The CRN.com News Quiz -- November 2011
AT&T has run into big-time regulatory trouble with its attempted takeover of T-Mobile, the American branch of what European telco?
Deutsche Telekom
France Telecom
Telefonica
Vodaphone
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Cisco, Google, and VMware are all investing in startup Puppet Labs. What does Puppet do?
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Cloud Management
IP Telephony
Mobile Device Security
Social Networking Tools
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Still no update on hell freezing over. Channel revenues at Dell now represent what percentage of all their commercial revenue?
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10%
20%
30%
50%
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Is it a rescue from the island of misfit OSes? Who did Reuters report is looking at buying WebOS from HP?
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Nokia
Oracle
Research in Motion
Yahoo
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Whose BigQuery service provides cloud-based data analytics for very, very big data sets?
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Amazon
Google
IBM
SAS
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Yes, but will they drive around in funny cars? Which retailer is buing mindShift Technologies in order to boost their managed services capabilities?
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Best Buy
OfficeMax
Radio Shack
Staples
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Whose "Project Moonshot" targets scalable resource sharing and management of energy-efficient servers?
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Cisco
HP
IBM
Oracle
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That's some deep Duqu. The Duqu malware targets what technology platform?
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Electrical utility grids
Facebook
The internet domain name system
Windows
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If it was easy, anybody could do it. Whose channel chief reached out to solution providers this month, saying "We need you to serve the customer," in cloud computing?
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Dell
Google
Microsoft
Rackspace
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Yes, a similar thing happened in "The Office." Who ended November refuting charges that their printers could be remotely hacked to burst into flames?
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Canon
HP
Lexmark
Samsung
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For more on the stories in this quiz, see the following articles:
AT&T Attempts to Salvage Floundering T-Mobile Deal
Cisco, Google, VMware Put Big Bucks Behind Puppet Labs
Dell's Channel Numbers Continue To Grow
Report: Oracle May Be Interested In Buying WebOS From HP
Google Gussies Up BigQuery For Big Data Crunching In The Cloud
Best Buy Snaps Up MSP mindShift Technologies For $167 Million
HP Intros Low-Energy Data Center Platform Based On ARM Servers
Duqu Malware Exploits Windows Kernel Vulnerability
Google Channel Chief To VARs: 'We Need You'
HP Refutes 'Sensational' Claims Of LaserJet Printer Pyrotechnics