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: