In the public sector, Fast Data approaches are helping organizations develop integrated fast response systems.
AV's industrial fast charging systems support thousands of electric materials handling vehicles in mission-critical supply chains for Fortune 500 enterprises.
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Direct Edge and Bats have successfully siphoned double-digit volume away from Nasdaq OMX and NYSE Euronext in recent years, in part by appealing to high-frequency trading firms with fast execution systems.
The SanDisk X110 SSD enables notebook and tablet OEM manufacturers to design fast, responsive systems with the sleek, thin form factors consumers' desire.
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To demonstrate how fast the new G4 systems are, Jobs staged a series of demos featuring a 500-MHz G4 system battling a PC powered by a 600-MHz Intel Corp.
Wind River (nasdaq: WIND - news - people ) specializes in so-called device software, the fast, small operating systems and middleware that go into all sorts of noncomputer smart devices, from digital video recorders to industrial robots and the Mars Rover.
These systems are so fast that, in a blink of an eye, millions of trades can take place and billions of dollars can be transferred from buyers to sellers.
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Intel, which has a special new business development unit, and particularly Cisco Systems, the fast-growing company that has 80% of the network router market, are also snapping up stakes and companies.
Specialized companies such as financial traders have long turned systems that cope with fast moving data to their advantage.
But the rise of super fast, all-Flash storage systems, which have been the traditional bottleneck of entreprise information systems, will have serious consequences on the architecture of the next generation enterprise IT.
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Data needs to move in and out of analytics systems (like Netezza) fast.
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Cisco may have driven Alantec into the arms of yet another fast-growing networking company, Fore Systems--though Fore itself is now rumoured to be a takeover candidate.
The new technology is coming from outfits like Advantage Learning Systems, a small but fast-growing software company in Wisconsin Rapids, Wis. that sells instructional aids and computerized quizzes to monitor their results.
After almost a decade of fast growth, the leadership of Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO), Ciena Corp ( CIEN), JDS Uniphase ( JDSU), Corning ( GLW) and Ariba Inc. ( ARBA), and Lucent-Alcatel (NYSE: ALU) became complacent and arrogant with success, setting the stage for the eventual slow-down and downfall to irrelevance.
In addition, Siemens will provide highly efficient and fast on-board and off-board charging systems.
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Microsoft's commitment to PC technology has kept it investing in operating system and office automation software for the last decade while losing more than two-thirds of its market share in smartphone operating systems and delaying its entry into the fast-growing tablet business--places where Apple has had astoundingly profitable revenue growth.
But thanks to the fast adoption of instant messaging and Internet-based telephone systems, the days of cheap and easy video calling may finally be here -- they just don't run across phone lines.
In addition, existing rules make it clear that when broker-dealers with access to our markets use computers to trade, trade fast, or trade frequently, they must check those systems to ensure they are operating properly.
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Two of the best-known prospects are GeoCities, a fast-growing community of personal Web sites, and Multex Systems, which offers on-line research for investors.
Sophisticated scouting and a fast-moving coaching carousel that cross pollinates new ideas and systems across the league make it tough to stand out for any real period of time.
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Add to this the realities of changing regulations and potential environmental tracking requirements, and you need information systems that provide the flexibility to evolve, deliver fast time to value, and that can integrate with our suppliers and customers.
Automation makes IAM fast, agile and scalable, compared to ponderous and expensive manual systems.
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Led by Jack Dorsey, who helped set up Twitter, Square has pioneered mobile-payment systems for smartphones, but it has rivals in this fast-developing market, including Google and PayPal.
The new systems include an online booking system, e-prescriptions and fast computer network links between NHS organisations as well as the electronic records system.
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Generally, the participants at the FERC hearings all expressed a preference for better sharing of information concerning pipeline capacity scheduled for power generation, individual power plant burn rates, fast notification of major operational changes, and coordination of maintenance work to both systems.
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"The speed of transmission is so fast right now that it's so easy for hackers to break into most systems, " says Leo J.
According to a team of experts from Brunel University's Department of Information Systems and Computing a radical new approach to marketing broadband is needed if fast net services are going to appeal to the half of the population yet to get connected.
If Bain wins, it has an internal group of some 70 consultants who take to the field to advise portfolio companies on everything from upgrading their computer systems to calculating the profitability of a two-for-one special on fast food.
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The new G4 systems were unveiled by Jobs late last month, and feature a new series of fast PowerPC processors running at clock speeds of 400-MHz, 450-MHz and 500-MHz.
In recent years, the Partnership has consciously invested to have the right skills, systems and organisational structures to be able to offer customers what they want in a fast-changing market.
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