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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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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Too many today chase the American myth of unlimited potential by denying biological limitations, including performance enhancing drugs in sports, searching for self-esteem with cosmetic surgery, or pushing the frontiers of reproductive medicine.

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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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Ahmanson was already an innovator, so imagine his performance in a fully competitive market free of politically-crafted limitations.

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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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Hard drive performance has continued to improve in recent years, though seek times have stabilized at around 9 milliseconds due to physical limitations, Walling says.

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