Once you cut through the hype surrounding the cloud, one thing becomes clear: As enterprise adoption of the public cloud grows, practical and concrete issues for service level management are real and need to be addressed. Inside this white paper, uncover valuable best practices for harnessing public cloud services to meet SLAs. 

Access this white paper to learn how you can monitor and manage public cloud investments including Infrastructure as a service (IaaS), Platform as a service (PaaS), and Software as a service (SaaS), to validate and optimize service quality. 

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we mark the 10th anniversary of Microsoft’s Bill Gates announcing the Trustworthy Computing initiative, and ask if it has made IT more secure. We look at what Oracle’s latest developments mean for its software users running rivals’ servers, and conclude our Buyer’s Guide to IT consumerisation. Download the issue now. 

This case study follows the journey taken by BMC Software to find the solution to their expanding VMware storage needs in the data-center and remote offices. In this paper, you'll learn about the solutions considered, how they arrived at the final decision and the benefits realized by using cloud integrated enterprise storage. Read on to learn more 

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. 

The lure of virtual server deployments is having unintended consequences for data storage and data protection. The consolidation of physical servers and networking is resulting in a massively converged IT infrastructure where already limited resources are being made even more scarce. Read this white paper to learn more. 

This exclusive white paper offers a quick checklist that you can use to take the next step to managing and controlling IT across the IT ecosystem to the private cloud. Discover how the private cloud offers many of the same benefits as the public cloud, including self-service, scalability, and elasticity, along with additional security features. 

Is your data safe in the cloud? Explore this resource to compare public, private and hybrid cloud computing approaches, and discover the 4 layers of cloud security that ensures that your data is protected from unauthorized access. Learn what critical security features you should look for in a cloud provider. 

In this week’s issue of Computer Weekly, we look at the key trends and technologies that will be on IT leaders’ agenda in 2012. Our first Buyer’s Guide of the year examines how IT consumerisation will affect business technology; and Home Office IT director Denise McDonagh tells us why government IT isn’t working. Download the new issue now. 

The present need to radically cut public expenditure provides a once in a generation opportunity to transform the efficiency of the public sector. In order to achieve this, the public sector needs to radically change its current business processes to achieve greater efficiency. 

The UK public sector is in the midst of a period of transformation and improving citizen engagement will be key to the success of this change. 

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