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. 

For company's using Microsoft DFS Replication to mirror file servers across multiple office sites, DFSR lacks distributed file locking to control version conflicts. PeerLock adds file locking to a DFSR mirrored servers. Learn how this trial software can help you by downloading today. 

Access this brief white paper for a case study on how Load Trail improved its customer relationships and lowered labor costs with a new ERP software system. 

Design teams across the world collaborate to create and develop prod­ucts. Unfortunately, IT organizations face serious challenges when collaborative teams share large files. This white paper will assess the strengths and weaknesses of the four technologies most commonly used to enhance file sharing for distributed teams. 

Check out this brief case study to discover how Kysor, a leading manufacturer of refrigeration solutions, found a file locking solution that was able to meet their document control and management challenges, eliminating version conflicts entirely with real-time use of file detection. 

Data integration is changing, no longer relying solely on manual SQL scripts or stored procedures. Read this expert e-brief and learn how automation, real-time complex event processing, data virtualization and more are altering the process forever. 

This white paper outlines the features and technical specifications of Dell's PowerVault NX3000 with Microsoft Storage Server 2008 R2. 

Small and medium businesses need to support growth while wringing every ounce of value out of the investments they've already made. This paper looks at the benefits of virtualizing SQL Server databases, as well as how to get the most out of your virtual infrastructure. 

Your business has reached a crossroads. With employees collaborating on files shared across a number of computers, you realize consolidating access to the information would greatly improve your organization's operational efficiency and its productivity. You are ready for your First Server solution. Read on to find the right system configuration. 

Entrusted with managing massive volumes of data, Santa Fe Partner's small IT staff knows the importance of security and data availability. Recently, they were looking for a file synchronization tool that would help the company manage market and transactional data as well as allow data transfer for DR. Read on to learn about the solution they chose. 

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. 

Online airline and travel group Meridiana fly needed a faster, more cost-effective way for its growing customer base to book reservations online. They turned to the Riverbed Stingray Traffic Manager, which ensured a fast, responsive website that could cope with increasing high-demand.