But the actual hosting of the application, the actual requirements for that application to exist in a cloud environment, to connect to the virtualized resources and whatever administration tools the cloud providers may give you to configure and maintain the application, will be, for the most part, controlled by the cloud provider.

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The actual allocation requirements, however, are dependent on several factors, including age, health and wealth.

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Furthermore, Sprint claims that this unit is all ready to support multiple callers, and while that is indeed true, the actual bandwidth requirements are a touch harder to come by.

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Yet, it turns out that businesses with 50 or fewer employees were exempted from any employer mandate requirements in the actual health care reform law.

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The Japanese bureaucracy has recommended modestly and gradually increasing the premiums or co-pay requirements for the actual beneficiaries, but the proposal has met stiff opposition by politicians who fear losing votes.

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The delays are partially in the actual review times at the agency, but the clinical requirements are a larger hurdle.

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Included were a vastly beefed up Community Reinvestment Act, actual or threatened discrimination suits by Justice and HUD to enforce regulatory requirements, and regulatory mandates on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to finance trillions in mortgage securities backed by subprime mortgages.

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