Yet, if not selected and managed strategically, these same technologies could hold companies back due to scalability, performance and globalization limitations.

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We spent a great deal of time working with Hadoop but we think there are complexities and performance limitations where we can add value.

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But a lesson of the past century is that government can influence the behavior of big corporations, by requiring transparency about their performance and costs, and by enacting rules and limitations to protect the ordinary citizen.

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Titan will be 10 times more powerful than ORNL's last world-leading system, Jaguar, while overcoming power and space limitations inherent in the previous generation of high-performance computers.

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