The natural response when one data center is facing a demand response signal is to move the workload to a data center in another geography.

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And for customers, that means better performance, less demand for expensive data-center real estate and energy costs, and simplified system management.

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However, it claims to be witnessing softness in demand (from US, Europe as well as Asia), on account of reduced data center and enterprise spending as well as lower service provider capital expenditures.

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Arthur Moss, a professor of medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center, said the controversy actually put the agency on strong footing to demand more data.

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High demand and aging delivery grids have forced some utility companies to restrict the amount of power delivered to a data center.

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With revenue per server and absolute demand increasing and the ability to lease the facility, management views the risk of stranded capital for the data center is reduced.

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We hesitate to bring up anything to do with the ongoing debacle that is SPOT, but the guys over at Microsoft's most left-of-center division helped popularize the concept of "glanceable" information -- ubiquitous, high-demand data (weather reports, for instance) that can be gleaned quickly and with little or no user input.

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