But it is notoriously ill-suited to high-tech industries that have to tailor each item to a customer's specific needs (as in a data-switching centre or air-traffic-control system) or in which it is crucial that thousands of interrelated components all work correctly together (as in a rocket vehicle).
The bottom line was that switching critical data from the iPhone to the RAZR was painless, once I found the right tool to use for the music transfer, even for a decade-plus devoted Apple user.
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They are being carefully planned and managed to maximize efficiencies in our cost structure while preserving the investments in innovation in our core businesses of data center, routing, switching and security.
To make sure the data it's entrusted with are safe, EDS performs a dozen or more recovery drills a month, sometimes switching a client's entire data processing operation from one computer center to a backup on the fly.
This translates to a better user experience in areas of weaker data coverage, and represents a switching barrier because of the significant effort to replicate content elsewhere.
In a test case last June, Sun reduced the energy used by one its data centers by 93% by switching out older models for its new Niagara servers.
If Mailbox users had a synched copy of their email data in their dropbox, would that make switching over to a Dropbox hosted service a snap?
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The Vendor Relationship Management (VRM) community could bring another shift as start-ups begin invading this space, switching the emphasis to managing personal data assets on behalf of users.
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Typical enterprise companies built loyalty through ridiculously expensive upgrades and data that was so locked down you had to syphon your data out discretely if you were thinking about switching vendors.
To make sure the data it's entrusted with are safe, EDS performs a dozen or more recovery drills a month, in some cases switching a major client's entire data processing operation from one computer center to a backup on the fly.
At the carrier switching office, the voice is separated from the data and converted back to regular circuit-switched voice.
Though HP's Procurve line of switches already compete with Cisco's hardware, the 3Com deal will offer HP far more firepower in the war to own the corporate data center. 3Com, a dot-com boom and bust veteran, recently launched a new series of data center switches that compete directly with Cisco's Nexus switching line and cost about 40% less on average, according to the Yankee Group.
Simply by switching to TPO, 10% of all call, text and data spend will get directed to their nominated cause.
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It finally released a long-anticipated new switching technology called QFabric that can reduce the number of switches a data center needs by between 50% and 80%.
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But SigFig, which will release apps for Android and the iPhone later this month, takes it further, analyzing the data to show your asset allocation and whether you could save on fees by switching to different mutual funds.
Software-defined networks will provide some of this flexibility by separating the control function from data forwarding, but there are additional capabilities emerging, he says, such as intelligent switching of wavelengths, the ability to mix dedicated bandwidth with best-efforts networks, and application layer network traffic optimization, e.g.
In switching their emphasis to Facebook, marketers give up control over much of the valuable data that their users leave behind.
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