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TOP STORIES - May 12, 2011 • Microsoft Office 365 Shows Promise in First Look • Android Drives 100 Million Devices, 400,000 More Go Live Daily • Google Music Beta, Amazon Cloud Challenge Apple's iTunes Model • CA to Run Data Protection SAAS on Microsoft Azure • Riverbed, Akamai Partner to Speed Hybrid Cloud Performance SPOTLIGHT Google Maps Shows bin Laden Hideouts Pinpoint Osama bin Laden's numerous hiding places throughout his infamous career, up to where he met his violent end. READ MORE >> BEST OF eWEEK • Google Maps Alabama Tornado Havoc • New BlackBerry Bolds Thin, Powerful • Why Macs Outshine Windows PCs • Touch-Screen Musicians Virtually Jam FEATURED VIDEO Essential Steps for SMBs We look at five tech steps SMBs need to take to keep up with the times. WATCH NOW >> MOST READ STORIES • Microsoft's Skype Buy Will Shake Up VOIP • Why iPad 3 Should Be Released This Year • Why Analytics Is Red-Hot Right Now • Reasons to Adopt Adobe CS 5.5 IN THIS ISSUE Microsoft Office 365 Shows Promise in First Look Microsoft's Office 365 provides small businesses as well as enterprises with hosted instances of the company's Office application lineup. At first glance, the service, which opened as a public beta in mid-April, could be a blessing for organizations that would like to take advantage of the tight integration that Microsoft offers in its desktop and server applications. READ MORE >> Android Drives 100 Million Devices, 400,000 More Go Live Daily Google kicked off its fourth annual Google I/O developers' conference with a bang. The company unveiled the long-awaited Music Beta by Google's cloud storage service and a movies app for the Android Market Webstore. Google also introduced Android@Home, the company's bid to position Android as a home operating environment. READ MORE >> Sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Biz Advisor Video Blog Information and resources on how to use technology to cut cost and improve efficiency in small businesses. Go to the blog! ADVERTISEMENT Google Music Beta, Amazon Cloud Challenge Apple's iTunes Model Apple's iTunes model, which long dominated the digital-music conversation, could find itself challenged by Google's Music Beta and Amazon's Cloud Player. READ MORE >> CA to Run Data Protection SAAS on Microsoft Azure Starting in the second half of 2011, CA's ARCserve SAAS (software-as-a-service) data protection offering will use Azure as its home base. CA Technologies' use of Windows Azure includes support for Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor and System Center stack. READ MORE >> Riverbed, Akamai Partner to Speed Hybrid Cloud Performance Riverbed and Akamai early next year will roll out a solution that will improve the performance of hybrid cloud environments. The plan is for Akamai's Internet optimization software to be integrated into Riverbed's Steelhead appliances. 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 >> What You Need to Succeed in the Cloud Find out how to begin your journey to the cloud today. To ensure you arrive at your destination when you want, use True PaaS for better, more accurate navigation for your journey. DOWNLOAD NOW >> 8 Considerations for Evaluating Disk-Based Backup May 20, 2011 12:00 p.m. Eastern / 9:00 a.m. Pacific (60 minutes) Join us for an interactive eSeminar where Jeff Crum, senior product manager at ExaGrid, and other industry experts will share eight key technological criteria to consider when evaluating systems. REGISTER >> Meeting the New Demands for Management & Security with All-In-One PCs May 23, 2011 at 4:00 p.m. Eastern / 1:00 p.m. Pacific (60 minutes) vPro is also the key to manage the security issues in a far more rigorous and comprehensive fashion due to increasing governance and compliance demands as well as new and evolving threats. Lenovo adds to vPro with their own unique solutions. REGISTER >>

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