Many of the mature enterprise energy management solutions available on the market were designed to promote reliability through protection and prevention.

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Conversely, choosing the right right cloud computing industry for your company, will result in services optimized for your needs and that are designed to match your performance, reliability and security expectations.

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Like the devices they are connected to, these appliances will achieve reliability and lower costs by being designed to do only one thing well.

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In addition, Fujitsu (otc: FJTSY - news - people ) has designed its own chip set working with the Intel processor to raise performance and reliability for both 32-bit and 64-bit computing, Itanium's specialty.

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Changes in electric use by demand-side resources from their normal consumption patterns in response to changes in the price of electricity, or to incentive payments designed to induce lower electricity use at times of high wholesale market prices or when system reliability is jeopardized.

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Designed for even the most demanding mission-critical applications, the AL13SE series features an operating reliability rating of 2, 000, 000 power-on hours2, a 25% increase over prior-generation drives.

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