First, Web innovators, such as Facebook, Google and Yahoo, have developed a massively scalable storage and compute architecture to manage Big Data: Hadoop, which parallelizes large data sets across low-cost commodity hardware for easy scale and dramatically reducing the cost of petabyte environments.

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There is a dire need to increase funding to fix this skills deficit and dramatically scale up alternative pathways for training.

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There is a dire need to increase funding to fix this skills deficit and find funds to dramatically scale up alternative pathways for training.

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Two days before, a panel at the American College of Cardiology had said that because an artery-imaging study showed no added benefit from Zetia to Zocor, doctors should dramatically scale back their use of Zetia and Vytorin.

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If the Obama administration decided to scale that program back dramatically, for instance, it would affect Raytheon.

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But without question, the endless campaign has accelerated dramatically in scale and scope.

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But the dining room is now streamlined rather than dowdy, with large-scale contemporary art and dramatically lit wine racks serving as room dividers.

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If the conflict were to escalate, though, it has the potential to drag in other Arab nations and dramatically change the scale of the situation.

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Still, earnings will improve dramatically as the company reaches scale.

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Precision agriculture is saving farmers across the country millions of dollars annually and dramatically reducing the impact of large-scale agriculture on the environment by avoiding unnecessary application of fertilizers and pesticides to crops.

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Nor the fact that credit-card rates are fixed in secret, and have risen dramatically despite advances in technology and economies of scale.

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In 1996 CHEP set out to dramatically expand its pools of pallets, figuring on economies of scale.

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More importantly, the subsea smart grid set the stage for large-scale subsea processing, which would reduce the costs of developing deep-sea fields dramatically.

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It dramatically failed to address what development strategies African companies should employ to sustain and scale up their businesses.

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