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 Technical Standard provides a taxonomy describing the factors that drive risk – their definitions and relationships. This Technical Standard is not a reference or tutorial on how to assess or analyze risk, as there are many such references already available. 

Misusing, losing, or otherwise compromising personally identifiable information can carry a steep financial cost, damage a business’s reputation, and even lead to criminal prosecution. Read this white paper to learn more about the challenges organizations face and the steps they can take to ensure the safety of this sensitive information. 

Check out this white paper for a checklist of key questions to ask before choosing an offsite tape storage partner. Learn what the ideal requirements for tape storage are, discover what you should be looking for in a potential storage partner and more. 

This expert E-Guide from SearchUnifiedCommunications.com takes a look at the coming decade and what you can expect from the world of communications and collaboration by the year 2020. 

This 2012 benchmarking survey from ESI assesses the role of the Project/Programme Management Office (PMO), its development to full-blown maturity and value to the business.   

Desktop virtualization guru Brian Madden offers his insight on many desktop virtualization myths in this e-guide. In addition, he explores the best storage options for VDI. 

This week’s Computer Weekly contains an exclusive interview with JP Morgan COO India Gary-Martin about juggling multiple legacy IT systems while keeping the merchant bank compliant. We also look at how near-field communications technology promises to revolutionise consumer spending and we ask whether 2012 could be the year that APM becomes vital? 

<p>Listen to this podcast as industry expert R "Ray" Wang explains what you can do to overcome common sales order management complications, and hear his advice on what technologies can help integrate information from across organizational functions to provide the highest quality data to order management applications.</p> 

<p>In this Quest white paper, read about real-life network monitoring challenges and how they play out in two scenarios – one with, and one without a network monitoring solution in place. Read it today.</p> 

<p>Learn how to communicate more effectively with your boss in this guide from Dr Brian Sutton and Dr Robina Chatham. </p> <p> </p> 

<p>Read this white paper to learn what’s making the task of quality assurance in testing environments difficult and what you can do to overcome it. Discover an approach that enables developers and testers to easily configure a test environment from existing components in order to meet a specific test requirement.</p> 

<p>Uncover the transformations that the data center network has gone through in recent years and how it has impacted end-users and the network. Then, learn about the next major transition and how you can prepare your computing architecture for what’s to come. </p>