Storage: Mario Apicella credits EMC for its perseverance. “Since the very first briefings I had with them years ago, EMC has been a relentless and vocal advocate of ILM (information lifecycle management).” Apicella conjures the old joke that “if you’re a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” (Coincidentally, perhaps, once during an interview with EMC’s former CEO Mike Ruettgers, he told me that same line.) Apicella comes around to a more serious question: Does the ILM reference get your attention, or is it a rather annoying and unwanted spin to a product announcement?The news beat: Lenovo says it will offer notebooks armed for 3G wireless connectivity via Vodafone’s network by the second quarter of this year, Microsoft now claims that the EU denied it rights in the antitrust suit, specifically access to files relating to the case, and U.S. lawmakers promise action against the sale of phone records. Best of the blogs: Dave Rosenberg discusses how enterprise SOA apps are taking off on lightweight architecture, while Michael Baum wonders how hard is it to troubleshoot IT anyway? Jon Udell, meanwhile, cooks up a quick and dirty Google Maps mashup to accompany san.francisco.eventguide.com in Semantic screencraping.