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TOP STORIES - June 10, 2011 • IBM at 100: Biggest Tech Hits and Misses • Microsoft Offers Sneak Peek at Windows 8 • RSA Will Replace SecurID Tokens Following Attack • World IPv6 Day Launches Around the Globe Without a Hitch • Cyber-Attackers Taking Aim at Cloud and Virtualized Environments 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 at 100: Biggest Tech Hits and Misses From its delivery of a fine-tuned punched card and the debut of the mainframe computer, to magnetic tape storage, the PC and the new Watson computer, IBM, which celebrates its 100th anniversary in June, certainly has a lot to brag about. But it's also had its fair share of duds. eWEEK takes a look at the products and technologies that were hits for the systems giant as well as some misses over the past century. READ MORE >> Microsoft Offers Sneak Peek at Windows 8 Microsoft recently pulled back the curtain on its next version of Windows, code-named Windows 8, at two shows. At Computex, the company demonstrated how the next-gen OS will work on both x86 and ARM-based architectures. And at first glance, Windows 8 appears to embrace a user interface familiar to anyone who's seen Windows Phone or played with many of the tablets currently on the market. READ MORE >> Sponsored by VeriSign The world's leading SSL certificates now offer more protection and security. Now from Symantec. The VeriSign seal is displayed more than 250 million times a day on more than 90,000 websites and inspires confidence among your customer base when on your site. Start your free trial at verisign.com/ssl/free-30day-trial ADVERTISEMENT RSA Will Replace SecurID Tokens Following Attack After the data breach at Lockheed Martin, RSA is offering to replace the SecurID tokens used by enterprises and the government. Attackers in March initially used a phishing email to steal information related to SecurID from RSA. One critic says RSA should have replaced the tokens immediately, rather than wait until major attacks occurred. READ MORE >> World IPv6 Day Launches Around the Globe Without a Hitch After months of preparation and anticipation, World IPv6 kicked off fairly quietly at Midnight London time on June 8 as companies begin the first global IPv6 experiment. READ MORE >> Cyber-Attackers Taking Aim at Cloud and Virtualized Environments Cyber-criminals are attacking virtualized data center systems and taking advantage of cloud environments as they come up with new threats in the cloud. 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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