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TOP STORIES - June 10, 2011 • IBM's Top 25 Acquisitions Target Analytics, Cloud Domination • HP Expands Cloud Computing Strategy • Dell Launches New Compellent, EqualLogic Storage Packages • HP Trickles Down High-End Features into Midrange Storage • Cloud Computing Could Support World's Largest Telescope 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 • Windows 8 Questions for Microsoft • Why iPad 3 Should Be Released This Year • Steve Jobs Details New Apple HQ Design IN THIS ISSUE IBM's Top 25 Acquisitions Target 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, the company says. READ MORE >> HP Expands Cloud Computing Strategy At their HP Discover 2011 event, HP executives outlined new products, features, services and financing programs all aimed at helping customers migrate to the cloud. READ MORE >> Sponsored by IBM If you love your HP Itanium system but want to get off Oracle DB, try IBM DB2 on HP instead. Click here to learn more ADVERTISEMENT Dell Launches New Compellent, EqualLogic Storage Packages Dell, which paid $940 million for Compellent last year, is so enthralled with its new IP that it is rebranding its entire storage strategy after Compellent's Liquid Storage identifier. READ MORE >> HP Trickles Down High-End Features into Midrange Storage The world's largest IT company isn't creating anything particularly new, but it is making available high-end storage features that weren't available for midrange systems in the past. READ MORE >> Cloud Computing Could Support World's Largest Telescope Australia is in the running to house the world's largest radio telescope ever. As a part of their proposal, researchers are looking to move data to a huge cloud-computing network, which could offer storage and analysis advantages over supercomputers. 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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