The CRN.com News Quiz -- June 2011
Apple has reportedly cut ties with what manufacturing partner, builder of their A6 chips?
Foxconn
LG
Philips
Samsung
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Which VAR 500 company shut down abruptly when its founders fled to India to avoid a New York fraud indictment?
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Agilysys
Avanade
Sapient
TechnoDyne
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Who is planning to offer a "Data Center On Demand" cloud hosting service?
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3tera
EMC
GoDaddy
Rackspace
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According to an IDC researcher speaking at XChange Public Sector, what is the most attractive solution provider opportunity right now?
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Education
Finance
Healthcare
Infrastructure
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Wait. Now the cloud is over? Who said "We've moved on," at his own company's Cloudforce event?
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer
Oracle CEO Larry Elllison
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff
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HP is suing Oracle over their (lack of) support of what product?
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HP's Containerized Data Centers
Intel's Itanium processor
Oracle's database
Oracle/Sun Microsystems's Java
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Having struck this month at Sony, the Senate, the CIA, the state of Arizona, and many more, what hacker group, reportedly, is disbanding?
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Anonymous
Legion of Doom
Lulzsec
Storm
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Yes, when the Supreme Court shoots you down 8-0, it hurts your feelings. Who lost their appeal of a $290 million patent judgement?
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CA
Dell
Juniper
Microsoft
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That's a silver lining! Who's announced they'll offer up to 2 billion dollars in customer financing for cloud initiatives?
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AT&T
Google
HP
Verizon
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And it'll all be NetFlix. How much does Cisco anticipate internet traffic increasing by 2015?
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Doubling
Tripling
Quadrupling
Five Times
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For more on the stories in this quiz, see the following articles:
Report: Apple Dropping Samsung As Chip Production Partner
VAR Executives Flee Country After Indictments In New York Corruption Case
Go Daddy Aims To Rival Amazon, Rackspace In The Cloud
IDC: Health Care Most Attractive IT Solution Provider Opportunity
Salesforce CEO Benioff: The Cloud Is Passe
HP Files Lawsuit Against Oracle Over Jettisoning Of Itanium
LulzSec Passes Hacking Torch To Anonymous
Microsoft Loses Patent Appeal Before U.S. Supreme Court, Owes i4i $290 Million