And those that are already reaping the benefits, including lower hardware costs and improved employee satisfaction.
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Others let mobile phones do most of the work, keeping the onboard hardware costs down.
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One way is to apply the open source software process to hardware, driving down IT hardware costs while driving up the ability to customize IT infrastructure.
When his colleagues contemplated project costs, they thought about development costs, hardware costs and software costs, but not about support and maintenance costs after the technology is implemented, for instance.
Unfortunately for potential S3 consumers, TiVo is at a disadvantage compared to the deep-pocketed cable companies and satellite providers who operate under a different business model and underwrite hardware costs.
If they can replace 100 to 200 Sun servers or x86 servers with two or three PURE systems they will have lower hardware costs, less to pay in software licensing, plus savings in the real estate, power and cooling.
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Some customers will want a private cloud implementation to maintain greater control of the end to end experience, other customers are already moving data and applications to the Windows Azure cloud to take advantage of the reduced management and hardware costs the public cloud offers.
While the new iPod touch continues its tradition of being thinner than its contemporary iPhone cousin and has a bigger display and better camera than the fourth-generation model, it is bested in many other respects by the iPhone 5, which of course has much higher hardware costs than are reflected in the subsidized price.
The improved ability to scale infrastructure up or down to meet dynamically changing and new business needs increases business ability while shared IT infrastructure not only reduces hardware acquisition costs but also results in significant savings in IT staffing costs and data center space, power, and cooling.
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The average monthly cost for a 256Kbps connection was more than the total hardware and software costs.
Through expanded cloud delivery options via HP, we can provide global users with secure, reliable access to essential business applications while helping companies contain hardware and management costs.
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Figure in the cost of the memory plus the larger circuit boards needed for rival systems, and the VideoLogic-NEC team claims its system costs hardware makers half as much as one using older technologies.
The extra hardware and software costs start to push the price of a netbook towards that of a standard laptop, which will invariably be better because it has a bigger processor and superior graphics.
Cisco also says the new processor is fully programmable, allowing ISPs and corporations to add other edge computing services to the ASR-1000 without adding new hardware, and in some instances, allowing customers to get rid of hardware and cut costs.
Unlike traditional hands-free solutions, the suite eliminates the need for a lengthy tuning process and dedicated hardware, lowering production costs and increasing design flexibility.
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Total Cost of Ownership including not only software hardware installation and maintenance costs, but also including recommended counterparts required to assemble a best of breed solution stack.
In investor jargon, it therefore has huge operating leverage: the initial start-up costs for hardware and software were high, but since break-even each new client's revenues have been almost pure profit.
Take out hardware, software and bandwidth costs, and enough might be left to support two employees or so.
Adoption of the devices should also increase as costs of the hardware falls.
Gathering data from several of Cisco's test customers, he found that the cost to operate the router is a fifth to a half the combined energy usage and maintenance costs of the hardware that hosts the same services.
Their spending on new hardware will focus on lowering operating costs through greater efficiencies in the use of labor and energy.
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Indeed, virtualization is the next big thing in data centers, where it's heralded for reducing infrastructure costs by making existing hardware work harder.
The WarpDrive card also helps to minimize hardware requirements, reducing initial investment costs and eliminating points of failure for greater overall system reliability.
With design cues that we thought had been abandoned by 2006-era laptops, we're left scratching our heads as to why no one felt the need to stick this on a treadmill for a couple of weeks -- although Fujitsu did say that it would have had to pass the costs of shrinking the hardware onto the consumer.
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Today's hardware start-ups also can cut costs by outsourcing manufacturing to Asia and selling directly to consumers over the Internet.
Sony stock has experienced some mild drops and a little bit of waffling since the PS4 reveal, and I think that uncertainty comes from the fact that it will be hard to figure out the future for this powerful new hardware until we know how much it costs.
Apple has been making the bulk of its profits by selling its hardware at 2-3 times its production costs.
After all, like Wi-Fi, once you get beyond the miniscule hardware cost of the phone itself, it costs close to absolutely nothing per call.
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Even without factoring in productivity increases, Cisco found companies were still coming out ahead when researchers compared the savings from hardware, telecommunications and support with the additional costs of BYOD.
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