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TOP STORIES - June 7, 2011 • Six IT Skills That Pay Well Now • IBM at 100: Top Tech Hits and Misses for the IT World • Microsoft Poaches Key IBM Tools Developer • IBM Rational's New Tools Enhance Integration, Collaboration for Developers • Microsoft CEO Ballmer: Should He Step Down? 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 • Asus Padfone Docks With Tablet • Why iPad 3 Should Be Released This Year • Galaxy Tab 10.1: Fine iPad Alternative • Endeavour's 19-Year History in Pictures IN THIS ISSUE Six IT Skills That Pay Well Now IT certifications have lost much of their pricing power in the job market, but mastery of certain non-certified skills still gives workers leverage on payday. READ MORE >> IBM at 100: Top Tech Hits and Misses for the IT World 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 >> Sponsored by Symantec.cloud Visit the new Security Solution Center on eWEEK.com for the latest IT security news, reviews, videos, and resources. Go to the Security Solution Center ADVERTISEMENT Microsoft Poaches Key IBM Tools Developer As IBM launches its annual Rational developer conference, Innovate 2011, Microsoft announces its hire of Erich Gamma, formerly a key engineer in IBM's tools efforts. READ MORE >> IBM Rational's New Tools Enhance Integration, Collaboration for Developers At its Innovate 2011 developer conference, IBM Rational launches a series of new tools to help developers build, applications for the modern enterprise, including leveraging DevOps capabilities. READ MORE >> Microsoft CEO Ballmer: Should He Step Down? Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is a polarizing figure, with some outsiders claiming he should step down for the good of the company after well-publicized missteps. 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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