IT Pro Show 51: 08.01.2011

Tech News:

• Gig.U project has 29 universities building ultra-high-speed neighborhoods
• Ellison’s influence
• OpenStack joined by HP; Dell, Cisco, Intel and Citrix already there (we first discussed OpenStack back in IT Pro Show #37)
• Microsoft releases Mango to manufacturing
• CIO’s lack cloud knowledge; do you?
• Google buys 1,000 IBM patents
• Data center use of electricity is not the end of the world
• SSD no more reliable the ROHD
• Happy anniversary to the IBM PC, August, 1981

Conference Calendar:

• Oracle OpenWorld is October 2-6 in San Francisco (Sting and Tom Petty for Event)
• VMWorld (Copenhagen) is October 18-20 at the Bella Center
• IBM’s Information on Demand (information and analytics) is October 23-27 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas

Tech Bookshelf:

• IBM redbook on Smarter Data Centers: Achieving Greater Efficiency (100+pages)
• The Institute releases the EA Tool Selection Guide