As virtualization continues to drive distributed networks of external "clouds" of resources that can be physically located virtually everywhere, the legal and political implications for businesses will only get more complicated.
But the scale of the new distributed freelancer networks multiplies the difficulty of weeding out the bad elements by several orders of magnitude.
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In 2005, Denmark's distributed-energy networks generated nearly half the country's electricity while cutting carbon emissions by nearly half from 1990 levels.
Other related technologies like demand response, consumer-side controls and energy storage are expected to play an equally important role in distributed-energy networks.
Distributed energy aims to decouple profits and consumption so that power companies have a greater incentive to invest in energy-efficiency technologies that drive distributed-energy networks.
Prepaid telephone cards and soft drinks, often distributed via informal networks, can be found in tiny stalls in the most remote corners of Africa, despite all the difficulties with transport.
So how do companies successfully pull off extensive, distributed presences on social networks?
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It was an old idea--distributed storage was a feature of networks since the 1980s--but Lewin devised a way to do it far more efficiently.
Currently, in large NT 4.0 networks, user data is distributed across multiple domains.
Technology for content distribution and distributed workflows are provided by companies such as Aspera, DataDirect Networks, Harmonic and Nirvanix.
Security alerts should be distributed, and customers should be educated about how to secure networks and offer security services.
The networks had been attacked by malicious codes, rather than distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks as initially suspected.
The distributed denial-of-service attack failed to crash those payment networks, but David says Anonymous did manage to poke around their back-end computer systems.
Accordingly, permitting exclusive contracts likely will have a greater impact on independent networks (such as Disney Channel), which are distributed pursuant to a contract.
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Known as distributed denial of service, the attacks employ multiple computers to flood networks with millions of simultaneous requests, overwhelming servers and crippling Web sites.
It wasn't immediately clear when Apple would be able to begin selling iPhone in South Korea, how it would be distributed or which carriers would allow it to be used on their networks.
Funds have primarily been distributed to the not-for-profit Avina, to help build networks of entrepreneurs and leaders in Latin America.
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For example, many of the zombie-based, distributed denial-ofservice attacks that occurred in February were traced back to benign networks which were merely unwitting hosts to remote-triggered Trojans located on their servers.
The attack built by Giannetsos and his colleagues has a wider target than the power grid: any system that uses sensor mesh networks, from buildings that use the sensors to monitor for weaknesses in their architecture to sensors distributed in forests to detect wildfires.
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