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TOP STORIES - May 17, 2011 • Microsoft's BPOS Outage Highlights Cloud Conundrum • Google Chromebooks Sure to Turn Off Corporate IT Managers • Bill Would Let Government Shut Down Piracy Websites • Microsoft Plays Up Public, Private Cloud at TechEd 2011 • Fake AV, SEO Poisoning Top Malware Threats in April SPOTLIGHT Chromebooks Steal Show at Google I/O Google introduced notebooks based on the Chrome OS, which is a bold bet against Microsoft Windows and Apple's Mac. READ MORE >> BEST OF eWEEK • Why Motorola Delayed the Droid Bionic • Google I/O Delivers 'Honeycomb' 3.1, More • Samsung Droid Charge Impresses • Tiny Atomic Clock on a Chip Debuts FEATURED VIDEO Keep Up with Compliance How you can stay ahead of rapidly evolving laws to avoid fines and sanctions. WATCH NOW >> MOST READ STORIES • Samsung's Series 5 Chromebook • Why iPad 3 Should Be Released This Year • Google Wants Your Home Web-Connected • Reasons to Adopt Adobe CS 5.5 IN THIS ISSUE Microsoft's BPOS Outage Highlights Cloud Conundrum Customers of Microsoft's BPOS service are the latest victims of problems with their cloud services. BPOS users last week were cut off from email when malformed email traffic sparked a message backlog that impacted some for up to nine hours. READ MORE >> Google Chromebooks Sure to Turn Off Corporate IT Managers News Analysis: The combination of unmanaged silent updates, high cost, constant wireless-access requirements and close ties to Google will make the Chromebook a loser in the enterprise. READ MORE >> Sponsored by Dell The Migration Expert Zone Your one-stop destination for mission-critical Microsoft Migration project resources and information. You'll find helpful resources, best practices, case studies, and tools to make the upgrade process quick and seamless. Learn more ADVERTISEMENT Bill Would Let Government Shut Down Piracy Websites A bill making the rounds in the Senate would enable the government to shut down piracy sites. PROTECT IP is a new version of the controversial COICA bill that was killed last year. Under PROTECT IP, the government could get court orders to require ISPs, search engines and ad networks to stop supporting sites with pirated content. READ MORE >> Microsoft Plays Up Public, Private Cloud at TechEd 2011 At its TechEd 2011 conference in Atlanta, Microsoft highlighted how customers and partners can take advantage of Microsoft's public and private cloud solutions. READ MORE >> Fake AV, SEO Poisoning Top Malware Threats in April Attackers increasingly focused on fake antivirus and black-hat SEO techniques to target victims on the Web in April. 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 >> 8 Considerations for Evaluating Disk-Based Backup May 20, 2011 12:00 p.m. Eastern / 9:00 a.m. Pacific (60 minutes) Join us for an interactive eSeminar where Jeff Crum, senior product manager at ExaGrid, and other industry experts will share eight key technological criteria to consider when evaluating systems. REGISTER >> Meeting the New Demands for Management & Security with All-In-One PCs May 23, 2011 at 4:00 p.m. Eastern / 1:00 p.m. Pacific (60 minutes) vPro is also the key to manage the security issues in a far more rigorous and comprehensive fashion due to increasing governance and compliance demands as well as new and evolving threats. Lenovo adds to vPro with their own unique solutions. REGISTER >>

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