"Floppies and memory keys have their place, but they don't have anything like the capacity or flexibility of a hard drive so are unable to meet the demand for more and more storage capacity in consumer devices, " said Mr Larsson.

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In the long run, if the projections of the US Energy Information Administration are correct and gas fired generation continues to grow rapidly, then there is little question the market rules need to be modified to assure reliability and spur more pipeline capacity and flexibility.

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By comparison to analog and GSM-based technologies, 3G CDMA technology has advantages such as increased network capacity, network flexibility, compatibility with internet protocols, higher capacity for data and faster access to Internet.

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But it is fraught with its own challenges, especially for architects of datacenters and mobile networks wrestling with how to address daunting scalability, flexibility and capacity requirements in order to unlock the greatest value from the information created in the data deluge.

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The increased cell-site density will give traffic planners much more flexibility to deliver high-capacity services than if the two companies operated separately.

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It has the flexibility to make last-minute changes to capacity, a luxury most competitors lack.

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Cloud is giving them the computing resource flexibility they need so that they are never limited in capacity, and they can avoid the pain of making an upfront, capex-based investment.

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