Ian Gunn at the Animal Gene Storage Resource Centre of Australia, also in Melbourne, is collecting testes, ovaries, bits of skin and other body parts from over 100 species.

ECONOMIST: Endangered species

There are now a myriad of apps for things like marketing automation, lead generation, mobile presentations, storage and enterprise resource planning.

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This is a matter for government, however, historically, water has been a highly politicised issue in Wales, and we would imagine any decision over future water resource storage and supply to have the support of the Welsh Government and people of Wales.

BBC: Highly politicised liquid assets

If given the choice of only being able to move one application to the cloud, most respondents would choose storage (25%), followed by enterprise resource planning applications to manage HR, customer relationship management, supply chain management, and project management systems (20%).

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Storage virtualization that creates pools of existing storage assets that can be viewed and managed as a contiguous resource.

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Once the IT infrastructure is virtualized, firms have the foundation of a shared IT infrastructure of pooled computer, network, and storage resources to delivery capacity on demand and meet fluctuations in resource requirements.

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Data science is the spry third generation of BPR, responding to vastly increasing IT capacity, unprecedented ability of businesses to create data, widespread realization that data is a valuable resource, and the burdensome need to extract data from storage in order to realize business value.

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Wind turbines can only supply electricity when the wind blows, and as long as inexpensive energy storage remains elusive, utility companies will have to combine wind with a resource that can be banked in reserve, like gas.

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