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Medical device repair startup Summit Imaging fires back at Philips over device ‘hacking’ claims

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Philips alleged that Summit built software designed to hack into its ultrasound machines and other devices as a way to get around stringent access controls regulating how the hardware can be used. Summit CEO Lawrence Nguyen, a veteran of companies including AT&T and Microsoft, launched the company in 2006. Summit Imaging Photo).

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Five Key Trends in DCIM » Data Center Knowledge

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For sourcing, they make decisions, and thus own the hardware budgets. In regards to sourcing, the more efficiently you refresh your hardware, the better off you’ll be, and having a strong DCIM system manage changes in the data center due to hardware / technology refreshes can make all the difference. December 2006 (43).

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Fountainhead: Profiling questions nobody's asking re: cloud.

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However, certain environments are inherently bound to hardware and/or tested for performance, and these may need to remain "in-house" on specific hardware (see below) Inherent application functionality N Apps that are inherently "internal" Such as internal back-up software, "edge" applications like printer servers, etc. ► 2006.

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The Software Defined Data Center Meets Disaster Recovery » Data.

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Finally, the concept works at the hypervisor level, which allows the company to better and more fully utilize its hardware. For example, software-defined networking has been coined as an approach in which networking control is decoupled from hardware and controlled by a software application. It must be hardware agnostic.

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My Advice to Engineering Undergraduate Students - Social, Agile.

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Perhaps more than any other industry, field or time in history, during this time in computer hardware engineering there has been more advancement and evolution than ever before or anywhere else. ► 2006. (28). Labels: about me , cio , startup cto. Visit our website for more details. ► October. (1). ► September. (2).

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5 Tips to Boost Your Data Center IQ » Data Center Knowledge

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See our guidelines and submission process for information on participating. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers. December 2006 (43). November 2006 (51). October 2006 (44). September 2006 (35).

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Are You Up in the Air with Cloud Computing Benefits? » Data Center.

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These resources are shared with many users, and the hardware the cloud computing company provides is built on a system that makes the most efficient use of it. Even cloud computing in a small scale is worth taking a look at, as it allows access to much more powerful hardware than you would otherwise have. December 2006 (43).