Since John is still doing his laundry during peak load hours, the utility is paying top dollar in infrastructure costs and high-cost backup power plants.

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Backup or standby generators cost an order of magnitude less than generators designed to provide primary power.

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Backup and retrieval needs would grow exponentially, which meant the cost in labor hours would kill a company if it didn't have some kind of automated backup.

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This week the company launched Amazon Glacier, a secure, reliable and extremely low cost storage service designed for data archiving and backup.

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So was the cost of all the live operators needed for a backup call center.

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City officials refuted the findings and stated the cost overruns were part of a strategic decision to build a 911 backup center.

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Moore was once again relegated to backup status last year and could likely be signed for backup pay this offseason, which makes him a relatively safe and low-cost alternative to risking a high draft pick this April.

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My backup is the home mortgage market activity as well as brokerage house earnings powered by cost-cutting.

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Issues to consider include ease of deployment, managing backup and data access, support, security, network complexity, device management, operating system diversity, total cost of ownership and integration of various tablet platforms at the application, mobile device management process and system level.

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