The main problem with continuing to add NAS boxes is that at a certain point, the cost and management problems just become too great.
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This deal still fell short of the cost-savings that the management wanted and the banks had rubber-stamped.
The parliament's chief executive, Paul Grice, rejected a number of the critical conclusions in the report, including those on cost management, responsibility for programming, the process of reporting cost increases to MSPs and the ability of project managers to cap consultants' fees.
Not all municipalities charge fees, or sufficient fees, to cover the cost of stormwater management, including repayment of debt used to finance GI.
Rather, take an aggressive stance on liability--on what you're responsible for and how you can control it--and the effect on cost management will be tremendous.
The last decade has seen the revenge of cost management.
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Apple has some enterprise hooks, but just as with the Android platform, most Chief Information Officers resort to third-party solutions that raise the complexity of device management and the total cost of ownership of the mobile solutions.
The food giant attributed the growth to effective cost management and to a prescient investment in its iconic brands.
While the near-term outlook for semiconductor equipment demand has softened, we are committed to achieving the appropriate balance between cost management and continued investment in next-generation solutions for our customers.
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Enterprises can deploy M2M technology now to reduce the cost of field service management through remote maintenance, they can optimize fleet scheduling with real-time location and traffic data and they can tap into new business models such as usage-based (or pay-as-you) go billing.
The real cost however is in the operation and overall management or integration of Big Data within the existing ecosystem.
The city would benefit from a siren system, said Larry Meyerhofer, emergency manager at the L.A. Emergency Management Department, but the cost is high.
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Thus encrypted drive key management can be offered as an on-line service, eliminated the cost and complexity of implementing key management for laptops and other storage devices.
The return should reflect such risk factors as the project's technical complexity, the agency's management capacity, the likelihood of cost overruns, and the consequences of under- or non-performance.
Fees, access to and the cost of services, as well as the appropriate management of risk all require evolving discussions among multiple parties.
Next, the high cost of these strategies and management will undoubtedly make managers take on more risk to achieve the returns they need.
Not surprisingly, the least sophisticated investors are buying higher cost mutual funds which sport the highest management fees and sales commissions.
In the current economic conditions, amid much uncertainty while the financial markets recover, indexed investments diversify the risk associated with investing in fewer specific assets and cost less to the investor than active management strategies.
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Set a clear policy, and you'll be on the path to better communications cost management.
First Solar continues its focus on cost reduction with the management taking several steps to further reduce costs over the years to come.
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The opposite is true: Reprocessing is the worst possible alternative to deep geological disposal because it greatly increases the cost, as well as the dangers, of waste management.
The report urges more investment in proper waste management facilities, claiming that the cost of dumping or exporting waste is higher than recycling it.
In one analysis by the Office of Management and Budget, of the 30 least cost-effective regulations throughout the government, the EPA had imposed no fewer than 17.
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The council said the cost of energy and food, rising waste management costs, a lower-than-inflation settlement from the assembly government and other "budgetary pressures" left it with no choice.
Sound investing is an appropriate focus, but not at the cost of ignoring essential cash flow management.
Year-on-year, adjusted OIBDA increased as a result of reduced losses from equipment subsidies due to the launch of the unlimited Value plans and continued cost management programs.
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Morningstar analyst Marisa Thompson, who follows the company, says more prudent cost management and improved capital discipline is driving higher returns on capital and strong free cash flow.
Although the company has been failing to service its debts, it claimed that it is solvent because its liabilities were smaller than its assets, which the management values at replacement cost.
This could be possible as there is tremendous potential for economies of scale, both in terms of mass production, which reduces the cost of each turbine, and in terms of the construction and management of vast wind farms offshore where there are few limits on available acreages.
These include the fact that policing is "inextricably linked" with the criminal justice system, and the cost and complexity of separating out national structures and arrangements and the management of national threats.
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