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. 

This IDC case study featuring Comcast explores the challenges the rapidly growing company faced, as well as the HR solutions which met and exceeded their needs. 

This IDC technology spotlight discusses the role that self-service provisioning, automation, and workload mobility management software plays in enabling IT organizations to efficiently manage private and hybrid cloud environments.  In addition, it introduces a new, advanced solution that can help optimize cloud management. 

This Technology Spotlight discusses the key issues surrounding the changing user environment and the resulting need for improved data backup and security. Additionally, it examines the critical concerns companies face as they support occasionally connected users across a distributed network. 

This Technology Brief discusses different approaches to data deduplication in the market today along with the pros and cons of each, and then matches some of the most common backup problems to a recommended deduplication approach. The brief close with a spotlight on Quantum's DXi7500 enterprise disk backup and replication system 

While businesses are seeing the value of becoming more open through social collaboration, there is a tightening of regulations impacting corporate governance and, subsequently, IT governance. 

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. 

In this videocast, senior enterprise IT architect Nelson Ruest breaks down some of these scenarios, with details on how Hyper-V can provide benefits in test and development situations and business continuity. 

This white paper provides an in-depth comparison of two of the top private cloud solutions available in the market using industry standard concepts and examining both licensing models. Review the pros and cons of each and discover which one outperforms the other. 

Access this case study to learn how one company deployed BlackBerry® Enterprise Server Express to provide the company with many of the same BlackBerry® smartphone features that employees were accustomed to using, without additional software or user license fees. 

HP's SiteScope 10.1 MLU SW E-Media solution allows organizations to maintain the availability and performance of their IT infrastructure while lowering the total cost of ownership to a central server. Download this evaluation now. 

Virtualization offers multiple ways to save money including hardware purchase, power and cooling costs over time and staff time needed when providing a test and analysis environment to name a few. 

When it comes to virtualization, budget planning is the key to success for any organization. This e-guide reviews why no matter what kind of cost saving benefits virtualization promises, having an established budget is essential to help with new purchases, ongoing support and software licensing costs.