But the idea of handing over your entire computing system to a multinational running a cloud computing system is that they have in place the structures to stop such mistakes.

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Many online travel agencies have come to resemble physical ones, signing up with a GDS which provides a reservations system and other computing power while handing them a commission (ultimately paid by the airlines) on every booking.

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Mr Hayes said the NTA was handing over a "world-class drug treatment system" to PHE but stressed that investment had to be maintained when management was transferred on 1 April.

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Medical teams planned for the births for months, even designating a special "Code 5" designation, handing out pagers to staff and developing a color-coded system to match each baby with his or her needed supplies.

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Cynics among the teaching profession might be surprised that this was not a glad-handing, promotional trip, but was an assiduous and unglamorous trawl of the German education system.

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