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TOP STORIES - June 14, 2011 • IBM's Latest Offerings Focus on Simplifying Software Delivery • Windows 8 Questions Microsoft Needs to Answer Now • Microsoft Loses Supreme Court Case Over i4i Patents • RSA Will Replace SecurID Tokens Following Attack • 10 Major Advantages Apple Has Over Microsoft in the OS War SPOTLIGHT IBM at 100: Biggest Hits and Misses From its delivery of a fine-tuned punched card to Watson, IBM has a lot to brag about. But it's also had its fair share of duds. READ MORE >> BEST OF eWEEK • Mac OS X 'Lion,' iOS 5 Converge in iCloud • Microsoft Offers Windows 8 First Look • iCloud Gives Amazon, Google Competition • Apps That Harness Dual Touch Screens FEATURED VIDEO Healthy Dose of Analytics A Texas hospital slashed patient readmissions by 22% using analytics software. WATCH NOW >> MOST READ STORIES • Apple's iOS Stats Put Android's to Shame • Why iPad 3 Should Be Released This Year • Inside Samsung Chromebook Teardown • Why Apple's iPhone 5 Remains a No-Show IN THIS ISSUE IBM's Latest Offerings Focus on Simplifying Software Delivery At their Innovate 2011 conference in Orlando, Fla., IBM officials unveiled new software offerings that they say allow developer teams to quickly access resources and work more efficiently across global boundaries through an open, collaborative development environment. READ MORE >> Windows 8 Questions Microsoft Needs to Answer Now Slowly but surely, Microsoft is revealing details on Windows 8, the latest follow-on to the company's highly acclaimed and extremely popular Windows 7. So far, we know Windows 8 will focus heavily on tablets and come with a new look and feel that should appeal to those who are warming to mobile operating systems. But at this point, there are still far too many questions Microsoft should answer soon. READ MORE >> Sponsored by HP HP LaserJet pays you back! Learn more. ADVERTISEMENT Microsoft Loses Supreme Court Case Over i4i Patents Microsoft found its appeal in an intellectual-property suit rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court, making it vulnerable to a nearly $300 million judgment. READ MORE >> 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 >> 10 Major Advantages Apple Has Over Microsoft in the OS War News Analysis: Apple has been engaged in an operating system battle with Microsoft for a couple of decades. For most of that time, all of the advantages were held by Microsoft Windows. But now more than ever Apple is in a position to score major market gains against Windows. READ MORE >> Enterprise Content Management from A to Z Read this technology brief to learn more about the four key forces that are driving organizations to adopt a strategic, enterprise-level approach to planning and deploying content systems. DOWNLOAD NOW >> Enterprise LAN: The Magic Quadrant The LAN switching market is mature; however, it continues to evolve, as enterprises move toward a secure, collaborative workplace. Ethernet is used in more environments beyond traditional IT systems (such as process control, building automation and security), as Ethernet switching functionality is integrated into more data center infrastructures. 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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