Computer graphics, for example, have already been through this transition from software to hardware.
Because if Microsoft is willing to bridge the gap from software into hardware, then what company on the planet can claim to be beyond such an approach?
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In the computer industry the value has migrated from hardware to software.
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That includes a business-model shift from hardware company to software licensor.
Any change in supplier or design would be "a pretty significant challenge, " the person said, requiring layers of modification from hardware to controlling software to adjust for a new battery.
To provide seamless management, storage software must be able to talk to hardware from rival vendors.
Threats to the supply chain range from the installation of malicious code in either hardware or software to the installiation of counterfeit equipment and the disruption of the production of critical components.
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Under a system to be introduced later this year, media groups that want to continue to use their own hardware and software will have to order it from approved suppliers, and have it shipped directly to the department and installed by its own IT people.
Try to use software from only one vendor and hardware from just another.
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This is an extraordinarily impressive facility, where workers are instructed on everything from the installation of sophisticated energy hardware and software to the basics of current and resistance.
So I should be able to use data from any application on any phone (given sufficient hardware specs to support the software.) This, of course, is not at all the case at present.
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As the technology industry shifts from a hardware-based model to a software-based model, New York is positioned well with access to clients and a pool of potential employees who understand marketing, consumers, media and communications, Mr. Pinsky said.
Jony Ive, who was promoted to oversee both hardware and software, is reportedly shattering silos and pulling developers from the Mac OS X side of things to help keep the radically retooled mobile OS on-track.
We also have forms for users to submit feedback, and we engage these users to learn about their expectations from hardware and software.
Core components use resilient industry-standard hardware and software technologies, designed from the outset to root out potential causes of downtime before they do damage.
Since its launch in 2004, it has become a natural choice for users of all kinds, from Fortune 500 companies to hardware makers, content providers, software developers and individual technologists.
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Since its launch in 2004, it has become the preferred choice for open desktop and scale-out computing, from Fortune 500 companies to hardware makers, content providers, software developers and consumers.
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Because these systems have been built from the ground up to optimize the interplay between hardware and software, the Exa family delivers greater speed and power and also better cost-performance than any conventional systems can hope to match.
At Oracle, the strategy is all about designing IP-rich hardware and software that are engineered from the gound up to work together, says Juan Loaiza, Oracle senior vice-president for systems technologies.
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At Oracle, we believe that the Steve Jobs vision of richly integrated software and hardware, engineered and optimized to work together from the ground up, will reshape the future of enterprise computing.
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This achievement is made possible by the K computer's integration of technologies, including its massive number of CPUs, the interconnectivity that links them together, and the software that is able to bring out the highest performance from the hardware.
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Gamestop has recently suggested that it might start selling more refurbished hardware as well, making the transition from a software retailer to a high-tech pawnshop.
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Enterprises and service providers are demanding more programmability and therefore flatter networking architectures that decouple the software from the hardware so that it decreases physical complexity and allows networks to scale out through virtualization.
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In his most straightforward comment to date on the power that comes from optimizing hardware and software from the ground up, Ballmer sounds a lot like Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, who launched the the engineered-system concept about four years ago with the first version of the Oracle Exadata Database Machine.
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Years ago IBM began to shift its long-term strategy away from hardware and toward software and services that come with far better margins.
Either way, argues Steven Milunovich, an analyst with Merrill Lynch, profits will shift away from hardware, which is becoming more and more commoditised, to software, services and consulting.
In so many words, ALT Systems will take the disparate pieces of hardware and software from HP, NVIDIA, Autodesk and Epic Games to provide an all-in-one buying solution for game dev studios.
And soon it will begin using software from the recently acquired SilverBack Technologies and Everdream to monitor the vital signs of Dell hardware on corporate networks.
Heck -- even Apple, the most famously-closed ecosystem in the entire technology industry, decouples hardware from software insomuch that Macs are released on a timetable completely unrelated to that of Mac OS and can be upgraded -- at a cost -- for many years, at the owner's leisure.
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