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TOP STORIES - June 8, 2011 • IBM's Top 25 Acquisitions Aim for Analytics, Cloud Domination • HP Donates webOS Phones for Malaria Surveillance Effort • Single EHR Sign-Ons Could Save Each Hospital $2M a Year: Ponemon • Verizon Enhances Security Programs for Federal Requirements • Five Hot Topics in Medical Technology SPOTLIGHT 9 Summer Smartphones Worth the Wait Expect to see dual-core processors, near-field communications tech, 4G connectivity and HD video streaming. READ MORE >> BEST OF eWEEK • Galaxy Tab Poses Major Threat to iPad • Google Wallet: Easy Mobile Payments • Android, Chromebook Questions Linger • Michael Eisner-Style Smarter Management FEATURED VIDEO BI Goes to Head of the Class Colleges are now offering business intelligence and analytics courses, degrees. WATCH NOW >> MOST READ STORIES • Mac OS X 'Lion,' iOS 5 Converge in iCloud • Gmail Security Tips to Protect Yourself • Open-Source Winning Mainstream Status • Why iPad 3 Should Be Released This Year IN THIS ISSUE IBM's Top 25 Acquisitions Aim for Analytics, Cloud Domination IBM has had a history of making strategic acquisitions over the years, but big software buys did not start until former IBM CEO Lou Gerstner set out to get Lotus in 1995 and then Tivoli in 1996. And under the leadership of Samuel Palmisano since 2002, IBM launched a series of acquisitions, which will remain a part of the company's growth strategy through 2015, senior management says. READ MORE >> HP Donates webOS Phones for Malaria Surveillance Effort HP is donating Palm Pre 2 mobile phones to health care workers in Botswana to help them detect cases of malaria. READ MORE >> Sponsored by Symantec.cloud Visit the new Security Solution Center on eWEEK.com for the latest IT security news, reviews, videos, and resources. Go to the Security Solution Center ADVERTISEMENT Single EHR Sign-Ons Could Save Each Hospital $2M a Year: Ponemon Each hospital loses an average $2 million a year in efficiency when complex log-in procedures slow or prevent access to electronic health record systems, according to a new report by the Ponemon Institute. READ MORE >> Verizon Enhances Security Programs for Federal Requirements The Partner Security Program (PSP) enables health care organizations to assess the security compliance of business partners. READ MORE >> Five Hot Topics in Medical Technology Improvements in optical imaging, e-health and cloud computing are just some ways in which the health care industry relies on advancing technologies. Here are five medical technologies experts predict to be hot topics in the coming years. 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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