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. 

Improve performance, implement security procedures, and institute server redundancy that is invisible to the user by leveraging the strategic point of control that exists between the servers in the data center and the Internet. 

Read this white paper to learn how CA Content-Aware IAM solutions help protect customers in the physical world and similarly protect virtual environments by controlling identities, access, and information usage.  

This white paper describes how IBM Tivoli Identity Manager and IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager can help organizations automate and control access rights for millions of online users, while maintaining security and tracking user activity. 

Many organizations are moving malware protection to the Web and investing in Secure Web Gateways. This  transcript will help sort the different feature options and deployment challenges and help you bring efficiency to your threat management programs by centralizing Web-based security and stop managing numerous standalone Web security products. 

This paper explores the challenges with local privilege accounts in Windows Server 2003 R3 or 2008 R2 and uncovers an approach to address them, enabling you to centrally provision and administer Windows Server local accounts and easily centralize and implement security policies for the support staff controlling access to privilege accounts. 

This white paper explores today's top security concerns in cloud environments, and aims to dispel the common (and growing) myth that a cloud-based infrastructure introduces new risks that cannot be quantified nor controlled. In this paper, you'll learn how a holistic approach to information security can help your company successfully combat risks. 

VMware View™ 5 simplifies IT management while increasing end user freedom by delivering desktop services from your cloud. Building upon VMware's leadership in desktop virtualization, VMware View 5 delivers a high-performance user experience while giving IT greater policy control. View this webcast to learn more about what this solution can offer. 

Dell VIS Self-Service Creator, part of the Dell Virtual Integrated System (VIS) architecture, helps reduce virtual machine sprawl by automating the process of reducing, reusing, and recycling of compute resources in a shared virtual IT infrastructure. 

While cloud computing has gained increasing popularity, the concerns about user access and privilege accounts are still often left to be addressed. In this resource, uncover an approach to help tackle these challenges and proactively enforce access policies to control privileged accounts in the cloud. 

Managing SSL Certificates has become a complex task especially for organizations with multiple locations, divisions and increasing Web-based services. In this resource, uncover a five (5) step guide to help you take control on SSL Certificates across the enterprise and key recommendations.