The reason utility computing has stayed on the shelf for the past decade or so is that the tools available to aspiring cloud providers (originally called ASPs, or application service providers) were no different than the tools available to the enterprise at the time: high-performance, scale-up hardware systems that were powerful, but expensive and inflexible.
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Do you scale-up to a high performance computing system or scale-out by just adding nodes to a distributed computing network?
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Among other things, Rypple lets users ask members of their networks to measure their performance against a scale, so they can track how they are doing over time.
They will create a free, one off cross art-form performance, featuring huge scale digital projections and live music in the centre of Bristol from 13 -- 19 August 2012.
Here are the six performance strategies, moving left to right: eliminate waste, drive top priorities, leverage purchasing scale, close the IT performance gap, open government to get results and finally, attract and motivate top talent.
Throughout the ordeal, Al Jazeera effectively leveraged the power of the cloud to stay on the air and scale its reach and performance.
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Today, OnLive already has an integrated network with Juniper Networks EX Series Ethernet Switches, MX Series 3D Universal Edge Routers and SRX Series Services Gateways that ensure consistency, high performance, reliability and security at scale.
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Many organizations are adopting Splashtop for Business as a faster, more cost effective way to address mobile VPN compatibility issues and RDP over WAN performance challenges, as well as to scale and accelerate existing VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) to mobile knowledge workforces.
"Batteries are particularly challenging because, unlike electronics, it's difficult to scale down their dimensions without significantly reducing performance, " said senior author of the study John Rogers of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Once installed, the platform will deliver performance in excess of 10x what is achievable with contemporary scale-out NAS systems.
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Together, we will accelerate our ability to offer unmatched levels of performance, efficiency and scalability to customers deploying cloud or scale-out environments, helping drive new growth for both companies.
If performance is trending better than expected, you may want to scale up and put extra money to use immediately.
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The upcoming vote pits the newly reconstituted board and turnaround management team at Tessera, a technology development and licensing firm that invented chip-scale packaging (CSP) technology for improved semiconductor performance in the 1990s and is now blazing a trail in advanced semiconductor interconnect technology, against a board takeover attempt by the activist hedge fund Starboard Value LP.
By contrast, the Swedish Fiscal Policy Council operates on a modest scale, providing an independent review of budgetary plans and performance.
Intel was able to see off earlier pretenders to its throne by increasing the performance of its Pentium chips, and by exploiting its economies of scale as market leader.
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And he said the new performance-related pay system for teachers at the top of the basic salary scale would make "a substantial difference" in the longer term.
We also deliberately omitted some vehicles that rated higher on the particulate-emissions scale, including exotics like the Ferrari 599 GTO and high-performance variants like Mercedes-Benz's AMG.
For a large company old scale economics mean they must sell, sell, sell and maintain corporate performance at double digit annual growth.
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Ten experienced classical musicians marked each performance on eight measures, including melody, tempo and emotional content, on a scale from 0 to 100.
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Juniper's network infrastructure will enable OnLive to scale to this degree of ubiquity while maintaining the absolutely no-compromise performance that video games demand.
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The scale of Citigroup's funds under management was hard to reconcile with their performance.
The goal is to look at different scales of our performance so we can decide for ourselves how we can improve, especially in the small scale rather than the broad strokes of annual reviews.
Slightly more positive about the config were the folks at HotHardware, who were pleased with the performance, and seem to have been more satisfied with the setup's ability to scale with various applications than PC Perspective was.
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When Fujitsu, a Japanese computer giant, introduced a performance-based pay scheme during the 1990s, it proved so unpopular that the company had to scale it back.
As the Breakthrough Institute has consistently argued, taking clean energy alternatives to scale and building globally competitive clean energy industries will ultimately depend on such improvements in cost and performance.
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At the other end of the portable scale there are laptops, which for many are just too big, and place power and performance above user experience, which both hardware and software play a part in.
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