Couple it to universal connectors (an ability to connect other enterprises to the core company electronically and without the need for individually negotiated contracts) and you have new conditions for scaling wealth creation.

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State enterprises, considered the core of the economy, would bitterly fight any substantial increase in their cost of capital.

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The trend is driven by the fact that many SMBs and enterprises do not have core competencies in security and may be able to achieve more cost-effective and robust security through third-party support.

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Virtualization is core to enabling tablet use within enterprises.

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As enterprises adopt Flash-based storage arrays, they will have to upgrade their core networking infrastructure to 40 Gbps and servers to 10 Gbps.

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The survey also finds a majority of enterprises, 63%, already have underway or are planning migrations to public or private clouds for core applications, including ERP.

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This ignores the fact that the upshot of these sales is that the American enterprises acquired by foreign concerns not-infrequently wind up being seen as superfluous to the new owners' core overseas operation and get shut down.

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