The overriding goals for Data Centre Consolidation, the G-Cloud and the Applications Store for Government are:Reduce ICT costs;Provide open competition and create a vibrant marketplace enabling the best product at the best price;Create flexibility. 

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 unique cloud framework is designed to help organisations assess the financial risks of moving to the cloud. 

View this brief video to learn how the University of Cincinnati is becoming more cost-effective and better serving its students by distributing its dollars to the programs that need it through the budgetary visibility that SAP software gives them. 

The commercial potential of cloud computing and cloud services is widely accepted, both in private industry and in the public sector.  The opportunities for cost reduction and efficiency in the UK public sector are real and achievable, but require significant changes to procurement practices, delivery frameworks and across the supplierlandscape. 

Find out how IBM Case Manager and IBM Content Analytics can help public sector organizations more effectively manage case files and how government workers can do more work in a shorter period of time. 

This expert E-Guide reveals 6 checklists to help you improve and identify deficiencies in your disaster recovery plan to give you the best fighting chance in the event of a disaster. Read now to learn more. 

Affordable high availability and disaster recovery solutions are critical to the survival of all SMBs in the event of a disaster. Building on years of helping SMBs protect their information, VMware and Dell provide cost-effective and robust data protection, disaster recovery, and high availability solutions. 

This White Paper is intended to help organizations who are attempting to set up an enterprise architecture practice. It shows how organizations can use a modular, iterative, and incremental approach in order to develop an architectural capability that is otherwise a large and complex undertaking. 

This podcast will focus on the content of a new KnowledgeStorm research report, the second in a series of studies looking at the impact emerging online applications have on B2B technology marketing. The research finds that blogs and Real Simple Syndication (RSS) are catching on more quickly than previously thought. 

This report, the second in a series of studies looking at the impact emerging online applications have on B2B technology marketing, finds that blogs and Real Simple Syndication (RSS) are catching on more quickly than previously thought. 

<p>With today’s threats, IT environments and compliance risks becoming more dynamic and complex, organizations need to take a more proactive stance to risk and security management. In this resource, gain key insight on how to deploy a strategic security and risk management program that helps mitigate risks before they occur.</p>