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. 

Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud is the world's first engineered system specifically designed to provide enterprises with a foundation for secure, mission-critical private cloud capable of virtually unlimited scale, unbeatable performance, and previously unimagined management simplicity. 

Now for the first time, IT departments can gain the performance and cost savings benefits of an engineered system on a flexible, general purpose platform that supports a diverse set of legacy, new, and custom applications. Download this Executive Brief to learn more. 

This white paper presents two case studies that illustrate how Oracle Exadata increased storage capacity for data warehouses by 150%, reduced operational and database running costs by 50% and on average improved database query performance by 10 times. 

This paper shows the value of combining Oracle software with Intel Xeon processors on Dell PowerEdge servers. It begins with an overview of the collaboration that created these synergies, before detailing the major areas where they are manifest to end-customers: intelligent performance, automated energy efficiency, and flexible virtualization. 

This whitepaper provides an overview of the evaluation process a Global Fortune 500 corporation completed to test the various features included in Oracle Advanced Compression Option, as well as the impact on space and performance they experienced. 

Read this white paper to learn the importantance of service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance and discover a strategy that works for you. 

Access this case study to learn how the City of Prince George digitized their records with a customized application and BlackBerry smartphones. 

This paper explores the tools Cisco provides to simplify mass deployments of the VPN Client. The two methods are discussed: the creation of an installation CD-ROM and network-based installations. I will explain how to reduce calls to the Help Desk by locking users out of advanced configuration functions in the user interface. 

Security concerns continue to hobble consolidation efforts in the data center. The concerns are real, and most often stem from a scattershot, non-integrated approach to consolidation. There is a better, more secure way, grounded in servers and software platforms built from the ground up to work optimally with one another.  

Our MCSE Boot Camp is an intensive program that will help you get up to speed on Windows 2003 and prepare you for three new certifications - MCSE, MCSA, and Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) status in each of the exam topics. The course features a combination of the theory and practical aspects of the Windows 2003 technologies. 

Microsoft IT was searching for a better way to manage their BitLocker Drive Encryption environment because their custom-developed solution was becoming too costly and hard to manage. They deployed Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring using a staged, well-planned approach that resulted in several important benefits. 

Read this paper for a discussion of SOA Suite 11g, a family of products that take SOA to a new level and correct some of the problems caused by the very combination of components and multiplication of languages that make SOA a flexible, agile system.