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TOP STORIES - May 25, 2011 • Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Makes Fine Xoom, iPad Alternative • Lenovo X1 Answers Apple MacBook Air • KVM Pushed as Open Alternative to VMware • Microsoft's Hyper-V Support Expansion Should Serve Red Hat Well • Reevaluating Identity: Personal vs. Professional 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 • Reasons to Adopt Adobe CS 5.5 • Why Motorola Delayed the Droid Bionic • Affordable, Portable Storage Drives • Chromebooks Steal Show at Google I/O IN THIS ISSUE Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Makes Fine Xoom, iPad Alternative Thanks to a less-than-stellar market reception of the Android 3.0 "Honeycomb"-based Motorola Xoom, analysts have come to take a dim view of tablet computers based on Google's new tablet operating system. However, Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1, expected to launch in June to challenge Apple's iPad and fellow Honeycomb tablets, could restore faith in Android tablets. READ MORE >> Lenovo X1 Answers Apple MacBook Air The Lenovo X1 13.3-inch laptop is in many ways Lenovo's response to the MacBook Air. The angular X1 ThinkPad is a good choice for business users who want a durable, sleek, portable system. The X1 isn't as svelte as a MacBook Air, but it has many more important characteristics for enterprise users. READ MORE >> Sponsored by Symantec Examine the factors driving interest in desktop virtualization and the seven keys to selecting the right storage architecture for enterprise VDI deployments. See how Symantec VirtualStore satisfies these seven key requirements. Click here ADVERTISEMENT KVM Pushed as Open Alternative to VMware The Open Virtualization Alliance (OVA) was recently announced and much of the analysis since then has focused on the formation as an attack on VMware. The OVA is an attempt to coordinate support for KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine), which is an integral part of Linux. But if this is a war machine, it's got some contradictions that IT managers should notice. READ MORE >> Microsoft's Hyper-V Support Expansion Should Serve Red Hat Well In a move that might help Red Hat, Microsoft has announced that it would support CentOS as a guest operating system on Hyper-V, citing CentOS support as the number one interoperability requirement among Web hosting providers weighting whether to consolidate their system virtualization on Microsoft's hypervisor. READ MORE >> Reevaluating Identity: Personal vs. Professional There's no easy solution to the problem of identity. Simplifying things is good, and separating the personal from the professional just makes good sense. That's why it's crucial you know how to best manage your identity. 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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