It may seem a bit overthought, but financing is a complex sales process like any other, and needs careful management to optimize the results.

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Continuing to reduce the costs of on-line storage will require the management of stored content to optimize availability depending upon frequency of use and use of commodity storage and other data center equipment.

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The customers include Lionbridge, Liverpool Institute for the Performing Arts (LIPA), and EmpireCLS Worldwide Chauffered Services, and the post focuses on how they use a combination of Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V server virtualization and System Center management tools to optimize their IT infrastructure and experience the benefits cloud computing has to offer.

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To manage IT and optimize it to best serve the business, CIOs should recognize that IT management, like software development, will never be mechanistic.

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"There were a number of externally managed accounts that were terminated or resized to optimize for the best mix of strategies for the portfolio driven by HMC's management team, " says Mendillo.

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Enterprises can deploy M2M technology now to reduce the cost of field service management through remote maintenance, they can optimize fleet scheduling with real-time location and traffic data and they can tap into new business models such as usage-based (or pay-as-you) go billing.

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