At the beginning of each year, we survey Morrison & Foerster’s Global Sourcing Group lawyers in Asia, Europe, and the United States regarding the current state of the world’s outsourcing market and emerging trends likely to shape that market over the next twelve months. 

Read this paper to learn about HP's extensive Business Process Outsourcing offerings. 

Nearly 95 percent of organisations buy, provide or both buy and provide outsourced services and functions, in which they face inherent risks created by new and unforeseen challenges. 

While some larger organizations continue to manage internal data center, many business managers are able to increase service levels, cover more users, and lower response times by outsourcing their out-dated server farms to third-party data centers and cloud computing providers. This white paper will define data centers and explore cloud networking. 

In this week's Computer Weekly, we hear from Visa Europe CIO Steve Chambers on the technology behind the credit card transactions that retailers rely on. We examine the challenges facing the government's G-Cloud project; and we ask how Microsoft will cope when customers no longer want to purchase software licences. Download the new issue now. 

In summary, the reader isencouraged to consider the evidence from the survey resultsand to then draw their own conclusions. 

In this week's special issue of Computer Weekly, we reveal the UKtech50 - our list of the 50 most influential people in UK IT. This year's winner is Mike Lynch, CEO of Autonomy, who talks in an exclusive interview about his hopes for the UK technology industry, and life at HP since the company's 7bn GBP acquisition. Download the new issue now. 

Read this white paper to learn more about outsourcing SharePoint2010 infrastrucutre to Office 365 or another hosting provider. 

View this paper to describe how Centrify DirectAudit can solve the security, compliance and third-party access challenges organizations face when auditing and monitoring UNIX, Linux and Windows systems and discover why traditional approaches cannot address the requirements of today's changing environment. 

During this Mimecast webinar, you'll gain an understanding of what to look for in a cloud services provider, learn how to identify your own IT transitions points related to their specific email environment, uncover how to address any potential internal security questions when transitioning to a cloud-based service, and more! 

The UK's June Budget provides a mandate for all government departments to submit their spending review plans before the summer break and reports that it has scheduled the government spending review for October. 

In this week's issue of Computer Weekly, we look at the key technologies that retailers are turning to for IT-enabling customers' Christmas shopping. We examine research revealing the huge cost of application software that fails to meet requirements; and we talk to one of the pioneers of agile software development. Download the new issue now. 

In this exclusive Gartner report, compare the top vendors offering public cloud IaaS with a graphical, easy to understand representation of each vendor's standing in terms of ability to execute and completeness of vision. Access the link within for a link to the full report.