Red Hat, Amazon deliver Linux on demand ... Android just a press release, says Ballmer ... HP zooms out of camera business

In this issue:
* AMD brings GPU technology to high-performance computing
* Trend Micro arms PlayStation against bad Web sites
* IBM gives autonomic computing a brain
* High availability and disaster recovery are not the same thing
* Red Hat, Amazon deliver Linux on demand
* Google's Android just a press release, says Ballmer
* HP zooms out of camera business
* Sam Adams takes on Sam Adams over Sam Adams-themed URL


TODAY'S NEWS

AMD brings GPU technology to high-performance computing
AMD introduced a high-performance processor that uses a technology common in graphics chips, called parallelism, for general purpose computing.

Trend Micro arms PlayStation against bad Web sites
Trend Micro has introduced a security service for Sony's PlayStation 3 that blocks access to malicious Web sites, the company's first product for gamers.

IBM gives autonomic computing a brain
To keep up with growing complexities of data center maintenance, IBM on Thursday announced a new set of self-management tools that can reduce the cost and manpower needed to run data centers

Google's Android just a press release, says Ballmer
Microsoft's Steve Ballmer declined to comment on Google's Android platform on Thursday saying it was nothing but a press release at present.

Hard drive prices drop as PC demand rises
Prices are dropping on notebook and desktop hard drives as demand for PCs and consumer electronics skyrockets.

Opposition to Google's DoubleClick deal mounting
For some privacy advocates, Google's proposed $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick represents a major threat.

HP zooms out of camera business
HP shifts its digital camera business model, channeling investments from design and distribution to its photo printing strategy.

Red Hat, Amazon deliver Linux on demand
Red Hat Wednesday made its Enterprise Linux OS available on demand by releasing it for the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service that hosts business applications.

Washington AG goes after search engine fixer, again
The Washington State Attorney General's Office is back in court, trying again to get a company that sells search engine ranking services to change its business practices.

Fast mobile on track but faces curves
A new mobile technology offering several megabits per second is working as planned, but that doesn't guarantee that kind of speed at its launch date in 2010.


STORAGE

High availability and disaster recovery are not the same thing
By David Hill, Mesabi Group

IT organizations may confuse the terms "high availability" and "disaster recovery." You need both, but if you think that the two are synonymous you may do one or the other and think that you have done the other. And that could be a problem as the two, while interrelated, are not the same. ...Continue


NETWORKING

Netuitive 2.0
By James Gaskin, ITworld

Can you define Business Services Management without looking at the latest vendor advertising? Not looking at vendor information, I call it managing the systems your customers use to verify they are receiving the service you designed the system to deliver. Above all else, customers must be satisfied or they become ex-customers. ...Continue


ITWHIRLED

Sam Adams takes on Sam Adams over Sam Adams-themed URL
Sam Adams is running for mayor of Portland, Ore., and as you might expect, he's secured a number of URLs with his name in them, including www.samadamsformayor.com and www.mayorsamadams.com. This raised the ire of the Boston company that brews Samuel Adams beer, which promptly started sending out cease and desist letters. When Sam Adams (the candidate) pointed out that he's been Sam Adams since 1963 -- 21 years before Samuel Adams (the beer) was trademarked, the brewers finally backed down.

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