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. 

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. 

Storing files centrally at HQ causes slow file access performance for branch office users. Synchronized (mirrored) file servers with version conflict control is an ideal solution to enable fast LAN speed file access for all employees. Try out this free trial software to learn more about your data solutions. 

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System enables companies to increase productivity in development environments and adopt cost-reducing strategies such as follow the sun.  Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate will give users more ways to achieve these improvements. 

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. 

Despite being so important, the process to create the annual report, the 10-K and the 10-Q is still stuck in the Middle Ages. This paper explores the history of annual reporting, the process of manually creating the annual report, and how to bring this process into the 21st century. 

Acronis® vmProtect™ 7 is built specifically for VMware vSphere®, and provides all the features you need in an extremely easy-to-use agentless backup solution that can be deployed in minutes so you can quickly begin backing up your vSphere environment. 

<p>Many organizations have put off upgrades to Exchange 2010, despite an array of reasons - both well known and less obvious to IT pros - to migrate to this enhanced server version. This white paper describes the salient characteristics of Exchange 2010 and differentiates between three types of deployment models.</p> 

In this white paper, we will look at some of the key changes that will be revealed with the new version of Exchange and how these changes will impact the messaging environment. 

2011 has been an overwhelming year for security; complete with security breaches, subsequent attacks and an abundance of negative attention. This month’s edition of Information Security Magazine, brought to you by SearchSecurity.com, is looking past the negativity and focusing on the positive.  

This white paper reviews proof points and best practices for file sharing disaster recovery. 

This paper explains how with a community-driven development approach, enhancements are driven by a community of users, which means the system constantly improves in the exact way a user requires. Continue reading to learn the power of community-driven product enhancement.