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TOP STORIES - June 15, 2011 • Intel Labs Gives Glimpse of IT's Future • 10 Mobile, Cloud, Desktop Products That Have Defined 2011 So Far • IBM Announces New High-Performance-Computing Cloud Offerings • HP, Oracle Add to Converged Infrastructure Portfolios • IPv6 Adoption Slowed by Lack of Tools, Poor Firewall, Router Support 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 • Why Google Wallet Will Fail to Cash In • Why iPad 3 Should Be Released This Year • Top-Paying Technology Companies • Apple's iOS Stats Put Android's to Shame IN THIS ISSUE Intel Labs Gives Glimpse of IT's Future During Intel Research Labs' annual demonstration day, about 20 of the chipmaker's top R&D projects--some of which have been in the works for a decade or more--were on display. Included were the latest IT for smart cars to connect vehicles, smartphones and cloud services in new ways, along with advancements in processor efficiencies that could affect virtually the entire IT world within a few years. READ MORE >> 10 Mobile, Cloud, Desktop Products That Have Defined 2011 So Far From Microsoft buying Skype for $8.5 billion to Apple finally delivering its long-awaited Verizon iPhone, quite a bit has happened in the tech industry already this year. We take a look at some big stories that have come to define 2011 to this point. READ MORE >> Sponsored by Network Instruments Learn more on how to get to your core. Click Here. ADVERTISEMENT IBM Announces New High-Performance-Computing Cloud Offerings IBM has announced new high-performance-computing cloud offerings to help users tackle advanced scientific and technical computing workloads like analytics, simulations for product development, climate research and life sciences. READ MORE >> HP, Oracle Add to Converged Infrastructure Portfolios HP and Oracle this week continued growing their converged infrastructure products, while Supermicro showed that such capabilities aren't only for the large vendors. READ MORE >> IPv6 Adoption Slowed by Lack of Tools, Poor Firewall, Router Support News Analysis: IPv6 Day on June 8 showed there is a lot of IPv6 out there, but the level of adoption is still disappointing. That situation won't change until ISPs and network hardware manufacturers get up to speed. READ MORE >> The Hardest Problems in Data Management Modern hardware trends and economics combined with cloud/virtualization technology are radically reshaping today's data management landscape, ushering in a new era where many machine, many core, memory-based computing topologies can be dynamically assembled from existing IT resources and pay-as-you-go clouds. 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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