When asked about the benefits of virtualization, nearly 80 percent cited savings in power and infrastructure costs.
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To respond to an event like this requires an abstraction of the application from the power and cooling infrastructure and the building itself.
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Google has about 900, 000 servers, so Facebook needs 27, 000 additional servers (plus power and networking infrastructure) for no obvious financial return.
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But Indonesia urgently needs more and better spending on its transport and power-generation infrastructure and public services, and on health care and education.
Other interests include food processing, chemicals, power generation and infrastructure.
We are encouraged by the progress made thus far and opportunities abound for us to work with potential partners to help the country improve its power generation and transportation infrastructure in addition to what we have right now.
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Foreign hackers have already demonstrated an ability to break into the U.S. power grid and other infrastructure.
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Hyderabad-based GVK, controlled by Indian billionaire GV Krishna Reddy, owns airports, power plants and other infrastructure projects in India.
That colossal endeavour, requiring the movement or rebuilding of railways, power plants and other infrastructure, was for security rather than economic efficiency.
Anil Ambani has substantial interests in power, infrastructure and finance.
And he named his principal secretary, Pulok Chatterji, as head of a committee that will study how to remove roadblocks to power infrastructure and review progress in 90 days.
The majority of usable reservoirs are located in remote, scenic wilderness areas where construction of plants, access roads, power lines and other infrastructure is perceived as an unwelcome intrusion on nature.
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) should work with the private sector to identify which parts of the nation's power grid and telecommunications infrastructure are critical to preserving the nation's core capabilities.
Alan Paller, director of research at SANS Institute, a computer-security organization, said that the level of cyberattacks, including against power companies and critical infrastructure, has shot up in the last seven or eight months.
While the nature of this threat landscape is uncertain, the potential damage a cyber-attack could pose to our internet-dependent telecommunications, power and even water infrastructure, has seen cyber security rise sharply up government agendas around the world in the last five years.
Statoil ( STO - news - people ) and Chinese power generators, coal producers and infrastructure developers.
It also has a higher per capita spending power, better infrastructure and is a well established international metropolis and tourist destination.
As more turbines are approved, the National Grid is legally obliged to extend the power infrastructure - and that's why there are plans for pylons and a sub-station to be built in Powys so that the power generated by wind farms is taken to the rest of the country.
Damage to the grid: Power surges and electrical system failure due to high loads can cause power outages and damage to BC Hydro equipment and infrastructure, including the premature failure of distribution transformers.
Kaspersky Labs' namesake Eugene Kaspersky is worried that widely distributed and potentially state-sponsored malware like Flame and Stuxnet pose dire threats to often lightly protected infrastructure like communication and power plants -- whatever your nationality, it's clearly bad for the civilian population of a given country to suffer even collateral damage from cyberattacks.
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The Cyber Security Act of 2012 aims to give the Department of Homeland Security the power to mandate the security level in industries it deems as critical infrastructure, such as power and telecommunications, water treatment facilities and wireless providers.
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"These draft designations set us on the path to modernize our constrained and congested electric power infrastructure, " says Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman.
Faisal's China connections have grown from Haier and a venture with the Shanghai-headquartered electronics group SVA to include projects in Pakistan with Chinese companies in housing, infrastructure, power and mining.
New Delhi's slow pace of economic reforms to remove growth impediments such as delays in government clearances for projects, creaky infrastructure and power shortages has hurt investments in the country.
In the past decade, Wu had turned Hopewell, once just another local property company, into an infrastructure and power developer in China, the Philippines, Thailand and soon, says the magnate, in Pakistan and India.
The government has already tweaked the planning system to allow Whitehall to overrule local objections to new power stations, and a new Infrastructure Planning Commission is supposed to take a more dirigiste approach to big building projects.
Just as a number of pieces of legislation addressing the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure like power and water systems are being introduced into the Congress, the New York Times reports that some lawmakers might be getting cold feet.
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But decentralisation, deregulation and a huge infrastructure boom have boosted demand for power, and China's economy is now becoming more, not less, energy-intensive.
And he can use his power and influence to facilitate new building while improving municipal infrastructure to encourage economic growth and population expansion.
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