<p>Businesses need to keep a close eye on the evolution of cloud based services to avoid wasting money and missing out on business opportunities.</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> 

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

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. 

The next wave of cloud computing is upon us. In this resource, discover how you can combine collaboration and networking services to effectively build, deliver, use, and enhance communications in the cloud. 

Public sector organisations are experiencing increasing levels of economic crime, including cybercrime, and are particularly at risk from being defrauded by their own employees and their suppliers, according to findings from PwC’s latest Global Economic Crime Survey. 

The Open Group IT Specialist Certification Program (the Program) is designed to validate the existence of those qualities and skills in a professional that enable the effective development, implementation, and operation of IT solutions. 

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. 

IT audit is about the formal verification and validation of the quality and effectiveness of ITcontrols to support the overall business control objectives. From a security controlperspective the residual IT security risks are relatively well understood in a networkperimeter protected environment. 

Schalleur, Devine & Surgent (SDS) is a mid‐sized Certified Public Accounting agency with over 30 employees comprised of CPAs and other certified professionals based in Devon, Pennsylvania. 

This article from Gartner offers advice to public sector organisations thinking of deploying cloud computing and assess the progress made by governments in their use of the cloud. 

Jericho Forum aims to develop and influence information and communications technology(ICT) security standards.  These will facilitate the secure interoperation of ICT to support collaboration and commerce over open networks, within and between organisations, based on a security architecture and design approach entitled de-perimeterisation. 

How can a converged infrastructure simplify even the most complex IT environment and benefit your data center? Access this expert e-guide to discover how converged infrastructures can increase IT flexibility and meet your organization’s needs. 

Listen to this podcast with Christopher Perretta, executive VP and CIO of State Street Corp., the Boston-based financial services provider, as he discusses building an industrial-strength private cloud. Learn why the security and integrity of data is as valuable as currency in the banking business and why a public cloud wouldn't cut it.