For instance, they know that GPs invest in firm infrastructure and personnel based on the projected size of their next fund and the management fees they can be expected to generate.
The crew at Aecom UK, an infrastructure firm that planned the Olympic Park in east London, won a contract in 2011 to help Rio build its equivalent.
Philip Fellowes-Prynne, chief executive of infrastructure services firm May Gurney, told the Today programme's Lesley Curwen, that infrastructure spending is "a good way of getting money into the economy".
The infrastructure solutions firm has tripled its employment numbers in the past two years and revenues doubled in the same time.
"General Banga was very demanding and constantly egging them on, " recalls college buddy Vinayak Chatterjee, chief executive of infrastructure services firm Feedback Ventures.
And governments would be unlikely to allow one firm to control such an important infrastructure.
Balfour Beatty became known as a construction firm but now calls itself an infrastructure company, investing in transport systems and providing professional and support services in many markets including America, Hong Kong and the Middle East.
The Treasury is standing firm on the big stuff the infrastructure projects in transport, defence, health and education.
That would put the firm smack in the middle of the vigorous Asian infrastructure industry.
According to B2B International, a global market research firm, 61 percent of the attacks on corporate infrastructure began through malware infection.
The firm's managers say investments in easing production bottlenecks and infrastructure (such as a coal port and railways) is helping them to reduce costs, which are falling by close to 10% a year.
U.S. Global Investors, Inc. is an investment management firm specializing in gold, natural resources, emerging markets and global infrastructure.
U.S. Global Investors, Inc. is an investment management firm specializing in gold, natural resources, emerging markets and global infrastructure opportunities around the world.
"The city's debt load has increased substantially over the past decade resulting from an aggressive infrastructure and economic development expansion plan, " the ratings firm said.
Shahar Maor, an information-technology analyst at Israeli market research firm STKI, estimated that compared with large companies associated with defense or critical infrastructure, lower tier Israeli companies hire one-fifth as many information-security employees relative to computer users.
The firm has helped the country with training, and with a revamping of its security infrastructure.
"There's going to have to be new forms of energy, new ways of delivering energy and new forms of infrastructure, " says Warren Karlenzig, president of Common Current, a consulting firm on sustainable cities based in San Anselmo, Calif.
In Doha, governments are expected to usher in a renewed commitment under the Kyoto Protocol, move the broad infrastructure of support they have been building for action in the developing world into firm implementation, and decide how to resolve policy issues that remain outstanding under the UN Climate Change Convention.
He said the firm currently ran the cross-Channel shuttle service and also operated transport services and other port infrastructure around France.
Intesa Sanpaolo has reportedly suggested to Italy's prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, that the government buy Telecom Italia's fixed-line infrastructure, the most politically sensitive part of the business, ensuring it remains Italian and allowing the firm to pay down debt.
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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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