They only paid for the computing power they used, avoiding the cost and resource burden of building infrastructure in-house.
Inverclyde Council said Thomas' care needs were regularly discussed and reviewed and that Thomas' needs, and the family's stress at times of crisis, were recognised and responded to promptly and positively regardless of the cost of resource.
Regardless of the time wasted, no company can easily afford the time and cost of human resource issues or even liability concerns when employees are faced with unwanted content or personal privacy boundaries are breached.
Though it didn't explicitly mention deflation, the FOMC says that measures of underlying inflation have trended lower in recent quarters and, with substantial resource slack continuing to restrain cost pressures and longer-term inflation expectations stable, inflation is likely to be subdued for some time.
Within this context, Mr Geneen is scathing about modern managers treating their employees as a cost rather than a resource.
The big databases and enterprise-resource planning suites from these companies cost anything from tens of thousands to millions of dollars, and can take a dizzying array of configurations.
The primary priorities when determining the use of cloud computing continue to be cost, timeliness, and resource optimization.
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Finally, much like the risk equation information security professionals use when deciding what defensive measures to put in place, in essence figuring out if the benefit of a protective measure exceeds its cost (in money, resource time, etc.), attackers are at least subconsciously using a similar mechanism.
They are resource-intensive services that come at immense cost. 2012 is the year to open our eyes.
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"It's a big resource, it's got a good cost curve, and it's not getting enough attention, " says Dan W. Reicher, Google.org's director of climate and energy initiatives.
There is a huge qualitative difference between an economy built on natural resource extraction, where the populace is a cost center, and an economy built on productive labor by the population, where increasing capabilities of the society leads to more wealth.
In contrast to the depletion economics that drive up the cost of fossil fuels over the long run, solar power is a Silicon Valley-style energy resource: the more we make, the more we learn, innovate and lower the cost of the technology.
The New England and Mid-Atlantic resource is estimated at just over 1 GW. The resource is enormous, and if we can harness it cost-effectively, it can make a huge difference for reductions in carbon emissions, economic development, and jobs creation.
In the long run, the limiting factor will not be cost, but rather the challenge of integrating an intermittent solar resource into the power grid.
Bringing down the cost of cutting-edge research is important, Perfetto says, because resource-constrained operations like garages, schools, and researchers in the developing world inherently think different.
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The cost to countries of nutrient over-enrichment from the degradation of their marine and coastal natural resource base, and the services and livelihoods it provides, will increase without improved policy responses.
Every resource that is allocated to a free user and every hour in support spent helping a free user come at the cost of a paying user.
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