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TOP STORIES - May 27, 2011 • Microsoft 'Mango' Sweetens Windows Phone Experience • Top 10 Myths Hindering Virtualization Adoption • Microsoft, Google Business-Cloud Battle Getting Vicious • IPv6 Transition Lagging with Many Organizations • Cray's XK6 Hybrid Supercomputer to Combine AMD, Nvidia Chips SPOTLIGHT Teardown: Covert FBI GPS Auto-Tracker iFixit cracked open a GPS device capable of constantly tracking location that FBI agents have installed underneath some vehicles. READ MORE >> BEST OF eWEEK • Hands-On with Samsung's Chromebook • Windows' Unbreakable Market Dominance • Top 10 Features Microsoft Project 2010 • Smart Cable Adds On 3D-Like Depth FEATURED VIDEO From Virtualization to Cloud We bring you tips and strategies to smoothly evolve existing virtualization. WATCH NOW >> MOST READ STORIES • Droid X2: Best of the Old with the New • Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Impresses • Why Motorola Delayed the Droid Bionic • Why iPad 3 Should Be Released This Year IN THIS ISSUE Microsoft 'Mango' Sweetens Windows Phone Experience Microsoft showed off new features of its Windows Phone "Mango" update, which represents something of a revamp for the company's smartphone platform that could allow it to better compete against iPhone and Android devices, at a small New York City presentation May 24. Mango will supposedly come with close to 500 new elements, including a number of features for both enterprise users and consumers. READ MORE >> Top 10 Myths Hindering Virtualization Adoption Virtualization has represented a wave of change throughout enterprise IT for almost a decade, but there remains skepticism in some companies around fundamentally changing the way a corporate IT environment operates. A lot of the concerns IT administrators have about virtualization are essentially myths. Here are some of them. READ MORE >> Sponsored by CDW Learn how to keep critical operations functioning in any emergency with Business Continuity solutions from CDW. Learn more. ADVERTISEMENT Microsoft, Google Business-Cloud Battle Getting Vicious Microsoft and Google's battle for business-cloud clients has become particularly vicious, but analysts' numbers suggest the two sides' market share is at a near-draw. READ MORE >> IPv6 Transition Lagging with Many Organizations There is increased interest and awareness in IPv6, but organizations are dragging their feet on migrating their network infrastructures to support the protocol, say recent studies. The clock has been ticking on the transition to IPv6 since that last blocks of IPv4 addresses were distributed; now companies need to make the move. READ MORE >> Cray's XK6 Hybrid Supercomputer to Combine AMD, Nvidia Chips Cray's XK6 supercomputer will include AMD's upcoming 16-core "Interlagos" Opteron chip, Nvidia's Tesla 20-Series GPU and Cray's own Linux Operating Environment. 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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