Boeing says the aircraft is 20% more fuel-efficient than similar sized airliners, a selling point for airlines for whom fuel costs are their biggest operational expense.

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But in addition, the non-profit receives direct operational expense off-setting services that strengthen the organization and enable that non-profit to then serve a greater number of clients in need.

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And as IT resources, from computes to storage to networking, are being reframed as utilities to be consumed as an operational expense, we will see varied impact as new use cases become available to moreof an ever-growing society looking to take advantage of the benefits of efficient computing.

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Improve operational efficiencies, expense control and service through investments in technology and more productive use of existing resources and lower-cost operations centers.

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Right now, the cost of buying servers is the largest data center expense, and power comes second, accounting for around 40 percent of operational costs.

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