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February may be a short month, but it wasn’t short on blog posts at ITKnowledgeExchange. Take a look at the top blog posts from this past month!

• Data migrations suck. Here’s a survey to prove it by Sharon Fisher (Yottabytes: Storage and Disaster Recovery)

• Where jobs are headed and what you can do: An intervew by Matt Heusser (Unchartered Waters)

• Poor pathetic HP way too late to Android tablet market by Ron Miller (View From Above)

• MS Office 2013 licensing follies by Ed Tittel (Windows Enterprise Desktop)

• Microsoft has massive Patch Tuesday planned for next week by Tony Bradley (The Security Detail)

• The ultimate Windows 8 upgrade may be Windows 7 by Robin Miller (Cheap Computing)

• The golden age of cloud storage by Ron Miller (View From Above)

• Cut big data down to small data and save big bucks by Robin Miller (Cheap Computing)

• BlackBerry isn’t dead, but it’s still dying by Tony Bradley (Tech Strategy Trends)

• CommVault eyes expansion with Simpana 10 by Dave Raffo (Storage Soup)

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Industry battles took center stage on ITKE blogs this week. Check out who’s feeling the heat:

1. Mark Fontecchio shows just how much HP was affected by Oracle’s lack of Itanium support. Warning to financial folks: It gets graphic.

2. Fusion-io announced its ION Data Accelerator software last week, and Dave Raffo thinks it puts the company in direct competition with EMC and its “Project Thunder” storage appliance. Sounds like a storage storm’s a-comin’.

3. Bradley Wiggins and Andy Murray aren’t the only Brits who deserve a gold medal; London Olympics CIO Gerry Pennell  should get something for his inventive use of green IT technologies at the games, writes Miki Onwudinjo.

4. Lists are always problematic (and we should know). So Ed Tittel’s probably not the only one who has quibbles with Global Knowledge’s recent ranking of the 11 skills every IT pro should have.

5. Ron Miller knows that Apple’s iCloud needs work. We’re guessing that Mat Honan agrees.

6. Heather Clancy describes how Dell welcomed partners to its cloud services program, which is nice.

7. Is OAuth 2.0 on “the road to Hell”? Protocol author Eran Hammer thinks so, and Adam Riglian details his response at last week’s Internet Engineering Task Force meeting in Vancouver.

8. Todd Morrison tells us why HANA users drink less coffee.

9. Craigslist used to be the cool kid on the internet block. Now, it’s more like the angry old shut-in yelling at kids to get off its lawn — and that could have dire consequences for cloud and mobile app developers, writes Adam Riglian.

10. Banking is getting less buttoned-up, writes Jack Vaughan. It starts with Enterprise Service Buses.

1. Ron Miller tries to understand why Google is attempting to sell branded tablets online after its failed phone strategy.

2. Nathan the IT Guy continues his updates on the Transformer Pad Infinity release date.

3. Jack Vaughan speaks to Joyent CTO and co-founder Jason Hoffman about what Node.js is and why his company embraced the JavaScript architecture.

4. The Head in the Clouds blog reports on OpDemand’s integration with GitHub and Puppet Labs.

5. Nathan talks more about Asus Transformer Pad and the mysterious video from Asus.6. Jane Wright explains why IT security professionals need to look at projects from a different prospective.

7. Miller digs in why HP is taking a plunge into cloud services and the company’s latest announcement.

8. Michael S. Mimoso thinks it’s time for people to ease off IT security leaders and let them do their jobs.

9. Cisco and Juniper Networks have some competition on their hands as Rivka Gewirtz Little reports that Palo Alto Networks has filed for an IPO.

10. Eric Hansen helps users resolve MySQL error 1146.

Michael Tidmarsh is the assistant community editor at ITKnowledgeExchange.com. He can be reached at MTidmarsh@TechTarget.com

1. Think you were the only one breathing heavy over the $99 TouchPad sale? You weren’t, except they were hyperventilating for other reasons: HP’s webOS Decision Sends Shock Waves Through Developer Community.

2. Atleast not everyone got screwed by the HP announcement since HP will make good on TouchPad refunds.

3. Ron Miller delves further into HP recent fiasco and came up with this conclusion: HP decision to dump webOS still makes no sense.

4. Killers to play VMworld 2011 party. Sad you can’t be there? You can! Well, sort of.

5. What’s in a name? We found out when Xiotech changed its name and improved ISE.

6. Day after day it seems like less of a good idea, but would Oracle really consider buying HP?

7. Mr. Denny’s putting on a webcast on things that PASS first timers really need to know.

8. HP is on everyone’s lips (and screens, apparently) – Old HP’s one bright spot: Eating Cisco’s lunch.

9. With VMworld going on right now, virtualization is another topic of choice: Veeam scales out with Backup and Replication 6.

10. When virtualization’s the topic, talk of storage is never far behind: VMware and the importance of storage.

Melanie Yarbrough is the assistant community editor at ITKnowledgeExchange.com. Follow her on Twitter or send her an email at Melanie@ITKnowledgeExchange.com.

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