<p>To enjoy the flexibility and resource savings of a private cloud, you need to know where to begin with building one. In this issue of <em>Cloud Development Digest, </em>find best practices and expert recommendations for implementing a private cloud.</p> 

Explore the impact of the cloud on application design, development, management and maintenance for enterprises and for the growing mobile app market in this e-guide. Plus, find out how businesses are rethinking mobile app development. 

CIOs are more confident of securing technology budget increases than at any time in the last five years, according to the CIO Technology Survey 2012. 

In this expert resource, find answers to six of your most pressing compliance and audit questions concerning fixed assets, financial reporting standards, tax filing, and more. 

Read this white paper to learn proper techniques and best practices for packaging and storing your physical documents and information in cartons to avoid risk and records exposure. Find tips on what to look for in a quality carton, how to know when your carton is too old and needs to be replaced, and how to properly pack your carton. 

Manual testing still accounts for about 75% of all functional testing. However, innovation hasn’t come into play yet and manual testers find themselves struggling to keep up with the fast pace of change dictated by today’s world, using outdated methods and tools. Read this paper to learn strategies for modernizing your manual testing. 

Nucleus analyzed existing Force.com application deployments and found an average of 4.9 times faster development.  End customers, developers, and ISVs experience more rapid time to value, lower cost, and greater ongoing flexibility. 

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. 

This week’s Computer Weekly, we talk exclusively to Tesco CIO Mike McNamara about why the UK's biggest retailer is spending £150m on its online business. And, with the London 2012 Olympics only weeks away; we look at how IT testing is progressing. 

To protect cardholder data, organizations must take steps to meet the latest PCI compliance standards. Find out how your company can safeguard data in this step-by-step guide. 

<p>With the heightened compliance regulations, your records management has never been more important. Read this e-book to discover: the importance of physical and digital records convergence, why data retention is a cross-departmental concern, new apps designed specifically for e-discovery, and the compliance risks associated with social media.</p> 

<p>Read this expert resource to learn how testing in the cloud is different from traditional quality assurance of applications. Find tips on how to adjust your testing techniques and tests themselves to ensure maximum cloud application performance.</p> 

In August 2011, Forrester Consulting surveyed over 200 leading IT firms in North America and Europe to answer the question, “What are the implications of expanding testing in development, and what does it mean to development quality?”. Read this report to see the results.