Analyst's Notebook: Apple's WWDC 2011 Keynote; VMforce: VMware and Salesforce Appear Ambivalent About Parenthood

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TOP STORIES - June 8, 2011 • Analyst's Notebook: Apple's WWDC 2011 Keynote • VMforce: VMware and Salesforce Appear Ambivalent About Parenthood • Chatter Settling for Good-Enough Collaboration • Hardware Enhancements Provide for Faster Disk Encryption • Stacking Up OpenStack Distributions 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 Analyst's Notebook: Apple's WWDC 2011 Keynote Steve Jobs' keynote at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco on Monday was thin on news for enterprise IT watchers. READ MORE >> VMforce: VMware and Salesforce Appear Ambivalent About Parenthood VMforce is still slated to be "coming soon," a year after its announcement. A year in private beta is a geological age in the time scale in which VMware and Salesforce operate. READ MORE >> Sponsored by HP HP LaserJet pays you back! Learn more. ADVERTISEMENT Chatter Settling for Good-Enough Collaboration Salesforce Summer '11 was just released and the Chatter module got a ho-hum treatment when it needed a rocket ride. Business communication tools--especially from Salesforce.com--need to be more than an easy, breezy imitation of civilian social media tools. READ MORE >> Hardware Enhancements Provide for Faster Disk Encryption For those unwilling to sacrifice performance for security, there are hardware-based strategies for accelerating encryption and reducing its overhead costs. READ MORE >> Stacking Up OpenStack Distributions We're taking OpenStack for a spin in our lab, with an eye toward kicking off some reviews coverage of the much-talked-about open source project, and, perhaps, to put the cloud operating system into service running eWEEK Labs' test infrastructure. 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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