This struck us as being the quickest, the fastest, and the most efficient way of getting large-scale additions to our collections online for free use.

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At massive scale, the key is to deliver the most efficient service for a specific workload.

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Since gas-fired generation is about the most scalable, efficient, flexible, clean and (on a large scale) lowish-carbon form of electricity available, it is going to prove economically and politically attractive.

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Bernd Kosch, green IT advisor, Fujitsu Technology Solutions: Among the various green benefits of the cloud computing paradigm, there is one which is exceptionally striking: cloud computing enables small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to take full advantage of very large scale data centre technology, including the latest, most energy-efficient hardware provided in the shortest refresh cycles and leading facility-related infrastructure with advanced power utilisation effectiveness.

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The very biggest tend not to be the most efficient, becoming unwieldy in their massiveness, while banks in the next tier down tend to simply reap economies of scale.

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