Samsung needs an innovation model that incorporates hardware, software and services.

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As an increasing number of competitors move toward the model of partnering services, hardware and software, we believe that the competitive advantage IBM has long enjoyed from a broad product portfolio and services could erode.

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With all of these components, HP becomes the only firm that can supply end to end enterprise IT, including hardware and software, either on premises or under the Infrastructure as a Service model.

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The traditional IT model requires system engineering that binds most software to the hardware and does not provide an enterprise suite of functionality or allow for increased flexibility and a governed lifecycle of services.

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This becomes even more important as storage software and services are comparatively more valuable as a business than storage hardware as demonstrated in our EMC model above.

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Hardware, software, consultware IBM SHIPPED its first Model 650 to an insurance company in December 1954 and for the next quarter of a century this hardware manufacturer owned the computing business.

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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.

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