With customers doing their own ordering and billing through the Internet, databases must be able to handle vast numbers of concurrent users and provide information fast.
The idea is to get relevant information fast, instead of what usually happens, which is getting information long after a crisis is over, said Robert Kirkpatrick, director of Global Pulse, who spoke today at a technology and human rights conference in Berkeley, Calif.
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It means investing in transportation and communications networks that move goods and information as fast as possible.
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It means investing in transportation and communication networks that can move goods and information as fast as possible.
So how can a big business cloud adopter assure its customers are getting their information as fast or faster than the competition?
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We also need to make sure that America can move goods and information as fast as any of our competitors, whether on the road or online.
We can even make the argument that HFT just made everyone realise that problem faster: and yes, we do want markets to reveal such information as fast as they can.
That investment created an ultra-fast information superhighway, says Blair Levin, a media analyst at Stifel Nicolaus.
It is too much information, too fast, and there is too much chaff intermixed with the wheat.
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Its format mandates conciseness, and conciseness tends to be a good thing when broadcasting information about a fast-moving story.
Engineers built spam filters and faster crawling and indexing to present information almost as fast as it was created.
In return for sharing all this personal information passengers are fast-tracked through immigration at Dubai and Hong Kong and on their return to Britain.
The recorders capture information about how fast you were going and whether you slammed on the brakes in the seconds before and after a crash.
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False information can spread fast, but it can be quickly debunked.
Just look at how fast information technology departments swung to servers connecting to PCs, shutting down mainframe and mini-computer data centers and wiping out thousands of green-screen terminals.
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Issa's memo notes that while the Justice Department has provided some materials to Capitol Hill, most of the information about "Fast and Furious" came though whistle-blowers and media reports.
Already in 1962, the prophetic scholar of media Marshall McLuhan foresaw the coming of a "global village": a planet in which information spread as fast as in the farming village of yore.
And do remember one other thing: information could only flow as fast as a man could travel so information was both hugely limited and hugely expensive itself.
No longer is the consumer concerned by the availability of information but rather the fast simple retrieval of it.
He mentioned that we have a huge advantage right now as students because information is free, fast, and being updated constantly.
This transforms the car into a virtual office, giving motorists not only dull information such as how fast they are travelling, but also e-mail, the Internet, news services and navigation functions.
Bell says he's seen a real increase in productivity from having fast access to information.
Knowledge workers want fast access to information where they want it and when they want it.
The social-media tools available to small-business owners are proliferating as fast as the information that flows through them.
And that's exactly why it's so important for us to respond big and respond fast as local information starts coming in.
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The company was fast to post information on its website about the floods, and communicated to investors about the size and scale of the disaster.
While it may take awhile for news reports in your native language to surface, Twitter can give you fast, reliable information in case of an emergency.
One study, published this year, found that customers ordered foods containing an average of 52 fewer calories when the information was prominently displayed in fast-food chains in New York.
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