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5 Things You Can Do To Make Your Software More Attractive To Medical Device Companies
Improve Your Ability to Sell Software into Medical Device Companies – In this paper we will share five things you can do to make your software application more attractive to medical device companies.
How to monitor Windows servers using Nagios and NSClient
One of the best monitoring software packages available for system administrators is Nagios. It's free, open source, has a large community of developers and users for support and can be relied upon to provide outstanding monitoring for mission critical devices. As part...
Creating IBM Rational 7.0.x Patch Install Areas
This week we take up the topic of creating IBM Rational patch install areas for pre-7.1 versions. As we have discussed in previous weeks, there are a number of tools in Rational 7.1 and beyond that introduce much automation into patch management. However, there are...
Network Monitoring with Cacti
In my initial blog post, I explained a little bit about Nagios, and how it can be configured to monitor any networking device or server. Nagios' basic operation is this: Define a check Execute the check at a specified interval Take the result of the check and...
License Management and Monitoring using X-Formation License Statistics
Over the past year, I have been doing a lot of work with clients who use high-end CAD and/or EE software tools from respected vendors like Cadence, Synopsys, and Mentor Graphics. The majority of these software tools require a license server to be setup on your local...
Static Analysis: Improving Quality by Finding Coding Issues As Soon As Possible
Many companies utilize static analysis tools in some fashion. However, we often find they are not leveraging them to their fullest potential. At SPK and Associates, we believe in driving quality up front, at the Engineering Desktop, and not relying solely on finding...
Running Pro/INTRALINK 3.4 on Windows 7, 64-bit
I recently came across a forum post asking for advice on the combination of running Pro/Intralink 3.4 on Windows 7 64-bit. In short, I’m happy to report that we’ve been using this combination without incident: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 64-bit SP1, PTC...
Creating a low cost, high performance ESX cluster
As Senior Systems Integrator for SPK and Associates, a California based IT services company specializing in infrastructure management services, I recently completed an interesting project. The goal was to create an ESX cluster for a small engineering group...
Using Rational Response Files to Install ClearCase and ClearQuest
This week we continue on the topic of installing using IBM Installation Manager. But with a bit of a difference. Instead of bringing up the IM install GUI and using it to conduct the installation, we will take a step toward greater installation automation and create...
How to setup a weekly backup job with Bacula
In my last post, I gave an overview of Bacula, the enterprise-level free backup software. For this post I wanted to dig into the software a bit more and show how simple it is to setup a weekly backup job. One of the first things we do at SPK when working with a new...
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eBook: Solving the Top PTC Integrity Lifecycle Manager Struggles
Executive Summary Over the past few years at SPK, we published many articles on PTC Integrity Lifecycle Manager topics. Our intention was to provide real, hands-on help for PTC Integrity users and managers. We asked ourselves the question: “What are some of the most...