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TOP STORIES - June 15, 2011 • 10 Reasons to Choose the MacBook Air Over iPad 2 • IMF Breach May Be State-Sponsored Spear Phishing Attack • IT Skills Paying More, but Salaries for Some Certs Decline • HP CEO Apotheker Shakes Up Executive Boardroom • Apple, Nokia Reach Patent-Licensing Agreement SPOTLIGHT IBM at 100: Biggest Hits and Misses From its delivery of a fine-tuned punched card to Watson, IBM has a lot to brag about. But it's also had its fair share of duds. READ MORE >> BEST OF eWEEK • Mac OS X 'Lion,' iOS 5 Converge in iCloud • Microsoft Offers Windows 8 First Look • iCloud Gives Amazon, Google Competition • Apps That Harness Dual Touch Screens FEATURED VIDEO Healthy Dose of Analytics A Texas hospital slashed patient readmissions by 22% using analytics software. WATCH NOW >> MOST READ STORIES • Why Google Wallet Will Fail to Cash In • Why iPad 3 Should Be Released This Year • Top-Paying Technology Companies • Apple's iOS Stats Put Android's to Shame IN THIS ISSUE 10 Reasons to Choose the MacBook Air Over iPad 2 News Analysis: Apple's MacBook Air might not deliver tablet functionality. But it's a better overall choice than the iPad for business road warriors as well as consumers, especially with Mac OS X "Lion" looming. READ MORE >> IMF Breach May Be State-Sponsored Spear Phishing Attack The attack on the global financial organization International Monetary Fund appears to have been triggered by a spear phishing attack. Security experts are speculating it was state-sponsored. READ MORE >> Sponsored by IBM Work smarter to get the maximum out of your ideas at smartertechnology.com. News, information, and resources for your IT needs. Learn more ADVERTISEMENT IT Skills Paying More, but Salaries for Some Certs Decline A new report suggests that many non-certified IT skills are enjoying a notable uptick in salaries, even as some IT certifications are seeing a dip in average pay. READ MORE >> HP CEO Apotheker Shakes Up Executive Boardroom HP CEO Leo Apotheker reshapes the company to focus more on software and IT services. HP announced that two executives--Peter Bocian and Randy Mott--are leaving and Anne Livermore, who oversaw HP's enterprise services division, is leaving her post for a seat on the board of directors. READ MORE >> Apple, Nokia Reach Patent-Licensing Agreement Nokia and Apple have reached an agreement to end their long-running patent disputes, with Apple agreeing to pay Nokia a one-time fee plus royalties. 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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