to Oracle Release 12. 

<p>This white paper examines how the versatile design of the Oracle SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 along with powerful, bundled virtualization capabilities makes it an ideal platform for  consolidating  enterprise servers and workloads and  deploying multi-tiered applications with Web, database, and application components.  </p> 

Organizations running mature SAP or Oracle applications experience significant ongoing savings from third-party support.  Nucleus found Rimini Street customers can reduce their annual license maintenance fees by at least 50 percent and avoid upgrade costs while extending the value of their software investment. 

Changes to your Oracle E-Business Suite applications directly affect your company. Therefore, having an effective change management and version control process is critical. In this paper, see how an impossible task – versioning and managing Oracle setup object with third-party tools – is now a reality. 

This white paper describes a snapshot-based Oracle database backup and recovery solution using Dell EqualLogic PS Series iSCSI storage which can improve the backup and recovery time and help the IT administrator meet SLAs. Read now to learn more. 

Watch this webcast or download the accompanying podcast to learn how EMC Data Domain next-generation backup technology provides a scalable deduplication storage system with inline dedupe throughput and exceptional data availability for Oracle databases. 

In this paper, learn why the database layer is so important to the software selection of an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. Also compare Oracle database to SQL Server databases. 

Exponential data growth is challenging today's IT managers to scale their storage capacity while delivering high performance and staying within tight budgets. This paper explains how Oracle can help by offering the first unified storage solution that optimizes performance with HSPs and delivers radical simplification of storage management.