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 webcast featuring business intelligence expert Wayne Eckerson will explain how big data -- the combination of Hadoop and analytical databases -- is transforming the business intelligence industry. 

While databases hold an organization’s most vital information, database security is often low on the priority list. But with most breaches today directly involving databases, it’s time to rethink your database security strategy. This paper uncovers an approach that helps secure databases while streamlining compliance and maintaining performance. 

<p>Read this white paper to learn about a new relational database from Akiban, a unified document and relational architecture that accelerates MySQL applications to ensure consistent and compelling performance for end users with no change to code, architecture or infrastructure.</p> 

Watch this webcast now to gain insight on a new strategic extract, transform and load (ETL) tools that assist with vital tasks including data services to applications and business users. 

Are you going to upgrade to SQL Server 2012? This edition of SQL Server Insider sets out to help you decide whether the investment is worth it or not. Read this edition to learn if several IT pros are going to upgrade and why, how this release will affect the database marketplace and pros and cons of actually upgrading. 

While database security has progressed over the years, it still falls behind the advancement of DBMS, increasing the risk of vulnerabilities and potential for misuse. This resource uncovers five (5) scenarios and the essential best practices to overcome this security gap and help prevent database attacks and insider threats. 

As today’s databases continue to grow in size, complexity and importance, organizations struggle to find the most appropriate strategy to keep them secure. In this Gartner report, uncover the essential controls and best practices for adequately protecting data bases and enterprise data. 

This white paper maps out how EMC Data Domain deduplication storage systems preserves data integrity, meets stringent RTO/RPO objectives, and integrates easily into a multitude of active SQL or third-party backup environments. 

<p>Top five reasons why customers deploy Microsoft SQL Server on EMC VNX Unified Storage.</p> 

Read this white paper to learn about the architecture, data model, resource provisioning, load balancing, and replication systems of Windows Azure Storage (WAS), a scalable cloud storage system that provides customers with seemingly limitless data storage, access from anywhere at any time, and the ability to only pay for what they use. 

This e-guide focuses on the impact of infrastructure on database performance.