rPath X6 Streamlines Linux, Windows VMs in the Cloud, On-Premises; SugarCRM Is a Sweet Choice

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TOP STORIES - June 1, 2011 • rPath X6 Streamlines Linux, Windows VMs in the Cloud, On-Premises • SugarCRM Is a Sweet Choice • Cisco, HP Want to Flatten Your Network • Baaaaackup a Mac to the Cloud • HP Thin Clients to Gain Citrix, Microsoft, VMware Universality SPOTLIGHT Galaxy Tab 10.1: Fine iPad Alternative Expected to launch in June to challenge the iPad, Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 could restore faith in Android tablets. READ MORE >> BEST OF eWEEK • Droid X2: Best of the Old with the New • Mango Update Sweetens Windows Phone • 10 Biggest Data Breaches of 2011 So Far • Smarter eEyes Focus on Cure for Blind FEATURED VIDEO Time to Work from Home Laptops, tablets, and smart devices help blur the line between office and home. WATCH NOW >> MOST READ STORIES • Galaxy Tab Poses Major Threat to iPad • 9 Summer Smartphones Worth the Wait • Why iPad 3 Should Be Released This Year • How to Recognize Phishing Attacks IN THIS ISSUE rPath X6 Streamlines Linux, Windows VMs in the Cloud, On-Premises rPath X6 expands on the company's software appliance assembly and deployment ambitions with powerful configuration management capabilities and a spruced-up user interface that's much improved compared with the Version 5.2 release that we tested in 2009. READ MORE >> SugarCRM Is a Sweet Choice From a user perspective, SugarCRM presents a restrained appearance that has all the tools that define modern CRM offerings and more. From an administration perspective, things are equally straightforward. Access controls can be set up by team as well as by user role, allowing businesses to properly separate teams when desired. 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 Cisco, HP Want to Flatten Your Network Cisco and Hewlett-Packard are introducing equipment and design changes that increase the size of the Layer 2 collision domain to enable greater virtual workload mobility. Network managers are being offered a choice between known, proven designs and unknown, flattened architectures. READ MORE >> Baaaaackup a Mac to the Cloud Dolly Drive (a nod to the sheep that made headlines 15 years ago by being the first mammal cloned somatic cell nuclear transfer), from Cirrus Thinking, offers backup plans that provide up to 2TB of online storage; it's not terribly complicated, and based on a cursory kick of the tires, looks secure enough for everyday use. READ MORE >> HP Thin Clients to Gain Citrix, Microsoft, VMware Universality HP recently announced a bevy of thin clients and a virtualization architecture that promises IT managers that they can switch between Citrix, Microsoft and VMware as needed. While this is a good development, there is something you need to keep in mind. 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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