"Total cost of ownership and asset utilization are what puts this on the floor, " he says.

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If you can do the same amount of work on fewer computers by having higher utilization, you save the environmental cost of building those computers.

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Cloud and virtualized environments offer greater utilization of resources, cost advantages, scalability and ease of use.

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Enterprise CIOs should consider the cost and labor saving benefits of public clouds when used with cloud management services that analyze potential cost spiral issues, utilization issues, and security vulnerabilities.

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For example, Southwest Airlines cut the amount of idle time for its planes at the gate by about 50%, which produced a huge fuel savings and dramatically increased plane utilization (one of the highest cost drivers in the airline industry), without negatively impacting service quality.

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We are also concerned that the company may struggle to maintain high manufacturing utilization, which could put pressure on the rate of cost improvement.

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The second reason for building the open cloud centers around the same motivators that bring enterprises to the cloud in the first place: cost efficiency, range of service delivery options, reduced overhead and better asset utilization.

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In general, these findings argue strongly against the idea that the effect of expanding coverage on utilization can be deduced simply from the reduction in patient cost sharing.

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Without an active public affairs strategy for the utilization of private security capabilities, entrenched negative media and public perceptions will incur a high political cost.

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