"The result is that a hundred physical servers turns into seven, " says Steve Kaplan, chief executive of the IT consultancy AccessFlow.
And it follows a profits warning on Tuesday by IT and management consultancy Cap Gemini, which prompted falls among technology stocks on European stock markets.
With help from McKinsey, a consultancy, it is conducting a thorough review of its operations.
One industry consultancy said it believed Iceland has now secured its biggest share of the UK grocery market in 12 years.
And since house-price cycles tend to last for a long time, says Mike Poulos of Oliver Wyman, a consultancy, it can be expensive to sustain a short position.
Oil and gas consultancy Optimus said it wants the church as its new headquarters.
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The latter, a cyber-business consultancy, says it asked a cross section of 1, 200 users to compare the "experience" of various search engines.
Anbound, a Beijing-based consultancy, says it believes that China's crude oil exports to North Korea dropped considerably in September, even before the nuclear test.
Profitable it may be, but consultancy is far from being respected.
Richard Hyman, head of Verdict, a British retail consultancy, believes it is no coincidence that there is a fight over Safeway at a time when margins are under pressure.
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It is being built by global consultancy Deloitte, which will work with publishers such as EMI Music Publishing and online music stores such as iTunes and Amazon.
Distimo styles itself as an app store consultancy, and so it set out to establish how many applications one needs to sell through iTunes in order to get a top 10 hit.
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So it turned to a California-based consultancy, Appstem Media, to port INSPI from Windows Mobile to iOS and Android.
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Bodisen, in a news release at the time, said it had terminated its relationship with the consultancy firm before receiving the letter.
As Bill Farren-Price of PPI, a consultancy, points out, it is more informative to watch what Saudi Arabia does than what OPEC says.
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On Friday it was revealed that an OPLC director had been suspended on full pay after it emerged she had been undertaking paid consultancy work for West Ham.
It coincides with a report from a tech consultancy suggesting there is huge pent up demand for such a gadget.
TBM, a manufacturing consultancy based in North Carolina, it is the truck industry that is successfully showing how to disintegrate car manufacturing.
One study among doctors, for example, found that 53% felt it was ethical to accept a high-paying consultancy from a pharmaceutical firm.
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In August, for example, it snapped up ChapterHouse, a health-care consultancy.
Deutsche Bank set the pattern when it bought a share in Roland Berger, a German consultancy, in 1987.
There is gold in Las Cristinas--up to 13.6 million ounces of it, according to a February report from an outside consultancy.
The shipyard said it would focus on "an expansion of its technical consultancy services, which encompass the marine, offshore and structural engineering sectors".
Matthew Howett, from the Ovum consultancy, strongly criticised the length of time it had taken Ofcom to get the auction underway, but said "everyone" was to blame.
In the U.S. the figure was 98.7 liters per person, while in the Asia Pacific region, it was just 22.1, according to research consultancy International Wine and Spirits.
These trends make it easier to hide in the shadows: concealing a computer consultancy run from home is far simpler than concealing a whole computer factory.
"Although Iran seeks to show that it is able and willing to take to drastic means to respond to foreign pressure, it is unlikely that it has the ability to close Hormuz, " said risk consultancy IHS Global Insight in a report Tuesday.
It currently includes data centres, communications, online financial transactions and consultancy services.
As David Harding of Bain, a consultancy, points out, consumer-goods firms find it hard to boost growth by letting go of older, slower-growing brands.
With a BA in history from UC Berkeley, and several years of developing digital marketing strategy in the heart of the Hollywood, Zim may not seem to fit the classic MBA profile, dominated as it is by students from the fields of finance, engineering and consultancy.
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