| TOP STORIES - June 8, 2011 | | | | | | | IBM at 100: Biggest Technology Hits and Misses
From its delivery of a fine-tuned punched card and the debut of the mainframe computer, to magnetic tape storage, the PC and the new Watson computer, IBM, which celebrates its 100th anniversary in June, certainly has a lot to brag about. But it's also had its fair share of duds. eWEEK takes a look at the products and technologies that were hits for the systems giant as well as some misses over the past century.
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World IPv6 Day Signals Time to Modernize the Internet
On June 8, more than 100 Web companies will work with ISPs and content-delivery networks to conduct the first global-scale trial of IPv6.
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Learn more. | | Microsoft Preps Office 365 for June Launch
Office 365, the cloud-based productivity software that represents Microsoft's current best chance at driving back the threat from Google apps and similar platforms, will launch in June. Microsoft had sent out cryptic invitations to an event in New York City June 28, but CEO Steve Ballmer confirmed the launch during a speech in India.
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HP Unveils Energy-Efficient EcoPOD
HP executives announced the company's EcoPOD, a containerized data center that can be deployed in 12 weeks, costs 75 percent less to build than traditional data centers and cuts energy cuts 95 percent.
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Adobe Patches XSS Zero-Day Flaw in Flash Used in Gmail Attack
Adobe discovered and patched a zero-day cross-site scripting flaw in all versions of Flash that the company confirmed was used in recent attacks that compromised several Google Gmail accounts.
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| |  | The Hardest Problems in Data Management
Modern hardware trends and economics combined with cloud/virtualization technology are radically reshaping today's data management landscape, ushering in a new era where many machine, many core, memory-based computing topologies can be dynamically assembled from existing IT resources and pay-as-you-go clouds.
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Enterprise LAN: The Magic Quadrant
The LAN switching market is mature; however, it continues to evolve, as enterprises move toward a secure, collaborative workplace. Ethernet is used in more environments beyond traditional IT systems (such as process control, building automation and security), as Ethernet switching functionality is integrated into more data center infrastructures.
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 | 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.
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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.
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