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TOP STORIES - May 26, 2011 • Top 10 Myths Holding Back Virtualization Adoption • Microsoft TechEd: All About the Cloud, Devices • Marc Benioff: Trend Seer and Business Socialist • Microsoft, Google Business-Cloud Battle Getting Vicious • Amazon Launches Cloud Service for Oracle DB Management SPOTLIGHT Teardown: Covert FBI GPS Auto-Tracker iFixit cracked open a GPS device capable of constantly tracking location that FBI agents have installed underneath some vehicles. READ MORE >> BEST OF eWEEK • Hands-On with Samsung's Chromebook • Windows' Unbreakable Market Dominance • Top 10 Features Microsoft Project 2010 • Smart Cable Adds On 3D-Like Depth FEATURED VIDEO From Virtualization to Cloud We bring you tips and strategies to smoothly evolve existing virtualization. WATCH NOW >> MOST READ STORIES • Reasons to Adopt Adobe CS 5.5 • Why Motorola Delayed the Droid Bionic • How to Recognize Phishing Attacks • Why iPad 3 Should Be Released This Year IN THIS ISSUE Top 10 Myths Holding Back Virtualization Adoption Even though virtualization has represented a wave of change throughout enterprise IT for almost a decade, there remains skepticism about such a fundamental change in the way a corporate IT system operates. VMware is the world's largest provider of virtualization technology and heard every myth out there when it comes to virtualizing business applications. We take a look at some and the company's response to them. READ MORE >> Microsoft TechEd: All About the Cloud, Devices At the recent TechEd showcase, Microsoft executives explained how the company plans to focus more on cloud computing and mobile devices as it looks to diversify from its core Windows and Office businesses. The company also demonstrated new capabilities for managing and developing applications for the cloud and devices. READ MORE >> Sponsored by CDW Enhance connectivity and foster improved information sharing with Cloud Computing Solutions from CDW. Visit CDW today to learn more. ADVERTISEMENT Marc Benioff: Trend Seer and Business Socialist Salesforce.com founder and CEO Marc Benioff, who saw the cloud coming before anyone even named it, now sees Cloud 2 and Cloud 3 coming. And he says they aren't that far away. READ MORE >> Microsoft, Google Business-Cloud Battle Getting Vicious Microsoft and Google's battle for business-cloud clients has become particularly vicious, but analysts' numbers suggest the two sides' market share is at a near-draw. READ MORE >> Amazon Launches Cloud Service for Oracle DB Management The Amazon RDS is designed to manage common and tedious database administration tasks that include provisioning, backups, software patching, monitoring and hardware scaling. 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 >> 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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