Energy management capabilities offer the ability to monitor weather and normalize energy consumption and cost data.
They come from the Medicare Cost Data Reports that every hospital must file with the federal government.
We ranked the best cars for the buck using reliability and ownership cost data from Consumer Reports.
Clinical efficacy, judged using economic cost data, will have to be proved before new drugs and medical devices are approved.
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But to maximize profitability under this data sales model, Facebook wants to drive the cost of data center infrastructure to some point below that of commodity boxes servers and storage arrays for example.
More spectrum concentration could mean even less customer choice and an increase in the cost of data plans.
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The mobile industry must evolve similarly, complementing the rising cost of data with access to clear breakdowns of data consumption that consumers can actually understand.
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The company had no information about the cost of data plans.
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Companies without a voice service to defray the cost of data infrastructure will find it impossible to turn a profit and will be taken over or will fold.
Many online backup services -- like Amazon's S3 -- are already available and are will only offer more space for less money in the future as the cost of data storage continues to fall.
Because of the potential high cost of data theft, companies such as Dell offer services that not only track and locate stolen or missing computers, but can erase an entire hard drive before the criminals can access sensitive information.
CIOs and CTOs must take a closer look at the true cost of Big Data.
Electrical bills can be 70% of the operating cost of running data centers.
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Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service offerings can also provide quick, low-cost access to data center resources for software development and prototyping.
The inability to leverage standards on Hadoop such as SQL requires further investment without reducing the cost of the data warehouse.
And the high cost of political data and consulting activities may make it difficult for less affluent candidates to compete effectively.
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Airtel Vodafone now has an ideal environment to suit all its needs, enabling rapid low-cost integration of data stored in various operational surroundings.
Today, customers seeking to economize the data cost of wireless devices often simply connect over their home wifi networks, thus avoiding extra expense.
Since solar lanterns have higher adoption rates than clean cook stoves, such alternatives to kerosene for lighting may provide quick, cost-effective data for promoting policies that reduce indoor air pollution.
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This customer has examined the cost of other data plans, understands their limitations and would prefer to pay a premium for an unlimited plan that does not reduce the speed of their Internet after a few gigabytes are used.
There is still a lot to be done in removing operational cost inside the data center: Now-separate elements like compute, storage and networking are increasingly intertwined, and may eventually be subsumed into a single basic operation where few programmers go.
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The key points that made NASA choose Amazon over its own data centers are cost effectiveness and the ease with which the data can be made public.
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While this decision is certainly tempered by the needs of the company, the scale up approach will help enterprises accurately prepare for their current Big Data needs by buying limited hardware and add more racks in a cost-effective manner as data needs increase.
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Companies also need to factor in the cost of voice and data, development, management and support.
What is clear is that the full cost of inspections and data reporting will be borne by industry and industry alone.
Health Grades is trying to make its doctor ratings more empirical but will need to recover the considerable cost of collecting good data.
PCs, of course, swept through the workplace and in only a decade most mainframes, and their high cost, air conditioned data centers, were gone.
Utilizing a common de-dupe and compression architecture across your data center can enable your organization to use fewer network resources, reduce your storage footprint, and lower the power and cooling cost of storing your data.
Fusion-io is pleased to now be able to offer this technology to emerging market leaders to help them redefine what's possible when it comes to cost effectively delivering rich data services to millions of people around the world.
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Increasingly, the federal government and many state governments are demanding greater efficiencies, cost reductions and more data on outcomes from colleges and universities further complicating the ability of those institutions to be flexible and responsive to the constantly changing outside world.
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