A small London software company has teamed with Hollywood special effects wizards to create a surgeon’s diagnostic dream — the virtual patient. The software designed by Atamai Inc. of London produces a lifelike 3-D image allowing surgeons to look inside a patient’s brain or beating heart before and during an operation.
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Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) today announced that SGI(R) InfiniteStorage solutions are taking front and center stage in a newly expanded SGI Channel Program. A special emphasis has been placed on recruiting new storage-centric value-added resellers (VARs) whose primary business is the supply and integration of data storage solutions and services.
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To address soaring demand from users for more powerful storage solutions, Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) today unveiled the SGI(R) InfiniteStorage TP9700 RAID storage array. This marks the industry’s first Fibre Channel storage array equipped with a 4Gb/second (gigabit per second) Fibre Channel interface, doubling the performance of SGI’s previous offerings. The increased performance of the TP9700 means that users need far less infrastructure — adapters, cabling, switch ports, etc. — to access and manage their storage. Bottom line, this results in lower cost of ownership and far simpler configurations to manage.
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Waging war isn’t about fun and games. Or is it? A visit to one of the world’s biggest conventions for military training technology reveals that today’s armed forces are taking cues from video games, theme parks, and Hollywood. Find out how the Pentagon is funding the future of new media at Orlando, Florida’s I/ITSEC: the Defense Department’s own Disney World.
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A state-of-the-art radar surveillance center operated by the Department of Homeland Security and powered by high-performance computing and storage technology from Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) is playing an integral role in protecting America.
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