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TOP STORIES - May 31, 2011 • H-1B Visa Workers Headed Home in Droves • iPad 2, LinkedIn IPO, Microsoft Azure: Tech Trends IT Pros Need to Know • IT Professionals in High Demand • IT Systems Failures Cost Businesses 127 Million Lost Person-Hours • IPv6 Transition Still a Low Priority for Most Organizations SPOTLIGHT Teardown: Covert FBI GPS Auto-Tracker iFixit cracked open a GPS device capable of constantly tracking location that FBI agents have installed underneath some vehicles. READ MORE >> BEST OF eWEEK • Hands-On with Samsung's Chromebook • Windows' Unbreakable Market Dominance • Top 10 Features Microsoft Project 2010 • Smart Cable Adds On 3D-Like Depth FEATURED VIDEO From Virtualization to Cloud We bring you tips and strategies to smoothly evolve existing virtualization. WATCH NOW >> MOST READ STORIES • Galaxy Tab 10.1: Fine iPad Alternative • Droid X2: Best of the Old with the New • Biggest Data Breaches of 2011 So Far • Why iPad 3 Should Be Released This Year IN THIS ISSUE H-1B Visa Workers Headed Home in Droves Lured by a stronger economy and family ties, a surprising number of Indian workers plan to return their country of origin. Will a reverse brain-drain hurt U.S. companies? READ MORE >> iPad 2, LinkedIn IPO, Microsoft Azure: Tech Trends IT Pros Need to Know During the past six months, the IT world has seen how one device--Apple's iPad 2--could not only redefine the mobile market but also change the way we access our applications. The IT market also saw the re-emergence of the hot IPO and the growing reach of the cloud. It's been quite a year so far and a perfect time for a recap. READ MORE >> Sponsored by Symantec Examine the factors driving interest in desktop virtualization and the seven keys to selecting the right storage architecture for enterprise VDI deployments. See how Symantec VirtualStore satisfies these seven key requirements. Click here ADVERTISEMENT IT Professionals in High Demand There are more technology job openings in a single day on Dice's career site than there are computer science grads ready to join American businesses, according to a report from Dice Holdings, which runs a career site for technology and engineering professionals. READ MORE >> IT Systems Failures Cost Businesses 127 Million Lost Person-Hours Businesses collectively lose more than 127 million person-hours annually--or an average of 545 person-hours per company, in employee productivity due to IT downtime, according to a survey sponsored by CA Technologies. This loss is equivalent to 63,500 people being unable to work for an entire year. READ MORE >> IPv6 Transition Still a Low Priority for Most Organizations As World IPv6 Day approaches, recent research reports show that a majority of organizations are still treating the IPv6 migration as something for the future and not an immediate priority. READ MORE >> How to Get Started with Cloud Computing View this panel discussion with IBM cloud computing leaders on how enterprises can get started with cloud computing -- reviewing which workloads make sense to move first and the right type of cloud for workloads. DOWNLOAD NOW >> Oracle Databases on VMware vSphere 4: A Guide This document will also show that the same best practices, tuning tips and tricks, and skill sets necessary to deploy Oracle databases in physical environments can be leveraged when deploying Oracle databases in virtual environments. DOWNLOAD NOW >> Best Practices for Virtual Machine Backups to the Cloud Jun 16, 2011 at 2:00 p.m. Eastern / 11:00 a.m. Pacific (60 minutes) To resolve this conflict some businesses have embraced legacy agent and tape-based approaches that over time become too costly to manage and can fail to meet service level requirements. For many organizations new approaches such as backup and archive to cloud storage solves the dilemma. REGISTER >> What Can Identity Management Do for You? Jun 15, 2011 at 1:00 p.m. Eastern / 10:00 a.m. Pacific (60 minutes) Register today for this online event to hear industry experts compare and contrast different architectures such as synchronization-based and event-based models. Executives will discuss the common problems most enterprises face when they address identity management, and give you valuable insight into how identity management can become the center of most, if not all, of your IT-management policies. REGISTER >>

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