Renting a server from Amazon Web Services promises all the advantages of the Cloud: ephemeral, convenient computing without the nuisance of owning hardware.
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That means the mainframes, which remain popular in financial services and still have advantages in security and resilience, can integrate with x86 machines used as outward-facing Web servers and IBM's more expensive and efficient Power7 Unix servers.
The Sansa Connect has done more than any major portable digital music player to date to showcase the advantages of subscription services.
Europe's state-owned weather services complain that the commercial companies have unfair advantages.
Live radio has some inherent advantages over internet music-streaming services.
The privacy advantages of Tor-based mixing services are numerous.
Conservative AM Janet Finch-Saunders argued that the current draft budget proposals do not provide adequate funding for the procurement of technology systems to realise the full advantages of sharing personal Health and Social Services information.
New forms of media can play a crucial role to capitalize the positive practices embedded in indigenous cultures by fostering synergies between modern services and local knowledge and assist communities in taking full advantages of their social assets - the knowledge, culture and governance systems.
Weighing up the advantages of immigrant labour against the cost of supplying services to migrants is not easy.
And the current generation of PVRs don't work with interactive television services - a problem for the BBC, which is marketing interactivity as one of the great advantages of the digital television world of which PVRs are also part.
By the same token, the initial advantages of cloud computing have now been superseded by the scope, power and flexibility of services offered by this technology.
While extending its location services to other platforms offers an opportunity to improve the service, it also threatens to undermine one of the key advantages Nokia devices have in their favour.
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